September 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

That's awesome! Keep at it and I'm sure you'll be able to get to your goal weight!

 

Great job on 18 pound weight loss! My dad recently lost about 15 pounds and he feels so much better because of it.

 

Thank you!

 

Handsome and very determined looking this morning!

 

I take it you must travel quite often for work? I've been there...been stuck at Airports more times than I'd care to remember. That's when I pull out handy hard drive with shows/movies and relax as there's not much you can do.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

He looks happy! Thanks for sharing, Andrew.

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Happy Belated Birthday Charlie @wristwatchb and Joseph @Primotenore!!

 

Travel SOTD
TSD Barber Shoppe Soap
AoS Pure Badger Brush
Torrey Razor
Craftsman Citrus and Spruced After Shave
Have fun!

 

Thanks Perry, he has his moments. LOL

Thanks Charlie

Thank you, Jim!

Nice setup, Brian!

 

Thank you Perry.


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Thank you Jim.


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Thank you Andrew.


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Thank you Jason. Unfortunately the client site does involve a heavy traffic commute. I am onsite here every Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

The brush is a winner. I have noticed my successful enabling.


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Sorry to hear that. Maybe tonight will be better.


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He’s a cutie. Now it’s a happy Wednesday.


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Thank you, Clint!

 

Micromatic Open Comb Focus

Day #1

Razor: GEM MMOC
Blade: GEM Stainless (2nd use)
Brush: Bluebeard Doubloon
Soap: Palmolive Stick
Post Shave: Nivea Sensitive

I've decided to TRY to use my MMOC until the end of OCtober... It is my only open comb razor so the only way I can really stick with a theme!

I enjoyed using the MMOC again, it seems much smoother to me than my Ever Ready 1912 - clearly I'm just a bit odd in this regard.
I took it easy, allowing my face a bit of a rest from the beating over the last couple of days with the 1912. I just did a WTG followed by XTG on cheeks and jaw, and WTG on the neck again. The result was a good clean, smooth shave on my cheeks, but a little to be desired on my jawline and neck (no visible stubble, just not that smooth). I expected this though, since it wasn't my usual passes!

Enjoy your shaves gents!

 

Personna red
Weishi TTO
Proraso Green soap

I decided to stick with the same blade for now. The last two shaves were much better this time around as I really paid much more attention to angle and pressure and added a lot of lather at the areas where I was shaving. Another thing that helped was instead of lathering the whole bottom half of my face on the 2nd,3rd, and cleanup passes I just lathered the area I wanted to take care of and kept lathering and shaving until I was satisfied by the results. This seems to work a bitter better as I'm focused on smaller areas. I also paid more attention to stretching the skin the right way as I realized that around the neck area...at times I wasn't able to get to the spot where the hairs just due to the planes of my face. Still learning how best to do that but I've noticed it'll require far more angles than I had initially thought. I had one small weeper on one shave and none on my last shave. Still had razor irritation but at least the cuts are going away! It does seem like the hair grows back faster though. I wonder if that is because I'm taking off less layers of skin than when I was using a multi-blade cart?

 

@RyX, the soap you asked about is Wet Shaving Products shaving. Very nice performer that I would recommend.