Grooming

flatpattern wrote: Found a couple of new brands worth talking about. These guys are great, from the packaging to the product, you get a free comb and a handwritten note, how can you beat that.  It's very reasonably priced and it's made in the U.S.A.  On top of all that it's good! For all of those moustache twirlers I use Bounders moustache wax, he adds vanilla and bay rum to it so it smells great.  It holds and dries with no sticky mess and its water soluable, best I've found so far. Anybody else use any other good stuff?

I LOVE THEIR CLASSIC POMADE!!!!!!!!!

Ursa Major  has some really great grooming items, it's all completely natural. I got some at Christmas time and it's had a profound effect on my daily shaving.

I currently have full-on hippie hair that needs to be dealt with.  I haven't had a professional haircut in at least a decade.

Great stuff Double O. I have the XX and XXX versions as my hair is thick and unruly. The XX gives really good hold, the XXX is water based and needs some coaxing with a softer pomade on top to avoid the hair sticking out straight.

I went to the barbers today... This made a change from the usual bable. The guy who cuts my hair is approaching 70 but he knows his trad cuts. He was saying that he trained and worked as a barber in the late 50,s then when he had a family could not make ends meet so got a better paid but less satisfying job at Osbourne Hadfields in Sheffield that was a huge steel works and employed 3000 people in the boom time of the Sheffield steel industry. The management found out he used to be a barber and wanted there hair cutting.. long story short they set him up in a small office with clippers comb and cutthroat and he cut the hair of the 3000 workers at no charge while earning a steel workers salary before it was demolished, then he went back to working in his old barbers shop where he did his apprenticeship that had been there since 1872.