SOTD 26 January-1 February 2020

Saturday February 1, 2020
2020 Shave # 34 ( 453 Consecutive Shaves )
Razor: Game Changer .84 SB
Blade: Wizamet (7)
Brush: Stirling Synthetic
Soap: CBL Tonsorial Fresh Lime 3017 (34)
Aftershave 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla
Aftershave 2: Skin Bracer
Fragrance: Penhaligon's Lothair

Yaqi Knight Helmet
Gillette Silver Blue
Omega synthetic boar
Gillette Pure shave cream
Nivea post shave balm
Clubman bay rum aftershave

SOTD 02/01/20

Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver. 

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome. 

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum

Razor: Wolfman WR2 SB WRH7 SS

Blade: Voskhod (1)

Brush: Doug Korn D7V

Lather: Stirling Gin & Tonic

Razor: Art-Razor Capitaine 8/8
Strop: Tony Miller/Mastro Livi
Brush: Simpsons M7 Super
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Cream: St. James of London
Balm: Penhaligon's Endymion
Finale: Dior for Men

Bufflehead Fletcher
Shavemac D01
Charcoal Goods Lvl 2
Polsilver Super Iridium
SV Tundra Artica

A middling shave w/ a luxurious finish

• Razor: Supply Single Edge
  
• Brush: Mühle Black Fibre
  
• Cream: CO Bigelow / Proraso
  
• Post: Thayer’s Witch Hazel
  
• Frag: Creed Viking EdP
  

1/2/2020
Plisson/The Art of Shaving Sandalwood/Yaqi
Mellon + Muhle Tortoiseshell + Wizamet Super
Iridium/The Art of Shaving Sandalwood


Felices afeitados.
All the best.

Carbon :: OKU :: Grooming Dept. :: B&M Classic

Nice to be back home with some new products.  All performed very well as expected. The Reverie scent may not be for me but I 'll give it another try before I pass it on.  

Saturday AM 2020-02-01

Rooney 1/3 Ivory Finest (26/55)
Floris Santal shaving cream (vintage)
Wolfman WR1-OC/UFO U2
Gillette Super Stainless 'Spoiler' (5)
Floris Santal aftershave

My favorite sandalwood.