The Manly Shaving Thread

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If your skin can take it, yes.

Shaving is really about gradual reduction of hair and against the grain does provide a great finish but can also result in blood and irritation. Try it and see; you'll quickly work out if your skin can take it or not.
 
RomanNose said:
Same.
I am still using my derby's from Christmas :D and I still have half the packet left.
I think I might pick up a feathers 100 pack for uni, still have half a packet of derby blades which I have been using since Christmas :o.
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Where did you find a 100 pack of feathers? I've been wanting to get some feather blades but they are expensive in their small packs of 10 and I haven't found any larger packs that make it more worthwhile. The only 100 pack of feathers I've found online are the feather artist club professional blades, which are disposable blades for a straight razor rather than a double edged safety razor.
 
Ah right. I thought perhaps they did a 100 blade pack like Derby blades where they are all boxed as just 1 item.

Not a bad price for 100 feather blades, although still over double the cost of Derby blades.
 
They're £2.95 per pack of 10 from the shaving room if you use the code TSR, making them as cheap as ive seen for small qtys as long as you are getting some other stuff.

Also that code knocks 10% off everything that you're ordering ;)
 
I'd never even seen a Murkur brush before. A quick google just now shows that they are 'silver hair', basically the best / softest hair. Silver hair brushes tend to be hand made to rather than machine made. I've seen more expensive ones but they had hand turned handles and things.

I've never used one of the really expensive brushes as I just don't think the any brush would live up to that kind of cost.
 
From what I read on the brushes a pure badger isn't far off ideal. Mine isn't in the least scratchy (unless I use it dry... and even then it doesn't hurt or irritate... and why would I use it dry?) and it makes an epic lather... Reading more it seems the main benefit of the better brushes is that they are softer and they hold more water. I've seen it said that they make better lathers, but I wonder if that just means quicker.. or you don't have to add water (I don't anyway).
 
I doesn't give you the same quality of lather - so the experts say. The lather I get from badger brush and cream feels far superior and I think it makes shaving easier but I don't know that I could give you a proper explanation.
 
Update on the new Proraso shaving cream : in short, it's brilliant. I was worried that I'd miss the menthol kick but the sandalwood fragrance is really rather good and the cream provides a deep, lasting cushion which results in a very smooth and close shave.
 
I think in this thread we recommend shaving it off daily :)

For a while I just used to use the clippers I use on my head, it did the job fine.
 
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