30 Day Rule/Focus; March 2024. All Are Welcome!

It is time to grow a beard or use an electric razor. Need to give your face a rest.

Your face is yelling at you: “Enough already budday.”

 

Fabulous travel shave Scott. Marriot? The reason I suspect the Marriot is the counter top coloration.

 

Another nice eclectic shave Barry.

 

Interesting shave Chris.

 

Fabulous shave Chris

 

Disagree.

 

fine weekend affairs gents.

 

-The-Weekender-
rhodium rocket
yaqi silvertip
lea



good morning gents.
lea for saturday
i have the lea shave cream and a puck of their hard soap.
both work excellent.
today the cream gave a fabulous lather,
smooth 2 passer with the rhodium flare tip,minor pickups
lea splash to finish.
awesome
have a fine day everyone.

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Great looking shave Joe. Is that the Peara soap in that cool container?

 

Dang Joe. Are you an international assassin with that eye for detail? You are absolutely correct. If you can tell my room number from the photo I will buy you the shave soap of your choice…

 

Wonderful Gary….

 

You think it should be more water than soap? I do squeeze remaining water from the brush onto the soap, after loading just before applying to my skin

 

thank you Scott.

 

Wonderful shave Barry. Is this the same company that sell the Pearl Flexi?

 

Wonderful Williams shave Joe. Maybe Williams would have been around a lot longer if they added glycerin to their firmula.

 

Nope. You're still barking up the wrong tree. It's been explained to you ad infinitum. You use too much pressure when you shave. Plus, you use a tool that encourages pressing and almost always leads to ingrown hairs. 99.9% of the traditional wet-shavers eschew these inferior razors. You could get a clean, smooth shave---sans nicks or cuts, with a bar of ivory soap---if you really wanted to. But it would take changes, that I am not convinced you are willing to make. I suggested the single blade disposable razor. Did you give it a try? I believe someone piffed you a nice, vintage Gillette. What happened with that?
Mulit-blade carts are not---and have not ever been your friend, Paul.
You have a multitude of friends on this forum. Generous friends, who have piffed you some great, quality gear. How many shave reports do you read on this forum, that complain about ingrown hairs or nicks on a regular basis? I can think of only one. There is NO doubt in my mind, that EVERYONE who knows you, wants to see you enjoy your shaves on a daily basis WITHOUT the mishaps, which constantly plague you. It's NOT about how much soap you load. It's not about squeezing water onto the puck. It's about the technique of bringing a razor to your face; maintaining the appropriate angle; avoiding excess pressure---and using a tool that is designed to shave you without encouraging you to push.
I hope you will forgive this diatribe, but somethings just need to be said out loud.
Lastly, if we didn't care about you, Paul, we wouldn't give a sh*t what kind of shaves you get. We do care.

 

Well said, Maestro. I can't add anything more than what you and everyone else has shared with Paul.

 

March 2 SOTA

Good afternoon.

Rockwell 6C (5)
Zorrik DE Blade (3,4)
Heritage Collection/C-Mon Replica SHD Badger Brush
Music City Suds Lavender and Ever Amen SS and AS
Stirling Alum Block
Modessa Witch Hazel
Beard Growth: 24.5 hrs
Dome Turf: 3.25 days



It was time to do a head a face shave. Since I am loading from the puck, I decided to use my C-Mon Replica Badger Brush. This brush is a lather hog so I had to really load heavy. Even with heavy loading, I still needed to hit the puck a number of times. Of course, I am also shaving my head so more soap is definitely needed. Lol!
This Zorrik blade is very smooth, but still is very sharp after the 3rd (face) and 4th (dome) uses. I like this blade. It is very efficient. I only needed 2 passes on my face and dome for a BBS shave. Although I needed minor touchups on the dome. There are always spots that I just can't get, unless I feel and then go over it with a razor. It was bloodless for the face and neck, but reopened the wound on the back of my head from my last shave. Of course, it closed up with cold water. Zero feedback from the alum, except some slight zing on the back of my head.
Applied the witch hazel and the matching aftershave. It definitely was a good session. Take care.

 

Looks great Joe, and with a blade that I have never even heard of before…