Those of you that know me in real life know that, at any point in time, my facial hair is somewhere between “five o’clock shadow” and “hobo”. It’s not that I enjoy looking that way, it’s the simple fact that if I shave more often than about once a week, my face and neck become excruciatingly painful, and an angry red sea of ingrown hairs adorn the underside of my neck. Given a choice, I simply wait a week and shave then.<\/p>\n
Having heard the same not-funny jokes too many times, I resolved to find a way to improve my shaving experience. Enter my other hobby, perfuming, and the group of enablers I keep company with, Basenotes<\/a>. I posted a thread to the effect of what I have just written, and received several recommendations, many of them as cheap as one could ask for.<\/p>\n I bought nearly everything possible that they recommended, minus a new razor. I’ve got a few unused heads for my Gillette Fusion and I will be using them up, thank you very much. All the time in the world to buy a safety razor after these are gone. So I find myself with shaving cream in a tube not unlike a toothpaste tube, a boar-bristle brush, and some sort of miracle product that allows me to get an entire shave’s worth of lubrication out of 3 to 5 drops. Right.<\/p>\n Before I did battle with my face, I learned. Namely, I learned how to shave. Sounds a little backwards, but one of the members of the shaving website Badger and Blade<\/a> was kind enough to make a lot, and I mean a lot, of YouTube videos covering nearly everything you’d want to know about shaving. The first video in a three-part series that I watched is here<\/a>, and by the time I watched all three I felt ready to give it a try.<\/p>\n After my first attempt at wetshaving, I’ve got to admit it was the most pain-free shave in my life, and quite nearly the closest shave I’ve ever given myself (and the ones closer than that left me in pain for a day or two). I’m a convert, a changed man moving back to an old-fashioned tradition that just works better.<\/p>\n The stuff that I bought, and do recommend, is:<\/p>\n C.O. Bigelow Premium Shave Cream with Eucalyptus Oil<\/a> – $10 at Bath and Body Works And the Gillette Fusion runs about $10 for the whole thing, and then another $10 for 6 replacement heads. And you’ll need a coffee mug which hopefully you’ll already have. So thirty bucks for a whole new way to shave, twenty if you already own a razor.<\/p>\n A note on the Shave Secret, I used it as an aftershave, three drops applied to the fingertips and massaged into the skin will leave you pain-free. And it smells like clove; when’s the last time you said you smelled like clove? Never, that’s when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those of you that know me in real life know that, at any point in time, my facial hair is somewhere between “five o’clock shadow” and “hobo”. It’s not that I enjoy looking that way, it’s the simple fact that if I shave more often than about once a week, my face and neck become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RwV4-H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShave Secret Shaving Oil<\/a> – $3 at Wal-Mart
\nVan Der Hagen Natural Shave Brush, 100% Boar Bristle<\/a> – $5 at Wal-Mart<\/p>\n