SoS: February 11, 2013 - February 16, 2013

couple days late but oh well ... on Tuesday:

Proraso Pre-shave
'lil Pure badger
Proraso Green Soap
Dovo Best 5/8 Full on cheeks & jaw - learning
'74 Black Beauty (on 6) w/ Voskhod for the rest
Blue Floid

Yum.

 

Friday

soak brush/RV Psychedelic Beast
hot shower
Proraso PrePost Cream (green)
Speick Stick and a lil dab of cream on each cheek
Eversharp Hydro-Magic/Pella Coated (8)- I saw a picture of the Personna Coated Injector Blades and dang if they dont look like the Pella's right down to the plastic case and the white box they came in.
warm water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cool water rinse
Thayer's Lavender WH
Speick Aftershave followed 20 minutes later with Speick Aftershave Balm

Great 2 pass face,1 pass dome for BBS all around,enjoy the weekend everyone

 

Friday morning, February 15, 2013

Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (3)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Valentine's Day

CeraVe face wash
AoS unscented soap
HIS synthetic brush
Vintage bakelite slant
Astra SP blade
CeraVe lotion

My first shave with the vintage bakelite slant that came this week from Italian Barber. I feel like I won a lottery getting one, since he has been releasing them for sale in small batches. This was my birthday present. Sorry, no picture.

The razor is light weight, which takes some adjustment in technique. The cutting action is mild and comfortable and I had a very good 3 pass shave. Not exactly the BBS I would get with my EJ DE89, but I know that razor well and this one could certainly achieve that with some practice. The razor is a fun distraction from my normal routine.

 

Friday 02/15/2013

Hot Shower
Shavemac Silvertip
RazoRock Fresco
Big Ben (day four)
Gillette Super Adjustable
RazoRock Don Marco balm

Three passes resulted in a superior DFS.
Everyone have a great weekend!

 

How do you find the m man blades. Are they a rebranded of some blade?

 

It's a Muller store brand, but they are manufactured in the same factory as the Israell Personnas, an ok blade in the OC 2 shaves max and then it starts ripping me apart, and in the shavette I can't even think about it

 

Today was a proper shave day
A hot shower while the Palmira soap and Semogue 2000 soak in hot water.
Lathering up the Palmira , with 2 drops of peppermint oil (the almond scent goes great with peppermint) , is a breeze, after twirling the brush on the soap for about 10 seconds and 20 seconds into lathering in the bowl it exploded as usually creating an overly excessive amount of lather, just as I like it.
The razor and blade OC with an new Astra SP, and for some after bite an alum block was inevitable this time since I decided to do some dry touch ups (don't know why, it's not that I din't have enough lather ), and let the blood flow
Followed with some Old spice original.
And today I've got pics

And some leftovers after three passes

 

Friday at last!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Brush: Wilkinson Sword badger
• Cream: Palmolive Classic
• Razor: GEM OCMM
• Blade: GEM stainless
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, hand strop blade & reload upside down.

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Exellent shave. As usual with the GEM. And as usual with Palmolive.

 

Wow! What a shave!

Friday 2/15/13

Hot towel.
Proraso Green
GEM 1912
GEM blades (personna/walgreens)
Cold Rinse
WH
Pinuad Clubman

WTG, XTG, RXTG, ATG

First shave with the GEM and I have to say it again. WOW!! Super comfortable shave , only one little neck weeper, Love this razor!!

 

Simpson Duke 3
Proraso Sandalwood Sapone
Face lather
Merkur Futur
Astra (1)
3 passes
Hot/cold water
GFT Sandalwood Skin Food
Art of Shaving Sandalwood Eau de Toilette

 

Thursday night

Prep: washed face with soap
Razor: Cadet TP-27OC
Blade: Astra SP
soap: TSD Lanolin Copal
AS: Osage Rub

BBS shave but OMG did the AS burn. WTH is in the osage rub? lol

 

I do not consider myself an expert but thanks for the compliment buddy. SuperMax Classic and Menthol really are great products,although they are cheap

 

Veli my dear friend, what you forgot about Bulgarian creams - I haven't learned yet. You have used a lot more of them than I have. I have some experience with them now, but it's still limited if I try to compare it with creams from other countries.

 

Friday 15-02-2013

Razor: Gillette Slim Twist
Blade: SuperMax Platinum (4)
Brush: Omega boar
Cream: Karo Classic
AS: Figaro

Today was my first shave with this razor a gift from my friend,owned by his grandfather who was involved in WWI. Very very mild razor,after 4 - passes (WTG,XTG,ATG,ATG) = DFS+

 

That is a very nice-looking razor - use it well and enjoy!

 

You have invaluable experience with creams from all places in the world. We all draw from your valuable experience!

Thanks my friend!

 

My biggest pleasure to help any way possible. By the way - Aspis Ice Rain for me tomorrow morning and Pascale for Sunday. It's a weekend dedicated to YOU!

 

I'm feeling again very special

 

It's guys like you who make this group very special!