So we finally come to it, the actual shave. Some of you may be thinking, “I know how to shave, dammit, I’m not an idiot.”
Shaving Perfection Part 5: Post-Shave Care
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.
Shaving Perfection Part 4: Shaving Brushes
Shaving Perfection Part 3: Shaving Cream and Shaving Soap
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?
Shaving Perfection Part 2: Sharp Things
Shaving Perfection Part 1: The Problem
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!?