SoS: March 24, 2014 - March 30, 2014

I've tried Personnas and they work pretty good for me.

 

Henckels Friodur
H.I.S. XL synthetic brush
EJ pre shave
Calani Tulach Ard soap
Paco Rabanne pour Homme AS/EdT
Institut Karite balm

 

DFS shave with some of my favorite products. A good face freezing shave for Frozen Fridays.

 

Friday 3/28/2014
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SOTD March 29, 2014
pre: hot water
soap: Arlington D.R. Harris & Co. Ltd.
brush: Marfin shaving brush n°92 silvertip 26mm
razor: Fontana Solingen
after: Creed Millesime

 

Dove Men's Face Wash
Van Der Hagen Luxury Shave Soap
Parker Black Badger
Gillette NEW
Voskhod Teflon Coated (5)
CWR
Thayers Cucumber WH
Aqua Velva Ice Blue

The Van Der Hagen Luxury save soap face lathered easily with my Parker black badger brush. I did two passes and touch ups with my Gillette NEW and a Voskhod Teflon Coated blade for a near BBS shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and Aqua Velva Ice Blue after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Saturday

MWF face lathered with Simpson Special Best Badger
EJ89dl with Crystal Super Platinum (1)
3 passes, cold water splash and finish with Proraso aftershave

 

Smooth Saturday
I'm really enjoying this HTGAM Coconut Bay Rum synergy soap. The scent is wonderful and it performs very well, just like its cousins. I like this one better than Cavendish and Gondolier. I think the only contender with it for me is Frost_Byte. I wonder how a "frozen coconut bay rum" would be? I guess I could get some m-bomb from TSD to find out.

Prep: warm face wash with Shea Moisture TBS
Soap: HTGAM Synergy Coconut Bay Rum
Brush: HIS
Razor: iKon ShaveCraft 101
Blade: Gillette SE yellow (3)
Coconut bay butter balm before ATG
AS: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum

#ikonrazors #sheamoisture #howtogrowamoustache #krampertsfinest

 

Saturday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Bath Soap
Soap: Stirling Clubman
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (5)
Brush: Whipped Dog Synthetic/Bethlehem Olivewood 24mmx58mm
Aftershave: Clubman

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angle for my beard a bit)

I was back with the Stirling Clubman today. First time I have gone 5 shaves with the GSB. Great shave on all levels! I finished up with Clubman….of course!

Off to the Texas Hill Country-Kerrville, Texas. Working up there today…..

Bob

 

Bravo file mou - eisai levendi! (Greek for bravo, my friend - you're a macho man!)

 

Saturday:

Inspired by my man Ryan's set-up I decided to freeze my face off in a similar fashion!

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Large Horsehair Barbershop
Super Speed/Rapira day 6
Italian Palmolive Menthol SC
Thayers Witch Hazel
Barbon AS

I don't know how much smoother it could get than this - absolutely BBS and stubble-free after two freezing-cold passes with my Super Speed/Rapira combination and a magnificent cream which is so easy to lather up with. The menthol effect begins right away, and gets stronger and stronger and a cold water rinse intensifies it greatly. The witch hazel and the Barbon are such a wonderful way to finish off a shave!

 

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Speick Saturday - Birthday Shave:

Prep: Hot shower, Healthy Accents Daily Renewal Cleanser, TSD Jasmine Sambac Preshave balm
Brush: Simpson 56 Best Badger
Soap: Ginger's Garden Grass Stain Menthol Snow
Razor: FaTip Piccolo
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1)
Passes: WTG, XTG (1, 2)
Post: Cold water rinse, Dickinson's WH, Speick AS

For my birthday, I decided to pull out the FaTip and give it another whirl with a fresh Bic; previous experience had been that it was a mite too aggressive for my face and technique with the Bic and needed a slightly more forgiving blade, like a Bolzano. However, my usual Bolzano vendor has been unable to restock for a little bit, so. . .

By midway through the second pass, I knew I wasn't going to be able to get through 3 passes with this setup on this day, as 3 different weepers had popped up - one that still has tissue paper on it as of this writing. The Speick helped, and the overall skincare of the products I used was great, but it's just too aggressive a setup for me right now.

 

Happy Birthday!!

 

'67 Travel Tech on Weber Bulldog
Gillette Silver Blue
Oscar11 Purple Omega
CO Bigelow SC w/ TSD M-Bomb
Alum
Superior 70

A nice shave. A few drops of M-Bomb gave a nice boost to the Bigelow SC. The tech was a gift from my father (a $0.25 yard sale find). The handle is too small for me to comfortably use, but on a Bulldog, the tech provided a nice comfortable shave.

 

3/29/2014 Tech Week

Prep: Hot shower with L'Oreal Men Expert Facial Wash, home made PSO
Razor: Gillette Travel Tech P2, John Jay Velvet Shaver straight razor
Blade: Pol Silver Super Iridium (8)
Brush: Turkish #6
Soap: Tabac
After: Home made ASB
After Shave: Tabac after shave lotion
Cologne: Tabac Eau De Cologne

A nice 2 pass Darn Fine Shave this morning. The Tabac setup always delivers.

Have a blessed day!

 

SATURDAY
An adjustable DE morning shave with the Futur set at a reasonably aggressive '5.'
Good prep using shea butter pre-shave balm and shave cream tamed some of the Futur's aggressive nature.
A very close, 3-pass, near-BBS shave on a leisurely weekend morning. Have a great Saturday, everyone!

'Chrome' morning shave…

 

Happy birthday, Jas!

 

Happy Birthday!