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Hello gents!
Today I managed to get my almost 17 years old son to remove those long, thin, growing hairs in his face today. Not real stubble yet but you may know (or remember yourself, ahem?) how a young man can be proud of this kind of beard.
Nevertheless, his grandfather on his mother's side died some months ago and I inherited his old British alu Tech. Being a mild razor, and his granddad's, I thought it was appropiate for his first DE-shave loaded with a Derby.
I borrowed him one of my brushes and handed him the good old Palmolive SC - that's still in his grandfather's spirit and epoque. He had some trouble face lathering, but I helped him finding the right circular movements and later showed him how to make very short and precise strokes and going horisontally on his chin which had most of this, ehh...beard.
He grabbed the razor close under its head, trying to strangle it, and made the first loong strokes till ol' pop told him't to take his time.
He succeeded in some kind of shaving without a nick - no, it was far from perfect but I just said "good job!" and gave him a twirl with the alum block after the cold water rinse. That didn't give him the sting so I asked him to pick an after shave and told him he smelled fine and as a gentleman.
Well, not the perfect father-and-son-moment you could have hoped for but he has some way to go - and so has his beard
But I think it is more important to praise and encourage kids than to criticize. Sooner or later he will want to perfect his shaves. Maybe I'll tell you how this ends. In the meantime his twin brother wants the British Tech for himself...
Kind regards
cop
Hello gents!
Today I managed to get my almost 17 years old son to remove those long, thin, growing hairs in his face today. Not real stubble yet but you may know (or remember yourself, ahem?) how a young man can be proud of this kind of beard.
Nevertheless, his grandfather on his mother's side died some months ago and I inherited his old British alu Tech. Being a mild razor, and his granddad's, I thought it was appropiate for his first DE-shave loaded with a Derby.
I borrowed him one of my brushes and handed him the good old Palmolive SC - that's still in his grandfather's spirit and epoque. He had some trouble face lathering, but I helped him finding the right circular movements and later showed him how to make very short and precise strokes and going horisontally on his chin which had most of this, ehh...beard.
He grabbed the razor close under its head, trying to strangle it, and made the first loong strokes till ol' pop told him't to take his time.
He succeeded in some kind of shaving without a nick - no, it was far from perfect but I just said "good job!" and gave him a twirl with the alum block after the cold water rinse. That didn't give him the sting so I asked him to pick an after shave and told him he smelled fine and as a gentleman.
Well, not the perfect father-and-son-moment you could have hoped for but he has some way to go - and so has his beard
But I think it is more important to praise and encourage kids than to criticize. Sooner or later he will want to perfect his shaves. Maybe I'll tell you how this ends. In the meantime his twin brother wants the British Tech for himself...Kind regards
cop
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