Thread: What is WRONG with You Guys????

Well..

I guess I started shaving like this because I really thought it was cool and that not everybody does it!! Then I fell in love with the HERITAGE and HISTORY of straight shaving.

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave".-E. Hemingway

I told a friend this morning that I was going to be buying a straight razor. His response:

"You're insane."

I showed him a few of the razors I had been looking at. His response:

"Dude. It's a razor."

Haha...that kinda made me laugh. I don't know a ton about razors yet, but I know any quality cutlery doesn't come cheap, and I'm not about to chintze out on something I'm scraping my face with...

I'm not exactly sure what mystical force pulled me into the world of straight shaving... I think shaving with muck3 just never felt right to me. Then one day I stumbled upon these forums and quickly became obsessed with learning this art.

One thing that really made me take the plunge was that I am still young enough to skip shaving for a few days (because I don't grow beard fast enough and my job is a job, not a career) and this factor has given me a more forgiving learning curve.

Plus, honestly, I feel like a bad ass standing in front of the mirror holding a lethal weapon to my face.