thank you John.

Great introduction for November...For the month duration,along with my usual eclectic shave set ups, I'll be doing a Focus with two of my Parker DE razors for the my face shaves, & carrying on with on using various cartridge razors for my head /dome shaves.

2nd November 2024.



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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Cien Moisture Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face & head.
Cien PURE Fragrance Free Sensitive Bar Soap.
Brush: Lider Turkish Boar.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Tesco's Ceramic 'Cosmo' Side Bowl.
Lather: Derby Shaving Soap Bowl.
Blade:Treet Dura Sharp (Carbon) Blue pack. (D1)
Razor: Parker 87R.
Razor: Cien Men Twin Blade. (Head) - (D3)

Post:
Cold Water Face & Head Rinse./Cold water face & head wash with brush squeezing's,/Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse./Homemade (~Autumn/Winter mix~) peppermint lavender, eucalyptus, + Tea Tree essential Oils Mixed Together With Care+Witch Hazel./Gummy Traditional Turkish Tobacco Cologne./Nivea Men Replenishing PSB./ Milton Lloyd Essentials No.15 EdP.

A close comfortable face & head shave to start the month of wonderfully.

The Parker 87R/Treet Dura Sharp (Carbon) made a great duo, feeling smooth sharp & efficient.

Finishing the shave off with a few small squirts of Milton Lloyd Essentials No.15 EdP to the pulse points.

My face & precious swede are feeling smooth and smelling divine.

Stay safe, and enjoy the start of the weekend ladies & gentlemen.

Thanks Barry. It sounds like a great plan for this month.

Awesome shave Barry.

Great shave this morning. Leather was the key persuasion in both the soap and aftershave. I forget now where I purchased the soap(Grooming Dept. Kairos 2022), possibly Wet The Face. Anyway, nice work on the face&neck, zero damages. 2 passes. Maybe a little too much Fine Latigo A.S. on, will watch out tomorrow. Ah, it'll calm down as the day progresses. I still chuckle at a Latigo video where the person pronounced it "Latt-a-go".Kinda takes away the European persuasion of it all. Great stuff, regardless. As Outstanding As It Gets.

Thank you, Joe.

Nov 2 SOTA Head and Faceshave

Good afternoon.

Shavette Shave #585
Parker SRB
Suneko Amorphous Diamond 1/2 DE Blade (14)
Rockwell Model T v1 (6)
Zorrik DE Blade (5)
L'Occitane Plisson Synthetic Brush
TSD Barbershoppe SS and AS
Stirling Alum Block
Personal Care Witch Hazel
Beard Growth: 43.5 hrs
Dome Turf: 4.75 days



Definitely getting lazy doing headshaves on a more frequent basis and having an almost 2 day beard stubble warranted a shave this afternoon.
I chose the Model T to hit the dome and the Parker SRB to hit the face and neck. Did 3 passes on my dome with some extra buffing for an almost smooth BBS shave. I think the 5th shave on this blade with heavy dome growth ended the sharpness and therefore had to be binned. I am undecided as to pick what brand of blade for my next shave with this razor. No biggie. I have other razors that I can use. Lol! Anyway, I also did 3 passes with my Parker to get a nice smooth result. Btw, there wasn't any blood loss during these shaves.
I went with TSD Barbershoppe soap. It is slick and makes a great lather. Here it is:


The alum was silent all around. Splashed on the witch hazel and the matching aftershave to finish this session. Take care.

SRS # 1197

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Double Duck Goldedge
Brush: Semogue Hereditas - Boar
Pre-Shave: Pears Transparent Soap
Lather: PAA Sangre de Drago
Aftershave: PAA Sangre de Drago
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Outstanding shaved this morning with the darker. scent of the Sangre de Drago. Excellent three pass shave with the straight that resulted in super smoothness and no errors.

We have a gorgeous day here on LI. Perfect, full weather that compliments this scent nicely.

I hope you are all enjoying your wonderful Saturday

Excellent shave Joe.

fabulous weekender shaves and pics gents

Thanks Gary.

-The-Weekender-
no.22
yaqi silvertip
black watch



Good afternoon gents
spledid seaforth shave
this one has it's own soap base..
awesome
have a fine evening everyone
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Super Seaforth Shave Gary.

thank you Joe.

Ok Joe, nice intro again: I will see how long I can go with one razor, one soap, one blade, one brush, hopefully for the first week I can make this a No Variant week, or a mini focus

If I bail out then I guess it will have to convert to a No Repeat November

If that fails...oh well, then it's No Rule November! Lol!

Thanks Chris. November is the most flexible shaving month of the year.

Late posts....

01 Nov 2024

2 Days growth after a busy end to October

Usual Prep and Preshave = Faulding’s shave cream: aiming to Fitzgerald this in November
Cream/Soap = Razorock XXX
Brush = Semogue Owners club
Bowl = smooth white plastic bowl
Razor = Merkur 37C
Blade = Kai (1)
Passes = 3 +
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayers rose petal, Nivea balm
ASL = Clubman Pinaud, not my favourite, but I want to start using this up faster
Scent = Guerlain Pour Homme
Damage = none

I used the same setup for my last shave of October, but then I used the Gillette Wilkinson blade and found it wanting. So today I went back to the Japanese blade because of its increased width

Better result. The XXX was thick and smooth. The Semogue OC Cherry brush is splaying nicely. I did find at the end of the day the re-growth felt sharper than usual, credit of the the Jap blade I guess

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02 Nov 2024

1 Days growth

same setup but with day 2 of the Kai Blade

Passes = 2 full passes and then buffing as needed
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayers rose petal, Nivea balm
ASL = clubman Pinaud
Scent = Guerlain Pour Homme
Damage = none

I made the lather a lot thinner than yesterday, still good enough. The blade was fine on day 2 perhaps a bit smoother. Superb smooth result, no damage, but the skin is feeling that it has had some serious attention

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03 Nov 2024: Sunday Shave

1 Days growth

Same setup again but with
Blade = Kai (3)
1 full pass and then buffing as needed
Damage = none

Only 30 swirls of the dampened brush on the soap, into the white bowl, adding water until nice and shiny, lathering straight over the PreShave Faulding’s cream. Dipped brush in some water and thinned up the lather on the face, leaving the thicker lather in the bowl for later re-application. Less loading of the brush results in less lather, and more control of it's hydration. Am liking the white bowl more and more, nice and wide, easy to grip, not slippery

Pretty much done after one pass, with some judicious buffing. No blood, but perhaps some minor redness left side of the neck. It feels like the Kai was smoother today, and I might give it another outing next time round

Alum was mild, super smooth shave again, enough lather to deal with the back of the neck

Hope your Sundays all turn out great

Terrific shaves Chris.

Thank you, Gary.