SoS: August 15-21 2011

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...