Home etching - personalize your razor

[Mende]

I was out buying some Hookah tobacco ( yeah I'm a big fan ) and I saw some henna paste there, the kind they use for temporary hindi tatoos. It was like £1 so I got a tube. Afte playing around with it I shaved it off with a box cutter (you apply the paste on clean skin and take it off after it hardens and tints the skin, I used a box cutter blade) and I noticed that it was acid and it eched the blade (cutter blades are cheap carbon steel - similar enough to razors in chemical composition). So I wrote my name on my razor and then washed it off. I included a picture, but I buffed the blade since then so only a ghost of the original etching remained - subtle, just the way I like it. After removing the paste ( leave it on for 5 minutes) you get a dark grey print. If the original logo on your blade is now worn off, it is a good way to personalize it IMHO. It says "Michael" on mine but due to reflection it's hard to notice.