Share your shave of the day for Wednesday!
Razor: unidentifiable branded 13/16 1949 Berlin Airlift Souvenir razor
Was so happy this came up in my rotation, this may be my favorite straight of all, and the brand mark is totally unidentifiable to me.
Smooth and easy, gorgeous, square point DFS.
Also this house of mammoth embrace is really good, and I like the lightly fruity smell.
Running out of Fine Barber Blue and debating moving on to my Proraso Green next or getting more of the Fine, it’s such a bracing aftershave, great sensation to finish a shave
Best of all, boost for lemmy just downloaded so I can use Lemmy decently now
Sep 27, 2023 - Sample September: Warmest Regards
- Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
- Brush: Wild West Brushworks Matador 26mm Sweet Spot Badger Knot
- Razor: Blackland Razors Blackbird Ti
- Blade: Personna Lab Blue [3]
- Lather: Moon Soaps - Warmest Regards - Soap
- Post Shave: Declaration Grooming - Massacre of the Innocents - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Lattafa Perfumes - Bade’e Al Oud (Oud for Glory) - Eau de Parfum
Warmest Regards and MotI pair really well together, despite being thematically oppositional.
Rating: 4.5/5
Wedge & Butcher
- Brush: Dogclaration LG 2022 Mystery Brush (B16)
- Razor: Wade & Butcher Celebrated Fine India Steel Razor -13/16 near wedge with barber’s notch
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts – Tres Matres
- Post Shave: Declaration Grooming – Massacre of the Innocents
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. – Haverford
I woke up with a stuffy nose and this was my first run with Tres Matres so I don’t think it did it justice. To be revisited.
The trusty W&B gave me that typical silent scrape-your-whiskers-away-in-stealth-mode™ experience. So different from a full hollow.
September 27, 2023
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Brush: AP Shave Co Black 26mm G5A
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Razor: Dovo Bismarck 6/8" Full Hollow Round Point (Straight Shave 339)
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Lather: Saponificio Varesino - 70th Anniversary - Soap (62)
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Post Shave: Saponificio Varesino - 70th Anniversary - Aftershave
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Post Shave: Thayers - Rose - Toner
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Fragrance: Saponificio Varesino - 70th Anniversary - Eau de Parfum
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
This was a travel shave but it really doesn’t matter. The edge on this Bismarck is astounding! I was really surprised by the closeness and comfort of this shave.
Funny how the Bismarck want from bottom to top tier 🙂 I’ll have to revisit mine, too.
BTW, I haven’t seen the Facharbeit in a while. Do you still enjoy it?
I do! I haven’t used it this month because I haven’t refreshed its edge. I want to try to get my Parker razor on the Ozuku Mizu Asagi tonight for tomorrow’s shave, and for the 30th, I want to use the Fili 14 again because in October I’ll be using a Nacet for as long as I can stand it to have some data to use when I analyze @sgrdddy’s 530+ Nacet blade.
September 27, 2023
- Brush: Maggard 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Red Tip Super Speed
- Blade: Bolzano (Germany) (2)
- Blade: My-Blades (Mystery country) (2)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Soap
- Post Shave: Razorock - Puros - Aftershave
Test #2, where I shaved the left side of my face with a Bolzano, and the right side with a My-Blades. They both felt very similar, but where it was an overall tie the first time, this time My-Blades gave me a better shave.
This concludes my testing, because as tsrblke points out there’s no way to know if the blade I have will be the production blade.
Varen was amazing.
there’s no way to know if the blade I have will be the production blade.
Yeah, this is the crux of the matter IMO
Varen was amazing.
Just a fantastic scent. I used it all February this year, and I’m hesitating to repeat it this coming February