Part I: The Prep

A shaving brush whipping up a nice lather!

Now if you're reading this, you are probably interested in improving your shaving experience, welcome aboard! The first step to a great shave is how you prep your face. Shaving after a steamy hot shower will help immensely, the steam from the shower will help soften your whiskers and open up you pores allowing the blade to glide easily across your face. After this you will want to exfoliate your skin, what this does is it takes all the dead skin cells off, so they don't clump up on your blade and cause tugging.The next step would to use a pre-shave creams help soften up your skin, and hair, this will help protect skin against razor burn or any rashes you might get from shaving. This part is where it gets fun! You can either use a shave cream or shaving soap.Shaving cream offers a little more protection against the blade so you might want to use this if you're shaving with a DE safety razor. Shaving soap takes up slightly more time to whip into a lather, so I recommend soap for a straight razor shave or just shave which you make more time for. What I do is, I leave the shaving soap in my mug always, so when I need to shave,  I just add water, and whip up a nice lather for my face. You'll want to apply the lather on your face in a circular motion so you lift up all your hairs making it easier to get a closer shave. Lately classic shaving brushes have been rising in popularity, maybe because they exfoliate while you're applying cream, maybe because they give you a better shave, maybe just because they look cool; whatever the reason, you should pick one up as soon as you can.So that sums up preparation for a shave, stay tuned for more instructions!

Shaving: Art or chore?

"But I don't want to shave today"

I love shaving! I always have, but I hear people around always talk about how they don't enjoy it or how they feels that it is a burden or a curse they have to live with. Well I have a solution for the people that think that, this method can cut down on your environmental footprint, give you a better shave, and is just more fun.*le drum roll" wet shaving! What is wet shaving you might ask. Wet shaving is the traditional process of shaving, either using a straight razor, or a safety razor. This method of shaving is much more ritual based, you need to use a shaving mug and a shaving brush to whip up a nice lather for your face, gradual beard reduction so you're not shaving all the hair at once, and finishing up with some after shave splash or balm, if it sounds time consuming, that is probably because it is, but it's all worth it in the end! So do your face a favour and throw out that cartridge razor, because let's be honest, the awkward "I don't really no what I'm doing" method you've been using needs to change!

The Shaving Shop

A quite respectable emblem.

I have recently stumbled upon this fantastic wet-shaving website that goes by the name of Fendrihan. What really appealed to me about this website is the fact that I could use my interac debit card online, which unfortunately not a lot of website let me do. I feel that the payment option they added, really helps out with their sales. This is one of the few websites that are based in Canada, so if you buy anything from them, they ship from Canada, which is a great thing because the mail does not take very long, my parcel arrived in only two days. I recommend this website to anyone interested in the art of shaving!