Tuesday Shave shower geo trumper's lime puck/kissmyface cream pure bristle chrome handle gillette slim adjustable rapira truefitt&hill limes aftershave balm truefitt&hill Lime cologne Great Shave!
~~~Tuesday's Shower and Shave~~~ ***Hot Shower ***Omega 48 ***Mitchell's Wool Fat ***Gillette Super Speed ***Super Max Sunrise ***Tet-A-Tet A *****DFS
Tuesday Prep: Hot shower, soak brush Coffee: BJs Kenya AA, BLACK Soap: TSD SOTQ A2 - Barber Shoppe Brush: Ever Ready 200T with original knot Razor: '62 Slim @ 7 Blade: Dorco ST-301, day 2, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Pinaud Clubman, hand strop blade Shave Rating: 4 Blades (but oh so close to 5) Normally I leave the Slim locked at 6. Today I bumped it up a notch to 7, just to see. hmmmm.... just may leave it there
Personna Magic Razor w/ Voskhod (1) Gillette Slim Adjustable w/ ??? (?) Omega 80056 Boar Arko Shave Stick Dickinson Witch Hazel Gillette CoolWage AS Trumpers Skin Food A fresh blade in the Personna made a huge difference. A couple of weepers, but overall definitely the best and most complete shave I've had with this, the cleanup w/ the Slim was almost unnecessary. So much so in fact that I didn't even bother checking what blade was in it, just picked it up and was done in a few seconds. A tiny bit on the chin and about a square centimeter around the adam's apple. In short, I'm am very happy, and technically I did get to participate in adjustable week, even if just by a hair. So there.
Tuesday, September 6 Gem Push Button GEM (Pella Coated) (d2) Preshave Oil Blend Arko Boosted Classic Brand Menthol SS Vulfix 2235 Super Badger Stephans Bay Rum Excellent 2-Pass DFS this morning (was in a hurry).
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Prep: Hot shower, California Baby face wash, hand strop blade Lather: C.O. Bigelow Brush: Frank Shaving Finest Razor: Gem OCMM Blade: Walgreen's Gem (1), 2 passes Post: WH, Aqua-Velva Ice Blue, hand strop blade Wonderful shave today. With the holiday I had almost a full 3 days worth of growth and the OCMM mowed it down effortlessly. DFS+ without even trying. What an enjoyable shave today. I hope all your shaves today were as good as mine!
Shave Of The Day ~ Sept 6th Hot Towel Prep TSD M~Bomb ~ Shea Moisture Shave Badger Brush C.O. Bigelow Cream ~ :Lord L6 Razor Voskhod Blade ~ Day 2 Thayer's Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Blend Aqua Velva Original Sport Aftershave ~ After my first pass I had decided I wanted to go with a bigger menthol blast than the Bigelow cream was offering, and thought I'd try rubbing the M~Bomb directly on my face as kinda of a shave oil. WOOHOO! Now that was cold! Spent the next two passes and touch up looking through watering eyes, and enjoying every minute of it, the cold water splash at the end was almost too much. :biggrin:
Monday: I started a test on a Gillette Platinum blade, so as is my test regimen the first razor I loaded it into was a 40s Gold Tech, my mildest razor. I face lathered with VDH and a Rooney 3/1 Super Silvertip. A very nice shave, not quite a BBS, but it was good enough. The blade was good, but to make it a superior blade the shave in the Tech needs to be a BBS with my standard passes- this was just shy of one. I'll use this blade until it's spent, but in different razors. Today: The blade went into (still blade testing) my Black Handle SS, face lathered with a mix of 1 puck of VDH and one puck of Williams, shredded and melted together into a soap container. Today it was my Semogue 1438 Boar that did the lathering. This was an easy BBS. Finished up with my homemade experimental menthol AS. Ahhh! 8 hours later my face is still moisturized. The blade will go into my Slim tomorrow set to "9", and there I'll use it for 5 more shaves (7 total) or until it's spent. Not necessarily because it's adjustable week, it's my test regimen for blades I test.
Prep: Hot shower and soaked brush. Brush: Omega 10065 Soap: Vitos Classic Shave Cream Razor: OCMM Blade: GEM Stainless Steal Coated Post Shave: Alum block, cold water rinse, Skin Bracer I forgot about Adjustable Week. Perhaps tomorrow, I will breakout my 1960 Slim.
Today's shave Frank Shaving Finest Logona Mann SC KAI Captain Excelia folding with KAI mild Adventure ASG The Logona Mann is a very underrated cream. It's made from natural ingredients and has a lemony scent. The lather is great and stable. You can have a look on her here http://www.logona.com/Mann/Mann_E/index.html The Adventure ASG is a Bulgarian Gel. It's very comparable to the gellies from Aroma cosmetics like the Viking. So to say it's very nice.
Gillette NT Ball End with BIC CP (2) Joris Pure Badger Tabula Rasa Olibanum Tüff Herbal AS Juicy Couture - Dirty English EdT Have a nice day!
Weds 7 September Gillette Slim (7), w/ Red IP (D2) Berkley 46, face lather Palmolive Menthol SC (Italian) Alcoloda Glacial splash Three passes with one touch up for a DFS. I really like that palmolive menthol SC. It has a kind of minty scent along with some nice cooling. Good skincare.
Wednesday, September 7 Gem Push Button GEM (Pella Coated) (d3) Preshave Oil Blend Tabac SS Tweezerman Badger Master Blue Old Spice Pure Sport Excellent shave this morning.
Wednesday Prep: Hot shower Coffee: BJs Kenya AA, BLACK Soap: VDH Deluxe + 2 drops Em's Woodstock EO Brush: C&E Pure Badger Razor: '61 FatBoy @ 7 Blade: Dorco ST-301, day 3, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Dickenson's WH, Curve, hand strop blade Shave Rating: 5 Blades Well, just as I did yesterday with the Slim, today I dialed the FatBoy up a notch to 7. I can only attribute it to better technique. Simply a fantastic shave with super results.
Wednesday: T2 Long handled super adjustable Voskhod day 1 Proraso Omega Lucretia Borgia alum, witch hazel, TSD ISZ
Happy Wednesday From Florida! Hot Shower RAB Scuttle Chubbz II Klar Kabinett Futur @ 3 Voskhod (4) Cold Water Rag Poraso Cream A/S 3 Passes = DFS! Normally, I slam all of my adjustable razors wide open, and I have done so with the Futur as well. I have found that the Futur delivers great shaves no matter what the setting, but I have decided on 3 for now. Have a great day Ya'!!