menthol Monday hot water wash with nuetrogena men's invigorating face wash and a washcloth LeFigaro boar Jack Black supreme cream Dirty Bird scuttle Merkur 39c Ladas(1) ICED Barbasol Pacific Rush today's shave was nice. I used the supreme cream in the dirty bird. the sledgehammer did great with a new Ladas. I'm very smooth,a cold water rinse after the warm the passes, coupled with the boosted menthol in the ICED rush. very refreshing and comfy. hope y'all did as well, or better.
Razor: Merker Futur Polished Chrome 2015 (1.5) Brush: Vintage Ever-Ready 675 badger Mug: Old Spice 1985 Cobalt Blue Cream: Truefitt&Hill No 10 Blade: Feather (2) Post shave: Thayers Cucumber WH, Jack Black balm, Tommy Bahamas St. Barts cologne Put a dab of Truefitt&Hill No 10 into my favorite OS mug. The Ever-Ready badger with the original knot whipped up some nice warm lather. My Futur is a great looking razor, and Still on 1.5 as it works will for me. I'm really happy with the quality of this razor and the great shaves I'm getting with it. It made quick work in 2 passes WTG XTG. A little touchup on my neck ATG and done. I had enough lather left over for another pass. The WH felt good, nice and cool. After cleanup some JB and when it dried, some Tommy Bahamas St. Barts cologne. Y'all have a good one!
Gingers Garden Acqua di Florida Vulfix 660 Super Badger Grand Turk OS mug Cattaragus B-hone W.D Poor man strop W.D. Sight Unseen 5/8" Gillette Tech & Feather blade Lucky Tiger AS & face tonic Badger brush and a bowl with a tallow soap, good stuff! Touched up the Brandt 100 from Larry at Whipped Dog using my only hone and strop. Gave an acceptable 2 pass WTG & XTG. Touch up using mild old DE to finish my DFS. Splashed on Murry & Lannman's Florida Water, but I wanted more so finished with the Tiger.
That's a combo of Kyocera Android phone camera, my love of cast iron (the background), and @Darkbulb sharing his Color / Contrast / Saturation adjustments.
SUNDAY SHAVE OF THE DAY PREP: GUSTAFSONS WOODLANDS RAZOR: 1920'S GILLETTE BALL END OLD TYPE BLADE: DERBY (2ND SHAVE) BRUSH: RAZOROCK PLISSOFT SOAP: KELL'S ORIGONAL DRAGONS BLOOD POST: REEF POINT DRAGONS BLOOD BALM 2 Pass shave, was going to post yesterday but couldn't get access to the internet. The Kell's make a nice lather. Got a few nicks, but other than that it was a decent shave. finished off with Reef Point balm, which moisturized the skin well and has a nice menthol touch. Hope everyone has a great shave!
1/25/2016 Menthol Monday!! Woo Hoo!! Prep: Hot shower with Neutrogena Face Wash with menthol, home made PSO Razor: Valet Autostrop, Dubl Duck Goldedge straight razor Blade: Modified GEM PTFE coated SE (8) Brush: Turkish #6 Soap: Arko - Ice Mint After: Home made ASB Cologne: Prada - Amber Pour Homme Intense
1/25/16 Used the Eclipse Red Ring for the second time with L'Occitane Cade soap. The shave was just as good as my first shave. This is one excellent razor. ECLIPSE Red Ring L'Occitane Cade L'Occitane Plisson Synthetic Aubrey Northwoods ASB Aubrey Northwoods AS
Started my cheapskate shave test (de blades only). First Day. Razor: Vintage Gillette Tech Oil: Shave Secret Soap/lather: Equate canned lather. Bowl: 2" finger bowl. After shave: Gillette gel Blade: Personna blue (1) First pass, WTG, from sideburn all the way down to apple, with a couple of short strokes across the grain on upper cheek. The same on the other side. 2nd pass is a thin lather WTG/ATG/XTG until it feels like BBS. Thought about a 3rd pass, but I had no more whiskers to deal with. A real shame to, because I was having FUN. Before the after shave I place a tissue over my face, if I don`t see red dots then I`m a really happy camper. Hope everybody else is having as much fun as I am. Bill
Shave of the day Pre- Hot shower, Jumping Juniper shampoo cake from Lush Soap/cream- Razorock XXX shave soap Brush- Plisson synthetic Razor- AlumiGoose Blade- Feather Artist club Professional(2) Post- Cold water rinse, alum block, Humphrey Witch hazel, Pinaud Clubman Vanilla classic and Nivea Original aftershave balm and some extra moisturizing with Monu aftershave age combat Second shave with the AlumiGoose. Im always honest so im telling you that this shave was NOT as good as the first one =P Why? Im not sure. Maybe its because i used a relatively new soap so i haven't figured it out completely. I got a nice close shave but now a few minutes after The shave I feel some razor burn. That's why I applied some extra balm after the shave. I do love the way the razor feels in the hand, I noticed the audio feedback. But it's not "extra" loud. It just has a nice audio feedback.
Happy Monday! Today it will be: TOBS Jermyn St preshave gel, TOBS Jermyn St shaving cream, Omega boar brush, Feather Artist SS razor w/Feather Professional blade, Proraso Blue aftershave balm.
