Muehle Sophist Silver Tip Arko Citrus Shave Cream Gillette Old (My Grandfather's razor) Treet Black Beauty Blade Virgin Island Bay Rum Pre De Provence Shea Butter After Shave First time shaving with my grandfather's razor. Used the old style Black Beauty Carbon Blade to get an experience like my grandfather had. Very, very close BBS shave. Iwas not used to the angle of the Gillette Old, but will have it down after a couple more shaves. Today's shave proved to me, once again, technology has done nothing to improve quality of shaves. A sharp single blade, whether a straight, double edge or single edge; good quality lather, proper face preparation, good technique, and proper after care make for a great shave and excellent skin care!
Saturday, March 26th Razor: Wilkinson Sticky Blade: Super Iridium Brush: Simpson Douglas Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Cream: TOBS Avocado A/S: Acca Kappa Cedar Splash A quick and easy shave this morning followed by a refreshing splash of Akka Kappa Cedar aftershave. I am now ready to tackle my taxes. :sad023
Saturday, March 26, 2011 Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: 1956 Gillette Red Tip Superspeed Blade: Super Iridium Brush: Vulfix 2006 Pure Badger Soap: P.160 Tipo Duro A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Proraso Splash An outstanding, smooth, close, and comfortable shave this morning! The Red Tip is an excellent razor, and I should use it more often. However, I've become rather partial to longer handled razors. I think the Red Tip/Iridium combination is a perfect one for me--I had forgotten how smooth the Iridium is. The P.160 is a good soap, but I think I like Cella even better. However, hours later, my face still feels smooth, so I won't quibble about soap. I do think the Red Tip will be making guest appearances in my rotation more frequently in the future.
It is an honor to prepare you a joy, Sir Jeff Gillette SS with Red Personna (2) Mühle Best Badger TAoS Lavender SC Tüff Herbal AS Patchouli EdT
Mar, 27 16th shave with a straight. DFS. Even better then yesterday! LOVE straight shaving! Hot towel 8/8 W&B restored by Glen Paddle strop Muhle travel brush in best badger Tabac SC Ceramic bowl Phyto Expert ASB Smooth and nice! That lathering by half really works and doubles the pleasure. No hurry, no dry lather, nice and slick.
Merkur Progress XL Racer Blade (thanks Stuart) Chubby 2 Best Badger Brush Valobra Menthol SC Master Lilac Vegetol Splash Baxter AS Balm -went to Merz today and picked up some new toys-love, love, love the Chubby.
Happy Saturday From Florida! RAB Scuttle TGN Synthetic Re-Knot J.M. Frasier SC - Thanks Keith! Rolls Razor Viscount (Refurb By Greg) Cold Water Rag Svoboda Vitamin F Cream 3 Passes + Touch Up = 5 Blade, Off The Hook, Inter-Galactic, Ready For Dress Uniform Inspection BBS! WOW Whatta Shave! Considering my less than stellar shave yesterday, I was going to skip shaving until Monday, but I got the J.M. Frasier cream today and just had to try it out. I am glad I did! I received a sample of J.M. Frasier's cream awhile back from an internet order and did not think very highly of it. Anyone that has seen my straight shave video knows that I use A LOT of product to create my lather; I have gnarly hard water and need more product than what is considered normal. The sample I had was not enough product to make a good lather. I met up with Williams Warrior / Keith to do the Appleton Barber hand-off and he gave me a tub of the J.M. Frasier cream. WOW! Is this stuff ever slick! Very Nice! This cream is right up there with AOS and TOBS in terms of slickness and cushion. I will buy more!
Saturday: March 26 Razor: 4/8 Genco Vanadium (Gillette Tech with Astra blade for those awkward areas that I never acquired the skill with a straight to handle) Brush: Semogue LE 2009 Soap: Tabac TSD Alum Block TSD signature AS
Shave Of The Day - March 26th 2011 Hot Shower Music:Rick Nelson Van Der Hagen Luxury Badger Brush Van Der Hagen Luxury Scented Shave Soap Clix 3 Piece Razor Gillette 7 O'Clock PermaSharp Blade ~ Day 6 Thayers Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Blend TSD Aftershave Splash ~ Iced Egyptian Spice Scent :freezing :freezing Second shave with the new VDH Luxury brush and soap, and this time I tried bowl lathering in my scuttle, loading the brush went better this time as the soap has now gripped the apothecary mug. The brush lost no hairs its second outing, and bowl lathering this new soap was easy, which providing me a great overall shave. :happy005 4.5 blades.
Sunday, March 27 Gem Push Button Gold Lid GEM (Stainless, Coated) (1) Arko/TSD Bourbon Vanilla SS Vulfix 2235 Super Superior 70 Menthol Superior 70
Sunday Prep: Hot shower Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenya, BLACK Soap: Dulouz home made Marrakesh + 3 drops M Bomb Brush: C&E Pure Badger Razor: Gem Push button Blade: Gem, day 2, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, Dickenson's WH, SJ Unforgivable Shave Rating: 5 Blades Always a pleasure when John's soap comes 'round in the rotation. happy088
Sunday: Razor - 1955 Red Tip Super Speed Blade - Derby Brush - Vie-Long Silvertip Cream - Lea Balm - Nivea Sensitive Cologne - Havana -- John
Been a while since I've been on the sotd but here it is: Le Grelot 6/8 with rams horn scales. Super badger brush. G.F. Trumpers coconut soap. 50 linen 100 leather before the shave 25 linen 50 leather after. Great shave as always. It's great to come back to the forum where I started this Wetshaving journey! Haven't been on in a while but great to see it's still an amazing place
Sunday: Omega Wooden Handle Lord Super/7 AM day 2 (I think...maybe not....) Gada Cool Mint SC :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing Lubriderm unscented moisturizer Mennen Skin Bracer Original AS :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing I have a feeling I may be mistaken about the 7 AM blade, because although it gave me a very close shave, it seemed to be quite a bit rougher than yesterday, so I may have to change it the next time I use this razor.
Glad you enjoyed it! Now if I can get this Master soap to keep from doing it's magic trick and disappearing as soon as I put it on my face it will be awesome, at least in scent anyway. Sunday: EJ89L Lord Platinum (1) Omega Boar 81052 Otoko Organics ss Nivea Sensitive as balm Master Lilac Vegetal as splash
