SoS : August 6th, 2012 - August 12th, 2012

Wednesday 08/08/2012 Theme Week "Super Speed"
Shower and Shave

A great hot shower with a bar of goat milk soap, form a local soap maker. Like supporting small local business'
Facial prep Proraso glycerin, the glycerin bar does a great job in prepping the face.
Featured brush Semogue 1460, is great brush lathers any soap with total ease.
Soap choice Taylor Bond Street "Avocado". I like this soap nice and slick, pleasant cool scent.
Day three for the Gillette SS black handle and Ladas duo.
Two pass shave today completed the shave with a cold water splash, alum, TSD Lime Coconut Verbona.
Great DFS.

 

Hump Day

• Prep: hot water rinse, hot washing cloth
• Music: Wim Mertens, Receptacle
• Brush: Omega travel boar
• Soap: Palmolive stick
• Razor: British Gillette flare tip Rocket
• Blade: Personna blue (9)
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

Full BBS

Enjoy your day!

 

C'mon, Gene! A little help!! Just "Gillette" is a little vague for Razor and Blade, don'tcha think?

 

08-08-12

Taking the day off from shaving to give my skin a chance to rest and re-condition!

Razor: None!
Blade: None!
Soap/Cream: None!
Brush: None!

Tomorrow will take time for a nice shave in the morning!

 

2012 Aug 08

Shaved four days of stubble off today.

Prep: Face wash with warm water with Grooming Lounge Mug Cleaner, dab of Proraso Pre/Post Cream.
Razor: Gillette Super Speed Red Tip.
Blade: Personna Lab Blue (USA).
Soap: First time with a Super Later... TSD Unscented/ Proraso Original.
Brush: Semogue Boar 1305.
Post: Cold Water rinse, alum block, cold water, Baxter's Herbal Mint Toner, Proraso Pre/Post Cream.

Two passes one WTG, one ATG. Came up with a DFS with little burn from the alum block.

 

LOL.

 

I don't know if you are laughing at my shave routine or the fact I went back in time 4 years!!! LOL!

 

Actually, I totally overlooked the 08-08-08. LOL!

 

Wednesday
Brush: Muehle Black Fibre
Soap/Creme: TOBS Avocado
Razor: Schick G-type Injector
Blade: Personna PTFE
Pre: Proraso
Post: Witch Hazel
Hair Groom: Gables Cream-Oil
Result: DFS

 

Tried the Gillette blue for the first time today. DFS. Another fine Russian blade. The small soap is a Bull Frog sample that I used like a shave stick.

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Dunkin Donuts
Prep: Wash face with O Melhor Soap
Razor: Schick I1
Blade: Schick
Soap: MWF
Brush: Semogue 1305
Scuttle/Mug: Schwarzweisskeramik
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue

 

Pre-shave: Marinated in Proraso Pre-Shaving Cream, Warm shower
Razor: EJ89L
Blade: Personna "Labs"
Brush: Muhle Black Fiber
Cream: Tet-A-Tet
A/S: Cold Water Rinse, Alum Bar, Witch Hazel, Clubman, 444

 

BTW, I must clarify even further ... I just liked how the SOTD showed "none" with the smileys. Found it fun. Not laughing at the shave routine ... heaven knows I've had to take days away from shaving before. Usually not for fun reasons.

 

The last two days of the blind blade test gave me less than desirable shave results, so tonight I had an evening shave.

Wednesday August 8, 2012 Evening Shave

Prep: Tepid Shower, brush soaking in hot water
Razor: Gillette Old Type Single Ring
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Black
Brush: Semogue 1438 Boar
Soap: Tabac
AS: English Leather
Post: Cold water rinse, rub with alum, another cold rinse, and a nice healthy splash of English Learher.

Now this was a shave! Two passes, some light buffing and j-hooks along jawline and neck, and I have a BBS worth writing home about.

 

Shower
Merkur Progress #4
Bolzano #6
Shavemac silvertip
Robert Becker #1
Musgo Real Cream
Floid Suave

 

Thursday's Shave-"Super Speed Week"
Cool Shower
Arko Shave Stick/Omega 10029-Face lathered with cold water
1938 Gillette Senator-Open Comb TTO, Older brother of the first Super Speed
Perma-Sharp Super D3
Rebul Manderine Colonia/Rebul Lavanda Colonia
Pour Un Homme de Caron EdT

I consider the Senator in the Super Speed family...I love my Super Speed aswell but I really need the ease of attaining such a close shave that lasts all day that I get with the Open Comb...This Senator now holds the record for BBS longevity...At least from the razors I've tried...

Absolutely Exquisite Shave...3 passes and shiney BBS....I used cold water for all rinsing including rinsing the razor...

I love the Caron, but I'm missing my signature scent Guerlain Habit Rouge...I'm going to pick up some in Dubai next month, but don't think I can wait that long....Might have to hit the Dept. Store tester bottle for a few spritzes....

 

Prep Clarins Exfoliater
Razor Dubl Duck 6/8 Golden edge
Brush Le Tuft 59 in Buckeyed Burl
Cream Vulfix Persian Musk
Alum & Witch Hazel
Neil's Yard Rose Moisturiser
Penhaligon's Castile EDT.

Jamie.

Well i gave the Dubl Duck it's first ever honing yesterday then 50 on my bench paddle strop with a little chromium oxide 50 on the linen and 100 on the leather, she gave out a lovely smooth shave, not unsimilar to my other German square point the Maxotte razor, but it as a very unforgiving point on both those razors which i'm more than aware of.

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Thursday, August 9th

Hot shower
TSD Bourbon Vanilla soap (almost to an end...)
Omega Havana Silvertip brush
Merkur 34C HD razor w/ Derby blade
444 Alumn block
Davidoff Cool Water Eau de Toilette

 

08/08/12

Shower: Burt's Bees Men's care
Razor: Parker 22R
Blade: Astra
Soap: Daisy Mountain Naturals (Sedona)
2 Passes

Then:

Golf at par 3 course by sunrise
Renewing Drivers License at DMV
Giving away a few surprise left over breakfast coupons to strangers at Shoney's
Then Farmers Market!

 

Thursday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Rapira day 3
Tet-a-tet SC
Tet-a-tet AS Balsam
Alt Innsbruck AS
Versace L'homme EDT

I don't think that even a professional barber could have given me a better shave than this - I'm mega-BBS. Needless to say, the Tet-a-tet cream and balsam gave me lots of cooling pleasure, and that classic scent which I love so much, and the Alt Innsbruck has proven itself to me on many occasions that it's a marvellous face-freezer!