That Robert Palmer album cover for “Secrets”

Bear with me folks. This post is one long digression about my teenage years, but there is a connection to a guy shaving. I promise! Actually, you can see that image in the Robert Palmer album cover for "Secrets" included in this post. I was at my gym recently, and I usually try to ignore …

Shaving Tutorial (aka The Beard Slap)

Although this video was only posted five years ago—in 2018—it reminds me of the early 2000s when video content was first exploding onto the internet, but the quality tended to be grainy, and the vast majority of videos were posted by the early adopters of the era—bored college kids in their dorms. By the dozens, …

Who is Dani Eid?

The answer is: I'm not sure. The image of him shaving with his mouth wide open popped up in my search results when I was looking for someone else this morning, and I tried to find out more about him and more or less failed. He is a model, personal trainer, and possibly an actor, …

The Many Hairy Faces of Danz Beard (aka Dan Zigler)

If Dan Zigler weren't my current obsession, I would hate the guy. Not for any legitimate reason mind you—he seems like a decent sort of person—but because I envy him so intensely. And there's a lot to envy: he's handsome, masculine, super athletic (he describes himself as a "personal trainer and professional physique competitor"), and …

Paolo of Samurai Shaving

Among the many, many traditional wet shaving YouTube channels out there, some rise up above the others. You don't have to be a drop-dead gorgeous model type to rate highly in my esteem (although it doesn't hurt), but in the case of Swiss-Italian Paolo from the Samurai Shaving channel, male beauty is definitely a factor …