For hundreds of years, a trained barber used an extremely sharp blade known as a straight razor to accomplish a close shave. When the first self-contained “safety razors” became widely available, many ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This comes down to the design. A straight razor is a single, exposed blade that folds into its handle and ...

Barber Tracy Crouch deftly wields a straight-edge razor, scraping the blade through the shaving cream to shape and trim a beard. Crouch is the barber at 19th St. Salon & Spa, 3915 S.W. 19th St., a ...

FOR A LONG time, I saw straight razors more as weapons than as grooming tools. Maybe it was Sweeney Todd, maybe it was the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs, but these nifty blades always seemed ...

Y'all remember that weirdly titillating scene early on in Skyfall when Naomie Harris shows up at a shirtless Daniel Craig's door as he's mid-shave and then engages in two minutes of half-whispered ...