’tis the season for sexy. excuse me for the self deprecation as a tersely built up coon and again for writing two entries in one day but if you have ever wet shaved in your life and want to feel good about being employed and save a mint in replacement blades and razors with minimal maintenance and sensible “nothing to prove,” if you use it right quality shaving your reading the right blog entry. still, if your into it these nuts still sell everything… from safety razors to straight razors, strops, and honing stones of various grits if you want to start shaving with something that is referred to affectionately as a “throat cutter” by old school barbers and besides doubling as a weapon requires ten times the maintenance of a normal safety razor… free country. i’ll show you what i’m talking about near the end of the blog. i’m going to mention the name of the middle sized business two or three times because i love everything about their safety razors but the price and operating on a business model which is exclusively american made, they may bring your some serendipitous luck. its razor emporium based out of phoenix arizona. right about now you’re probably wondering why this boy keeps trying to bring back obselete technology from the dead. the fact of the matter however is that the average pack of replacement safety razor blades cost approximately 15$ for a pack of 50 to 100 blades, unless you are one of these nuts that has an affinity for the japanese steel variety and they still would rip a way smaller swatch out of those already heavily assaulted pockets that you’re planning your christmas with. the pitch? we’ll do you a favor and sell you eight of our super cool cartridge blades for damn near 50$ and they are so well made that every single one will last you a month because they are wiz bang awesome. that’s eight months of shaving for under 50 bucks people, hallelujah. i just got lazy and bought a beard trimmer because i’m the town herb and these dudes have to do everything i do ten times better. a 50 pack of those japanese highly precious metal electroplated blades platinum, more precious than gold, iridium, more precious than platinum, and tungsten which i’m not sure of but its up there, will set you back about 20 dollars for a sleeve of 50 or 100 depending on the popularity of the brand and these dudes who wet shave as a hobby swear that every different manufacturer has a distinct nuance. even if you get whale reckless with it and do what i did and discard the blade after every shave that’s like two years of shaving for 50 bucks, my favorite brand of low profile shaving cream is van der hagen shave butter, i don’t get real complicated with it. finally the most efficient way to exfoliate your scalp for a pleasurable (if you use one of these it’s on you i’m also a moron,) shave is to scrub it with a soapy wash cloth in a hot shower… trust me.
