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| Vie-Long 13061 |
I made a final purchase this week (famous last words) of some blades and a Gillette Slim Adjustable and this new Vie-Long 13061 horsehair shaving brush. Yes, it was impulsive, but it arrived and well, being a good product tester, I put it right to work.
Some of the real sissy face shavers just can't stand the smell of the horse hair brush. It doesn't bother me. I've been around horses enough to know that horse hair smells like, well, horse hair. Don't be a girl about it! I'm the father of 3 sons, so I am used to the smell of animals.
The Vie-Long is a little "scritchy" feeling when applied to your face, but again, what would you expect? This isn't a make-up brush! It's a shaving brush. I expect Ghengis Khan ripped the tails off horses to lather up before he shaved with some giant sword. So I'm just carrying on the tradition of well-shaved barbarians! (insert appropriate manly grunting noises here in your mind)
I've used the brush about 5 times so far. I've head lathered and face lathered and mug lathered with it. The slightly stiffer hairs do pick up the soap rather nicely but I am trying to learn how much water is proper for the soaps. It seems to want to hold more water than the boar bristle brushes I've been using, although "boar" may be an oversimplification. I expect that "boar" hair also may come from sows, but that's a topic for another post. Anyhoo, today I shook more water out of the well soaked brush before I started on the soap and ended up getting a much better lather overall.
So, on behalf of the well groomed marauder line of Ghengis Khan, I wish you all a great day and a great shave!
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