So you’ve arrived here. DE razor shaves have become too easy, and you’ve decided it’s time to grow up and master the ultimate expression of shaving. The learning curve is an order of magnitude greater than for the DE razor, and I guarantee you’ll cut yourself while learning.
As I said earlier, I think every man should take a month or two with a straight razor at least once in his life. A man should know how to wield a blade against his face. It’s only my opinion. But it’s a good one.
Most people associate aftershave with searing pain, as above, or with desperate winos drinking Aqua Velva to get their asses lit up. It doesn’t have to be this way. Even after the best of shaves, your skin will be a little sensitive and need to heal up a bit. After all, we just got done dragging knives across it -- even if there are no obvious nicks, things will be a little tender. The closer the shave, the more you risk irritation or even a minor injury. A good aftershave product will help with recovery and protection.
Welcome to Paradise. Much like our fellow traveller Dante, you have arrived here after a trip through Hell and Purgatory. The only important difference is your trek was a metaphorical trek through endless shaves with dull razors and middling gels, while Dante actually passed through the actual waiting room of our fair Lord (and Satan’s unholy pit of damnation. In fiction. Soooo... basically even?
If you are male and grow facial hair, you have two basic options:
1. Cut it off somehow, in part or in whole.
2. Let it grow and be a lumberjack.
For the purposes of our fair article, we shall concern ourselves with the former. Human males over the age of thirteen generally have to deal with facial hair removal in some way, shape, or form. Most men have resigned themselves to shaving as quickly as possible in the morning, getting an obligatory and drudgerous chore out of the way.
In God’s name, WHY!?
This piece is by my brother John. It is heartfelt and correct. We are forced into the microcosmic nature of our lives at the abandonment of the macrocosm of our humanity.
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Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has passed. One by one, these heroes of the Apollo program are dying of old age. One of this country's greatest technical accomplishments (and I would argue moral as well) is passing into memory. We can't even put our own astronauts in orbit any longer, relying on the Russians, and sooner or later, private corporations.
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