Let's see those shaves for the week! As always, bonus points for pictures! I will get things started with my gear for tomorrow: Gillette Slim 7 O'clock Sharp Edge Knotty Badger Best (not pictured) Everest cream 4711 Aftershave 4711 Ice Cologne
Happy Monday From Florida! Hot Shower RAB Scuttle II Chubbz I Poraso Green Tub Lord L-6 Voskhod (2) Cold Water Rag Aqua Velva Three Passes = DFS! This is the second shave with the Travelling L-6. I found the proper angle today and ended up with a better shave from three passes than I did the first shave using four passes. Sort of like different soaps have varying water bands, I am developing the opinion that razors have different angle tolerances, or are more forgiving when used with less than the ideal angle. Have a great week Ya'll!
Monday, July 25, 2011 Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: EJ Chatsworth Blade: Rapira Swedish SuperSteel Brush: Simfix Grosvenor LE Soap: Cyril Salter A/S: Thayer's Lavender Witch Hazel, Alpa 378 Splash
Monday: C&E Sienna shave soap Vie-Long Gonzalo boar/horse brush R-41-2011 with 7 O'Clock Black (day 2) alum, witch hazel, Osage Rub, TSD ISZ
Menthol Monday: Omega Wooden Handle Super Speed/new 7 AM Godrej Menthol Mist SC :love008 :love008 :anifrozen :anifrozen Keri unscented moisturizer Diana Sport Menthol Balsam :love008 :love008 :anifrozen :anifrozen JHL Cologne Although our weather became a little cooler, it's still Menthol Monday, and I wanted to freeze myself as much as I could. The Godrej Menthol Mist cream and the Diana balsam did the job beautifully for me. The 7 AM's are also very good blades - I really like them.
Mondays Shave Cool Shower Arko SC Omega 10029 1955-58 Eversharp Schick Hydro-Magic Long's Drugs/Personna (Day6) Arko Aqua AS/Rebul Lavanda Cologne The irritation-free factor held-up through intense heat and heavy sweating...still not a hint of burn...thats saying something... Normally after a shave this close, and I'm outside walking around in this heat, sweating like an extra in "Lawrence Of Arabia"...My face would be on fire...But not today...Even with periodic splashes of Colonia...No Burn...
Monday, July 25 EJ DE86 Super Iridium (day 4) Preshave Oil Blend Vulfix 2235 Super Arko Boosted Classic Brand Menthol SS Bay Rum Blend A/S TSD Bay Rum EDT
Monday, July 25th 2011 Razor: D.R. Harris Chatsworth Blade: Gillette Yellow Brush: Simpson Douglas Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat A/S: Trumper Extract of Limes A great shave to start the week.
Monday Bump Fighter (2) Thater Stout 2 MWF stick Bump Patrol Nivea Sensitive balm AVC Ice Blue Avon Wild Country Cologne NOS
Mon 25 July (reposted) Starbucks Sumatra, BLACK Proraso pre-shave balm Wee-Scott Lord Tech w/ Lord Platinum (D1) JM Fraser Polar Ice cream with 4 drops of M-Bomb Osage Rub Proraso balm Started travellling Sunday morning for work. Today is going to be a long hot day so I wanted a great cool shave and I got it. I got up early, took my time, and had a great shave, another DFS. The JM Fraser polar ice doesn't seem to be mentholated in my opinion but the M-bomb fixed that. This is a great cream though, nice and slick, and gives me a good close shave.
:happy102 Not all things that taint coffee (sugar or other sweeteners) change the color of the coffee, so it won't show up in a pic! happy102 I'll just take your word for it! It's your coffee. Enjoy it your way. :happy088
Monday Prep: Hot shower, hand strop blade Coffee: Starbucks French Roast, BLACK Cream: KMF Cool Mint + 3 drops M Bomb Brush: Ever Ready 250PB with original knot Razor: Merkur 11C Blade: Wilkinson, day 1, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Brut Attitude, hand strop blade 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own Shave Rating: 5 Blades It's a rare thing to get less than a four blade rating with any of my Merkur razors. They do work well for me.
Gillette SS Blue Tip with Gillette Blue Simpson Duke 3 Ingram SC Auqa Velva Ice Blue AS Have a nice day!
Menthol Monday! Preshave: wash with KMF unscented shave soap Cream: TSD Sub Zero Brush: EJ Best Badger Razor: Merkur Progress Blade: Iridium (1) Aftershave: TSD milk, unscented First time using TSD cream. VERY NICE! I had so much wonderful cold lather that I did a extra pass against the grain for a flawless BBS, even though I had planned to stop before then.
hot shower Musgo Lime Parker Badger Pirate's Cove Bay rum Gillette Fat Boy w/ Gillette Rubie dailed to 7 Ogalla Bay Rum
Monday, July 25, 2011 Prep: TSD ISZ PreShave Balm, hot shower, hand strop & cork blade Cream: C.O. Bigelow + Glycerine (4 drops) Brush: Frank Shaving Fine Badger Razor: Gem Junior 1912 Blade: Walgreen's Gem (1), 4 passes - trying a new routine Post: CWR, Wally World Witch Hazel, Aqua-Velva Ice Blue, hand strop blade What a great shave this morning with the Jr. Gets just as close as the Clog Pruf with less irritation. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be getting an even better shave. It definitely requires a different angle than the Clog Pruf so I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings. Hopefully I'll have a picture tomorrow as well.
Monday... Gem OC MicroMatic Gem PTFE Stainless (?) Omega 49 - Big Red Bigelow Shave Cream Alum Boosted Superior 70 Bay Rum Another great shave from the OCMM.