SoS: July 6, 2015 - July 12, 2015

Oooo! I can hardly wait for Saturday, my Tabacstag.

 

THURSDAY
An excellent 'Jasmine-scented' shave this morning, using some new products from the TSD store.
My wife however, finds the jasmine scent pleasing enough (as do I), but feels its a bit too 'girlie-scented' for me. Hmmmmm.
Part of me thinks she simply wants the post-shave splash for herself.
Have a great Thursday, all!

 

Bonjour Messieurs,

We are just 5 days after and 5 days before our respective national holidays, so this sotd is bit themed.

And also I had to retry the Bohin before it left :



Not tooo bad... Bonne journée !

 

9 July 2015

* Ikon Shavecraft Short-Comb + Tuckaway
* Super Iridium
* WSP Stubby 2-Band + Doug Korn All-Amber Taca
* Mystic Water Brown Windsor
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO



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He did it again ! Beautiful !

 

Thursday

Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Island Man
Soap: Soap Commander-Courage
Razor: Gillette NEW Short Comb
Blade: Personna Med Prep (1)
Brush: oscar11 High Mountain White-22mmx48mm
Aftershave: Chiseled Face-Ghost Town Barber

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Soap Commander Courage today. 20 seconds to load the oscar11 HMW. Great, easy, thick, lather. I loaded a new Personna Med Prep in the NEW SC. Great smooth, close, shave. I finished with Ghost Town Barber.

Bob

 

Thursday
warm shower/cold water shave
Omega Proraso boar
Myrsol Emulsion PPB
RazoRock XX lathered with 8 drops M-Bomb .....really only meant to do 6.
Gold Tech/Lord Super Stainless (1)
cold water rinse
Monster Cube Alum
cold water rinse
Tend Skin
Can You Handlebar Beard Dry Oil
Myrsol Plastic Shave ....decent hit from the menthol,nice and soothing.
Bleu de Chanel edp


Turned out to be a nice and frosty shave

Stay frosty,my friends!

 

Thursday 9th July







Warm shower

Hot towel

Catie's Bubbles Fouet L'Orange bowl lathered

Finest Badger brush made by myself

Gillette Big Fellow NI Gold (1925)

Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (3)

Cold rinse

Thayers Lemon witch hazel

Myrsol Antesol aftershave

 

Shave of the day

Pre- Hot shower, Anna and Claras sandalwood bath soap
Soap/cream- DR Harris Arlington shaving soap and Proraso sandalwood
Brush- Semogue 1470
Razor- Gillette Slim adjustable (7)
Blade- Astra SP(2)
Post- Cold water rinse, Old Spice original aftershave lotion and Nivea Sensitive cooling aftershave balm

Hand lathered DR Harris, got a great lather. Nice first pass. But in the second pass the lather had broken down. Hero of the day was Proraso red. From load to GREAT Lather I swear it took around 30 seconds hahaha granted I only needed one pass, I still got enough for 2-3 passes. It was a long time ago I used proraso red, but im sure gonna put it out where I can see it and grab it.

Maybe to get a really close shave I need an XTG pass the other direction. But no time today =P off to work

I see some patches here and there I didn't get as close as the rest of the face. I don't know why, I was careful and payed attention. It's weird, I gotta get that technique in again.

 

Thank you.

 

July 9, 2015
SOTD

30-Day Focus - Blade Trials for Gillette Tech

One week trial for each brand:
Personna Red, Derby Green, Gillette Silver Blue, Voskhod

Hot Shower
Pre-Shave Oil: Gingers Garden
Soap: Catie's Bubbles Mile High Menthol
Brush: Omega Pro 48
Razor: Gillette Tech “Fat Handle”
Blade: Derby Green (1)
RazoRock Alum
After Shave: Myrsol Agua Di Limon

Well there’s other fish in the sea….
I dropped any further testing of the Reds and I’m off to a different color - Derby Green.
2-pass (WTG,ATG) decent shave. Really tried to minimize repeat strokes.

Cheers!
- RT

 

Hope your Mom is feeling better.

 

SOTD:
'63 Slim on 8
Astra SP (4)
Muhle synthetic black fibre brush
J.F. Martin's Bergamont, Rose, Lavender, Vetiver
Thayer's Rose
Floid Blue

I've owned this brush for almost a year and this was only the third time I've used it because I just really haven't liked it that much. I figured today that I'd give it another shot so I took it in the shower and washed it and it performed much better than the previous two times. I'm wondering if I just need to break it in more (this is my first synthetic so it's more than likely different from my badger brushes). The JF Martin soap is absolutely phenomenal stuff and I just love the scent. I did find the max comfortable shaves out of the Astra is 3 because the fourth caused a tad bit of irritation on the neck. I'll probably just stick to my Feathers but it's nice having some good back up blades, as I'm down to my last pack of GSB's.

 

Thursday's Shave

Prep: Hot shower w/ Grandpa's Pine Tar
Soap: Arko
Brush: Omega 13522
Razor: '46 - '50 Gillette Tech
Blade: Astra SP
Post: Witch Hazel, Nivea Sensitive Balm

Good quick 2 pass shave today. Face been a bit irritated lately so I'm avoiding ATG for a bit.

 

Grandpa's Pine Tar soap is the absolute best! I buy 12 packs from Amazon about every three months. Hat and Speick bar soap are the only soaps I use anymore.

 

I'm fortunate enough to be able to get it locally at a reasonable price. I even wash my hair with it. Great for my skin.

 

I've looked everywhere locally for it. I guess Indiana doesn't want to sell the good stuff!

 

9jul15

First time using the blue tip SS. VERY mild. Also figured I better use my other brushes some. This is one that is a bit too floppy for me but I'm getting used to "how to use" it. It still smells of animal, that how little I've used it. I also got a couple nicks today, I believe due to the SS being so light and mild. I tended to apply extra pressure thinking I wasn't cutting anything.

B2 Blue tip SS
Astra SS(1)
Williams mug soap

 

Standard dr bomber / voskhod

M&F polo

Chiseled Face Easy St x2