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Feb 7th
Proraso PS - Red
Wet Shaving Products SS & AS - Black Beard
30DC LE w/Omega boar
Rex Ambassador
Gillette Silver Blue (3)
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements ASB - Star Jelly
Meant to be shaving with an open edge today, thought it wouldn't be the best idea, turns out my self preservation instinct was right....
Started off with usual routine, hot shower, face scrub. Proraso PS Red applied all over while making a lather (no hot scuttle). Up was a new acquisition, Wet Shaving Products Formula T shave soap. I've had this formula before, but it was the Sandalwood fragrance...unfortunately had skin reaction to the AS. Formula T is an awesome shave soap, lather immediately bursts from the container after a couple of swirls with
@jtspartan 30DC 2019 handle and damp boar knot. Great slick and thick lather, wonderful face feel, color is a little off white due to ingredients. Very nice. As Clint has mentioned previously, not a big fan of the soap container, it's half lathering in the container, half on your hand, had to scrape off in the bowl to complete a real lather. Wish it'd be like some of the other artisans where the container is a couple ounces larger than the included soap volume, with room to load a brush.
Broke a rule with this shave using a blade for a third time. Terry most times goes for one use with most blades, I usually go two. Wanted to see if I could stretch to three and failed. First two passes with the RA set at 6, two weepers. One on the first pass, corner of my mouth, felt a small tug, slightly seeped through the shave, no biggie other than irritation. Still feel it, like a hair pulled instead of cut. Second pass had another small red spot on the chin, no weep, just a spot. Third pass was the upper lip, chin and lower neck clean up with RA set to 1. Finished off with PAA Star Jelly, then WSP's Black Beard AS. No styptic needed for the two skin issues, they really weren't bad, just shows my mind was elsewhere.
Wet Shaving Products Black Beard.....slightly 'piratey' to me (which is how it's marketed), but not a bay rum pirate, more clove, dark tobacco and a little vanilla. Scent description includes cherry in the vanilla, but my nose doesn't get that. If I'm smelling the cherry....it's a dark cherry. While this blend gets lots of great reviews, not quite so in this household. Wifey said it's a good day fragrance, but not one for a date.....hmm. Probably not a repurchase, we'll see if it stays around.
What was on my mind? One of our high school teenagers, 99.9% a great kid, great grades, good decisions, slightly off track with focus the past week or so, 'nuff said.
Today starts a working out of town weekend for me, I'll be reading along as I can.
Hope everyone has a Fantastic Friday and weekend!
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