Thursday, July 23, 2015 Day 20 with the Mongoose B-3 Mongoose with Triad Rolling Hex Titanium Feather ProGuard #4 Oscar11 Light Blue Omega Boar Chiseled Face Shave Soap Ghost Town Barber Whitch Hazel ++Menthol, Unrefined Shea Butter Chiseled Face After Shave Ghost Town Barber Brooks Brothers 1818 Today’s shave was wonderfully smooth. The Feather ProGuard has been giving me very close shaves. Two passes including clean up, missed the baby but extremely close all over. My Oscar11 Boar made a mountain of creamy Ghost Town super lather. I closed out with Ghost Town Barber After Shave. Whoa Nelly! That’s a great old time barbershop scent. Hope your shave was as good or better than mine. Have a great day gentlemen!
30 Day Rule - July 2015 July 21st Razor - Feather SS AC/Gillette New LC Blade - (6) (3) Brush - Omega 10066 (BoS) Soap - Mitchell's Wool Fat Post - Cold Water splash, Nivea If I ever achieve consistency I will be a happy camper. Not there yet. When it comes to the BoS and MWF I'm consistent. (Probably cursed myself to terrible lather tomorrow for that remark) When it comes to the Artist Club razors, not so much. I had a couple of nice days with it to the point I was planning on all three passes with it today. The first pass started great and finished pretty well too. I did hit the old cut on my right chin area but really didn't open it up. It was the second pass that got me. I managed a small nick on my left cheek while going XTG and then, while working down my neck directly under my chin I added too much angle as I set the razor down. Got a slice right there. Are you kidding me? Just a technique error but once again I got to cold rinse and alum it closed with the attending sting. Really a bit frustrating as I was really close to a decent second pass. Used the New and Voskhod for touch up instead of a third pass and called it good. I think I need a little Zen to get me to the next level so I'll spend the rest of this evening sitting cross-legged and chanting Kiiiiinnnnnggggg........Cccccccccccc.....Gilllllleeetttttttttttte until I find peace with the blade. I'll be at it again in the morning. I'm going to stay with the Artist Club through August, though not every day. More on that later.
SOTD - 22 July 2015 30 Days of Maggard and MITA! A simply superb shave today! I almost hit the Grail...was nearly DFS afte one and definitely caught the baby! The alum was the most quiet today so far this month. These blades really shine in this mild OC. This month has been interesting, I had not done blade trials in a long while. Tomorrow I will continue on this blade, see how it lasts, then give GSB another chance. It's a tight race between ASCO, these Gillette 7OC and GSB. I may even slip in a Voskhod just to see it stack up against these. 94F with 22% humidity on the range today, and the Arctic Blue was a nice finish. Gonna use Myrsol blue tomorrow! Other than that...all is quiet in Colorado. Have a triumphant Thursday!
Thursday Planned SOTD Razor: iKon Deluxe OC Blade: Gillette 7 O’CLOCK Blue (4) Brush: Oscar11 w SR Satin Tip Bowl: Woodhead Medium Scuttle Pre Shave Scrub: RazoRock GLO Pre Shave Oil: Jasmine Creamsicle Shave Soap: TFS Linea Intenso Arancio Amaro Post: Monster Alum Block Aftershave: Alvarez Gomez Agua De Colonia
Planned SOTD 07.23.2015 Prep: Shower Razor: Gillette New SC Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Sharp Edge (2) Brush: Omega 13109 Lather: Proraso Blue Shave Cream Post: Cold rinse, Witch Hazel, TBS Maca Root ASB O Proraso Blue, how I've missed thee!
Thanks for the compliment. I do enjoy my morning ritual and gets me through the long days in the office.
I'm always on the lookout for different Agua de Florida variants, there are so many! FW is a fave, is that particular AS clove heavy like FW? Edit - I looked it up. Lemon and herb!
Planned Thursday SOTD Schick Type J razor Semogue Excelsior Texugo badger brush Proraso white preshave cream Mike's Natural Hungarian Lavender shaving soap Myrsol Agua Balsamica aftershave Alt Innsbuck EdC
Not at all. I think of this as a nice lemon drop with a touch of lavender and I pickup what I think is geranium from what I remember from a sample of IanS shave soap. Very nice summer time scent. Only complaint is that I bought this thinking it was a cologne but short lived like an aftershave. I was given a sample and held off for almost a year from trying the sample thinking that I wouldn't like it but took the sample on a weekend trip to keep the travel bag simple and really liked it so ordered from the hotel room that very day. Right now my favorite summer time scent. I do like FW though and you cant beat the price on a bottle of FW. EDIT I'm sitting in my truck waiting about to go into the office and now I do pick up a light spicy scent. Not nearly as spicy as FW but it is present. Haven't looked at the label to see what is in it but could be Rosemary and some orange which I forgot to mention previously.
July 22, 2015 SOTD 30-Day Focus - Blade Trials for Gillette Tech ***COMPLETED*** No shave today. A travel day on my way to a one week family trip from Seattle to: Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada 48.8450° N, 123.2808° W Will take a holiday from my completed 30-day focus as well. Making the trip with me will be (my family, of course!) plus two new companions - a '46-'47 Gillette Aristocrat! (PIF loaner from @NCoxSTL ) - my brand new Omega Beehive brush! (part of my May Newbie PIF from @Bristle Me ) Currently in transit somewhere in the Strait of Georgia, BC. Ahoy! RT
07/23/2015 Razor – Mongoose B2 with Triad SS Helix Blade – Feather Super Pro (10) Brush – Rudy Vey with TGN Finest Lather – MdC Fougere Post - Witch Hazel and Myrsol Metilsol sample
I have that! its a very nice shaving cream. Hey if you had TSDs M-Bomb you could have made that shave cold too ;D
