SoS: January 3-9 2011

Midnight Shave:

1954 Gillette SS
Personna Platinum Chrome (1)
TGN Silver Tip Badger
TBS Maca Root Shave Cream
TBS Maca Root Razor Relief
Dickinson's Witch Hazel (In a glass spray bottle - Impossible to apply in the plastic one)
Shot of Patron before bed.

DFS in 4.

 

Proraso pre shave cream
Omega shaving soap
Frank Shaving silvertip badger brush
Merkur 34C / Sputnik
Avon Signature after shave balm
some leather edc

 

Wednesday, January 5th

Hot shower
Nivea for Men Extreme Comfort gel
Gillette Fusion Phenom
Nivea for Men ASB
Joop! Jump EdT

 

Wednesday's shave:

Calani 'Purissima' shave soap
Jack Black Pure Performance shave brush
Mühle R89
Super-Max Platinum (1.)
Dr. Alkaitis Organic Soothing Gel AS

 

Wednesday, January 5

Gillette New
IP Red (3)
Arko/TSD Bourbon Vanilla Blend
Vulfix 2235 S
Bay Rum Menthol-Lime Blend

Great BBS today on 3 passes! Applied my Arko Stick on the face, then face lathered with my Vulfix loaded with some Arko-TSD blend. What a Super Lather that makes!

 

Wednesday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/7 O'Clock day 4
Yabloneviy Tsvet SC :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Booster Polar Ice AS :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008
Aramis EDT :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008

This Yabloneviy Tsvet cream from Russia is excellent. It gives a mountain of rich, creamy, stable lather, and it feels great on the skin. Check out the review that I wrote on it.

 

Hot Shower
Boker Red Injun #102
Semogue 2000
Ogalla Bay Rum Sage and Cedar
Clubman Bay Rum
Pierre Cardin EdC

This is my first, and probably still my best straight razor. It seems this thing can't give anything but amazing shaves. What's more, maintaining a scary sharp edge on this thing is near effortless. Give it a touch up hone every 10 shaves or so and give it a good stropping pre-shave and the magic comes, every single shave.

 

Parker22R
BIC disposable for the lower neck, to avoid nicks and weepers
American Personna blade
Ever Ready boar brush
VDH and D'alan s/c superlather
Burts Bees Bay Rum A/S lotion topped with a splash of Pinaud VI Bay rum A/S


4 pass shave on a prime beard (2 days growth) = 5 blade shave.
Very smooth and satisfying shave with BBS result and a very Bay rummyish aroma! Ahhhhh

 

Gillette Old Type BRW Improved Handle
Super Iridium (1)

Rudy Vey Finest
Valobra Shave Stick

Alum
Superior 70 Bay Rum

 

Happy Wednesday From Florida!

Hot Shower
RAB Scuttle
Omega Boar #10051
Klar Kabbinett Soap
Star 3-Piece
Voskhod Blade (2)
Cold Water Rag
Eveline ASG
Aramis AS

3 Passes = 4 Blade DFS!

Have a great day Ya'll!

 

7/8 Henckels Friodur | KMF Patchouli | B&B Essential | Thayers | Nivea ASB | C.O. Bigelow Red

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Day 4 of my "local shave products" week. Great shave today! The Kiss My Face creams never fail to impress, Nivea is one of the best and most soothing products out there & the Bigelow Red smells wonderful!

Great pics everyone! :happy096

 

Wednesday:

Razor: Merkur 38C Barber Pole
Blade: Shark Super Stainless
Brush: Omega Boar 10049
Soap: Palmolive Stick (Euro)
A/S: Master's Bay Rum
EdT: Stetson​

 

Wed. - Jan. 5

X3 black-tip SS
Asco (3)
Omega 90081
Portman Square
Realm asb
Joop! edt

Woke up a little too late this morning, just enough time for a quick 'once over lightly'.

 

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Razor: Merkur Progress XL
Blade: Supermax Super Stainless
Brush: Vulfix 2006 Pure Badger
Cream: Cyril Salter Sublime Citrus
A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Speick ASB

Great shave, using a brush I've been neglecting. The Vulfix 2006 is a basic $20 badger brush, and it works just fine with creams. I bought it for travel, but now prefer an artificial badger for its shorter drying time when traveling. Today, it whipped up a nice rich lather with the Salter cream, allowing the Supermax blade to work its magic.

