SOTD 15-21 December 2019

How are those shaves coming along this week?

15 December 2019

* Blackbird Brass SB 101
* Wizamet Iridium Super
* Maseto Shaving XD 2-Band + Oscar11 Amber Barbeiro
* Mystic Water Brown Windsor
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO

December 15, 2019
Wolfman WR-1 OC SS
Feather
Thater Synthetic
Stirling R4L
Shave Soap & Aftershave

SOTD Sunday 15 December 2019

Prep: Cold water
Brush: Paladin High-rise Beehive 26 mm Honey Noir
Razor : Koraat "Golden Beauty"
Soap: Barrister and Mann Dickens

Remembering Honey Bee Sue
Sunday December 15, 2019
Shave # 351 ( 404 Consecutive Shaves )
Razor: Rockwell 6s Plate 5
Blade: Wizamet (9)
Brush: Yaqi 24mm Moka
Soap: Honey Bee Bamboo and Teakwood
Aftershave 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla
Aftershave 2: Nivea 2 into 1 Splash
Fragrance: Penhaligon's Lothair

Sunday, 12/15/2019
Truefitt & Hill, Grafton: Oil pre shave, shaving soap, lotion & balm aftershane, EdC; Wellington super badger shaving brush.
Suiset 77, silver steel 6/8, abalone custom scales.

Gillette Sensor disposable
Gillette Pure shave cream
Zenith boar brush
Duke Cannon aftershave balm
Clubman brandy spice aftershave

BLACKLAND SABRE / MARTIN DE CANDRE / MORRIS & FORNDRAN / MYRSOL 

Razor: Wade & Butcher 6/8 in ivory
Strop: Tony Miller/Mastro Livi
Brush: Synthetic
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Soap: Provence Sante Verlaine
Balm: Castle Forbes lavender
Finale: Dior for Men

SOTD 12/15/19

My vintage shave on this 16th day of Decadent December featured the Star DE, manufactured between 1946 and 1959 in Brooklyn, NY by the Star Division of the American Safety Razor Corp. It was designed to compete with the Gillette Tech razor. I found the shave to be a bit more efficient than my Gillette Techs. It chopped through two days growth with little difficulty, and provided a straightforward DFS to both face and dome, enhanced by my favorite shave cream, Kapo, salted with my regular 5-6 drops of M-Bomb. All in all, a good solid shave that left me feeling clean and refreshed and ready for church.

RAZOR: Star DE
BLADE: Suneko
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a face and dome scrub with PAA’s Charcoal-Menthol Cube Preshave Soap
BRUSH: Jayaruh Custom Boar #374
CREAM: Kapo Fresh salted with 5-6 drops of M-Bomb
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash of face and dome with Glyce Glycerin Soap followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Snake Bite