WetShaving
This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
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19.01.2025 - Creatures SOTN
-> 2 passes on the head, one on the neck. Really smooth and slick shave! I feel like this mutton tallow base is really good.
Had a pretty busy weekend despite rarely leaving my flat (new furniture and so on), so I wanted to end it with a relaxing shave.
Creatures of the Night is yet another dupe scent by HAGS and it's really sweet and powdery. Not my usual liking, but the base really saves it. This one gets really damn slick once it has enough water added and that rocks for head shaving. Unfortunately it's a bit finicky to build a good lather, but I worked around that by loading for each pass individually. I was quite impressed how well the Cyber Medium handles longer growth on the head, absolutely no problem even though it's a rather mild razor.
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Let's see what the new week brings...
Is HAGS still around? I'm not at all in their demographic, but ever since I stopped checking The Razor Company's website (after they threatened to sue j33pguy) I haven't seen it anywhere.
I think in such instances it's good to check out the official site if there's one and in this case, HAGS has one . Kinda interesting that it's yet again just one guy, but I think that explains the AI tub art and dupe usage. He does a good amount of collabs/commission work for european wetshaving stores though and all bases are really solid. It's just since he's based in Greece, not many in the US know/care about him.
Out of the loop on that story about j33p though, sounds like a wild ride.