Wednesday:

soak brush/Semogue 620/DB Brush Scuttle (ice water)
warm shower
Proraso PrePost cream
Mama Bear's Lime Ice shave stick (face lathered)
Gillette Slim set @ 8/Gillette Silver Blue (3)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Thayer's Medicated Superhazel mixed with 3 drops M-Bomb
The Rub mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

Nice and frosty shave,2 pass face,1 pass head for BBS all around.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Dunkin Donuts
Prep: Wash face with Prairie Creations Pre-Shave Soap
Razor: Schick I1
Blade: Schick
Soap: Nivea
Brush: Vulfix Mayfair Boar
Scuttle/Mug: Sara Bonnyman Bowl
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Alt Innsbruck

SOTD Wednesday 8-22-2012

Muhle R101 (Open Comb) w/Crystal
Proraso PSC
Irisch Moos SC
Caswell Massey Ceramic Badger
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Brut Original ASB
Aqua Velva Musk ASL/Cologne

Sounds like we share the same tastes in ASL/Colognes' Arley. If you like British Sterling Cologne you will love Pashana Original ASL! Give it a try as well and I think you will love it! British Sterling was my favorite all time until I got the Pashana Original ASL. (Which is very reasonably priced I might add.) I must warn you though; it's not for the timid or faint of heart; very bold and long lasting!

Wednesday

TSD unscented wheat cream
HIS synthetic brush
EJ DE89l razor
Astra SP blade
TSD unscented aftershave milk

Three passes, comfortable, smooth!

Wednesday

Prep: Hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB
CD: Phillips, Craig & Dean ~ Trust
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenyan AA, BLACK
Soap: TSD Sandalwood + 3 drops M Bomb
Brush: The Dridecker
Razor: '58 Gillette SS
Blade: ASR Platinum Chrome, day 3, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Brut ASB + 2 drops M Bomb, Brut cologne, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own/Firehouse Wacky Tacky mix

Hump day!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Vangelis, Opera Sauvage
• Brush: DVH boar
• Cream: Palmolive classic
• Razor: Ugly Duckling
• Blade: Derby (#5)
• Shave: 4-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

I was having a blast shaving. I even lathered up a fourth time before I knew it! I was awarded a full BBS.

Have a great day!

Tried to see how our parents and grandparents could shave after a long day of work. Heavy workout, tried long distance farmer's walk with moderate weight for the first time ever. Hands are meat, fingers covered with tape now and shakes badly. What if I add a straight and Williams to that combo?(input scary ambient music here )
4/8 Rebell from herzi
Vie-Long horsehair brush
Williams mug soap
Cold water splash
Fitjar Miklagard AS cream
To my wonder the shave quality was pretty high. Of cause I put a lot of effort to keep the angle and to to keep strokes light and steady. 1 small nick and a solid DFS shave, except some spots missing! Happy shaving!

Wednesday:

Razor - Gillette Milord
Blade - Rapira (1)
Brush - Vie-long White Badger
Lather - P-160
A/S - Thayers witch hazel
Frag - Arpege by Lanvin EdP (vintage) (yes its a "feminine," but our grandmothers often smelled better and more masculine than modern men).

Shower: Burt's Bees Mens Care Soap
Shave: None
Razor: Took the day off
Blade: nada
Brush: At rest

Taking the day off from shaving so it's time to bust out the no blade razor pic! Looking forward to a nice morning shave with add'l prep included.

Gillette Presto
Rudy Vey Vintage Restore-Finest Badger
VDH
Osage Rub
Lab Series AS Balm
tunes-Crosby Stills Nash & Young
-Presto stinks-light, dull, mediocre pulling shave

Rotbart No.15
Bluebird blade
M&F Emillion
LaToja Manatiales
Ogallala Bayrum Limes & Peppercorns

Dmitry, you are a man of great power - after a big workout, to be able to use any straight razor takes a very special man!

Now I need to find that aftershave. I have been on a buying frenzy today, so what is one more purchase right?

Arley, here is a link to a place that sells the Pashana. It is getting hard to find as there was a lawsuit placed against the company selling it under this name in America. I understand it, is that Cartier owns the name "Pasha" in the US. I suppose that Pashana, an old name that predates Cartier, is a bit too similar. To avoid legal entanglements, the idea was to market the fragrance in the US under a different name . Poor Pashana, soon to be called Jack Dean in the U.S. because of silly legalities. QED has it listed but everywhere else it has been removed from their site. I still haven't seen the Jack Dean advertized as yet.
Sorry Arley didn't mean to tease you with a product that was unavailable I just didn't realize it was disappearing from the suppliers so fast. If you want to try a bottle you better act fast!
Link: http://www.qedusa.com/pashana-pashana-after-shave-35oz-p-100.html

Hello, Gang!

I am tired. And I had a crappy shave with the Fatboy and a new Voskhod blade today. Although stranger things have happened, this was surprising enough to through me off my pace today… Need food. Now. Luckily it's lunch time here so off i go after this post.

All this notwithstanding, today’s set-up was:

Musgo Real pre shave oil
Martin de Candre scented shave soap
Mühle Basic Nr. 02 shave brush with Silver Tip Fibre
1960 Gillette Fatboy, started at 5 then dialed up to 8
Voskhod coated blade (new)
Bloc Osma Alum
Musgo Real Classic after shave

I will try the same set up again tomorrow; only with a new Feather blade instead of the Voskhod. Let’s see if the blade was the Corpus Delicti today or if it was a different factor (could of course also have been the user…)

If your looking for a bottle of Pashana, send me a PM.

Shower with shower gel from L'occitane
Merkur Futur set 0n 1.5
Shark Blade
Semogue 1250
L'Occitane Cade Soap
verdan L'Occitane (face wash )
Cade Balm L'Occitane
EDT L'Occitane

The head on that Muhle R101 looks like the R41 I've seen in pics around here. Haven't really researched it, but is it the same head? I'm actually looking for an equivalent of the discontinued Merkur 11c HD.

Prep L'Occitane Vetyver
Razor Vintage Taylors 3000
Brush Simpsons Chubby 1 in Super
Shaving Cream Simpsons
Alum & Witch Hazel
L'Occitane Baux Balm
L'Occitane Baux EDT.

Jamie.

First shave since I restored the razor, a super smooth shave, I didn't notice anything different about the way this razor behaved when you consider how much longer the tang and tail is compared to most razors, felt comfortable and very balanced.​

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