Tuesday May 26 Preshave: Proraso Pre?Post Brush: E-shave silvertip Soap: Proraso Razor: Merkur HD Blade: Astra Superior (Day 4) Aftershave: Proraso Aftershave Splash Cologne: GFT Eau de Quinine Very close to BBS thanks to a wonderful lather provided by the Proraso soap. Pete
Tuesday/Martes Gen Junior with Ted Pella blade Bea shaving stick La Walkiria black badger brush Weleda ASB Agua Brava EDT
Tuesday 5/26 Ever Ready 100T boar Speick Shave Stick Gillette Slim Adjustable (4) Super Irridium Thayer's A/F Original Speick Splash Result: Just a great as yesterday's
Musgo Glyce Real Lime Oil Soap Corn Huskers Pre Shave TOBS Lemon & Lime Simpson Duke 3 Merkur HD Super Iridium (3) Pinaud Lime Sec TSD Lime ASB Lime Skin Food
Lemons and Lemonade Razor: C3 Ball End Tech Blade: Feather (1) Cream: Crabtree & Evelyn/Tom's of Maine Mint Brush: Tweezerman A/S: C.O. Bigelow Rose Water Skin Toner/AV Ice Blue Lemons: The C&E was a big disappointment. No matter what I tried, I could not get any kind of lather out of it. It didn't take in the bowl, it wouldn't do a thing with a face lather. Lemonade: After laying down a thin layer on the face and beating it to death in the bowl, I noticed a very nice cooling feeling. After about five minutes of frustration, I took what I could on the brush, added some Tom's of Maine Mint, and got an excellent lather that was nice and frosty the entire shave. The only thing I need to say about the Tech: With a Feather, it's almost perfect. The Rose Water stuff was very refreshing with an excellent scent to it. After letting it sit, I went with the standard AV Ice Blue splash follow up and kind of regret it. The Rose Water scent is just excellent. It was a little pricey, but worth it now that I've experienced it.
Trumpers razor Rooney brush Trumpers Limes shave soap Booster Iced Limes AS The Crown Perfumery Crown Spiced Limes EDT
Trumper's Liimes cream Georgetown Scuttle Rooney 2/1 Silvertip Wade & Butcher Sheffield TSD Ogallala Bay Rum as Chanel Egoiste Eau de Toilette
Martes // 26/05/09 Pre/Music Hot Shower Joshua Bell performing "Summer" Violin Concerto by Vivaldi Shave Lord Tech w/ Astra Superior Omega 10077 Blue TOBS Sandalwood SC Post AV Ice Blue (AWFUL, immediately took off) Skin Bracer Green Vas. Moisture Lock Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNcYT7jpH9E Result: An excellent shave, minus the AV. Yuck.
TOBS St James, whipped in the GTP scuttle with my RV Silver Tip Gillette Slim adjustable with 7 o'clock blade 444 Alum followed by a cold water rinse T+H 1805 ASB T+H 1805 EdT
Tuesday 5/26 . . . [*]Prep: Rite Aid Skin Cleansing Cream & Hot Towel [*]Brush: The "Dana" Brush an Ever Ready 50N Boar [*]Cream: SCS Tea Tree [*]Razor: '12 GEM with standard handle [*]Blade: Ted Pella PTFE coated SE (shave 6) [*]Oil Pass: Leisureguy's Last-Pass Shave Oil [*]A/S: Thayer's Rose Petal Witch Hazel Toner & SCS Avocado Oil ASM [*]EDT: Nine Flags Patcham from Hong Kong Cologne Result: BBS, no blood, just a smooth and comfortable shave. Did have some trouble with the head. Sunburn you know. Tough to shave when it really hurts so I just did the back and sides on one pass only. The "Dana" brush works great with the creams. It is the floppiest boar I have ever seen. Almost like a badger brush.
Tuesday morning...a busy day at the office today: Plisson 16 Art of Shaving Sandalwood Shaving Soap Merkur Futur with Super Iridium Blade Thayer's Rose Witch Hazel with ~15% alcohol Clinique Post-Shave Healer Creed Private Collection Tabarome
Tuesday May 26 Brush: VDH Boar Cream: Ingram's Razor: '59 Fatboy @ 5 Blade: Gillette Platinum (UK) D1 Aftershave: Thayers WH & Lavender / TSD Iced Subzero Milk Cologne: C&S No. 88 1st time to try these blades and it was an awesome irritation free BBS shave capped off by a nice and frosty re-moisturizer.
Tuesday Omega 31025 shaving brush Trumper Rose shaving soap 3" TM Red Latigo strop 6/8 Dovo "Bismarck" razor Trumper Coral Skin Food Viktor
After the usual 1-2 minute hot towel prep: Shavemac 22mm silvertip 1919 Bulldog/ Iridium MWF Lucky Tiger AS i Profumi di Firenze 'Legno Amaro' EdT This morning was my last time using this razor for a looong while. I have to say I can't remember ever getting a closer shave with any other razor, and I love that part. It's also a kick to truly use zero pressure to have those results, which I'm unable to get with my normal razor of choice. I can go over a tough spot on my neck or chin 2-3 times in the same direction with my fatboy/feather set up, and still not get as close as one stroke with this Bulldog type. The thing is amazingly effective....plain and simple. Yeah, it's great, except that I prefer not to feel the blade at all while shaving. I shave mostly by sound rather than feel........the less the actual razor feedback the better for me. Weird eh? Yeah, I just don't care to actually be aware of a blade being in the razor at all. I sure feel the blade in the Bulldog.........sigh. Anyway, it was still fun using this razor, and will revisit again sometime....maybe try a different(milder) blade. No damage done to my face, and I realize my technique is probably pretty decent to avoid any unpleasantness. This would NOT be a good razor for a new DE shaver. BBS results, Martin
27 May, Wednesday Merkur Futur w/ Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Stainless Rooney 3/1 "Super" TOBS Traditional SS GFT Eucris EDT
