Tuesday Schick E injector Schick blade (3) Semogue 1438 De Vergulde Hand extra fris (face lathered, shave stick method) Aqua Velva 10 minutes, 3 passes, 1 DFS
Tuesday: #6 Horsehair Super Speed/7 AM day 2 Palmolive Cool SC Diana Sport Menthol Balsam Osage Rub AS Oscar de la Renta Pour Lui EDT Ahhhhhh, this shave was so frigid and enjoyable from start to finish - the Palmolive Cool cream which is marketed for the Balkan countries is just as strongly-mentholated as the Italian version with the same awesome lather and scent. The cooling sensation begins as soon as the brush makes contact with your skin. I cannot stop loving the Diana Sport/Rubby Dubby combination!
Shave of the Day (SOTD) Tech Tuesday January 15, 2013• Prep: Brush soaked in warm water, face washed with Neutrogena Healthy Skin Anti-Wrinkle Anti-Blemish Cleanser, luke warm shower • Razor: Gillette Tech mounted to Matador Toro Mastif Corto Handle • Blade: Astra SP (3) switched to Personna Med Prep (1) • Brush: GDCarrington Maple Apple Handle with Ace Shaving 22mm High Density Silvertip • Cream: TOBS Jermyn Street Cream • AS: Skin Bracer Spice • Post: Cold Water Rinse, Double Splash of Aftershave First off I would like to thank my buddy Todd for sending me the TOBS samples and the Skin Bracer Spice. Anyone that knows me knows that I am FRUGAL with a capital F. I would much rather purchase a few tubs of product than buy one tub of expensive cream (or so I thought). I now know why TOBS gets so much love, this stuff is amazing. The lather was splendid, the scent was very complex, more like a fine cologne and the protection is second to none. I will definitely be purchasing this scent, along with some others once my current levels of soaps and creams are low. The Skin Bracer Spice was everything I remember and then some. To my nose this is one of the best spice scent around as it stands out as something unique, not a copy of Old Spice. It is too bad that the prices on the 'bay are outrageous for it. I will need to look around the thrift shops to see what I can find. I now recall why I did not like Astra's. Today is the third use of this blade and into the first pass there was a lot of tugging and pulling. Life is too short and blades are too cheap to tolerate a bad shave, so I switched blades to a Personna Med Prep. I know that many guys love Astra SP's, but for me, I cannot get more than two decent shaves from them.
Tuesday morning, January 15, 2013 Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (3) Semogue 1250 boar bristle brush, Arko shaving soap with hot water lather, finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!
Tuesday Prep: Hot shower CD: Nothin' but the Blues, disc 1 Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenya, BLACK Soap: L'Occitane Cade Brush: Omega 49, the red one Razor: '55 Blue Tip Blade: ASR Platinum Chrome, day 2, 3 passes Post: Cold water rinse, Thayers Rose Petal WH, B&BW Oak, hand strop blade 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own No complaints here.
SOTD Tuesday 1-15-2013 Matador OC/Elite Neon Green Acrylic Astra Superior Platinum Blade Proaso PSC Speick SC Omega Boar Dickinson's Witch Hazel/Jeris Musk Nivea Replenishing ASB English Leather Cologne Just a very nice shave!
Tuesday 15-01-2013 Razor: Muhle R41 Blade: 7AM Platinum Brush: Horse hiar #6 Cream: Barbon AS: Barbon Superb shave with 2 pass (WTG,ATG) this morning
Tuesday Eucerin moisturizing cream warm shower Semogue 2000 MWF Merkur 23c w/ Shark Cetaphil gentle cleanser cold water rinse Master Bay Rum Excellent two pass DFS! My Semogue and Omega are starting to define themselves. Different with each having strengths and weakness. True complements. One thing is for certain ... the Semogue loads MWF like a monster ... check the pic out! pic: AFTER face lathering and first pass, BEFORE the second pass. [edit: added pic]
Jan 15th, 2013 Prep: Shower, TBS Tea Tree Face Wash. Brush: Vulfix Burlington. Razor: '59 Ball End Tech- Made in Argentina. Blade: Personna Lab. Soap: Mike's Natural-Barbershop. Post: Cold water rinse, Thayer's WH Rose, Floid Blue-first time use. Well, this is the first time I've had a real shave in almost 4 weeks. I have kept the stubble and just trimmed it since I was on vacation. This shave was perfect for me. The Floid Blue is really something else. I usually don't use splashes because the alcohol usually does more damage than good. But today I said screw it and finally tried it. I splashed some on my hand, rubbed them together, and patted it on my face expecting a very uncomfortable sting. I exhaled in relief as I felt no sting. Just a nice cooling down effect.
15 January Tuesday, 2013 Hot shower Proraso preshave soap TFS Barbe Rosa Semogue 1460 Gillette gold ball end Tech Treet platinum. An outstanding DFS from 3 passes.
Pre shave. Captain Morgan Soap. Made for TSD. Wild Rose !! Brush C&E Best Strop. Tony Miller Razor. Dovo Ironwood After shave. Captain Morgan
Tuesday. Shave on a run... Merkur 23C/Gillette Super Thin Vie-Long horsehair brush Soapy SC Cold water splash Tet-a-tet ASB That Soapy cream is my goto cream when I need some rush, because I can use it as preshave too. Just leave a layer of lather on my face for a minute, wash it out with warm water, re lather...
Derby blade Gillette new Well I got some derby shave soap and it came with 5 free derby blades I was reluctant to try these after readin there reviews also tried a new for the first time I can honestly say best shave I have ever gotten period mabey it's the blade mabey the razor I will have to do more testing but I am so surprised that this outperforms even these fancy new tto razors
Veli, the Barbon cream is wonderful, however it's unusual because it seems to leave the face almost completely frozen and numb after a shave. It's the only cream I have which prevents me from feeling the pain of a cut or a nick.
Pre : shower withe Musgo real lime soap Merkur Bakelite slant Feather # 5 SWK XL scuttle simpson commodore X3 in BB Martin de candre soap in wooden bowl Alum osma rinse cold water after 2 mint with wash soap MDC (olive oil vetyver ) Copra oil from martin de candre EDT lavender from MDC
Wednesday Schick E2 injector Schick blade (4) Pashana mixed boar/badger MWF (face lathered, shave stick method) Harris Sandalwood AS 14 minutes, 3 passes + 1 touch up, 1 DFS+
5/8 Bema MWF 28mm H.I.S. knot Stephan Astringent Good shave but I'm not really into it for some reason. Have a good one. image hosting sites
Wednesday: #6 Horsehair Super Speed/7 AM day 3 Arko Ice Mint SC Svoboda AS Balsam Max Refreshing AS Polo Original EDT Wow, what a freeze this Arko Ice Mint cream delivers with terrific lather and skincare, and the Svoboda balsam is pretty chilly and soothing also. The Max Refreshing aftershave is colder than Aqua Velva or Mennen Skin Bracer put together. Today's shave was a delight!
