Feb. 2:
Episode 2: "There Will Be Blood"
Continuing day two of Hell Week (Personna Blue blade 1st shaves) in my Dead Is Dead showdown, and I have my first casualty. The Razorock Classic TTO...
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Week 1 Gear
- Brush: Kong
- Soap: Soap Commander "Drive"
- Blade: Personna Blue (1st shave--"The Blood-letter")
- AS: Clubman Original
- Balm: Nivea Sensitive Cooling
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I shouldn't be forthright (because I always get punished when I'm being honest), but going into this shave I was secretly hoping I'd get a fail out of this razor. No hate on it at all, it just doesn't have the emotional attachment that I have with some of my others. That was until today's shave...
1st pass, WTG, and I'm finding the razor's sweet spot incredibly easy, and I'm highly at ease. 2nd pass, XTG, and I'm really enjoying this shave--looking forward to pass three. And then the cold water rinse reveals a sting. I look closely, and sure enough... a weeper on my chin. Crud! Shave over. I rinse down completely, reapply the copious amounts of no-longer-needed lather left over, and go through the cleanup routine. By the time I finish, I find two other weepers along my lower chin. Those disappeared quickly, but the 1st needed the styptic. Dead Is Dead--Comfort and Closeness scores automatic 0.
And now I'm disappointed. With just a two pass shave, this razor gave me results that were about as good as yesterdays 3 pass with the DE89. Along the cheeks I'm
almost BBS. That never happens on a XTG pass. I would have given the Classic TTO a Comfort score of 4 (
slightest bit of irritation), and as for closeness, this razor was destined to give me at the very least a DFS (score: 3), but in all probability a BBS/DFS (score:4). I'm just very impressed that I can feel as good as I do with a 2 pass, no ATG shave.
Takeaway for the Razorock Classic TTO: fairly aggressive, large blade gap, highly effective razor. But surprisingly comfortable. In future shaves, I'll treat this more like the MMOC, because I'm really wishing I could have gotten that 3rd pass.
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