Friday Prep: Hot shower, soak brush CD: Blues Gold, disc 2 ~ various later artists Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Ethiopia Illubabor, BLACK Soap: Muhle Sandalwood Brush: Vulfix 404, The Grosvenor badger/boar mix Razor: '61 Fatboy @ 6 Blade: Dorco ST-301, day 5, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, Dickenson's WH, Clubman Shave Rating: 4 Blades Not bad. I'll take it.
Friday: Omega Wooden Handle Super Speed/new 7 AM Wilkinson Sword Shaving Stick Hega AS Obsession For Men EDT A new blade always makes a big difference in a shave - today, I got really BBS with so little effort. The Wilkinson stick smells so nice and gives fantastic lather. I find it a lot better than the bowl version. The Hega aftershave from Sweden contains a lot of alcohol, but it soothes and relaxes the skin.
Friday, February 3, 2012. Good Morning! Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: Gillette SS Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Blue Soap: Cella Brush: Omega 10005 Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5 Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue
Merkur 45 Bakelite Rapira Swedish SS M&F Emillion QED Sandalwood Rose SS Barbasol Pacific Rush A/S Ebano & Ebano A/S Balm Creed - Cuir de Russie
It's pretty big (50-60) and entirely random. If I do a decent job honing I wouldn't expect the razor to need anything but a leather strop for the week it's in rotation and it should leave the rotation with a good shaving edge.
Friday! Hot Shower Green Marvy Mug Omega Scarlatti TSD Mango Coconut Wheat SC Lord L6 Gillette 7 OC - Blue (2) Cool Water Rinse TSD Mango Coconut ASM TSD Mango Coconut Cologne Very excited it is Friday and I am off for two days! I wanted to smell like the beach today: Mission Accomplished! Have a great Friday!
Friday Gillette FB @3 Derby day 2 Vulfix best badger travel brush Palmolive Methhol shaving cream TSD Iced Eucalyptus Witch Hazel Proraso splash Today we saw the first snow of this winter, a perfect day for my first take on the Palmolive Menthol. I pressed the tube a little to tight and got about twice the size of cream I intended. Needless to say I ended up with an amount of lather good enough for nine passes… The Palmolive Menthol is really great shaving cream: it lathers very well and the menthol kick is abundant but not freezing. In the past I have used Palmolive Classic, that cream also performed great, but I didn’t care for the scent, so when it was finished it wasn’t replaced. This menthol cream however smells fine and has the added menthol kick bonus. The TSD Iced witch hazel and the Proraso splash finished the shave in style. Great shave today, DFS.
Friday, February 3, 2012 - GEMruary! Prep: Hot shower; Yardley bath bar Coffee: Locally roasted Panamanian w/ cream Lather: Speick - bowl lather Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super Razor: Gem OCMM Blade: TP Gem PTFE (2); 3 passes Post: Cold water rinse; Aqua Velva + Kiehl's Balm Happy GEMruary! A month of the Gems with the 27th being the centennial of the 1912 patent. The OCMM is still my favorite razor. I hope to be giving it a run for it's money when a friend lends me both a new R41 and a slant to try out. Excellent BBS shave this morning. Shave Rating - Splendidly Sublime! A definite Single Blader! God Bless!
Friday, February 3, 2012 Prep: Hot shower Soap/cream: Godrej Deluxe Lather Brush: Ever Ready C40 Razor: Gillette Slim Adjustable I-2 birth year/quarter, (5) Blade: Lord Platinum (6) Cold water rinse Dickinson's Witch Hazel Flag & Sail Original Brisk AS Haven't used the Godrej in a while - don't know why! Such a great scent! The Lord Platinum is still giving yeoman service, going to try and coax one more day from it, and it seems willing! 70% BBS, 30% DFS
Fri. Feb 3 Brush: Vie-Long Horse Soap/Creme: Poraso Green Razor: Merkur Progress Blade: Gillette Blue Pre: shower and proaso pre/post Post: Poraso Balm Result: Another amazing shave.
