Prep: Hot shower Razor: Dorko shavette Blade: Astra Brush: #6 horse Soap: Sundance Soapery - Spicy Bay Rum Post: Alum block, ASB (1/2 witch hazel, 1/2 aloe) Aftershave: Captains Choice Bay Rum
SOTD Tuesday 5-21-2013 Muhle R41 (2010) w/Crystal Proraso PSC Proraso SC GT G4 Scuttle Semogue 820 Boar Thayer's Witch Hazel Nivea Replenishing ASB Mennen Original Skin Bracer A Proraso morning. Very nice!
Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013 Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (10) Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush, TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather, finish with cold water rinse for a CCS!
Merkur 38c Personna Med Prep Vintage brush, Rudy Vey restore with finest badger Eveline Men Extreme SC (thanks Dmitry) Master's Lilac Vegetol Splash Tet-a-Tet AS Balm music-bach Cello Suites coffee-home roasted Sumatra
Tuesday: Cetaphil Face Bar Shave Secret Oil Barbasol Regular Barbasol Brisk Splash Barbasol Pacific Rush Balm Brut Splash Trac ii
Schick I2 Hydro-magic with Schick blade (1) Barbasol Arctic Chill, Finish with cold water, Witch Hazel and Captain's Choice Bay Rum, Cold water two pass for a very soothing and chilling DFS! Aces!
Gillette slim adjustable Wilkinson sword IB LE Semogue JM Frazier SC Floid blue I turned the slim to 7 and got a very smooth, close shave. The JM Frazier smells fantastic and lathers well. It was a little thin in the 3rd pass but I think I need to use more. I'm definitely going to have to pick a tub of this up.
Tuesday 05/21 Hot shower, Axe Chilling Semogue 1460 Vitos super extra Gillette OC Silver Star Pinaud Vegatal Three passes a very nice DFS
Second day Astra half in the shavette Wilkinson sword sensitive SC HJM badger Balea alum stick OS original Two pass shave, close, and smooth not a BBS but nothing sliced open with the shavette today so it's good enough
Mikes Natural soap shampoo bar Speick soap Schick Krona Gillette SuperThin from Thailand Dr. Bronners homemade shave lube Pre de Provence shave cream Pre de Provence ASB Ogallala Bay, Bay Rum Limes and Peppercorns AS The Krona never lets me down. Another DFS with a razor/blade combo that my face likes. Still not sure about the Ogallala. So far my favorite has been the Sage & Cedar, followed by the Lime and Peppercorns, then the original Bay Rum. Still gotta try the Sandalwood, and I don't care for the cologne.
Slept in, had to rush off to the dentist with littlebear, so Tuesday lunchtime shave: Razor: Merkur slant Blade: Treet Brush: F.D. & G travel Pre shave: Proraso green Lather: Speick soap Aftershave: GCW First impression of the Treet: Cool! It's black! Second impression of Treet: Rough, but enjoyable (does that make any sense?) Thinking about the Treet after the shave (that's like right now. Real time): I'll give it two more days, maybe it'll be better tomorrow. Maybe I should cork it for Thursday if it doesn't get better. Decent shave, but I'm rough on the sides of and under the chin, the Treet just doesn't seem to cut through the extra wire-ry hair their, but then nothing but Feathers and the odd Russian seems to.
Tuesday! Prep: hot washing cloth Music: Paul Simon, graceland Brush: DVH boar Soap: TSD Bay Rum Razor: Ugly Duckling Blade: Max Herder Shave: 3-pass + touch-up Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, sharpen blade in Allegro mod. L Nice! I always like to use the TSD Bay Rum. Excellent soap!
21.5.2013 Prep: shower, Geo F. Trumper Limes skin food Razor: Gillette Travel Tech / STAR Blade: Personna Med Prep Brush: Frank Shaving Faux Agate Soap: Palmolive shave stick Post: alum, T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel Aftershave: Old Spice Original I nearly forgot about the STAR razor I have. The handle is quite hefty so I thought I'd pair it with the Travel Tech head. Apart from 2 minor nicks it was quite a decent shave.
SOTD Tuesday Prep: Hot bath, Shave Secret Music: The Naked and Famous Razor: '53 Ball Tech Blade: Voskhod Teflon Cream: TSD Wheat Cream YSL L'Homme Brush: AOS pure badger Shave: 4 passes Post: Warm then cold water splash, TSD AS YSL L'Homme, Dirty English ASB Pomade: Murray's Superior Cologne: John Varvatos Vintage Another great shave, TSD wheat cream is the bomb and I really enjoy shaving with the Ball Tech razor. Really like the Dirty English balm as well! Keep it cool out there
Pre: Hot Shower and warm water splash Razor: P.H. Hahn 5/8 full hollow Brush: Omega 11137 Soap: A superlather of Vitos Extra Super and eShave White Tea Post: Cold water rinse A BBS shave with zero nicks and only mild irritation. There was some tugging atg, I think my P.H. Hahn needs a better polish on its edge, but that will have to wait until I can send it off. https://cryofthewildjabberwock.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 EJ Pure, Speick, Supermax Sunrise (1), Superadjustable (2 on 2), Pinaud's Bay Rum The new Sunrise blade felt great, I'm really thinking I've found a winner here, and have yet to even try the Bolzanos sitting in the medicine cabinet. They feel sharp and smooth and all of those other fun adjectives, but I have to wonder how much of it is psychosomatic, because honestly, I just like the packaging. As lame as it may be, I get a kick out of these little multi-colored paper wrappers and to me that's as good a reason to pick a favorite as any. I like the Speick enough that I'm pretty sure I'll be ordering the aftershave lotion and deo stick pretty soon. . .
