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Dave Hopkins Barber Is Go
Look at me and my fancy logo. It's official, though. Dave Hopkins Barber is now active and operating out of Solution Barbers in Brighton....
May 23, 20211 min read
DAVESHAVES - the ebook
Not only can you buy the DAVESHAVES paperback book for a paltry £5.99 right here, you can also - for an even more paltry £2.99 - buy it...
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #37
... with the Ever Ready 1912 The Brush: The Atomic Rocket The Cream: Proraso Green The Razor: Ever Ready 1912 The Blade: GEM IN ONE WORD:...
Dec 7, 20201 min read
The Dave's Fades Haircut Gallery
I've been rather busy since the end of September, learning to be a barber. I haven't had much time to keep the blog updated. I'd sort of...
Dec 1, 20202 min read
DAVESHAVES: The Book
Yes indeed, it's finally here. DAVESHAVES the book - a collection of pieces from this very website but this time in a handy-to-read,...
Nov 30, 20201 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #36
... with the Marvel DE safety razor The Brush: Big Jock The Cream: Omega The Razor: Fine Marvel DE safety razor The Blade: Astra IN ONE...
Nov 29, 20201 min read
The SHAVENT razor
From the SHAVENT website: An innovative, elegant and sustainable razor with the full comfort of a pivoting-head and the liberty of...
Nov 26, 20205 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #35
The Brush: Big Jock The Soap: Citrus Kiss The Razor: The Sussex Razor The Blade: Feather IN ONE WORD: Angles.
Nov 26, 20201 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #34
... with The Fatip Grande The Brush: The Guv'nor Pure Badger The Soap: Tabac The Razor: Fatip Grande Gold The Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock...
Jul 26, 20201 min read
It's Showtime ...
... with the DAVESHAVES Shaving Collection Gideon Brake draped the red velvet-lined cloak around my shoulders, then stepped back to cast...
Jul 22, 20202 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #33
... with Snake Bite shaving soap and after shaving tonic from Fine Accoutrements The Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3 The Soap: Fine Snake...
Jul 21, 20203 min read
Snakebite shaving soap and aftershave
"Look at 'em. Standing there, the shaving equivalent of 1960s Cockney crime bosses, staring you down, daring you to stare back and...
Jul 20, 20202 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #32
... with the Ascension open-comb razor The Cream: Bay Rum The Brush: Trafalgar T3 The Razor: The Ascension The Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock...
Jul 19, 20202 min read
The Ascension aluminium double open-comb safety razor
Ah yes. The unparalleled glory that is the Ascension aluminium razor from that cheeky japester Douglas Smythe at Phoenix Artisan...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
Love Shick
I recently took the plunge into the unchartered waters of Shick injector razors and bought - for a laughably reasonable price, I thought...
Jul 16, 20203 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #31
... with the King C Gillette DE safety razor The Brush: The Big Jock The Cream: Citrus Kiss The Razor: King C Gillette DE razor The...
Jul 15, 20201 min read
DAVESHAVES - the book
First there was the DAVESHAVES t-shirt. An item of such sartorial shaving elegance that it quickly took on cult status amongst the...
Jul 14, 20202 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #30
... with the Ever Ready 1914 The Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3 The Cream: Taylor of Old Bond Street Lemon & Lime The Razor: Ever Ready 1914...
Jun 18, 20202 min read
Dave's Shave Of The Day #29
... with the GEM Bullet-tip single-edge razor The Brush: The Guv'nor The Soap: Arko The Razor: GEM bullet-tip The Blade: GEM single-edge...
Jun 16, 20202 min read
Dave's Fades #2
... with post-haircut live action Dancer. Poet, Athlete. Rapper. Chef. Git. My son, Excalibur, is all of these things. He's also a bloody...
Jun 12, 20202 min read
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