I was recently reading somewhere someone was claiming that good prep (including shaving cream/soap) masks bad razors and/or blades. At the extreme, does that mean if I buy the "best" razor and the "best" blade, I can get away with absolutely no prep? My vote: Malarkey.
For me good prep is essential for a good shave. However, it cannot "mask" or "hide" the bad behavior of a razor, blade, or even my own technique.
To add more detail -- he was claiming that although someone liked a particular blade, he claimed the blade was horrible, and that the person's prep was hiding the fact that it was a bad blade! What a load of malarkey!
depends on the context of the statement i guess .dull skates still slide on ice,but not so much on concrete.now how it shaves would be more interesting..
Everyone can enjoy their shave their way ...... that said I never understood "shaving prep". The only prep I have is shaving soap and water. Course I'm weird because I'm a one and done for passes. Shaving is nothing more than comfortable hair reduction.
It's the blade that shaves your face...the blade. Prep is important, but will not save your face from a bad blade or bad technique, for that matter.
Yes, but the point of my original post, which maybe I didn't get across well enough, was that some farkakte guy was dissing other people's opinions of blades, saying that they only thought a blade was good because their prep was too good. That has got to be the biggest bit of malarkey I've ever heard. Not YMMV. Not "everyone's opinions differ." But instead, "you don't know what you're talking about -- that blade stinks, and the only reason you like it is because you have exceptional prepping techniques." I'm sure glad THIS forum doesn't spew malarkey like that!
Malarkey. To use a cinematic comparison, even John Gielgud (Prep) couldn't mask the fact that Arthur II (Bad Gear) was a bad movie. Good pre-shave prep may make a difference "on the bubble", changing a shave that's barely bad into one that's barely good. Other than that, it's malarkey.
They made an ARTHUR II? I didn't even like ARTHUR I, although it had one good line by Gielgud: "Do you want me to come in there and wash your <blank> for you, you little <blank>."
