SoS Nov 3 - 9

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Another great shave

 

Monday:

Omega Silvertip
Lord Super/new 7 AM
Italian Palmolive Menthol S/C
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Diana Menthol balm
Yves Saint-Laurent Pour Homme EDT

a fantastic face-freezing shave to begin the week!

 

Monday AM

My only day in the office this week. The rest of the time, I'm in L.A. (on the Man's dime! )

Hot shower
Proraso Pre-Post at beginning of shower
SCS New Spice soap during shower
SR 3124
Merkur Progress w/ Derby blade
Penhaligon's English Fern soap + TSD Frostbite add-in
WWR
Old Spice (Shulton's) A/S splash
CWR
Tryphon Mentolo balm + Nivea Cooling balm
John Varvatos EdT

Have a great week everyone!

 

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
Merkur HD
Derby Extra
C&E BBB
TOBS Avocado
Pinaud Clubman
Home Made ASB

 

Hot Shower
Hot Towel
American Crew Pre Shave Oil
Speick SHaving Cream
Gillette 3 pc Gold Razor (not identified yet)
Merkur Blade (1st Shave)
Art of Shaving Lemon After Shave Balm


First time using the Merkur blade, so far I like it! A tiny bit of razor burn, but tht could be because I didn't shave all weekend!

 

Usually you'll get less razor burn from letting your face go for a weekend. Merkur blades are just rough.

 

Razor: 38C
Blade: Swedish Gillette
Brush: Rooney 1/2 Finest
Soap: La Toja Shave Stick
Aftershave: La Toja splash followed by Dr. Galen's balm
Cologne: Guerlain Vetiver

 

Merkur HD
Sharp Stainless
Rooney Style 3, Size 1
Speick Cream
Max Refreshing with Menthol
Proraso ASB

 

Monday: musgo real lime preshave soap / generic pure badger brush / ginger's garden lavender soap / parker 89r razor / 7 o'clock super stainless blade d3 / twh / florida water cologne.

ginger's garden soap is nice, fragrance lasts throughout the shave. d3 on blade and it need changed but still did a nice job. good way to start the week

 

Monday, November 3, 2008
Pre-shave Oil: none
Razor: Merkur 33c
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock
Brush: Omega Synthetic (to remind me of why I love my C&E BBB) :happy102
Soap: Tabac
Cream: KMF Lavender with Shea
AS: Thayers Witch Hazel with Lavender
Cologne: Grey Flannel

 

C & E BBB
TGQ Leatherneck
Crystal
Old Spice

Started with:
Henckle Rapide (Need to strop the blade more)
Finished with
1940 SS
Feather

 

Thanks, So far I like Crystals and Dorco ST-301's the best, had bad luck with Feathers!

 

Monday

Razor: 6/8 Dorko
Brush: Rooney Emillion
Soap: Trumpers Violet
A/S: DR Harris a/s milk
Edt: Czech & Speake Cuba

 

Monday 11/3 . . .

Okay, you guys are tired of my changing the color of the text each day. So to please you and to get with what I believe to be the original intent of this forum I am posting nothing more than a pix of the shave gear and below that the results.



Result: It was a horrendous shave to be blunt. The '12 Valet Auto Strop left me down or maybe I should blame it on D.Irving79 because he is the one who provided the Valet to me for what I consider a major blood letting. Almost seemed that Moses was in the bathroom and I was the Pharoah. Moses turned the water in my sink red. I guess that the technique that need to be used with the Valet is more like that of a DE rather than a SE. Go figure. When I did change the technique the blood letting stopped. Well no more nicks or cuts but the bleeding continued through passes 2 & 3. Gonna put the Valet away for a few weeks until I can find a Saturday that I can use to try again.

 

Merkur HD w/ Feather
Chubby 1 Best
HBS Lime soap
Booster Iced Lime
Trumper's Lime Skin Food

 

:happy088 Very nice!

Krona
Red Pack Persona
Knotty Badger Best
JM Frasers
Lime Summer Salve

 

Monday!

Merkur Futur / Derby blade
Rooney Heritage Horn
Truefitt & Hill 1805 cream
Bourbon Parfums EdC, DR Harris AS Milk
Acqua di Parma Colonia Assoluta

 

Monday 3rd

Merkur Classic Gold
Derby
Wilkinson Pure Badger
Arran Aromatics Bay Citrus

Arko Aqua AS
Midsummer EdT