Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is not surprising that the expression “a close shave” is used to describe a dangerous, often near-death experience. Trusting ...

For hundreds of years, a trained barber used an extremely sharp blade known as a straight razor to accomplish a close shave. When the first self-contained “safety razors” became widely available, many ...

FOR A LONG time, I saw straight razors more as weapons than as grooming tools. Maybe it was Sweeney Todd, maybe it was the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs, but these nifty blades always seemed ...

FOR A LONG time, I saw straight razors more as weapons than as grooming tools. Maybe it was Sweeney Todd, maybe it was the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs, but these nifty blades always seemed ...

Over the past 4 years of my life I've gotten really sick of paying out my ass for disposable razor blades. Doubly so for the past couple of years that I've been shaving my head. Anyway, so I've been ...

Straight razor shaving isn’t a popular at-home shaving method because it’s so difficult to master. It does give you complete control of a razor, though (safety razors offer only partial control of a ...

Even the best straight razor can be a hard sell, especially since Sweeney Todd went and maligned them. Many of us happily lean back in the barber’s chair and get a brilliant straight-razor shave from ...