Friday morning, February 3, 2012 Schick I2 Hydro-magic w/ Schick blade (2) Omega 10066 boar bristle brush, MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather, finish w/ cold water rinse for a DFS!
Friday Razor: Kraut & Dohnal 9/16 Brush: Men-U Boar Soap: TSD Cool Water type Toner: witch hazel A/S: Aqual Velva Ice Sport My beard wasn't terribly thick this morning, so I decided to get out the K&D. It was my first straight razor, and now seems quite small compared to the 6/8 razors I usually use. The razor was tugging quite a bit when I started the first pass and tugging a lot by the end I paused and got out the barber hone for 5 quick laps and re-stropped then finished the shave. That did the trick and I was able to get a BBS shave! Before today, I was toying with passing this razor on because it is so small. I think my technique must be getting better because I was able to get a BBS shave just by taking shorter strokes, and a greater number of strokes than I do with the bigger razors.
Morning All! Friday: Pre: Hot Shower Razor: Merkur 23c Blade: Gillette 7 O`Clock Yellow (5) Cream: Speick Brush: Omega Boar Post: Thayers WH, Cold Rinse, Proraso ASB I went into today's shave not expecting the absolute best, because I figured the blade was getting to the end of its useful life. I usually do 4 pass + touch up shaves every other day, and though my beard is not coarse and bristly, it is not super fine either, so I think 4-5 is a good number for blade life for me. I got what I expected. Some minor tugging on the XTG pass, and even more on the ATG. A fair amount of irritation on my neck as a result, as well as a couple weepers, but this was my doing. And this was only 3 passes, no touch ups. I was debating changing the blade, but I just wanted to see Either way, the Proraso ASB took care of the major irritation, and now, 2 hours later, I don't feel much, if any. Still, more acceptable than my Philips electric
Friday: Barbasol Prep Dovo Natural The Dridecker D'MEN Sensitive Alum Block Witch Hazel Afta Fresh Balm Brut After Shave Have a nice weekend!
Friday! Prep: hot water rinse, hot washing cloth Music: Vangelis, apocalypse des animaux Cream: TSD wheat cream, oak leaves & acorns Brush: Wilkinson Sword boar / badger Razor: Gillette Old style I got yesterday Blade: new Timor blade 3 pass shave + some touching up Post: hot water, cold water, TSD Witch Hazel Result: BBS! Woohoo! Have a great day and weekend y'all!
Friday, February 3, 2012 Prep :: Shower/Glycerin Razor :: Merkur Pr ogress /w BRW Handle Blade :: Personna Med. Prep. (2) Soap :: RazoRock Mughetto di Bologna Brush :: Rudy Vey Omega Boar (the tips are splitting) Post :: Alum, Cold water rinse, WH + Rosewater AS :: Booster Polar Ice & I Coloniali Emulsion with Rhubarb
Friday No Prep...don't recommend it...no time, and I was very lucky... Music: The sounds of the loudest razor I've ever had, whacking whiskers Coffee: Mehmet Effendi Turkish, BLACK Arko: Shave Stick/Max.Comfort SC face-lathered with Omega 10029 Baby-Pro,boar 1938 Gillette Senator/Perma-Sharp Super D3 Post: Cold water rinse/Arko-Nem moisturizer/Rebul Lavanda Colonia Whipped up a great face lather with SC, then rubbed a wet Shave stick in circular motions til SC had been rubbed in good and lots of shave soap was applied...Hit with a wet brush and the Uber-lather explosion could probably be seen from 'outer-space'... Then my Senator armed with a 3 day old Perma-Sharp Super in 2 passes, gave me one of the nicest shaving experiances of my life... Just no other way to put it.... Until I can get some good new shots...I'm including a picture of my Senator Jody took, for those not familier with the breed, here is the lovely. Have a great weekend everybody!!
