30 Day Rule/Focus; March 2025. All Are Welcome!

Good start to the month Barry

@Trigger
Nice intro as usual Joe, nice to see the thread picking up momentum under your stewardship

 

awesome weekender shaves Chris.

 

Excellent intro Joe.

 

Wonderful start to the month Barry.

 

Very nice Chris.

 

Sweet lookin razor Gary.

 

thank you Joe.

 

DE Shave # 590

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: RazoRock GC .84 JAWS
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: Jayaruh 381 Badger/Boar
Lather: Stirling Pharaoh's Dreamsicle
Aftershave: Stirling Pharaoh Dreamsicle
Additional Care:
Stirling Pharaohs Dreamsicle EdT
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Fabulous start to the month. My plan for the month will be to finish off the Wolly Kaw King of Oud, institute March Mug Madness, continue with Micromatic Declaration Grooming Monday and Sample Soap Sunday.

Hope you all have great shaves this month.

 

Thank you for your kind words Chris.

 

Thank you very much Joe.

 

Excellent shave and setup Joe. Looking forward to your mug shaves when you shave your mug.

 

fine gamechanger shave Joe.

 

Thank you Joe.

 

Thank you Chris.

 

2nd March 2025.


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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Cien Men Energize Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face.
Wrights Coal Tar bar Soap.
Brush: Omega S10018.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Tesco's Ceramic 'Cosmo' Side Bowl.
Lather: Proraso Sensitive Shaving Soap.
Blade: Voskhod. (D2)
Razor: Parker 24C.

Post:
Cold Water face rinse./Cold water face 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./Brut Original ASL./Cien Cocoa Butter Body Lotion.

Greetings,

Everything in my shave set up paired together superbly making my Sunday morning shave a pleasurable experience.

Finishing the shave off with a few small dollops of Cien Cocoa Butter Body Lotion.

My face is feeling super smooth & smelling divine.

Keep safe and enjoy your Sunday ladies & gentlemen.

 

Sunday afternoon 2/03/25

Razor : YinTal YT-TRD (Bronze alloy China)
Blade : Voskhod Teflon coated. (1)
Brush : Yaqi caramel cat's whiskers synthetic.
Soap : Arko stick
Aftershave : Lucky Tiger Bay Rum
Razor weight : 103 grams. (originally 112 grams but the handle was unbalanced so I cut of 10mm)
Hi all,
Just a quick clean up so I can take the wife out to a local Thai restaurant (I normally shave every 2nd day).
The YinTal was a gift ( available on AliExpress) It gave me an ok shave but this was 24 hours growth only.
This is my 2nd shave with the razor the 1st one I used the "Original cube pre shave soap" witch combined
with the shave soap gummed up the razor and buggered up the shave.

Going with a budget theme.
I used the Arko stick.
It lathers up well in the bowl and worked well even though the scent is questionable.
I drowned that in Lucky tiger bay rum.
Cheers.

 

Sunday March 2 (very early morning) - Mapless March

Prep: Hot shower with Aleppo olive oil soap w/ 20% bay laurel oil (traditional anti-acne)

Razor: Matte black stainless steel Supply 2.0 injector with "nick-proof" SE comb plate / Personna blade (5)

Soap: Arko stick

Brush: Jayaruh #267 burled maple with Omega Pro 49 tall boar knot

Lather Bowl: None

Post: rinse, alum, rinse, TSD Vanilla Aftershave Milk

Last shave: Tuesday February 25 (evening) - 4.5 days ago

Today's setup:



For my first shave in March, I paired the fine industrial lemon scent of Arko with the TSD vanilla-scented splash. I face lathered the Arko shaving stick using a brush with a maple handle. And shaved using my modern matte-black injector razor. The result was a surprisngly pleasant shave.

The usual two passes - WTG and then XTG removed the stubble on my cheeks and neck, leaving me cleanshaven around my mustache and goatee. Alum was silent.

I still don't know what I am doing during March - other than shaving. But I seem to be off to a good start nonetheless.

Hope you have all enjoyed your weekends so far and have a restful Sunday followed by an excellent week!

 

Fine looking razor

Thx Gary

Thx Joe

great shave Barry

great looking maple brush don’t see those very often

 

Thanks, Chris. It's a bird's-eye maple with burling. Lovely figuring in the wood grain. I considered myself very lucky to get that one from Jayaruh.

And the knot was from a NIB Omega 49 Pro boar brush. That model was a quite cheap boar brush with a superb long stiff knot in a chintzy cruddy plastic handle. Jim would buy the new Omega brushes, break the plastic handles apart to rob the knots, and then put the knots in wooden handles worthy of them.

 

thank you Chris.