SoS: November 16, 2015 - November 22, 2015

Not many will commit to the drums, the sheet music looks like Egyptian hieroglyphs and you have a ton of equipment to haul with you.
Must be the reason for the harmonica. Not sure of the sheet music but it is small and light.

 

I did my share of hauling around gear that's for sure. Harmonica is great for sitting around a kitchen table and jamming. You can also play both at the same time. Fun, fun, fun, sometimes to much fun.

 

Planned SOTD for 21 November 2015

No Variation November! - Day 21



Utopia 3-piece
Gillette Silver Blue (21!!!)
L'Occitane Plisson Synthetic
Proraso Red
Alum
TSD ISZ AS Splash under Pinaud Lilac Vegetal


Have a great weekend!

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SHAVE OF THE DAY SATURDAY



RAZOR: GILLETTE BALL END TECH
BLADE: RAINBOW (4TH SHAVE)
BRUSH: OMEGA S SYNTHETIC
SOAP: B&M VETYVER SANTAL
POST: BARBASOL PACIFIC RUSH


Had a great 2 pass shave this morning. I had to take a day off since the last shave tore my face up pretty good. The scent of Vetyver Santal is a nice lemon take on vetyver and was a very refreshing scent to wake me up this morning. The Omega brush is always easy to make a decent lather and is a very good inexpensive brush. Picked up some Barbasol Pacific Rush from the dollar store yesterday. Also got some Brisk as well, figured I would give it a try since it was around $3 for both. The wife really liked the scent of Pacific Rush and I do too. It has a nice clean citrusy type of scent, and has a touch of menthol as well. Hope everyone has a great Saturday and a great shave!

 

November 21 SOTD:

Homemade PS Oil
Stirling Synthetic Brush
Stirling Ben Franklin SS
Gillette Aristocrat
Stirling Unscented PSB
Stirling Ben Franklin AS

 

Great stuff. Congratulations!

 

Benjamin Franklin if he was around still would have approved your SOTD I believe.

 

NOVember - NO Variation

November 21

Saturday and the boss bought us all breakfast today before we started. So, an hour early start to the day and it was snowing when I got up. Not sticking to the ground, more like blowing by horizontally. Yeah, shaving takes energy and I'm not really ready to move, kind of a lazy start so let's just say we shaved and don't. These Saturday skip days are getting to be a habit. Hope your weather was better than ours today!

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Ok guys, here are my choices for my Sunday morning shave:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/Astra day 7
Edwin Jagger Menthol SC
Gold Bond Moisturizer
Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS

Once again I had a hard time to decide which stuff to select as a set-up, but I finally chose what I think would be right. The Edwin Jagger Menthol cream is a great latherer with a scent which I'll admit is a bit too flowery for me, but it's still fairly pleasant. Its menthol effect is at a medium strength and quite enjoyable. This cream also has a good post-shave feeling. It's been some time which I haven't used my Gold Bond moisturizer, so I'll go with it and finally the Aqua Velva for a good menthol punch to end a nice shave!

 

Sunday's Planned SOTD



Razor: Griffon Antelope #16 11/16 Full Hollow
Brush: Omega 6240 25mm Silvertip
Bowl: Turkish Porcelain Bowl 4 ¾” orange
Pre Shave Scrub: RazoRock GLO
Pre Shave Oil: Jasmine Creamsicle
Shave Soap: Van Yulay Citrus Blast
Post: Monster Alum Block
Aftershave:: Folsom Shambala​

 

Sunday's


Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Twenty-second shave of No Variation NoVember.
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Thank you!

 

Too lazy to go around.

 

Finally! BBS with no variation November

15.11.21

Soap: Parker Sandalwood and Shea
Brush: Vie-Long professional horsehair
Mug: always going for Baroque
Razor: New style comb, surprisingly mild
Blade: Astra Platinum
AS: Peary and Henson, Bay and Eucalyptus

 

Not much better here in Valley of the Sun. High was only 81 ...low will get down to a chilly 48. Running and ducking now!

 

So this is my first SOS post so im hoping im doing this right. I have been posting my shave experiences and asking questions in my "welcome" thread and im on shave #4 tonight and wanted to start now putting them here. If you would like to be caught up on my experiences visit that thread and its all there.

Tonights shave consisted of:

Hot shower
Wet face with warm water
Barbasol (switched from gillette gel, mucho better)
Gillette Fatboy
Personna blade
Every Man Jack post shave lotion

So this time i shaved my face all three directions but paid close attention to make sure my angle was good and i got zero irratation and for the most part its stubble free all over. There are a few spots here and there that obviously got missed because im new at this and consistent strokes of the razor needs improvement. Which will come with time.

Now on my neck i only went WTG and XTG and i barely have any irratation. Now its not as smooth as my face but thats to be expected and id rather have some stubble left then red and irratated to the point i cant touch my neck.

Overall, this was a 100x better shave then the last three and progress is good!

 

Your shaves will continue to get better. Welcome to the Shave Den.

 

Razor: Ming Shi mp-023g
Blade:Astra SP (1)
Soap: Arko
Brush: Isana Pure Badger
AS: Fa Sport

Ming shi DE surprised me in its first shave. It is such a nice mild razor that gave a great BBS!
Have a great weekend Folks!

 

Welcome to TSD and you did a great job on your first SOTD post. The shaves will continue to get better.

 

Welcome to the Shave Den!!