The Black and Yellow Christmas Week Shaves (with a debut)
Paul It’s Christmas week this week, and it’s also the third and final week for now with the Gillette 7 O’Clock Sharp Edge (yellow) blade. It’s delivered some great shaves in…
Shaving
The Christmas Eve Bonus Shave
I really enjoy bonus shaves. They let me plan a shave that’s different from whatever shaves I’ve got going at that time, and they give me the opportunity to play…
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…
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…
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 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 Mild Strangelet 200th Shave Week
It’s the last week (for now) with the PAA Platinum Strangelet Super Sharps. This week, I’m going with the Henson Medium, and while I could finish the tuck over the…
A Mea Culpa
Okay, you know how I’ve said I’ve only got a couple of blades left to try? Yeah…Not so much. I found the contents of a couple of samplers stashed in…
The Medium Strangelet Shave Week
Week two with the Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Platinum Strangelet Super Sharp blades. This week, I’ve moved over to the Henson medium, and I think I kind of know how this…