It's a cold, dry day today, so I went for the Speick balm. Ahh...feels good!

 

Star Razor
Iridium Blade
C&E BBB
Arko Stick
RazOrock
Anthony Logistics AS Balm


-one of those shaves where it feels like nothings happening during the shave, but you end up BBS

 

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Cafe Molido Santo Domingo, BLACK
Soap: TSD Wild Rose
Brush: Semogue 2000
Razor: Futur @ 2.5
Blade: Shark Super Chrome, day 3, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Thayer's Rose Petal WH, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

A sweet, sweet shave. I'm still getting faint whiffs of roses

 

SOTD Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Razor: 1925 Silver Plated, Gardette, Open Comb - (Made in France)
Blade: Dorco Platinum ST300
Shaving Soap/Mug: Tabac
Scuttle: RAB Ceramic
Brush: Omega Professional Boar
Astringent: Dickinson's Witch Hazel
ASB: Nivea Replenishing
Aftershave/Cologne: Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue
Results: BBS and Comfortable; outstanding!

This is the second use of my newest acquisition the Silver Plated Gardette Open Comb. This is a very rare French made razor that is sort of a take off on the Gillette Bostonian. I only know of one other Shave Brother that has one of these, Haiku of the B & B Forum. (I would be interested in knowing if anyone else has one.) It is a great shaver and the first time I used it I thought it was very aggressive. This time I didn't feel the rawness of the blade on my face and, I surmised that last time it was probably due to the watery lather I had. (I can remember I screwed up and got too much water in the mix but I went ahead and used it.) This time with the great Tabac lather it felt great, about the same as a Fat Boy on #6. At any rate, it performed beautifully and delivered an irritation free BBS shave. It is a beautiful razor and will take it's rightful place in my rotation.

 

Today shave was a most special one for me...It's one of those hallmarks we always remember...Like when we returned to TWS...

Todays Shave:
Hot Wet Towel
Arko Shave Stick
Omega 10029 Baby-Pro Boar
Eversharp-Schick I2/CVS Personna Day1
Arko Nem Mango Mandalina moisturiser
Arko Aqua AS Splash

I have said numorous times around here; that when I was growing up, I was obsessed with my Dad's Eversharp I2 Hydro-Magic. He got it in like '55 and I've told many stories about that razor...Years later when I started to shave he gave it to me. That was my favorite razor hands down for many years til it fell apart. If I knew then what I know now I would have kept it...But ignorance is bliss, and I've always been a pretty blissfull cat.

Now our stingraysrock-Jeff knows about this and sent me his as a gift. It arrived today. I wasn't ready for how beautiful it is...He never said it was like new. This thing is like a Time-Machine..Well anyway you know how certain special razors can move us...After I got over just standing there smiling and digging it...

I went through the nostalgic ritual of injecting a new blade in to it, which I haven't done in so many years...Then I shaved...the moment of truth...and with each stroke I was reminded of why I loved this razor sooo much...I loved every stroke, I expected a slight learning curve cause I've only used DE's since I came back to TWS over a year ago but...I truly loved each stroke...Like reminising, and having a new great moment, at the same time...)

Two wonderful passes WTG and ATG, and perfection was achieved...only way too quickly...I had too much great lather still in my brush, and such a wonderful razor in my hand...but the BBS was one any Turkish Barber would have been jealous of. Another pass would have diminished the shave...So I applied my favorite skin moisturizer and splashed on some Arko Aqua AS Splash and there was ZERO irritation and my skin squeeked when I rub it...Not a nub or whisker to be found...:happy108

Consider me "born again injector"...and I will always be thankful for Jeff's thoughtfullness and generousity in reuniting me with the Eversharp I2...and everything that goes with it...

 

Focus Straight Razor
VDH Pure Boar Hair Brush
Ogallala Bay Rum & Lemon Grass SS
Adidas Dynamic Pulse A/S

Somebody Please Pinch Me
to see if I'm Awake, That's
how Smoooth !!!:sleep001

 

Another convert to the light side, and kudos to Jeff for his generosity in reuniting you with this kind of razor.:happy096