SoS: March 30, 2015 - April 5, 2015

Saturday
hot shower/cold water shave
Rooney Heritage Stubby 3XL
Proraso PPB
Le Pere Lucien(scented)
Gold Plated Tech/Bolzano (3)
cold water rinse
Monster Block Alum
cold water rinse
Tend Skin
Levan Rose Beard Oil
Fine Clean Vetiver ASL There's a touch of menthol in this ASL,just enough to be soothing.
Guerlain Vetiver

Nice and smooth 2 pass face,1 pass dome,BBS all around!

Stay frosty,my friends and enjoy the weekend!

 

Saturday 4 April 2015



Mastro Livi Grifetto, 6/8 Full Hollow, Round Point​

Ladies and gentlemen, Mastro Livi Grifetto! The stainless steel used for making this lovely Grifetto is just amazing! Smooth and velvety, with the right amount of aggressiveness, it is a superb shaver. Not to mention the touch of olive wood scales, a typical Italian wood - as well as Umbrian, of course - a magnificent tree not only providing the very best oil, but also a beautiful wood. This shave was also the occasion to test the Denim White Aftershave I bought yesterday, not the very best around, however worth the price I paid for it, and the smell is pleasing and fresh.​

• Pre-Shave: Roberts Distilled Rose Water
• Soap: Aquagena
• Brush: Mühle Travel 31 M 530 - 21 mm
• Bowl: Chinese Bowl
• Strop: Mastro Livi Loom Strop and Hand Palm
• Razor: Mastro Livi Grifetto, 6/8 Full Hollow, Round Point
• Post-Shave: Argan Oil
• After Shave: Denim White

 

Saturday 4th April



Warm shower
Hot towel
CRSW Select Winter LE scuttle lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette Bulldog (1918)
Gillette Silver Blue (1)
Cold rinse
Thayers Superhazel
Aqua Velva Ice Blue aftershave

 

Looks like if I am going to keep up it is going to be from my phone so we will see gown this goes.

The unseen: Proraso and Vikings Sword blades making for a nice Saturday morning.

 

SATURDAY
Relaxing shave this morning with the old Hersko…
Enjoying a quiet day today before things get busy tomorrow….
Have a great Saturday, all!

 

Wow, Jeff! You face must have been wondering what had happened!

 

4 April 2015

* Weber DLC + UFO U2V1 Red Bronze
* Super Iridium
* M&F 3XL Heritage Tortoise
* Cold River Spiced Amber
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO



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04/04/2015
Prep – MR GLO
Razor – GEM 1924
Blade – GEM Stainless PTFE (2)
Brush – Brothers Bristles with WD HM
Lather – AOS Sandalwood Cream
Post - Witch Hazel and CC Sandalwood AS



Very good 3 pass shave this morning. Not as smooth as yesterday's shave with the 1912. This razor just seems a bit more aggressive or harsh. Overall pretty pleased with the shave.

 

Best thing I ever did was shave my moustache off (after having it most my adult life). Other than looking at a stranger in the mirror for awhile

 

That is a great photo Kevin.

 

SOTD: Saturday, April 4
New Soap 5/13
Soap: Stirling Blu
Brush: Semogue BC Mistura
Razor: Mühle R41 w/Weber Bulldog
Blade: Personna Med Prep (3)
Post-Shave: Thayer's Unscented Witch Hazel w/Aloe Vera
Aftershave: Swiss Pitralon

Have a great day!​

 

Ive got the Bay Rum and the Hungarian Lavender and like them both. The Lavender is quite pungent and heavily scented which I like a lot.

 

Thanks! I was attempting to create an 'old-fashioned' vibe to the look and color palette….

 

Believe me, it wasn't so easy for me to choose something without menthol. Don't worry - tomorrow it's back to the freezy fun!

 

4 April 2015

C MON Blackie
Synthetic Brush #1
ARKO


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4 Apr 2015
Soap - MdC Fougere
Brush - Plisson Synthetic
Razor - Rockwell
Blade - Ladas (1)
AS - Florida Water
DFS....

 

today's shave
hot water wash with dove+ care
Kent silvertex infinity
Proraso white
Merkur 34chd
Ladas(3)
witch hazel and tea treeoil
ICED Florida water
today's shave was ok. after a day at Clearwater beach, I'm a little sun weary(burned). so today, mild with a side of cool was in order. the silvertex made nice lather of the white. the heavy duty removed the stubble in its normal mild but efficient manner. I added an after wash of witch hazel and tea tree oil. finished with iced Florida water.
no treasure found after 7 hours of beach hunting. just coins and sun glasses.
hope y'all did as well(shaving), but do better finding treasure.

 

SoTD for Thursday, April 2, or, have I mentioned how much I like Probak?

Pre- BBC oil
Soap- Crabtree and Evelyn, Moroccan myrrh
Brush- Simpson colonel x2l
Razor- Probak
Blade- Gillette Spoiler
Rinse- Osage
Aftershave- Command
Balm- Kiehl's
Cologne- Quorum



I have decided to give some of my favorite DEs some exercise this week. So Probak, being in my top of the top, is up early. I love these razors. They are very similar to a Gillette in terms of geometry, but I get a overall better shave out of the Probak. This day I paired it up with a vintage Spoiler blade. Fantastic combo, fantastic 2.5 pass BBS.
I am also trying to reassess my Simpson brush. I will admit that when I first got this guy,I was disappointed. For the price, it honestly did not seem that special. But after a few uses, I am growing to really love this brush. I initially thought it was small, but now I like how it feels, and it's responsive action. It is like a sports car. Not a modern supercar, but a little vintage sports car. Like a Carman Ghia. Or maybe I am over thinking the whole thing.
And finally, the soap. I do not like it. The first couple times I used this stuff, I got a very weak and weedy lather. But I usually start with less water and add as needed. So I thought maybe more fluid would be the key. This time I soaked the puck for about five minutes, and used more water. I started in, and instantly got an explosion of lather. It literally welled up out of the mug. I thought I was in business. So I proceeded with my usual routine. When I switched over to my lather bowl, I realized that I did not have lather. I had a mountain of suds. No joke. It was a mountain of loose, Mr Bubble style suds. I tried to mix it up, tamp it down, anything to make it usable. It eventually looked almost like lather. But it didn't act like it. Sometimes it would go on correctly, and then when I looked back in the mirror, I would see that it had all slid off. Eventually I got a face full and shaved. I was only going for simple hair removal at this point, so I ended up with a serviceable DFS. I have to believe that I am just not finding the equation to unlock this soap. I would think that a terrible soap would not remain in production as a staple of the industry... but, weirder things have happened since the rise of the bean counter as prime mover in business.

 

Lavendor shaving cream - my uncle's number one choice! (It's pretty good stuff!)