Razor: Merkur Futur Blade: Super Irdidium Brush: BG Yellow Beehive Horsehair Pre: Musgo Real Lime Oil Soap Soap: Al's Bomb Calypso Post: Osma Alum Block Aftershave: Al's Calypso AS
Thursday Wash with TSD unscented soap Lather TSD unscented soap with extra glycerin HIS synthetic brush Gillette fast handled Tech Gillette silver blue blade CeraVe lotion Excellent lather - the TSD soap really responds to extra glycerin. The fat handled Tech was a pleasure to use. Easy to hold, easy to find the correct angle. Not too heavy. Three comfortable passes plus touch up produced a nice smooth face.
Thursday morning, June 27, 2013 Schick I2 Hydro-magic with Schick blade (3) Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush, Arko shaving soap with hot water lather, finish with cold water rinse for a CCS!
Thursday morning, June 27, 2013 Eversharp-Schick G1 Injector w/ China Schick blade (5) Omega 20102 Pro boar w/ CO Bigelow cream, Hot water and bowl lather for a DFS— Finish w/ Gillette Cool Wave, aces!
SOTD Thursday 6-27-2013 Merkur Procress/BRW @4 Crystal Blade C.R. Slater Wild Rose SC GT G4 Scuttle Omega 31064 Boar Dickinson's Witch Hazel Nivea Replenishing ASB Rose of Bulgaria ASL Lovin' the Rose scents this morning. Great shave with the Progress/Crystal combo!
Thursday SOTD for 6/27 Hot shower Fliod pre-shave oil Semogue 1325 RazoRock Chumba Cheech Gillette Super Adjustable Asco (orange wrapper) SS Ogalla Bay Rum RazoRock Don Marco Three passes produce a great DFS
27.6.2013 Prep: shower, RazoRock glycerine pre-shave soap Razor: Weber DLC Blade: Personna Lab Blue (3) Brush: TBS #90/100 by Semogue Scuttle: "Estremoz" V2 Green Cream: Taylor of Old Bond Street Coconut Post: alum, T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel Aftershave: Old Spice Champion
Everest brand is one good performer, both cream and ASB. ASB is dense (as most of Russian ASBs) so I usually put it on wet face. I totally agree about Torrey! 8/8 W&B restored by Glen Vie-Long horsehair brush Ceramic bowl Viking Fresh SC Tet-a-tet ASB Great shave, very smooth.
Oscar, my dear friend Dmitry who I love like a brother sent me the Everest stuff and every time I use the cream, I get so much pleasure from it. The cooling effect is pleasant, the lather is rich, and it gives a great soothing effect. That corresponding balsam in the light blue tube is dual-purpose. It's a cologne as well as an aftershave.
Day 5 of the SE Tour. Dove Men's Face WashTaylor of Old Bond Street Lavender Shaving CreamParker Pure Badger BrushEvery-Ready 1912 RazorGem/Personna SS BladeCWRDickinson's Witch HazelAqua Velva Ice Blue AS
Finally home! Razor: Gillette OC "Old" Blade: Personna Lab Soap: Speick stick Brush: Ever-Ready resto Three pass w/touchups Rinse Alum Rinse Nivea Balm For me, the "Old" is such a mild and comfortable shave. Seemed appropriate to kick off my first night home in nearly a week.
Late Evening Shave Sorry for the lack of pic, I forgot my phone upstairs and there was no way on God's green earth I was going back to get it LOL. Mergress Derby Extra Simpson Duke 2 Best TOBS Jermyn Street SC Almost forgot how well this razor performs, and each time I use it I think I may end up getting rid of any others I have remaining just because it's a pleasure to use and never fails to give me a perfect shave with any blade I toss into it.
Razor: Fat Boy 1960 @ 7 Blade: One pass on my left cheek with the Tiger blade and the rest of the shave with a new Shark Chrome Brush: Stingray Custom Stick: St. James Post: Alum, Thayer's, and Nivea Sensitive Balm AS: St. James I was really looking forward to using the Tiger blade. I only used it on my left cheek because it tugged outrageously. If you can get a comfortable shave with that blade, you should have no problem getting 30 shave out of a Derby.IMHO That being said, I really wanted to try this blade. I would not have been able to if it wasn't for the generosity of alpla444. He warned me and he was spot on about the blades. Thanks for the opportunity, Brother.
Friday: Axe Chilled Facial Wash #6 Horsehair Super Speed/Shark day 5 Derbylux SC Anherb AS Conditioner Osage Rub AS Dolce & Gabbana EDT Another wonderful and BBS shave this morning - damn, that Derbylux cream which is also from Hungary and produced by the same company as Barbon has a very nice, classy scent with rich, stable lather and a pretty good cooling effect. The Anherb conditioner and the Rubby Dubby Doo delivered the best of their iciness and soothing. Have a great weekend, folks!
6/8 Torrey VdH 22mm Omega Everest ASB and Stephan BR Great shave today. Yesterday, I think I had the best post shave skin care I've ever had. This morning I just used VdH with the Everest Balm and again the skin care is just superb. So now I'll try a figure out the combo but I think it's the Everest balm. Tomorrow Everest SC and balm, Sunday some other soap and the balm. Have a good one.
