SOTD 1-7 March 2020

Saturday March 7, 2020
2020 Shave # 71 ( 488 Consecutive Shaves )
Razor: Wosty Pipe Razor
Blade: ^^^^^
Brush: Paladin 26mm Vesuvius Chief
Soap: PannaCrema Nuavia Rossa
Aftershave 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
Aftershave 2: Nivea 2 into 1 Splash
Fragrance: TBD

Rex Ambassador/Gillette 7O’Clock SP’s (Black Ninja)/Yaqi 24mm Heavy Metal/Fine Aquamarine Tallow soap
Fine Aquamarine after shave splash/John Varvatos Artisan Acqua Eau de Toilette 

Razor: Wacker Chevalier
Strop: Tony Miller & Mastro Livi
Brush: Custom 24mm silvertip
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Soap: Martin de Candre
Balm: Castle Forbes lavender
Finale: Spanish Leather by Truefitt & Hill
Coffee: Kenya
Music: Beethoven — Quartets Op. 18

Saturday, March 7

Hemingway Accoutrements~~Parker~~Merkur 180/Sharp Star
Have a great day!

Hello
Timeless brass 
Blade: Super iridium
Mred 26mm finest 
Extro cosmesi soap + as

SOTD 03/07/20

Pretty good shave today with a new brush from Evan (@MrEE) and a new soap, Imperial Glycerin soap. The new brush performed beautifully and whipped up what at first glance appeared to be thick lather. When I shave I lather up both face and noggin, and start my first WTG pass on my face and then proceed to the dome. 

My problem was that by the time I finished the first pass on my face, the lather on my dome had pretty much faded away, requiring me to lather up the dome again. Once freshly lathered, the first dome pass required me to keep lathering. After finishing the sides, I noticed that the lather on the back of my head had faded, and required a fresh coat. Thus I finished that first pass, and liked the soap’s slickness and glide when freshly applied but the need to continue relathering was annoying. 

For my second pass, I thought that I should devote more time to the actual lather generation. So I spent a few minutes lathering away. Unfortunately, I had the same experience with the second XTG pass on the dome again. The face shave was relatively uneventful, but it was the noggin scrape which was the problem again.

For my final ATG pass I decided to wait to lather the dome until after completing my face. But again, even with lathering the dome shortly before that third pass experienced lather fade on the back of my head. I will say that when the lather was fresh the glide and slickness was fine. 

The continual need to keep reapplying lather on the dome was annoying. The shave itself ended up as a very good DFS+. The post shave feel was good, but I guess I’m spoiled. I just love my MWF. I’ll give this soap one more swing tomorrow with the first pass, but I’ll make sure my MWF is handy if I reexperience the lathering issue. The new Badger/boar brush is excellent! I feel clean, smooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: Rex Ambassador (5,3,3)
BLADE: Vintage Polish Wizamet Super Iridium (1)
PREP: Cold water rinse
BRUSH: MrEE #007 Badger/Boar
SOAP: Imperial Glycerin
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Florida Water AS/Cologne Splash

Rex Envoy 

Wizamet Iridium Super

Graydog Boss Synth

The Art of Shaving Sandalwood Pre-Shave Oil

The Art of Shaving Olibanum + Pepper Cream

The Art of Shaving Bergamot & Neroli Balm

Thayers Rose WH

Saturday AM 2020-03-07

Rooney Emillion 2 Porcelain-Jade Finest (26/54)
XPEC Unscented shaving cream (v.1) with a few drops of the aftershave in the lather
Wolfman WR1-SB/UFO Colibri
Gillette Platinum 'Swede' (11)
Mennen Skin Bracer

07-MAR-2020 SOTD
(FFFMM shave #4)

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......BRUSH ....... Omega EVO Marble Ovale (E1855)
......SOAP ........ Wholly Kaw Rebelle  (Siero Tallow)
......RAZOR ....... Supply V2 with 3 Dot Plate, Schick Proline B-20 (4)
......POST CARE ... none
......FRAGRANCE ... Pre de Provence No. 63 EDT
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