February 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Thank you, Andrew!

 

Excellent picture, Andrew! What are your thoughts on the Baker Street?

 

Thank you, Clint!

As always, a beautiful picture!

 

Awesome picture and set up, Brian!

 

Thank you Jim.

 

Thank you Jim, It is a very nice scent on the stronger side of medium. It's very cologneish to me (though others disagree) but there are other Stirling cologne type scents that I like better so this one wont be a repurchase for me. Stirling's description is "A fresh and masculine blend of Juniper, Bergamot, Jasmine, and Patchouli." I definitely smell the Bergamot and Juniper, not so much the Jasmine or the Patchouli.

 

Sounds like a great shave, John. That massive brush fills up the bowl!

Great pic of a nice shave, Perry.

Cool pic, Jim. Under 5 minutes beginning to end? With an AC blade? You’ve reached pro status.

Yup, it is definitely Menthol Monday, Mark.

Nice photo and I really enjoy Baker St.

Super photo, Clint. You usually mention your AS, but didn’t this morning.

Great combo, Brian.

 

Thank you, Gentlemen. No one would put my silouette in an ad, Jim. It was an unintended cameo. I didn’t go as far as you did, though!

 

Thanks, Jason!

 

Thank you Jason. I just forgot all about the aftershave with the morning I was having.

 

Monday February 26 - Menthol Monday, TSD edition

My Menthol Monday shave as planned and photographed just before the shave:


My Menthol Monday shave as actually carried out, photographed after shave finished:



Supply Co V.2 SE injector on two - dot plate / Personna ( 4)
30DC LE Maple Cashmere synthetic brush / The Dry Dock shave bowl
TSD Bay Rum lanolin soap with MBomb added to The Dry Dock
Alum and Clubman Osage Rub and Clubman VIBR

The TSD Bay Rum soap is a pure traditional bay rum. I intended to pair it with the Jeeves Bay Rum splash today for Menthol Monday, because the Jeeves is not a traditional pure bay rum scent but does have a bit of menthol in it. Then I saw the Osage Rub sitting there....

It was an excellent shave and a memorable finish. The Osage Rub and Clubman VIBR work well together.

 

Great change of plans. Two great photos as well.

 

Thank you, Jason!

 

Great photo's.

 

Thank you, Clint. I am still using the less-than-superb camera built into my BlackBerry PlayBook for convenience sake. However, I have worked on getting better lighting on my subject, plus I discovered an image stabilizer function in the camera menu, and that seems to have made a difference.

 

Thank you, Doug. My photos are nowhere near the quality of your calendar shots, but at least they no longer look as if they belong on the same roll of film as the average "photograph" of Sasquatch or the Loch Ness monster -- dark, blurry and totally out of focus...

 

I like your pictures and photo locations. I have a BlackBerry phone camera that I use.

 

Could I add a thought? For every story I hear about a barbershop shave that was great, I hear two saying they walked out with nowhere near what they normally do for themselves.

Hair type, and beard growth mean everything in a shave. I am one of those four pass shavers cause my hair grows every which way but sideways, and nearly flat to my face. If I leave it alone for a week, I am growing weaved thatch you could roof a hut with. I can get a nice shave in a couple of passes, or I could count two ever/multi directional passes as just two, but the God’s honest truth is that if I want an “Epic” shave, (thanks @Keithmax) I need to hit a ton of real estate at a ton of angles.

My point is, never let an internet guru tell you that something you know is right, is wrong.

 

You know, I don’t use it a ton, but the honest truth is that when I do, I often tell myself it is how I always want to smell.