04/06/15 Prep – MR GLO Razor – GEM Feather Weight Blade – GEM SS PTFE (3) Brush – Rubberset 400-3 with WSP HMW Lather – Soap Commander Passion Post - Witch Hazel and CC Bay Rum AS Very good 3 pass shave this morning. Still learning the angles around my trouble spots. If not for those areas the shave would have been a borderline BBS shave.
04/06/15 Prep: hot shower with face wash Pre Shave: Maggards sweet orange pre shave oil Razor: Van Der Hagen safety razor Blade: Personna platinum Brush: Omega 10049 synthetic boar Lather: Maggards Mango Sage tea soap Post: cold water and Pacific Shaving Co. Caffeinated after shave balm Just finished the shave and feeling so smooth
Monday Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap Soap: Catie’s Bubbles-La Terre Verte Razor: Gillette NEW Short Comb Blade: Personna Med Prep (3) Brush: Whipped Dog High Mountain Badger-24mmx50mm Aftershave: Country Club Frozen Vetiver WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard) Catie’s Bubbles LTV today. 20 seconds to load the WD High Mountain. Great, easy, thick, lather. Personna Med Prep in the NEW Short Comb. Excellent smooth, close, shave! I finished with CC Frozen Vetiver. Bob
Monday Soap: Catie's Bubbles "Le Nude" Brush: HIS synthetic Razor: Ikon ShaveCraft 101 Blade: Super Iridium After: Cold rinse, CeraVe lotion
Menthol Monday hot shower/cold water shave Plisson L'Occitane synth TSD ISZ PSB TSD 2X Iced Vanilla Wheat Cream Schick Revere/Pella coated injector (1) cold water rinse Monster Block Alum cold water rinse Tend Skin Can You Handlebar Beard Dry Oil TSD 2X Iced Vanilla ASL Tom Ford Tobaaco Vanille A nice and frosty start to the week! Stay frosty,my friends!
Monday 6th April Warm shower Hot towel B&M Ferox scuttle lathered HMW Badger brush made by myself Gillette Bulldog (1918) Gillette Silver Blue (3) Cold rinse Thayers Superhazel Myrsol Lemon aftershave
6 April 2015 * Weber DLC + WRH3c Aluminum * Super Iridium * WSP Manchurian + K-Translucent * Cold River Fall * Unrefined Shea Butter * Bergamot/Vetiver EO
April 6, 2015 Pre- Warm shower, Mickey Lee Lime Pre Shave Butter Brush Soak- Sriracha Mug of Doom™ Razor- Fatip Piccolo Blade- Merkur Soap- Mickey Lee "Cocoa Maya" sample Brush- Omega boar Post- Cold water rinse, Alum, Witch Hazel Aftershave- The Cool Fix balm Smell Good- Fine L'Orange Noir First open comb shave, so I went with a known mild blade for me. Not bad, had a couple weepers and a bit of irritation on my neck. Really loving the smell of the Cocoa Maya. In the container it's really chocolatey, but once it's bloomed and lathered the other notes come through. It becomes a pretty masculine scent even with the cocoa background. May be buying a full tub of this and the Drunken Goat to throw in the rotation.
Menthol Monday: Prep: Hot shower, Neutrogena Invigorating Face Wash, TSD Jasmine Sambac preshave balm Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger Soap: Ginger's Garden Grass Stain Menthol Snow Razor: RazoRock Bamboozled RAKE OC Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1) Passes: WTG, XTG, ATG (1, 2, 3) Post: Cold water splash, Bloc Osma alum, Dickinson's WH, Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS splash Cologne: Xeryus by Givenchy That's so much better. The lather today was just as good as yesterday's, though colder and possibly slicker. The brush and the razor were obviously the same. The blade made all the difference. The Bic Chrome Platinum felt so smooth and comfortable compared to the Baili Super Blue, the difference was astounding. Even without the advantage of an extra day's stubble, the shave is comparably close, so BBS, but there was no tugging, no pain, no bloodshed, and no irritation. Finish off with the AV Ice Blue and Xeryus, and my face feels chilled and I smell good.
Good for you! The Fatip can be a biter, I really like the way the 10066 is looking! One of my favorite brushes! Looks like Mickey Lee will be my next soap purchase.
SOTD: Monday, April 6 New Soap 7/13 Soap: Cyril R. Salter Vetiver (Danke Phillip) Brush: Simpson 2 "Chubby" Synthetic Razor: Merkur 37C Blade: Personna Med Prep (1) Post-Shave: Alum Block, Thayer's Unscented Witch Hazel w/Aloe Vera Aftershave: Vetiver de Guerlain (Vintage) Have a great day!
Kicked up the menthol with a bit of a splash of TSD M-Bomb (the last of it!) into the Valobra soap. THAT plus the TSD menthol balm pre shave = Chilly! Have a great Monday, all!
Menthol Monday, April 6, 2015 RazoRock SSS with UFO Titanium XL Bic Chrome Platinum #3 Duly Mitchell Porcelain Lather Bowl Oscar11 Blue & White Omega Boar - 28X55mm Proraso Green Soap Proraso Green Aftershave Balm
First day of my week with the Tradere. Those curious about more details about today's shave can find it here Executive summary: "wow" Razor: Tradere, OC, 2nd gen Blade: Personna (I thought that was an apt blade to choose as it was the favorite blade of the creator of the Tradere) Soap: Klar Kabinett Brush: L'Occitane Plisson Body splash: The Veg A/S: Myrsol Blue - followed by some Anherb
6April15 Second try with the Slim and 100x better than the last. VDH soap TGN black badger Slim set on 3 Gillette SB(3) C&E Indian Sandalwood post Skipped yesterday's shave so 2 days growth. Slim on 3 and a DFS with two passes. WTG/XTG and had a hard time finding spots for touch up.
Razor: Gillette 195 Fat Boy (f1) 1960 Brush: Erskine Badger 1947 Birth Year Mug: Old Spice (late glass Mug 04) 1970s -1992 The last OS Mugs Cream: The Gentlemen Cedar Blade: Feather (2) Pre shave: Tree Hut Shea body wash Mango Post shave: Thayers Cucumber WH, Jack Black balm, Tommy Bahamas St. Barts cologne Whipped up The Gentlemen Cedar with no problem with the Erskine. Good cushion from The Gentlemen and it has a nice scent. I really like the FB. I get tempted to just use this razor every day with the Feather. The Shea Mango for the pre-shave helped give me a nice no burn shave. The usual cleanup, and then some of that St. Barts cologne. Monday Monday........
