Greetings from Hong Kong! Subject matter. I got 3 King C. Gillette box set + 6 boxes of blades for just HK$90 (US$11.5).
Now the long story. Before the Mach 3 launched, I was using Braun electric shaver. Tried Sensor or things like that 2-3 times. The feeling is terrible and lethal for a teenager. Wounds of course. Years later the overwhelming TV advertisements of Mach 3 made me try it. Since then I’d used the Gillette cartridge razors (mach3, fusion, proglide) until last week. The reason I switch to DE because guys talk about expensive cartridge in a local news chatroom. Then someone mentioned DE safety razor. This is the first time some people including myself to know safety razor. I think I saw this thing before. May be in a movie? But we are sure that this thing is old like our grandpa. I started to study it mainly watching YT like GFB and RE. I was kind of fall in the first sight to the DE razors. I shave every day and the proglide serves me well as I don’t have much beard like most Asian. My beard grown probably less than average HK men. However I still want to change and I believe I will change it forever.
I feel very excited and ask some friends if any of them are using safety razor. Especially guys with lots of beard or even hairy body all over arms and legs. Most HK people are just (we think ourselves) fast, efficient, lack of passion… always want the fastest straight forward answer. 90% of guys I asked are using electric. Only 1 uses proglide every day and only another 1 uses electric and proglide occasionally.
Just before checking out my amz shopping cart for the Merkur 34C, I watched a video mentioned a Futur clone. Talking about clone, it’s much easier for us to get from mainland China. So I decided to start by the Ming Shi first. I didn’t stop there and keep learning from videos. Everything about wet shaving. Then I found this seller on the most popular buy/sell site in HK. He was selling the box set (razor with 5 blades, transparent gel, and a box of 10 blades) for hk$30(originally starting at hk$35. But can’t sell them for a month). I approached him and he offered if I take all 3 boxes for hk$90, he would give me extra 5 boxes of 10 blades. I checked amz it costs US$25 for the razor alone. So we met and completed the trade. I was wondering how he got these stuff. He said these are the excess gifts for his company’s customers during the Valentine’s Day promotion.
Now I shave with both the clone Futur and KCG (both with ming shi blade. Very likely will change to KCG blade soon) every morning. Similar to those youtubers for vs comparison. Not difficult to manage. Just need more patients, more control and more gentle. I don’t like the clone for its bulky head and size. The feeling of blade position and exposure are bad. Feedback from the face is very limited too. I used minimum to 2.5 range. “no communication”. Of course this is only my case. For experienced users that is another thing. On the other hand, the KCG is totally different and it’s something I’m expecting. Very primitive and raw feelings. “lots of communication”. And I got my first ever closed and clean shave of my life that day. I don’t know if it’s BBS but definitely DFS. Although not the whole face but in some areas. The feeling is amazing which I’ve never experienced. I will still buy the 34C later as I think shorter handle is easier for flexible twist actions. I may wait for holiday discount for the Merkur. The next purchase will be the Proraso cream to replace to proglide 2+1 gel. A brush and bowl too. Mild to medium razors fit me. I think I don’t need any aggressive or even open comb. During this period I will try these sample blade packs from amz to find the right one I need.
The safety razor market is extremely small in my city. May be just around 5 specialized stores? Not sure. Lack of discussion too. Only 2-3 topics from different forums and all of the last updates are a month ago. I’m glad I get here when I was looking for more information about the KCG and google brought me here. Thanks for reading.
Now the long story. Before the Mach 3 launched, I was using Braun electric shaver. Tried Sensor or things like that 2-3 times. The feeling is terrible and lethal for a teenager. Wounds of course. Years later the overwhelming TV advertisements of Mach 3 made me try it. Since then I’d used the Gillette cartridge razors (mach3, fusion, proglide) until last week. The reason I switch to DE because guys talk about expensive cartridge in a local news chatroom. Then someone mentioned DE safety razor. This is the first time some people including myself to know safety razor. I think I saw this thing before. May be in a movie? But we are sure that this thing is old like our grandpa. I started to study it mainly watching YT like GFB and RE. I was kind of fall in the first sight to the DE razors. I shave every day and the proglide serves me well as I don’t have much beard like most Asian. My beard grown probably less than average HK men. However I still want to change and I believe I will change it forever.
I feel very excited and ask some friends if any of them are using safety razor. Especially guys with lots of beard or even hairy body all over arms and legs. Most HK people are just (we think ourselves) fast, efficient, lack of passion… always want the fastest straight forward answer. 90% of guys I asked are using electric. Only 1 uses proglide every day and only another 1 uses electric and proglide occasionally.
Just before checking out my amz shopping cart for the Merkur 34C, I watched a video mentioned a Futur clone. Talking about clone, it’s much easier for us to get from mainland China. So I decided to start by the Ming Shi first. I didn’t stop there and keep learning from videos. Everything about wet shaving. Then I found this seller on the most popular buy/sell site in HK. He was selling the box set (razor with 5 blades, transparent gel, and a box of 10 blades) for hk$30(originally starting at hk$35. But can’t sell them for a month). I approached him and he offered if I take all 3 boxes for hk$90, he would give me extra 5 boxes of 10 blades. I checked amz it costs US$25 for the razor alone. So we met and completed the trade. I was wondering how he got these stuff. He said these are the excess gifts for his company’s customers during the Valentine’s Day promotion.
Now I shave with both the clone Futur and KCG (both with ming shi blade. Very likely will change to KCG blade soon) every morning. Similar to those youtubers for vs comparison. Not difficult to manage. Just need more patients, more control and more gentle. I don’t like the clone for its bulky head and size. The feeling of blade position and exposure are bad. Feedback from the face is very limited too. I used minimum to 2.5 range. “no communication”. Of course this is only my case. For experienced users that is another thing. On the other hand, the KCG is totally different and it’s something I’m expecting. Very primitive and raw feelings. “lots of communication”. And I got my first ever closed and clean shave of my life that day. I don’t know if it’s BBS but definitely DFS. Although not the whole face but in some areas. The feeling is amazing which I’ve never experienced. I will still buy the 34C later as I think shorter handle is easier for flexible twist actions. I may wait for holiday discount for the Merkur. The next purchase will be the Proraso cream to replace to proglide 2+1 gel. A brush and bowl too. Mild to medium razors fit me. I think I don’t need any aggressive or even open comb. During this period I will try these sample blade packs from amz to find the right one I need.
The safety razor market is extremely small in my city. May be just around 5 specialized stores? Not sure. Lack of discussion too. Only 2-3 topics from different forums and all of the last updates are a month ago. I’m glad I get here when I was looking for more information about the KCG and google brought me here. Thanks for reading.