Was in Target the other day, saw that the Bevel shave products were 30% off so I got the brush since my regular daily brush is very old and very worn. Big mistake. This piece of junk is stiff enough to hang a wet towel from. Turns cream and soap into useless, runny, bubbly scum regardless of how little water you use. Does not hold lather, if you would even call what this thing generates lather that is. It runs off the bristles like water off a duck’s back. Almost like it’s shaving cream resistant. I am not being facetious when I say the handle holds lather better than the bristles, whatever doesn’t end up on your wrist. Not even paint brush strokes work to apply the ‘lather’ if you’d even call it that. I actually ended up holding the bristles in my hand and using the handle to apply the lather, at least that kept it from running down my hand and wrist. Basically unusable. Maybe even dangerous, because your hand will be so slick you cannot grip the razor. Brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘hand lather’.
I honestly cannot believe this company has the audacity to sell this piece of junk at regular price for $30..they must be absolutely psychotic. I know for a fact you can get a serviceable brush for 1/3 of that or less. Not very experienced with synthetics myself, but was under the impression that they’re typically softer, no break-in required like with a boar brush. Well for comparison, if synthetics did indeed need breaking in and this brush was a baseball glove..a thousand 102 mph fastballs from Jacob DeGrom couldn’t break this thing in I’m guessing.
Is there anything that can be done to somehow make this worthless thing even semi-useable? I’ve tried hot water and hair conditioner that’s the only thing I can think of but I imagine that would work better with natural bristle brushes. Is it just me or has anybody else made the mistake of buying this thing and had a similar experience? I once bought the dollar tree shave brush just for fun and didn’t expect anything from it but that brush as bad as it is, was dirt cheap and works much better.
I’m debating on whether to throw this thing in the trash, or use it as a fish scaler unless someone has any hacks to make it useable. This is the first time I ever bought something at a markdown price and was left feeling heavily ripped off. I hate to just throw something away and I definitely wouldn’t want to give this away to a noob and then end up turning them off traditional shaving. What really gets me is that this company markets their junk as helping prevent irritation..this brush is more aggressive than a Muhle R41. What a joke.
I’m sure a lot of folks here often wander over to the shaving section and you may see this thing on the shelf marked down. Please don’t make the same mistake I did. That is why I am posting this..maybe someone without much experience with shaving brushes like myself and hates ordering online can be saved from wasting their money. Plus when a company makes overpriced junk, I think it should be put out there. Normally it’s no big deal, you buy something you’re unhappy with you move on. But this thing was so bad, I had to get it off my chest. I wasn’t expecting anything special either, my expectations were already low but I was absolutely blown away with how terrible the brush is. I don’t have any experience with top shelf brushes either, nothing but cheaper ones. In fact this was the most I’ve ever paid for a brush, $21 after the 30% markdown so I am actually shocked at just how bad it was. Could have gotten an Omega, and a tube of Proraso for that. I wish I did. So in summary, is my unbiased review, as I’ve no experience with any of their other products: -5 stars out of 5.
I honestly cannot believe this company has the audacity to sell this piece of junk at regular price for $30..they must be absolutely psychotic. I know for a fact you can get a serviceable brush for 1/3 of that or less. Not very experienced with synthetics myself, but was under the impression that they’re typically softer, no break-in required like with a boar brush. Well for comparison, if synthetics did indeed need breaking in and this brush was a baseball glove..a thousand 102 mph fastballs from Jacob DeGrom couldn’t break this thing in I’m guessing.
Is there anything that can be done to somehow make this worthless thing even semi-useable? I’ve tried hot water and hair conditioner that’s the only thing I can think of but I imagine that would work better with natural bristle brushes. Is it just me or has anybody else made the mistake of buying this thing and had a similar experience? I once bought the dollar tree shave brush just for fun and didn’t expect anything from it but that brush as bad as it is, was dirt cheap and works much better.
I’m debating on whether to throw this thing in the trash, or use it as a fish scaler unless someone has any hacks to make it useable. This is the first time I ever bought something at a markdown price and was left feeling heavily ripped off. I hate to just throw something away and I definitely wouldn’t want to give this away to a noob and then end up turning them off traditional shaving. What really gets me is that this company markets their junk as helping prevent irritation..this brush is more aggressive than a Muhle R41. What a joke.
I’m sure a lot of folks here often wander over to the shaving section and you may see this thing on the shelf marked down. Please don’t make the same mistake I did. That is why I am posting this..maybe someone without much experience with shaving brushes like myself and hates ordering online can be saved from wasting their money. Plus when a company makes overpriced junk, I think it should be put out there. Normally it’s no big deal, you buy something you’re unhappy with you move on. But this thing was so bad, I had to get it off my chest. I wasn’t expecting anything special either, my expectations were already low but I was absolutely blown away with how terrible the brush is. I don’t have any experience with top shelf brushes either, nothing but cheaper ones. In fact this was the most I’ve ever paid for a brush, $21 after the 30% markdown so I am actually shocked at just how bad it was. Could have gotten an Omega, and a tube of Proraso for that. I wish I did. So in summary, is my unbiased review, as I’ve no experience with any of their other products: -5 stars out of 5.
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