Good day gentlemen and those not so gentlemen among you. Today's trip to the shower room for the wife annoying activities took the theme 'Schick, slick or just plain shit?'
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A day with the two little people better known as the granddaughters has probably made me feeling a bit more upbeat about life and a little more beat up as a granddad. I feel like my time spent with them is more an exercise on being used as a human punch-bag. I thought little girls were all about being sweet and pretty. The pretty I will agree with, the sweet is just a load of old bollocks.
Beat up - Stainless Colonial general
Beat root - Schick Proline
Beat it - Steve Jagger 30mm Cashmere
Beat a dead horse - The Bath House Cuban Cedar and Lime soap
Beat on the brat - The Bath House Cuban Cedar and Lime
For a change I recently decided to give the Schick blades a whirl as it seems a long time since giving them an outing mainly due to my single mindedness with Kai or Feather Super Pro's. Or may be I just know what works for me. Anyway a change is as good as a rest to a blind bat, or is it a horse, or something like that? Who cares, except a blind bat looking for a rest and getting a change instead. No
rest change for the wicked.
The general is a well proven work horse (Not a blind one though. Unless blinkered and hence semi-sighted) and I know what to expect from it. It only does brilliant and smooth which is always a good starting point. Enter the Schick. Mmmmm? May be I am just too pig stubborn and don't believe in much outside of what I believe in, but this just doesn't feel the same as a Feather Super Pro. Smooth most definitely, but it just lacks that edge of the shave sensation. I tend to like blades which push barriers and the Schick is not just going that bit extra here. It is not bad by any means but I find it hard to swear at. I like swearing at razor blades. That 'You little fucker, that was bloody close you twat' kind of thing. A bit like I could nearly achieve with the granddaughters, but I am just too much of a standard bearing grandfather to let profanities get in the way of me and my two small angels. Bastard, twatting little......etc etc etc
May be I need to give the Proline time to bed-in before I make an outright final statement on the matter. In due respect that the average SE blade lasts 15+ shaves that will be some time yet. Bugger.
I can't say the final results today were perfection, more 'good but can improve'. Words I became quite familiar with at school. And my adult life in reflection.
The brush and soap are both first class and I could never say anything bad about them. So I won't.
Happy smiling results, just not quite a grinning cat from Cheshire.
'Oh my God and I dreamt you were not super smoothly shaven! What a nightmare'
I better leave by saying 'I love you all' and leaving you some super Japanese ladies to sing you out and in to the next SOTD to follow.
