Most men take little joy in shaving. Keeping a clean-shaven face is an obligation — a chore that’s necessary for maintaining a professional appearance on the job, and perhaps to maintain some ...

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 ...

The best razors for women will give your body a quick, clean shave without irritating your skin or leaving a trail of nicks and ingrown hairs in their wake. Many women’s razors accomplish this with ...

Freemans Sporting Club—where the barbers (no hairstylists here, thank you) sport cut-with-a-knife parts and old-timey mustaches—is one of the last places where guys can go for an old-school straight ...

When Gregory Kahn started building his own steel safety razors, he was doing it to remedy his dissatisfaction with the flimsy plastic cartridge razors that hurt when he used them and irritated his ...

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 ...