Sunday February 16 (noon) - Fine-tuning Favourites February
Prep: Hot shower with Aleppo olive oil soap w/ 20% bay laurel oil (traditional anti-acne)
Razor: Matte black stainless steel Supply 2.0 injector with "nick-proof" SE comb plate / Personna blade (2)
Soap: Stirling Scots Pine Sheep
Brush: Jason's cypress badger (Maggard's 24mm 2-band badger knot)
Lather Bowl: None
Post: rinse, alum, rinse, Stirling Scots Pine splash
Last shave: Thursday February 06 - 10 days ago
Today's setup (same as last shave):
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The weather here continues to vary between a high of -20C and a low of about -35C with a wind -- temperatures where a beard helps fend off facial windburn and frostbite. So I still have the full beard and moustache set.
Again, today was just a trim to get rid of the neckbeard part and clean up the middle of the cheeks to leave a crisply defined jaw outline.
For my second shave in February, I repeated the first shave's setup and went with some of my favourites: a brush with a beautiful cypress wood handle turned by Jason
@jtspartan paired with an excellent badger knot, my pet modern injector which combines solid mass with a nearly foolproof plate of mid-grade aggressiveness, and a slick and protective Stirling mutton tallow (and lanolin) soap.
Since it worked well last time, I shaved in two stages: first the neck and then the more minor cleanup on the cheeks.
I did three passes on the neck - ATG, WTG and then diagonally XTG. That returned my neck area from scruffy neckbeard to near BBS.
I then did the cheeks to trim down and clean up the sparser uneven upper edges of my beard area. Two passes did that: XTG and then WTG.
No nicks, blood spots or razorburn and the alum was totally silent.
The splash was a good finish. The Scots Pine has a pleasant fir forest scent that goes well with the winter weather.
Hope everyone is keeping well and is heading into a great week.
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