Post 28 Out of curiosity – actually it was more like spite – I wandered through the shaving section at Rite Aid while my wife was picking up some Burt’s Bees. While scoffing at the vestiges of my former facial life, my eye was caught by a product entirely new to me. I stooped to […]
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Notes From The Noob: Ryan Steven Green’s Wet Shaving Journal – Entries 20-27
February 12, 2014 by
Post 20 As co-host of Moustache & Blade, I’ve had to get used to several new things in life. The main one, as you might imagine, is going from being the guy behind the lens, to the “talent.” I keep insisting that I’m not the guy that should be hosting a show; Doug keeps affirming […]
Notes From The Noob: Ryan Steven Green’s Wet Shaving Journal – Entries 13-19
January 31, 2014 by
Post 13 I’ve reconciled myself to the fact that my shave will never again be as close as that my Mach 5 used to provide. The reason is that the Mach 5, true to the advertisements, actually cuts the hairs below the surface of the skin [Update: Things have changed]. As I’ve come to find […]
Notes From The Noob: Ryan Steven Green’s Wet Shaving Journal – Entries 9-12
January 17, 2014 by
Post 9 So the first up of my DE sampler pack: Astor. Made in France. A colorful, but ultimately unassuming, wrapper I certainly would not have reached for had it not been randomly selected for the position. The shave feels light and very sharp, similar to Feather. First two shaves cut me up really bad – […]
Notes From The Noob: Ryan Steven Green’s Wet Shaving Journal – Entries 4-8
December 30, 2013 by
[Check Notes From The Noob Entries 1-3] Post 4 So I’ve found my first love – in the world of DE blades, that is. Gillette Wilkinson Sword. The packaging is completely unpretentious, bordering on ugly, but these blades have provided the best shave of the three brands of blade I have tried thus far. […]
Notes From The Noob: Ryan Steven Green’s Wet Shaving Journal – Entries 1-3
December 14, 2013 by
Entry 1 My very first DE shave was on June 26, 2013. After interviewing me for How to Grow a Moustache regarding my film Between the Upper Lip and Nasal Passageway, and then tag-teaming an interview with F. Stone Roberts (Director of the short documentary Splitting Hairs), Doug sent me a care package with a 1955 […]
Moustache & Blade – Episode 11: Interview With Fine Accoutrements
December 16, 2013 by
Welcome to Episode 11 of Moustache & Blade, you are certainly in for an epic ride down the wet shave highway! Today Douglas shares his tips and tricks on breathing life into your very own FrankenRazor, while Ryan dabbles with frequently seen but seldomly understood wet shaving acronyms! Then Mantic 59 drops some more wet shaving […]
