SoS: April 29, 2013 - May 5, 2013

SOTD Friday 5-3-2013

Cadet Mongoose TTO w/Personna Medical Blade
Proraso PSC
Palmolive Classic SC
GT G4 Scuttle
Omega 31064 Boar
Thayer's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
Brut Original Cologne

A simple and clean shave this morning will last me through this evening's festivities. Those Personna Meds are great!

 

Friday:

Cetaphil Face Bar
Shave Secret Oil
Barbasol Regular
Osage Rub
Afta Fresh
Captain's Choice Bay Rum
Gillette New Long Comb
Red Personna
Have a good weekend everyone!

 

Gillette Slim Adjustable
Wilkinson Sword
IB LE Semogue
La Toja SC
Nivea Energizing Face Balm

Great shave with the La Toja. It reminds me of Speick a little.

 

Friday morning, May 3, 2013

Schick E2 Injector with Personna blade (10)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Thursday

CeraVe face wash
Queen Charlotte unscented soap
Mühle hjm synthetic brush
Schick Krona with Personna lab blade
CeraVe lotion

I just got the Schick Krona off eBay, cleaned it up with tub and tile cleaner, and I was eager to give it a test drive. First couple of strokes went well enough, but then I flipped it over to use the other edge. Yow! Aggressive, harsh, rough! I rinsed it off and looked closely. Sure enough, the gap on one side was much bigger than the other. I finished with just the mild side, did 3 passes and got a shave that was OK, not great.

I'll fuss with the razor sometime to try to get the gap fixed back where it should be.

 

My first one of these!

Proraso White
Merkur Slant
Grosvener brush
Derby blade
Clubman aftershave

This will be an afternoon shave, decided to postpone until after my MTB ride.

 

Friday afternoon. My first May Shave this month. After 3 no shave days it was time.

Double up on shower time for prep. Matas Face Wash.
Haslinger's Ewe Milk wipped up with Semogue 1520 in my IKEA bamboo bowl.
Mūhle R89 loaded with a fresh Shark SS.
3 passes, the traditional. Tried to follow my evil wiskers to the best.
Cold water rinse, alum block, finished of with cold water again.
Nivea Sensitive asb followed by Nivea Sensitive face cream.

I had one nick on my chin but else a pretty DFS with little sting from the alum. Felt pretty darn good

 

That is a seriously cool brush.

 

Friday

CeraVe face wash
Prairie Creations unscented soap
HIS synthetic brush
Vintage Bakelite slant with Gillette yellow blade

Wonderful, smooth, comfortable BBS! A big contrast to yesterday's unsatisfying shave with the Schick Krona.

 

Friday!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Edward Scissorhands soundtrack
• Brush: Dickinson & Gilroy travel boar
• Soap: Erasmic stick
• Razor: Star 1912
• Blade: GEM stainless
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, hand strop blade & reload upside down

First shave with the Erasmic stick. Hm. Not stellar yet. I'm not apalled by the scent. It's not bad, but not nice either. Luckily it dissipates quickly. The lather wasn't great either. I'll give it another go tomorrow morning. I guess it just takes some time getting used to it.

Have a great weekend ya'll!

 

Thanks! I got it via a trade with Alpla444. It's a keeper!

 

Boker 6/8 (new antique store acquisition for $12!)
Simpson's Vintage Brush with ST knot
Tet-a-Tet SC
TSD Iced Grapefruit Witch Hazel
Tet-a-Tet Balm
music-Soundtrack from Oh Brother Where Art Thou
java-home roasted Kenya AA
Love this new blade with fresh Glen hone on it-smoooooooth

 

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Hot shower prep​

Williams Mug Shaving Soap​

Parker pure badger brush​

Gillette Aristocrat with Shark Super Chrome blade​

Three pass shave​

CWR​

Dickenson's Witch Hazel​

Pinaud Clubman AS​

 

Friday evening
Razor: Gem MM Clog-Pruf
Blade: CVS/ASR
Cream: Godrej Deluxe Lime
Brush: Ever-Ready resto w/TGN super badger knot
Alum block
Cold water rinse

 

Merkur 34c
Voskhod
IB LE Semogue
Vitos pre-shave
Maca Root shave cream
Speick ASB
Floid Black AS

After my long week of being on call at work it was time to treat myself with a fantastic shave from some of my new goodies. Pitty I didn't think to take a picture.

 

SOTN
5/3/2013

After a brutal technique defining neck shave last night I turned to the old faithful loving embrace of my friend and yours Tabac!

Face wash Nubian Heritage Frank and Murrrrr Bar
Tabac Soap
Gillette Tech (Fat Handle)
Wilki Sword
Warm Rinse
Cold Rinse
WH Spray
Osage Rub ( What else would I use when my neck feels like I shaved with sandpaper lastnight?)
RSC PS Balm


I'm telling you, that Tabac is made from fairy spit or something. It's a magical soap for me. That's why it's my go to "after brutal shave" soap! And I just got my Osage in today and had to use it. That stuff is magic too. My neck feels awesome and I got a really nice close shave

 

I'm restoring that same handle. How do you like that knot?

 

SOTD Friday night

Prep: Hot water splash, TSD ISZ PSB, hand strop blade
Razor: 46 crat
Blade: Supermax Titanium
Soap: TSD Lanolin Iced Barbershoppe
Brush: AOS pure badger
Shave: 3 passes
Post: Cold water splash, Thayer's Rose Witch Hazel, iced Nivea Sensitive ASB

this same setup has been working great but for whatever reason i have been getting irritation on the neck and the shave doesn't seem as smooth. I have no idea why.