Let's see those shaves for the week! As always, bonus points for pictures! I will get things started with my gear for tomorrow: Custom Edwin Jagger Gregorian Voskhod Knotty Badger Best The Shave Den Lime soap Wesley and Scott Lime Aftershave
Fast 2 passes shave-and-run this morning. Vintage slant/Derby (thanks, Jeff, for that sample pack!) Eveline shave gel Mayor Energy Platinum splash Brushless gel works fine, both gel and splash are mentholized so a very refreshing this Monday! Let's see if I grow any stubble for evening Menthol Monday...
rodd, nice razor. How do you like the larger handle. I'm thinking about buying one like that, only with the faux ivory handle.
Elite 34g red Personna (2) Joris Best Badger CHH Tobacco Vintage SC Trumper`s Spanish Leather Have a nice day!
Menthol Monday 15 August Starbucks Italian Roast Black Omega Boar 10015, face lather Gillette Slim (7) w/ Lord Platinum (D1) Mama Bear's Lime Ice Soap Osage rub-Proraso ASB A very nice three pass have with one touch-up. At least a DFS, a couple spots still elude me on the jawline and the neck, but I am getting better. My neck is a bit tender from yesterday's shave, I guess the feather blade from yesterday did not agree with my setup or technique.
Good Monday Morning to ya! Prep: Nice Hot Shower Razor: Gillette Ball End New Blade: Dorco ST-301 Brush: VDH boar Cream: C.O. Bigelow Post: Proraso splash and Gillette Intense Cooling ASL Coffee: World Market Jamaican Blue Mountain Hope everyone has a great start to their weeks!
Monday, August 15 EJ DE86 Voskhod (d3) Arko Boosted Classic Brand Menthol SS Vulfix 2235 Super Badger Superior 70 Menthol Bay Rum Blend
Feather Portable Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum - Black Omega 11047 Mighty Midget Speick Shave Cream Alum Superior 70 Bay Rum
Monday, August 15. Good Morning! I feel great. Up at 5:00AM, what a sunrise. Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers After a steaming hot shower, it's time to shave Razor: EJ DE89L Blade: Feather Cream: Proraso Green in the tube Brush: DR Harris Silvertip Badger Cold water rinse followed by some good old Speick After Shave Lotion Hope the week starts off well for all.
Menthol Monday: Omega Wooden Handle Super Speed/Personna day 3 Italian Palmolive Menthol SC Keri unscented moisturizer Osage Rub AS Floris Santal EDT I feel a bit sad because I finally finished off this Palmolive Menthol tube, but I still have 1 more unstarted one, as well as 2 tubes of the identical eastern European Palmolive Cool cream. The only thing is, the Italian Palmolive Menthol cream tube is 100 ml, and the tubes from eastern Europe are only 65 ml, and I hate to ration my menthol. Today's shave was such a pleasure. :biggrin:
Monday Gem Featherweight (1950s) Gem Stainless Blade FS Finest Badger KMF Lavender Shea Shave Cream Nivea Double Action Balm Old Spice Classic Cologne
Happy Menthol Monday From Florida! Hot Shower RAB Scuttle Chubbz II Poraso Green Tub Muhle R41 Astra Keramik (2) Cold Water Rag Aqua Velva 3 Passes = DFS ++! This would have been BBS if I had shaved East to West instead of West to East along the jawline. I will take it though! Have a great week Ya'll!
Gillette Fatboy Rapira Swedish Supersteel New Forest 2211 I Coloniali Shaving Soap with Mango Oil Barbasol Pacific Rush
Monday, August 15, 2011 Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: 1967 Gillette Slim Adjustable Blade: Astra Keramik Brush: Simfix Grosvenor LE Two-Band Soap: P.160 Tipo Duro A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, G.F. Trumper Marlborough Splash Excellent BBS shave with mostly vintage and discontinued items. The Trumper splash was the icing on the cake!
Nice looking shaves you guys. I think some of these pics might have convinced me to switch to bowl lathering for awhile . I used... Gillette Slim 65 (7) Platnium Lux (3) Vulfix 404 JM Fraser's Mosswood (great cream) Boosters Bay Rum (not a big fan of this scent)
Monday, August 15th 2011 Razor: Wilkinson Sticky Blade: Super Iridium Brush: Simpson Douglas Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Soap: Yardley Black Label A/S: Trumper Marlborough The "mourning" theme of today's shave represents shave items that are no longer being produced and whose loss I am mourning. All but the Glyce Lime soap qualifies. My limited edition Douglas brush ginned up creamy lather from the Yardley Black Label soap and the Wilkinson Sticky with a fresh Iridium blade did a fine job. A splash of the discontinued Trumper Marlborough aftershave (they still make a Marlborough cologne) and I am on my way.
TSD unscented soap Omega Lucetia Borgia imitation badger EJ DE 89l Voskhod (1) TSD unscented aftershave milk
Monday: Bump Fighter (13) Thater Stout 2 Wilkinson Sword Stick Bump Patrol Nivea Sensitive Balm Pinaud Clubman
Good to see more folks adding coffee to their shaving routine Monday Prep: Hot shower, soak brush, hand strop blade Coffee: BJ's Kenya AA, BLACK Cream: TBS Maca Root + 3 drops M Bomb Brush: Omega 10098 Razor: Futur @ 2.6 Blade: Dorco ST-301, day 1, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Brut Attitude, hand strop blade 'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky Shave Rating: 5 Blades A fantastic shave all the way 'round.
Monday's Shave Prep: Hot Shower Coffee: Mehmet Effendi Turkish Coffee Soap: Arko Shave Stick Brush: Omega 10029 Razor: 1952 Black Tip Super Speed with the steel handle. Blade: Astra SP (Day1) Post: Cold Water Splash, Arko Nem moisturiser, Rebul Lavanda Colonia I haven't had time to post here lately...So for most of this pass month I've been getting daily DFS's with my Schick I2, armed with rebranded Personnas...I grew a WHITE Moustace and Goatee, but shaved it off yesterday...Today was the first time in about a month that I've used the Black Tip Beauty and it came through with flying colors..Also today I smashed a shave stick into a cup and whipped up my lather there and applied to my face for the first time in years...And I've never bowl lathered an Arko Stick..I LOVED IT!!! I'll be mainly bowl lathering from now on I believe...Thickest lather I've ever seen LoL...Razor was gliding and sliding...Like a Tradition Wet Shaving Dream...
