SoS: April 2nd, 2012 - April 8th, 2012

April 2st - Late Night Shave
Beverage: Canadian Club on ice
Music: Slacker's Modern Jazz channel
Prep: Nivea Face Wash
Pre-Lather: Mystic Water - Lily of the Valley w/ the Turkish No. 6 brush
Razor: Ball end Tech, A1 (1955)
Brush: Vulfix 660S Super Badger
Blade: Personna Super "Lab" (1)
Soap: RazoRock XXX
Post: Witch Hazel
AS: The Body Shop White Musk ASB
BBS!

First time for using a Tech razor and for using RazoRock XXX. An all-around success story!

 

Yesterday's shave:

SB Semogue 2020
SC Ingram
SR Gillette black beauty
RB Gillette Bleue Extra (day 2)
ASL Aqua Velva + 444

Today's shave:

SB FS Best Badger
SC Ice Cool
SR Gillette black beauty
RB Gillette Bleue Extra (day 3)
ASL Barbon
ASB Davines

 

Twenty-Seven

D.R. Harris Arlington
Omega Boar
Schick Type O injector
Personna II twin injector blade.

This is the twenty-seventh soap or cream in a row that I have used for a full week or more. I still have three creams and one soap stick before the cycle is complete. How on Earth did this happen? I used maybe three or four brands of canned shaving cream before picking up some Williams soap in 2009.

 

Tech Week
Tuesday

Gillette Tech
Feather
Semogue 1438
De Vergulde Hand Extra Fris
Aqua Velva

 

I have been there and done that so I understand completely. Take care!

 

Tuesday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Shark day 6
Kolynos Regular SC
Hega AS
Obsession For Men EDT

I just realized what the Kolynos Regular cream smells like - yes, like C&E Almond!!!!! This stuff has a lilac-type scent which is actually quite nice and the lather is really rich and stable. Man oh man, that Hega aftershave feels so cool and soothing. What a great shave I had this morning!

 

FaTip
Feather
M&F Lee7
QCS Vostok SS
Humphreys Citrus WH w/ M Bomb


Caron - 3rd Man

 

This morning's shave:
Hot shower while brush and puck of soap soak
EJ pure badger hair brush
EJ Sea Buckthorn Soap (to start...more on that later)
EJ DE89L loaded with Feather blade (3)
3-pass shave + touchups with a little lather doctoring along the way...
Cool Waters A/S Splash
Result: DFS with a little help.

Comments: Again, for the 2nd day in a row I just couldn't get a decent lather from my EJ soap. I'd been using this soap with great success for a while, then I put it away for a couple of weeks and was using VDH instead. Pulled the EJ back out yesterday morning and couldn't get a lather. Added a dallup of CO Bigelow and it worked just fine. So last night I whipped up a quick test lather with no problems. Lathered my face and it seemed great. I figured it was just a case of the Monday's and all would be well Tuesday morning.... Well, This morning I got a lather for the 1st pass, and it looked ok to start the 2nd pass, but by the end of the 2nd pass the lather on my face just seemed to be disappearing. I didn't even try for a 3rd pass as there just didn't seem to be anything left in the bowl or in my brush. So again I added a bit of Bigelow and away I went... 3rd pass went GREAT, touchups were no problem, and I walked away with a DFS and in a good mood. Just wish I could get the kind of lather out of that EJ that I used to...

 

As GDC said...I've been there done that aswell....Mine, I went to the Dr. and he said have you eaten today?....2 hours later I was being prepped for surgery.... Don't worry, it was easier than a root-canal.... And I did feel better immediatly....

 

I've been getting great shaves daily....using the Schick Hydro-magic, my Slim, Senator, and today my '52 Super-Speed....
Today the Black-Tip Beauty made a stunning performance....Once again proving why the Super-Speeds won the hearts and whiskers of so many generations....
Monday
Arko Shave Stick/Omega 10029
1952 Super Speed/Perma-Sharp Super D1
Arko Cool AS Cream/Arko Aqua AS

I just got a cold...almost didn't shave today...Glad I did...It made me feel much better !!

 

Tuesday.

Teenage Head, Drivin' Wild
Hot shower + Noxema Original Deep Cleansing Cream
Proraso Anti-Irritation Pre-Shave cream, between each pass
VDH Deluxe soap, face lathered w/ a little pure badger brush
4 passes w/ '68 SS Flare Tip & Treet Platinum SS (3)
Cold water rinse + Blue Floid AS

All in all a pretty good shave. I only went WTG and sorta-XTG on my neck for fear of the unknown remaining life of the Treet blade and ended up a bit more rough than normal.

 

Tuesday

Soak Brush-Semogue 620
Hot Shower
Proraso PrePost cream
TOB Lemon & Lime shaving cream
Feather AS-D1/Feather (3)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum (clean razor,brush,police area)
Cold Water Rinse
The Veg mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

 

Tuesday:

Barbasol Prep
Dovo Natural
Omega Pro Sketched
Cella
Alum Block
Aqua Velva
Afta Original
Tabac After Shave

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - Midnight Shave

Prep :: Warm water wetdown
Razor :: BRW Slant
Blade :: Super Iridium
Soap :: DVH
Brush :: Bill Jack Badger
Post :: Alum, Cold water rinse, WH & Rosewater
AS :: RazoRock King Louis AS & TSD Milk

This week I'm shaving everyday. I've always been an every 2 day shaver until I woke up one day and had to rent an apartment for my shaving soaps. I thought this would be a good way to try something new and maybe kill off some of my favorite soaps (renting is expensive!).

Bullet the blue sky.

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Schick Adjustable (1)
Blade: Schick
Soap: New Proraso
Brush: Semogue 1305
Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue A/S

Testing a Schick Adjustable sent to me by a friend. Will give my opinions after Saturdays shave.

 

Tuesday!

Warm Shower
Green Marvy Mug
Omega Scarlatti
TSD Angel Type Wheat SC
Lady Eversharp - White
Schick (2)
Cool Water Rinse
TSD Angel Type ASM
TSD Angel Type Cologne

Fantastic shave today, plus I smell good. That's always a bonus.

Have a great day!

 

You could do what I've started doing...pre-lather with one soap as a beard prep, then use anther soap for shaving. I could use the same soap for both, but this allows me to get more experience with new and trickier soaps. I did this last night with Mystic Water prep lather followed by RazoRock XXX shave.

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Prep: Hot shower; Yardley bath bar
Lather: MWF - face lather
Brush: Frank Shaving Finest
Razor: Sledgehammer Slant
Blade: Voskhod (2); 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse; Krampert's Finest Menthol

No ATG pass this morning. I've gotten a little arrogant lately by trying ATG on my lower neck. Unfortunately, even as my technique is improving this is an area that gets very angry when I try a true ATG. Today I just did 2 XTG after a usual WTG and my neck looks great. I can still feel stubble there but that may just be what I live with to stay irritation free. First shave with a badger brush in a while and even though I used my only 2-band I still missed the backbone from my boars that I'm breaking in.

 

Tuesday April 3, 2012
Brush: Omega 11126 banded boar
Razor: Merkur 41C Open-comb "1904"
Blade: Dorco ST301, 2 or 3, can't remember
Soap: La Toja stick
Toner: Thayer's Rose Petal WH
Finish: Gillette Cool Wave AS

Ahhhh! Nice and smooth. Happy shaving!

 

SOTD Tuesday 4-3-2012

5/8 W.H. Morley, Full Hollow, Spike Point
Proraso PSC
Proraso SC
Ceramic Medium Badger
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea ASB
Mennen Original Skin Bracer