SoS : August 6th, 2012 - August 12th, 2012

Let's get this shaving show on the road!

Menthol Monday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Rapira day 6
Lea Menthol SC
444 AS Balsam
Osage Rub AS
Polo Original EDT

There's nothing like freezing your face off and enjoying it. The Lea Menthol cream smells delightful and lathers like a maniac. The menthol sensation is even stronger than I realized. The 444 balsam not only gives amazing cooling, it prevents dryness and irritation. I wish the tubes were bigger. The Osage Rub can even numb your hands - that's how cold it is!

 

Good morning!

Monday's quarter of an hour of Zen in the bathroom:

Musgo Real pre shave oil
Calani Dubai shave soap
Mühle Basic Nr. 02 shave brush with Silver Tip Fibre
Feather AS-D1 razor
Feather FH-10 blade
Bloc Osma Alum
D.R. Harris Bay Rum after shave

Having taken the Feather AS-D1 out of its box again for the 1st time in quite a while last Saturday, I had a very nice shave with it today considering that the razors I have used in the past months (Futur, Vision, Red Tip, OC NEW, etc) have a much wider angle range and I thought I would have a harder time staying focused and disciplined with the Feather. With this I mean to say the aforementioned Merkurs and Gillettes are more forgiving and still shave well even when the right angle is not strictly maintained. The Feather AS on the other hand requires, although still being milder, a much stricter adherence to the effective angle in order to ensure very efficient and thorough stubble removal. All in all, I am very happy with a DFS result.

Wishing you a happy week ahead with many satisfying shaves.

 

Pre : Shower and Ahava FaceWash
Brush : FS finest 22mm
Cream : MEM Classic
Razor : Gillette English Tech with the IDF handle
Blade : Personna's Viking Sword(second shave with it)
Post : Cold water + alum block + Gillette Fusion AS




Routine settled in, only 2 quick WTG passes today, got a smooth DFS. I developed some kind of permanent razor burn on a small area on my side cheek, both right and left, exactly in the same place, quite symmetrical. It does not fade during the day and it stays even after I went 5 days without shaving. It does not burn or anything but the skin stays red. I'll skip anything but WTG and see if it stays or not.

 

Menthol Monday 6 Aug

TSD Iced SubZero Soap
Simpsons Berkley 46, face lather
GEM Micromatic and GEM SS SE
Alcolado Glacial splash, and Proraso ASB

A quick two pass shave, WTG, ATG nice and chilly, DFS+. I really have been enjoying the ISZ soap, nice and chilly during the hot summer, but very good on the skinl.
A good and chillly start to the new week.
Have a great day

 

Monday, August 6

EJ DE86
Polsilver (1)
Arko Stick-Tabac
Tweezerman
Barbasol Brisk
Result: BBS on 3 passes. My Tweezerman is my cheapest and scritchiest badger brush, but with the Arko + Tabac face lathering it is producing the most unbelievable lather and face prep for me. I may have to use this combo all week.

 

Monday:

Hot shower / Proraso Pre / Semogue 830 / EJ DE89L w/ Voskhod / RazoRock alum / Thayers WH / The Rub w/ 444

 

Monday

TSD unscented wheat cream
HIS synthetic brush
EJ DE89l
Astra SP
TSD unscented aftershave milk

Three passes, very smooth and comfortable BBS.

 

Blind Blade Test, Shave of the Day (SOTD) Monday August 6, 2012

Prep: Brush soaking in hot water, face scrub with TSD Sandalwood soap, Tepid Water Shower
Razor: 1965 Gillette Slim Adjustable set to 9
Blade: Blind Blade Test Blade #7, Shave #1
Brush: VIe-Long LE Beehive Natural Horse Hair
Soap: Tabac
AS: Brut Classic
Post: Cold Water Rinse, Alum Rub, Cold Water Rinse, Double Splash Of Aftershave.

This is day seventeen of the blind blade test, which is the first shave with blade number seven.

Per the guidelines of the test I will not be posting my results of the blade, as we do not want other participants to be influenced by our own shaving experience. At the end of the test I will be posting my complete daily journal.

All variables remain the same accept for the aftershave, which today is Brut Classic.

 

Monday, August 06, 2012, Shaving Ritual

Razor: 68 Slim Gillette Adjustable (N4) (set on 9)
Blade: Blind Blade Test Blade 7 (2nd use)
Brush: Semogue 830
Cream: TOBS Sandalwood
A/S: Alum & Cold Water Rinse
A/S: Aqua Velva Musk

Today is day two of blade seven in the Blind Blade Test.

 

Monday

Prep: Hot shower
Razor: Schick I-1
Blade: Schick
Soap/Cream: TSD Iced Spearmint
Scuttle/Bowl: DB 1.5 Scuttle
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super Badger
AS: TSD Coconut Lime Verbena

Results: DFS

 

Menthol Monday:
soak brush Shavemac custom 167 2 band d01/Ayar's Bowl
warm shower
Proraso PrePost cream
Vostok shave cream
Merkur Futur set on 3/Red IP (3)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Thayer's Medicated Superhazel with 4 drops M-Bomb
The Rub ,no balm but later on during the day I'll be hitting up TSD ISZ Aftershave Milk

A very nice and face freezing shave if I must say so,BBS face and head.

 

Monday morning, August 6, 2012

Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (5)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

SOTD Monday 8-6-2012

Edwin Jagger DE89BA11 Barley
Astra Superior Platinum Blade
Proraso PSC
Proraso SC
Semogue 820 Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Brut Original ASB
Mennen Original Skin Bracer

A cool start of the week with Proraso and Skin Bracer. Using one of my current shave darlings the Barley Chrome. What a sweet shaver she is!

 

Monday!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Paul Simon, Graceland
• Brush: DVH boar
• Soap: DVH stick
• Razor: Gillette flare tip Rocket
• Blade: Personna Blue (#7)
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

DFS++ I might consider shaving twice a day! Such a joy!

Have a great week ya'll!

 

Monday ~ it's SS Week!!

Prep: Hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB
CD: Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan ~ In Session
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenyan AA, BLACK
Cream: KFM Cool Mint + 3 drops TSD M Bomb
Brush: 24mm silvertip set in red mallee burl
SS: '48-'50 model
Blade: Astra SP, day 1, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Brut Attitude, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky

 

Monday
Gillette Slim Adjustable
Red Israeli Personna
Vie-Long Badger/Horse
RazoRock Chianti Lavender + 3 Drops MBomb
FatJacks Moustache Wax
Old Spice Classic + 1 Drop MBomb

 

Monday Morning

Sometimes weekends go mighty fast ...

Pre (Eucerin, warm shower)
Omega 10083 Pro boar
MWF
Merkur 37c w/ generic American Personna
Post (Cetaphil, Dickinson's Witch Hazel, cold water rinse)

BBS by means of wtg, xtg, atg, light touch-up above and below jaw-line. Three days in a row for MWF. Will likely use through the entire week ... that's the plan anyway. Merkur 37c today ... just for fun.

[edit:spelling correction]

 

How do you like the Badger/Horse mixed brush? which model of Vie-Long do you have? I've got Badgers and Horse hair brushes but not a blended brush.

 

Vie Long 14160, it's not too bad. A little too floppy for my liking but I still pull it out and give it a run from time to time. The wife loves using it though so I can't complain, and like most of Vie-Longs brushes it was very inexpensive.