Even before we begin to grow hair on our faces, American men WANT to shave. We want to be like Daddy (or the nearest male role model in our lives). That’s the person who is going to teach us the rituals of manhood. And so it should be. But like many of those rituals, the teacher may not know anything about them himself – of course, except what he learned from his own role models.
But where shaving is concerned, things can become worse fast. At the time the youngster actually puts razor to face, the lesson to be learned is often that it “ain’t what it’s cut out to be”.
Nicks, razor burns, pimples, ingrown hairs, sometimes facial infections, become a stinging reality. Where the young man has curly hair, it can be much worse. Since his role model (if he even had one) never learned the exact and proper way to shave, the specific lesson learned will often be no beter, effective or even remotely correct.
With Black, or African American males, the problem is elevated in a quantum leap. Today the overwhelming majority of African American males wears a mask of scar-darkened, pimple-peppered skin mottled and unsightly.
This site is dedicated to teaching them how to shave that curly mop in order to eliminate the pain and suffering of ingrown hairs, infections, pimples nicks and scars of incorrectly managed shaving, and to restore them to the ego-centric primpers they want to be.
in its natural state (unprocessed), curly hair is flat, and stiff. That means that whenever it is cut, it will leave edges that can be very sharp if pointed directly at the skin surface.