March 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Thank you, Jared!

 

It is enjoyable isn't it? Something about the concentration it takes when you lay a blade like that to your face. It is very relaxing. I am getting enough shaves under my belt that muscle memory is starting to help me out, and it is becoming sort of automatic, but it still requires focus I never had to give to a DE. I like that.

 

Well actually, I thought you would appreciate a heartfelt, thoughtful comment more than an Apple Emoji. I guess it turned out kind of like the Christmas I gave my mom a little side table I built when I was in eighth grade. She told me it was fine and all, but that I could have saved the effort and just got her a carton of smokes like I did the year before......

 

We are on the exact same page of the same edition of the same book.

There is something pleasingly cathartic about using a straight.

 

Razor: Ever-Ready SE 1914
Blade: GEM Personna (4)
Brush: Shavemac ATG LE The Nisky Silvertip Fan
Soap: Route 66 Bourbon Jungle
Aftershave: Route 66 Bourbon Jungle Balm

 

Thanks very much Clint. I appreciate your kind words.

 

March 22 (Wednesday ) - SE focus -- ok so it's an injector not a Gem, so sue me...

Schick E2 / Schick Chromium ( 5)
Muhle silvertip synthetic
Proraso White soap

Used my Schick E2 injector for the first time in quite awhile. It felt incredibly small and nimble after using the Gem SEs for three weeks. Very relaxing too. Good prep + good skin stretching + light pressure = one pass DFS with no bites. Didn't bother with any postshave products.

 

Needs more sparkly glitter!


Tapatalk Via Kyocera

 

I really enjoy using a straight. I think that there is an elegant pageantry associated with a straight razors shave. The focus required to prepare the razor, the stropping, the soap and lather, the careful scraping of the lather off the face several times, and the finish with the aftershave, all combine to make what used to be a chore into something that makes me calm and soothes me to get me ready for the day.

The chance of screwing up and having everyone ask me what happened to my face for a few days is just a bonus.

 

Bwhahaha

 

The only conversation I have ever had about shaving with anyone other than my wife or son. So I guess it gives me a chance to share my hobby.

 

This is why many of my coworkers know I use a straight.

 

Thank you.

 

I can't believe how compact the knot looks on the brush. Is the brush as soft as it looks?

 

It is a great conversation starter, isn't it?

 

+1
I couldn't have worded it better!

 

Lovely picture, Doug!

 

I hear people talk about how they "converted" people to wet shaving. Nobody who knows me seems remotely interested in having their face look like mine did.

 

They don't want handsome and rugged?