I think of my Phoenix Artisan synthetics I like the Green Ray best. It’s knot is more relaxed, not so tightly sprung. The Starcraft brush in the photo did a perfectly fine job, but it was not quite so soft on my face as the Green Ray (and I do understand that some may prefer the feel of the Starcraft). Nonetheless, the Starcraft did a fine job with Phoenix Artisan’s Honeysuckle shaving soap and made just the lather I like: thick, fine-grained, and fragrant.
Three comfortable passes with the RazoRock stainless Mamba left my face perfectly smooth, and a splash of Tabac ended the shave.
I read yesterday comment made in passing, “Shaving sucks.” There must be millions of men who still don’t know that shaving can be a great pleasure. Given that these men must shave and that they hate it, I wonder why word doesn’t spread more rapidly about how shaving can be a daily pleasure. Is it resistance to learning? or perhaps just a philosophy that life is in general unpleasant? I don’t get it. May naive idea is that people would be looking for ways to enjoy the things they must do. Perhaps they feel they have no control, no say in the matter, and they have resigned themselves to living with a kind of sub-critical level of depression.