Grandpa Shave! Wostenhome Chopper Every Ready Vintage Brush-Rudy Vey Restore with Fan Shaped Finest Badger Proraso Soap Alum Block tunes-Mahler's 8th result-fantastic, it all clicked!
Friday 24th August Hot Shower and Facial Scrub Vitos Pre/Post shave cream C.J.B (Japanese Style)/Feather Super Professional (6) Omega 10029 Boar Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap Simple Facial Toner Unrefined Shea Butter Lilac Vegetal Morgan's Classic Pomade Couldn't face a Menthol Shave today.....the weather in Wales is terrible The Shea Butter is a recent discovery (for me). Good stuff Two pass with touch up BBS.
SOTD Saturday 8-25-2012 (Early Shave) Muhle R41 (2011) w/Feather Proraso PSC Erasmic SC Caswell Massey Art Deco Badger Dickinson's Witch Hazel Brut Original ASB No. 4711 EDC Shaving before bedtime due to an early start tomorrow. Going to a parade with the Hillah Shriners Motor Patrol so I have a very early start time. The Shave the R41 gives will last a long time before the dreaded 5 o'clock shadow appears.
Friday SOTD (morning) Pre (Eucerin, warm shower) Omega 10083 Pro boar T&H Ultimate Comfort. cream Merkur 23c w/ Astra SP Post (Cetaphil, cold water rinse) DFS+ by means of wtg, xtg. Decided to switch things up and pull my L'Occitane Cade out for a spin. Didn't happen. Pulled out the T&H, an old standby, instead. The only cream I really use. The only cream I like for that matter. Great stuff. It has ... substance ... like my beloved soaps. Protective. No (or light) scent. Doesn't strip my face of moisture. Decent lather. All the standards I hold my soaps to! And this is a cream!?!? What's this world coming to ... .
Prep L'Occitane Vetyver Soap Razor Dubl Duck Goldenedge Brush Simpsons M7 LE Finest Silvertip Vito's Coconut & Almond Alum & Witch Hazel L'Occitane Baux Balm L'Occitane Cedre L'Atlas Eau de parfum. Jamie. The Dubl Duck delivered a beautiful smooth shave.
Sattaday! Prep: hot washing cloth Music: Philip Glass, Glassworks Brush: DVH boar Soap: vintage Williams Razor: Rockin' Rolls Shave: 3-pass + touch-up Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse Excellent shave, close, very close to BBS. Just a spot near my adams' apple, where the hairs grow in all directions. Usually J-hooking does the trick. Not so today, but the shave was great none the less! Rolls shaves tend to be more agressive than DE or SE shaves (well at least to me ). But the result varies from good to great! I really love this razor! However I can't compare it to str8. Yet. But it's my birthday soon and maybe I'll get some funding for a visit to Whippeddog's shop. So. It is weekend. Have some loads of fun, all! :wave:
Saturday, August 25 EJ DE86 7 O’Clock (Blue Ninja) (3) Arko Stick Vulfix 2235 Stephans Spicy TSD Old Spice Type Cologne Result: BBS on 3+. The Vulfix 2235 Super is a great face lathering brush. It is very soft, and builds and holds gobs of lather.
Saturday, August 25, 2012. Good Morning! Morning Coffee: Dunkin Donuts Prep: Wash face with Prairie Creations Pre-Shave Soap Razor: Schick I1 Blade: Schick Soap: Palmolive Classic Brush: Plisson Grey Badger 12 Scuttle/Mug: Sara Bonnyman Bowl Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Pitralon Classic
Menthol Saturday: Omega Wooden Handle Super Speed/Rapira day 6 Derbylux SC 444 AS Balsam Barbon AS Chabrawichi 555 Cologne A simply magnificent shave this morning with so little effort - the Rapira blade is on its last day, but it cut off my tough stubble with no problems at all, so you can imagine what a new blade could do. The best way to describe the Derbylux cream is to call it a Hungarian Proraso Green because it lathers great and has a LOT of menthol. The 444 balsam and the Barbon aftershave are also terrific face-freezers!!
Saterday, August 25th Hot shower Arko Moist shaving cream Omega 639 Havana Silvertip Merkur 34C HD w/ Astra blade Joop! Jump EdT And now off to my brother for his birthday celebration
6/8 Double Duck TOBS Lavender SS 24mm Grade A Silver Tip, homemade AV Musk This completes a week of shaving with the DD and it was a week of fine shaves. I brought a new brush into rotation this morning, a 24mm Grade A Silver Tip set at 47-48mm. I'm getting fond of the Grade A knot, it's a fine performer, IMO. Watch your loft and you'll have a excellent brush. Have a good one! photo hosting
Saturday: H.I.S. Synth brush/Ayars Bowl warm shower Proraso PrePost cream Palmolive Menthol Shave cream (Italian) mixed with 3 drops M-Bomb Schick Paul Revere/Schick (6) cold water rinse Monster Block Alum cold water rinse Thayer's Rose Petal WH meixed with 2 drops M-Bomb Floid Blue mixed with a small amount of 444 I gave my dome a break today and just did a 2 pass face shave,a very nice one too,BBS.I think the blade may go after the next shave,headshaves are pretty brutal on blades even tho I skipped a headshave today I can tell it's getting close.
Saturday morning, August 25, 2012Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade,Semogue SOC boar bristle brush,TABAC shaving soap w/ hot water lather,finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!
Not all soaps are created equal. While most soaps are slick enough for my DE and SE shaves, I've come to prefer TSD soaps for my straight razor shaves. JoAnna's soaps seem to be just a touch slicker. I'll even break my soap rotation to get to a TSD soap if something else happens to come up on Saturdays (my str8 shave day of the week).
Saturday - it's the weekend! Time for the SEs!! Prep: Strop str8, hot shower, AoS pre-shave oil Tunes: 98.1 WOGL playing American Top 40 from August 28, 1982* Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Nigeria RFA, BLACK Strop: VB 2" Black Latigo/linen Soap: TSD Egyptian Spice + 3 drops M Bomb Brush: Redleaf - never heard of this before. My wife found it, NOS, in an antique store. Pure badger. Str8: Boker Red-Injun 101, 3 passes SE: Schick Injector E Model, touch up Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rubdown, ice water splash, Dickenson's WH + 2 drops M Bomb, Old Spice cologne 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own/Firehouse Wacky Tacky mix *#1 - Fleetwood Mac with Hold Me
