SoS: November 15-21 2010

For Thursday.
A long hot shower.
As I was showering the Parker Badger Brush, was warming up. In the sink warming was Ginger's Shave Soap.
After the shower I applied Johnson Baby Oil. I whipped up a nice mound of warm lather.
I choose a newly acquired 1920 Gillette Open Comb, I used a Super Max blade.
After two passes and a few touch-ups I had an great BBS.

 

That Darwin is one "CLASSY" razor! Beautiful!

 

Rooney 3/1 Super
Floris Elite SS
Shapleigh Hardware Diamond Edge
TM Artisan--Linen / Horsehide
Witch Hazel
Alfred Sung-Paradise EDT
Have a Great Night!

 

Nice Pics Guys.

Thanks for taking the time to snap a photo.

 

Dubl Duck Special
B&B Essential
Palmolive stick
Booster Iced Lime

 

Soaked brush while I took a shower

Brush: Eterna Pure Bristle (cheapo boar bristle)
SC: Musco Real, first shave with this stuff, nice lather, not too crazy about the scent.
Razor: Treet Starline TTO loaded with a fresh Treet blue special
Rinse followed with a swipe with alum, and then lotion (Jergen's Overnight repair)

Got a whole bunch of new shave stuff in the mail today, and was eager to try some of it out. The Musco Real came from Rivendell.com (they're actually a custom bicycle maker, the owner adds stuff to the catalog that he thinks you should try) The alum, razor and blade came from Shoebox Shaveshop. I also got some soaps, "Jeeves" was short in stock on one of the soaps, and was very generous with replacement items. I'll post in November hauls once I take some pics.
Due to the glacial pace at which my facial hair grows, I probably didn't _need_ a shave today, but I figured I'd at least clean up what I missed yesterday. Plus, I couldn't let all that new stuff just sit there unused.

 

Friday, November 19 TGIF

Gem Push Button Gold Lid
Ted Pella Stainless Coated (2)
TOBS Traditional SS
Ever Ready Boar
Bay Rum Blend

DFS on 2 passes.

 

Friday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Sputnik day 2
Breeze Sensitive SC (Wooooowwwww!) :love008 :love008
Eveline Aloe Vera AS Gel (Wooooowwwww!) :love008 :love008
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Versace L'homme EDT

This Breeze Sensitive cream explodes with so much lather in so little time. It smells clean and good, and leaves the skin feeling great. I'll show you guys a photo of it, and I strongly recommend it. The Eveline Aloe aftershave gel is fantastic as well, but unfortunately I have no photo to show.

 

Friday, November 19th

Hot shower
TSD Egyptian Spice ss
Omega 639 Havana Silvertip
Mühle R106 w/ Derby
Alum block
Nivea for Men ASB
Canali Style EdT

 

Friday

Prep: Hot shower
Coffee: Home roasted Kenya, BLACK
Soap: Speick grated into a bowl
Brush: Ever Ready 250PB
Razor: Gillette Aristocrat
Blade: ASR, day 5, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Humphreys Maravilla Lotion, Curve
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

Great all the way 'round.

 

Fraturday...

Gillette Old Type BRW Improved handle
Israeli Red Pack Personna (1)

R Vey TGN Finest
Arko SS in a mug

Alum
Superior 70 Bay Rum

Nice 2 pass shave. Revisited the RP Personna and it just doesn't seem so sharp any more. Still got a decent shave, just not quite as close as some recent blades I have tried.

 

TGIF:

Gillette Slim Adj razor
Laser blade
Charismata Barber Shoppe SS
FS Finest brush
Osage Rub
Visal Balm
Ivy Club Spice A/S

Very nice shave. Forgot that I had the Charismata SS. It's a nice tallow based soap that works well for me.

 

Friday, Nostalgia of a sort.

I hadn't used my old Atra in well over a year, so I thought I'd break it out.

Vintage Old Spice soap
Omega brush
1985 Gillette Atra handle
CVS Pivoting Plus Atra compatible cartridge (1)

And an okay shave. Not quite the smooth and comfortable feeling I've gotten used to during the shave itself, but the end results were just fine. I'll use up this cartridge, they cost less than fifty cents each, and should be good for four shaves as I recall. Then back to the good stuff.

 

TABAC
Savile Row 3122
Schick Injector Type N
Chinese Schick Injector Blade (2)
Pinaud Clubman

 

Friday

EJ89L
Derby Extra (6)
EJ Best Badger
Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar Cream
Dickenson Witch Hazel
Magic Bump Rescue balm
Barbasol Pacific Rush as splash
Burberry edt



Expierimented with today's shave by doing an atg pass, something I never do. Results were bbs except I dropped my head during a lapse of consentration and got a nick under the chin midways toward the adams apple. Hopefully no ingrowns will result of this.

 

Friday:

Pre: TSD ISZ PSB
Brush: The Dridecker
Soap: Conk Bay Rum
Razor: Ol' No Name 5/8 Round
Post: Witch Hazel, Every Man Jack Cedarwood ASB, Shea Moisture Tea Tree AS

Great shave today! Probably the best straight shave I've had yet.

 

Niiiiiice! It's the TSD ISZ PSB that did it.

 

Friday, November 19, 2010

Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Supermax Super Stainless
Brush: Grosvenor LE
Soap: TOBS Sandalwood
A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Ogallala Bay Rum & Sandalwood Toner

A very nice DFS+ shave today--#3 on this blade; the Supermax gives very smooth results. I'm also liking the TOBS soap. Although I have used and liked TOBS creams, this is my first Taylor soap. I think this is my 3rd use, and I find it easy to make a very nice, protective lather good for at least 3 passes. I could have tried a 4th pass this morning to see if I could reach shaving Nirvana--BBS--with this blade. I had plenty of lather, but decided that it wasn't really worth the extra time for the possible slight improvement.

 

Probably. You really need some good prep for those straight shaves.

 

Friday 11/19

first time with a serious single edge! I think I might be addicted now...

Prep:
Hot Shower
Real Shaving Co. face wash

Hardware:
GEM 1912
Gem blade
Crabtree & Evelyn best badger brush

Software:
Pacific Shaving Oil
Tabac soap
Proraso balm

Santa Fe cologne

I was really impressed with the shave I got from the GEM this morning. No tugging, pulling, ultra smooth, and quite close! Heaven help if a straight is any better, cause I might never go back to anything else!