We here at TSL are big fans of a proper wet shave (although our lovers and/or Monday-Friday employers will tell you we probably don’t do it often enough…).
There’s no debate, though, that there’s something calming about the gentle splish-splash of a good traditional shave, compared with the vulgar grinding noise of the electric shaver.
Many of our generation, by virtue of being raised by our mothers, never had the education we require in the fine art of lathering and balming, let alone the purchasing of quality blades and aftershaves (it was always a bit creepy to stand at the bathroom door and spy on some guy our mothers had met the night before, quickly dragging a razor across his face before disappearing out the front door, never to be seen again.)
So, the team at Life Hacker have stumbled across a three-part comprehensive video guide to wetshaving, packed full of quirky stock footage and accessible metaphors:
…think of your face as a golf course.
[cue file footage of rolling fairways]
Know the lie of the land, the traps and shoot for par – don’t take more strokes than you need to.
There’s also a bitchy comments debate about the blogosphere’s obsession with appropriating other people’s content. So we naturally declared that we HAD to do a review, pick our own image, and post about it ourselves.
Introduction to traditional wetshaving [Life Hacker]
