SoS: February 6th, 2012 ~ February 12th, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Schick G1
Blade: Schick
Soap: Proraso
Brush: Omega Pro 49
Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue

 

Sunday

Hot Shower(soak brush in cup,Sevile Row 3824)
Feather Preshave balm
Arko shave stick
Merkur Futur/Personna Barber blade (1)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum (clean brush,razor,police area)
Cold Water Rinse
Osage Rub mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

Nice shave today I had the Futur set on 2 for face and head.I used to use multiple settings but the Futur can be dangerous.I did my normal 3 pass shave,one ATG on the noggin and got BBS all around and no irritation,so it looks like both my face and head like 2.

 

Sunday

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, hot shower
CD: Graham Kendrick ~ King of the Nations*
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Ethiopia Illubabor, BLACK
Soap: TOBS Sandalwood
Brush: Ever Ready 250PB with original knot
SE: Gem Clog-Pruf
Blade: Gem, day 2, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Cool Mist, B&BW Noir, hand strop blade

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

Another superb shave.

*This was the sound track for the global March For Jesus back on June 25, 1994. Anybody else participate in that?

 

Sunday 12th February

Facial Scrub
Proraso Preshave cream
Ford & Medley 333 5/8 Razor
Vie-Long 13050M Horsehair Brush
Ingram Shave Cream
Alum Block followed by 444 ASB
Floid AS
Obsession EDT

I have decided that I dont like this Vie-Long brush, so this will be my last shave with it. The hair seems to tangle very easily and it just becomes a solid lump. My SBAD has ensured that I have enough replacements....so I see no reason to continue fighting with it. A DFS+ shave today with 3 passes and a little touch up. I could almost be tempted to claim BBS, as Floid AS seems to smooth things considerably!

 

Sunday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Wilkinson Sword day 4
Everest SC
Everest EDC/AS Balsam
Obsession For Men EDT

The Wilkinson Sword blades give great shaves - I did only 2 passes, and I'm as close to BBS as I can hope to be. It's been a long time since I used the Everest stuff, and I'm happy that I chose it for this morning. Both the cream and the eau de cologne/aftershave balsam (yes, this is a 2 in 1 thing!) smell real nice and are very soothing with a great menthol effect. Brian, Corinne loves the Obsession on me - it's one of the few fragrances I have which she likes!

 

sunday shave

feather as-d1
feather blade day 1
proraso green tub
omega badger

DFS

 

Gem OCMM
Gem Stainless PTFE
Simpson Chubby 2 Best
Klar Kabinett (M-bomb)
Alum
Superior 70 Bay Rum

 

Sunday:

Barbasol Prep
Dovo Natural
The Dridecker
Cella
Alum Block
Witch Hazel
Afta Fresh Balm
British Sterling Cologne

 

Sunday morning, February 12, 2012

Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (7)
Omega 10066 boar bristle brush,
MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather,
finish w/ cold water rinse for a CCS!



Time for a fresh blade in the morning.

 

The Shave of the Week

The day began with a trip to the bagel store, breakfast, a few cups of Brooklyn Boys Fresh Roasted Coffee, and then a piping hot shower with MWF bath soap. Next up was a brand new Yellow.

And then it was time to shave.

EBC preshave-imo, the best of the best
Vulfix 404 Mixed-the best of both worlds
Palmolive Menthol-my favorite cream
Merkur 11 C-loving the open comb
Gillette 7 o'clock Yellow-for my money, sharper and smoother then any Feather
Humphreys Witch Hazel/Vitos-Humphrey's is nice and neutral, Vito's works great as a post. Smooooooooth
Alcolado Glacial-my fave AS

For today's shave I selected some of my fave's and I wasn't disappointed. Eveything was working, and I was left with a face as smooth as Ice that just got the Zamboni treatment.

I knew of none of these products until I joined TSD. Thank you all.

 

Sunday, February 12

EJ DE86
Supermax Titanium (d3)
MWF, Vulfix 2235 Super
Proraso A/S
Clubman –Vanilla

Got a high level DFS this morning, give it a 4.8 blades. Still evaluating this titanium version of Supermax. It seems to be a good blade, but I am not ready to judge it just yet. Will try it again later.

 

Sunday
Hot Shower
Merkur 37C
Supermax SS (Thanks Paulie!)
P.160 (Thanks again Paulie!)
Omega Mighty Midget
Cold Water Rinse + Old Spice Classic

Beautiful blade, never tried them before but they seem to agree very well with my face. P.160 as always just had a perfect long lasting lather with the Omega, though I think for a change up I may try to get my hands on a Vie Long Horse/Badger mix soon.

 

Time for more Floid?

 

Sunday 2/12/12 0926hrs

Prep: Hot shower quickly turned warm with Every Man Jack cedarwood bar soap
Music: Classic Ipod playing Led Zeppelin II
Razor: 1968 Gillette Adjustable set on 2
Blade: Crystal Persona Platinum (2)
Soap: VDH premium
Brush: VDH Pure Badger
AS: Old Spice classic (wife says I smell wonderful)
Result: DFS+ (no cuts today)

Thanks to the video I seen here yesterday, I did my first face lather with soap. So nice

 

Another face lathering convert!

 

Sunday Morning (afternoon I guess) Shave:

Coffee: World Market Peruvian
Music: Selah-Greatest Hymns
Prep: Hot Shower, RSC Facewash
Razor: Gillette New Delux
Blade: Voskhod
Brush: VDH badger
Cream: Old Spice Lime + M-Bomb
Soap: Vintage Surrey (not in pic, decided late for superlather)
Post: M-Bomb spiked Witch Hazel
Post: Vintage Old Spice

 

Shave Of The Day ~ February 12th​

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• Hot Shower
• Music: Howlin' Wolf
• Vulfix 404 Badger/Boar Mix Brush
• Georgetown Scuttle
• Blix Regular Shave Cream
• Clix 3 Piece Razor
• Voskhod Blade ~ Day 3
• Thayers Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Blend
• Aqua Velva Original Sport ~

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Sunday morning, February 12, 2012

1955-58 Eversharp-Schick I2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (3)
Omega 10029 boar bristle brush,
Arko Shave Stick w/Arko Adventure SC
finish w/ cold water rinse/Arko-Nem moisturizer/Rebul Lavanda Colonia

Decided to take my injector out for a spin this Sunday evening...Really does remind me of grabbing my flat-cap, and putting the top-down on a vintage roadster, and straightening out some curvy country roads...
And what a lovely drive it was....on a scale of 1 to 5, I'd have to give it no less than a thousand...

 

I think you should be more careful....That photo of your 'Hot Tamale' New Delux, might me a little too "Hot"!! for day time viewing...I mean this is a family forum....You might want to move her to the adult section....or get her to tone it down a little...

 

Schicks.... Lets head over to the Injector party for a cup of Java and a hang....