April 29
Shavette Shave #54--"
Ice, Ice, Baby!"
Gear
- Razor: Max Headroom Focus R21 Shavette
- Blade: Derby Premium (1)
- Brush: Semogue Boar
- Soap: Stirling Glastonbury (4 Frost Drops)
- Menthol: Stirling Frost Drops
- AS: Aqua Velva Ice Blue ( Frost Drop)
- Balm: Stirling Glacial Unscented
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The Shave...
Inspired by Joe’s
@JACarbone iced water shave, I loaded up a mug with iced water, soaked the Semogue Boar for a few minutes, and then began lathering. Chilled lather is
soooo nice, but throw some menthol in the mix, and it’s heavenly. Another nice thing about iced water is, unlike the occasional hot lather experiments that were going on a couple months back, the lather consistency doesn’t seem to suffer in the least. I am not a prognosticator by any stretch of the imagination, but I see iced water becoming a very regular part of my routine in the future.
3 passes today (WTG, WTG/XTG, and ATG). I’m somewhere between BBS and DFS--even the dreaded chin. I must have worn out my welcome with lather and reshaved an area on the corners of my mouth without it--very slight irritation. Nothing worth complaining about, but something that a little watchfulness might completely remove next time.
As for the red stuff, I may have reawakened the weeper on my chin from yesterday, and I got a new one on my upper lip. Iced water ended that nonsense pretty quickly, though--the styptic remains dusty.
Hope everybody enjoys their hump day!
54 down, 46 to go!
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