A Mid-December Mail Call
Paul Recently, in an overall review of all of the lathers I have in the collection (shaving soaps, creams, sticks, tubes, foams, gels, etc.) I ranked Taylor of Old Bond Street…
The Henson Blue & Gillette Yellow Shaves
I’ve mentioned this before, but here’s full disclosure on this week’s shaves: This isn’t the first time I’ve shaved with this razor and blade combo. Back in March, after getting…
The Hoffman’s Grooming Lathers – A Review
Let me set the stage: Back in August (I think), there was a woman who posted in two of the Reddit shaving forums I follow saying that she was going…
Talking Passes
Let’s talk passes. Shaving passes. I’ll address the elephant…er…nostrils in the room in a moment. As I’ve mentioned before, there are three types of passes, and they’re pretty fundamental to…
The 7 O’Clock Yellow Shaves
The next three weeks finish up the journey across the Gillette 7 O’Clock blade line. I started out back in October trying out the Super Stainless (green) blades, just finished…
Rating the Lathers
I have, at least once in the last year, tried almost* all of the shaving lathers (the product used specifically to hold the hairs while shaving) in my collection, be…
The Gillette & Henson Black SOTDs
My Henson AL-13 ++ medium razor is black. The Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Platinum blade comes in a black tuck and is known as a 6 O’Clock Black blade. So…
The KCG-1919-Shark Bonus Shave SOTD
My wife and I are getting together today with my sister and her husband and my parents for lunch and a movie (White Christmas). While I don’t really need to,…
The 5 a.m. 7 O’Clock Black Shaves
I struggled with that title. Can you tell? See, I normally wake up at 5 a.m. to start my day, and this week likely is no exception, even with Thanksgiving…
The Long Overdue Gillette Black SOTD
Let’s face it, Gillette is the thousand-pound gorilla in shaving. They have a strong foothold in just about every aspect of shaving, and have a pretty broad product line (though…