This is a review of the Royal shave at the Art of Shaving barbershop in the Apothecary at the Palazzo.
This particular Art of shaving store was running a special where you could get the traditional shave when you bought their $100 perfect shave kit.
I recently started using their products and was going to buy the set anyway so i grabbed it up. I even upgraded to the royal shave for an extra twenty bucks.
The shave started off great with the warm lather and pre-shave oil and what not...but when the blade hit my face i came to realize that this dude didn't know what he was doing.
Scratch, scratch, scratch...with the grain, across the grain, against and perpendicular. He was all over the place. I felt several cuts and saw even more in the mirror later that day.
The aftershave mask was great as i cooled down some of the damage the barber did to my face. However later that day my skin was irritated as ever. To be fair, it was the closest shave it ever had, but i'm definitely going back to that guy any time soon. His name was Dave.
I've heard better things about the art of shaving in Mandalay Bay as it is run buy the Art of shaving folks directly and is not a partnership with any other store.