Feather Double Edge Popular Razor Review and Shave
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Feather® Double Edge Popular Shaving Razor
フェザー 両刃ホルダー (替刃2枚付)
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Hello Gentleman, and welcome to the Gentleman’s Club. I’m your host Marc Antomattei, aka the new king of Japanese shaving.
In today’s video I’m going to be reviewing and shaving with the Feather Double Edge Popular razor from Osaka, Japan.
The first thing I’m doing here is showing off my ugly mug assessing the battle situation. The general says three days of stubble, ugly, and primed for shaving.
So this video is going to start off with me priming my brush, lathering my soap, but while I’m doing that let’s talk about this razor first and get that out of the way.
The first thing to say about this razor is that it’s very lightweight. But of course, that’s due to the plastic build. The twist to open head is made of stainless steel while the handle, aka the body is made of plastic. When I pressed the razor against my skin it hardly felt as if the razor was doing anything at all and taking off any hair. That’s the thing about razors though, it’s to never assume anything. Once you start to think that it isn’t working and you press harder, that’s exactly when you are going to get cut.
Reminds me very much of cats. You can be friendly and play with them a little. You can have a little bit of fun, but when you take it too far and play with them too much is when they bite or scratch you. But anyways, yes the razor feels very light and it isn’t aggressive at all. This would be considered a mild shave by most. I’m sure if you buy the really sharp Feather platinum coated razor blades, which are the sharpest around it’ll feel more aggressive in the sense you’ll be mindful of every stroke you make. I’m using here one of the two Hi-Stainless razor blades that came in the package with the handle.
The head of the razor is a kind of rounded shape which is quite nice. It runs smoothly across the face and it doesn’t require too steep an angle to cut.
As of February 1, 2016. The aggregated reviewer score for this razor on Amazon.com is 4.4 out of 5 stars. I’d say that is an excellent review if I do say so myself. Unfortunately 28 rather unintelligent people (well not all, but a majority of them) don’t agree and see keen with the mass majority's point of view. If they had an actual critique to offer rather than a one sentence “I hated it” rant, possibly I could take their word more seriously. And it would be a lot more helpful to those people sitting on the fence about buying one.
Truth of the matter is, this double edge razor game, as well as the straight cutthroat razor game is an art form. Some people do not possess the skill or finesse to do it, or the patience to want to even attempt to try to learn how to do it. It’s like the first Matrix movie, no one ever makes their first jump, but they always expect to do it without putting in the practice, work, and effort. This is actually a very forgiving razor, but unforgiving to these people for obvious reasons.
Don’t attempt to do just a one pass shave with this and consider yourself done at the end of that and call it a sorry shave. This requires two passes minimum to go out looking like anything and three if you want the best look / closest shave possible. Go up to down first with the grain. Second pass sideways. Third pass against the grain down to up. Hold the razor in the same hand as the side of the face you are shaving. I hope that makes sense. For example if you are shaving right side of your face, shave with the right hand. Same for the left hand. Always keep soap on your face. Always use a sharp blade. And always keep your razor clean after usage. Follow these steps and this thing will treat you good for as long as you want it to.
I’m going to close with this. It’s a nice starter DE razor, mild shave, last if you take care of it, and comes in a nice cheap plastic case where you can go portable with it without cutting yourself and everything else up with it. Let’s go ahead and watch the rest of this shave through in silence. The commentaries done.
Thank you for watching. You know what to do gentleman, like, comment, subscribe, and keep it classy. See you in the next one.
