So we are doing a little event at next years ASR trade show where we have partnered up with Brent Ferris of Lefty’s Barbershop in San Diego to offer up some original straight razor shaves right there on the floor of the show. I went down to meet up with Brent on Tuesday morning to go over some of the details for the show.

I got down to Diego around 9am which was about an hour ahead of time but luckily Brent was right around the corner on his way in to the shop. We started talking about what he needed for the show to keep the old school barber shop feel in a booth at ASR and the supplies that we are going to need. As we started going over everything that was needed and Brent was explaining the purpose for each item he threw out the idea of giving me a straight shave so I knew how to actually explain it to people first hand. It is a really cool process which goes through 3 hot towels wrapped around your face and in between each towel he rubs your face down with different types of moisturizers that just makes the whiskers relax and get your whiskers ready for execution time. At the end of the shave he wraps your face with a cold towel to close the pores.

The best part of the shave was after the 4 towels and after all the moisturizers when Brent looked at me with his hands out on either side of my face and said “Alright here’s what separates the men from the boys” and a moment after that he slapped both sides of my face with what felt like hot lava but in fact was only some after shave.

It was an experience to get the shave and I’m so stoked that we are going to be making this available to the attendees at ASR this Feb.

Downtown San Diego

Some cool hat racks

Choices

Chuck and Brent getting ready for the day.

Deboo swings by Leftys I assume to shave his dome.

Brents old school barber chair

The Chairman

Brent the Barber lofting a double rail grab before work.