{"id":17774,"date":"2014-02-03T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:26:13","slug":"dollar-scalp-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/dollar-scalp-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar Scalp Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before bed this evening I was shaving my head and face in the shower, a fairly typical twice-or-so-a-week event. Having recently acquired a Dollar Shave Club<\/a>\u00a0four-blade razor I was giving it a go, just as I had four or five other shaving sessions before. As I was finishing up, going back over the top of the my head one more time, I felt the familiar tug of cutting one’s self. As typical for head cuts I was bleeding a bit, so I called for Danielle to tell me just how bad it was. She had a difficult time dealing with the sight of blood (needing to sit down at one point — as she did during this<\/a>), but after I washed the blood off she was able to give it a look, and after setting a dry towel on my head for a while she used our largest bandage some\u00a0Neosporin<\/a>\u00a0to patch it up.<\/p>\n

At first I didn’t understand was the magnitude of the skin removed, thinking that it was just one of the usual small cuts that I get every couple of months, often the result of a small pimple or ingrown hair. While waiting for Danielle I managed to pull it out of the razor, setting it aside in a bit of water so I could look at it later. Shown above is the still-moist piece of skin, laid out on a stainless steel scale. This is 11mm x 20mm, and the ends are a bit thin and folded under.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the razor wasn’t brand new (it’d been used maybe four or five times before) I’m hesitant to fault it, but the Gillette Mach 3<\/a>\u00a0that I’d used for years previously never did this after a similar number of uses on a triple-blade head. Then again, the flap of skin was stuck between the bottom two (leading and second) blades. This could have been because the leading blade was dulling, pulled up a bit of skin, and the second cleanly sliced it away.<\/p>\n

Despite the hassle of cutting my head, the skin slice resulted in a very interesting photo. In it one\u00a0can see bisected pores<\/a>, small imperfections, and lighter colored and less translucent spots where the sample ended up a bit thicker than others.\u00a0\u00a0Click here to see the full resolution version<\/a>, which is making me wish I’d had an higher resolution camera.<\/p>\n

This should heal soon, but as it’s more superficial than scrapes I receive while biking I don’t anticipate it being much of a problem. Because there’s so much blood flow to the scalp small cuts and scrapes like this tend to heal quickly. Thankfully Danielle was here to dress it, as being on a not-quite-visible part of my head it would have been a huge hassle to do alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before bed this evening I was shaving my head and face in the shower, a fairly typical twice-or-so-a-week event. Having recently acquired a Dollar Shave…<\/p>\n

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