SoS: March 30, 2015 - April 5, 2015

Tuesday Shave

Razor: WSC JB
Blade: Crown Super Stainless (5)
Brush: WSC Pure Boar Bristle
Soap/Creme: Derby Lavender Shave Creme
AS: Lucky Tiger After Shave and Face Tonic
Fragrance: Old Spice Classic Cologne

Had an awesome shave today! BBS and soooooo comfortable. I really love the Derby creme (I have Lemon too), it gives a great lather and smells so good. Also can't say enough good about the crown blades. I actually got them in my first Wet Shave Club box and thought, "Meh, probably not gonna be very good, but I'll try one.". They are now my favorite blade!!! They're wicked smooth; like buttah! And I get about 7-10 shaves from each (depending how much I feel like stretching it).

Hope yall had a great shave today as well.

 

Planned SOTD for Wednesday

59' Fatboy
Rapira blade
New Forest Silver tip brush
Pacific Shave Co shave oil
Al's Shaving Products Fougere About It Shave cream
Body Shop Maca Root Razor Relief AS balm
CC North aftershave
After six days in a row with the Futur, I thought I better not forget about the other razors in the rotation.

 

Ken
Sorry to hear of your loss. When my Aunt Passed Away she was suffering from Alzheimer's or early stages of it.
You and your family will be in My wife and my thoughts and prayers. Again sorry to hear of you loss.
"Semper Fi"

 

March 31 - 5th DE Shave

Pre-shave - Shower, Neutrogena Grapefruit Wash, and Shave Secret
Razor - EJ89
Blade - Single Pack Feather
Brush - Omega Pro 48 (still a stiffy)
Soap - Proraso Cream (Verde); Plastic cereal bowl lather (I know that I'm uncouth)
Method - Modified 3 Passes with some spot treatments. Still feeling the grain out and trying to find the most efficient attack points.
Post-Shave - Cold Water, Mary Kay Hydrate, and Clubman Musk

Results - DFS; no irritation, bleeps, creeps, or sweeps. I like the feather blade ... wasn't nearly as formidable as what it's been made out to be.

 

Feathers are sharp (tested and proven sharpest on the market), but they aren't as slicey and dicey as some stories will say. Due to their sharpness though, they can be harsh and unforgiving, especially to sensitive skin. Even with good technique, you can get irritation from them just from being so sharp. I used to use Feather exclusively, and loved them. When paired with my super mild Weishi 9306-C, they were a perfect shave. But still, I'd get irritation sometimes. Some people also get irritation from different coating on blades. For instance, platinum blades will disagree with some folks. I actually think I may have that problem as since I've switched to straight stainless blades, BOOM!; no irritation ever (unless I use pressure or rake the same area a ridiculous amount, which I dont, lol.) I'm still testing though. Figure best way too know is too try a bunch of different blades and see what happens. My next test will be Treet Classic carbon steel blades.

Glad you have good luck with the Feathers though, they're a great blade. And very nice setup. I even give props on the cereal bowl; I love it!

 

Lol. At this point, Im using a blade from my sample pack two times, then switching brands to get a once over.

So far, my blade bracket says this (best to "I dunno but that..."):

1) Gillette 7 Oclock
2) Feather
3) Astra SP

 

I went with my originally-planned set-up and wow, did I ever freeze myself with the Glacial Lemon Chill soap. What a great shave I had.

 

April 1 SOTD:

Home made pre shave oil
Fatboy with Rapira PL
Stirling Port-au-Prince
WD Silver tip
Tabac AS

Today was also a start of my focus on the FB. I had a decent shave but I do struggle with the angle on this razor. For some reason the head confuses me a bit making it difficult for me to really get it just right.

 

SOTD
April 1, 2015
Prep: Hot Shower. Axe Shield Face Wash
Razor: RRBS
Blade: Sputnik
Brush: Semogue 1305
Lather: WSP Rustic Fougere Noir
Post: Alum. Thayers Cucumber WH.
Aftershave: Country Club Southern Oud
Very enjoyable shave. I need to use my WSP soaps more often. I currently have nine brushes in my working rotation, I'd like to get that number down to five, the Semogue 1305 just might make the cut..The Sputniks are a good blade!
Go out and get it

 

1 April 2015

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Prep - Spilled hot coffee on my face
Brush - Harbor Freight Paint
Cream - Miracle Whip
Razor - Buck #110 (Folding Hunter)
Toilet water rinse, aluminum, Witchy Poo, some of the blue stuff from inside a freezer thingy

Happy April Fool's Day, everyone!

 

Chiseled in comfort
Excellent shave today. Lather monster chiseled up Sherlock into creamy yogurt in no time. Der Vorschlaghammer mowed down my stubble closely and smoothly, and Sherlock splash wrapped it up right. My face feels great and I smell good.
Prep: Proraso White
Soap: Chiseled Face Sherlock
Brush: HIS XL
Razor: Der Vorschlaghammer
Blade: Voskhod (2)
AS: Chiseled Face Sherlock

 

today's shave
hot water wash with dove+ care
rubberset 400
BOMBED Nana June's bay rum
Gillette new lc
Ladas(2)
ICED virgin island bay rum
today's shave was nice. nice cool lather. three passes with the long comb. very smooth. finished with iced bay rum.
hope y'all did as well, or better.

 

Wednesday's Shave



Prep: Hot shower w/ Grandpa's Pine Tar
Lather: Arko
Brush: Omega 13522
Razor: '46-'50 Gillette Heavy Gold Tech
Blade: Sputnik
Post: Nivea Sensitive Balm
Scent: Tommy Bahama Very Cool

Quick 2 pass shave at 0100 this morning. I think I might line the Sputnik blades. Going to try for a full 3 pass tomorrow.

 

4/1/15
Heading off with 17 students to FFA judging contests so a quick and early 2 pass shave

Prep: warm wash and cornhusker's lotion
Lather: ST. James Mandarin & Patchouli
Brush: TGN synthetic
Razor: Schick J1
Blade: Schick (2)
Post: Captain's Choice Cat

 

Sorry to hear of your loss. I had an uncle who suffered from alzheimers, too. That is rough.

 

WEDNESDAY
Feeling perky this morning….

 

Iced VIBR? Oh I gotta try

 

Odin's Day:

Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Invigorating Facial Wash, TSD Jasmine Sambac preshave balm
Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger
Soap: Ginger's Garden Oakmoss Glycerin
Razor: RazoRock Bamboozled RAKE OC
Blade: Big Ben Super Stainless (purple wrapper) (3)
Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG (7, 8, 9)
Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma alum, Dickinson's WH, Pinaud Clubman AS splash
Cologne: Oud Velvet Mood by Maison Francis Kurkdjian

I took yesterday off from shaving, just to give myself a little more stubble to work with as I continue to learn angle and pressure with my new razor. Unfortunately, it didn't work, as I put a little to much pressure on my throat during the XTG pass, resulting in a little cut on my jugular vein. It wasn't bad, at first, but quickly escalated as I continued shaving, so that by the ATG pass I was a little dizzy and felt the need to call for help from. . . April Fool's. Three comfortable passes, no bloodshed, no irritation, no problems whatsoever.

 

Menthol Wednesday

I think I have been reading too many of @crackstar 's posts. 3 days of heavy duty menthol in a row is very unusual for me. Today was a very heavy menthol, using almost all Stirling Glacial Obsidian with just a touch of PDP. 3 passes and smooth as glass.

PDP w/ Stirling Glacial Obsidian
Rapira Stainless blade
slim adjustable

For some unknown reason I feel like I don't need a pre-shave oil when using menthol, and I haven't been suffering from the lack of pre-shave oil.