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09-23-2011, 07:20 AM #241.
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TGIF
Prep: Fast shower
Brush: Edwin Jagger best badger
Soap: Trumper's Officers & Gentlemens Shaving Soap
DE-Razor: Gillette Aristocrat / Feather blade
ASB: Trumper Lime
... and I'm clean shaven today too.
Have a good weekend.
"Cheap Tools Is Misplaced Economy. Always buy the best and highest grade of razors, hones and strops. Then you are prepared to do the best work."
- Napoleon LeBlanc, 1895
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09-23-2011, 08:25 AM #242Senior Member
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Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Chris craft, two band
Razor: C V Heljestrand no 9½
Super lather: Irish Moos + Henks Dutch Moss
AS/edt: Pacco Rabanne, Ultraviolet
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Uberclean
... and todays:
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09-23-2011, 09:18 AM #243Member
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Thanks, Robert - I appreciate the advice. I guess that will teach me in future not to try so many new products in a single shave! I'll do as you suggest and try and work out what it was that caused the burn. I never considered myself to have particularly sensitive skin, but something certainly didn't agree with me!
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Carry on with the classy shaves Gentleman!
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09-23-2011, 09:18 AM #244Senior Member
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Prep: Hot Shower
Razor: J Wiss and Sons, Cosmo
Brush: Omega Boar
Cream: C.O. Bigelow
AS: Aqua Velva
Finish: Pierre Cardin EdC
Early start this morning with a good shave and a better breakfast. My grandson's first football game is this evening so I need to get into work early and out early. The shave was pretty good but the razor could probably stand a touch up hone (just a little bit muddy, not as crisp as I like the edges on my razors). In any case, it rendered a decent shave.
Trisha Yearwood on tunes this morning. Con Air was a great movie.
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09-23-2011, 09:42 AM
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Pre: Hot shower + face wash with organic hemp/peppermint soap + steaming hot towels
Lather: Speick + glycerin
Brush: Kingsley Badger
Razor: W&B 6/8
Astringent: Thayers WH
AS: Clubman
Just off the hones, this battered old W&B lives up to it's reputation with a superb 2 pass shave that was smooth, irritation and nick free and as close as possible.
09-23-2011, 10:21 AM
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IMHO your face irritation may be due to the shaving soap/cream you are using. Try eliminating one or both of them first. Then I would look at your shaving technique (ie. blade angle) and/or the new brush.Prep - Hot shower
Soap - Palmolive Shave Stick, Palmolive Cream
Brush - Body Shop synthetic
Razor - Seehund 5/8th, carbon fibre scales
AS - Clinique balm, Old Spice Original
Result - Horrible, disaster of a shave!
Today's shave was horrible but I think I only have myself to blame. Everything I used today was completely new to me; a new Seehund razor I just received from Neil Miller (cheers by the way Neil), a cheap brush that was an impulse buy from the Body Shop (I fancied trying synthetic to see the difference), some old school Palmolive stick and cream, and good old Old Spice Original. Something in that mix resulted in some severe irritation - the thing is with so many new variables I can't figure out what has upset my face so badly! The razor felt great during the shave - it cut without any problems and I hadn't shaved since monday - its the same shape, size and grind to my other razors so nothing out of the ordinary on that front. The brush felt a good bit stiffer than my badger brush, but I'm not sure a synthetic brush could be the cause of irritation? Whatever it was, I hadn't even finished the first pass when my face started to burn quite badly. I rinsed off the lather (which seemed to be pretty decent) and mixed up a quick lather with my TOBS Jermyn St cream, which I thought wouldn't be as bad as its for sensitive skin. The damage was done though, my face was stinging so bad I had to rinse of the new lather as well and abandon the shave completely. I applied some soothing balm to my face, and even that stung like a complete b*tch - and even now, 6 hours later, my face still smarts pretty bad, plus I have patches of stubble all over my chin to boot!
I'm pretty annoyed - my last few shaves have been getting better and better - this one sucked real bad and I don't know why
Just my 2 cents.
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain
09-23-2011, 10:30 AM
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Happy Belated Birthday Robert & Teiste, and wishes of many good shaves and years to come. Cheers!
Glenn
09-23-2011, 10:30 AM
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Lazy Friday shave
Pre-Shave: A shower Brush: H.L. Thäter, Silver tip Razor:C.V. Heljestrand MK 33, Ivory scales Honing Regimen: I touched it up on a La Dressante au Bleu, but needed a few passes on an Escher to get it all the way there. Strop: Neil Miller, Cordovan Shell Soap/Cream:Al's Shaving cream, Calabria Scuttle:Schwarzweisskeramik, Large White Astringent: Osma Alum, rinse, Thayer's Medicated SuperHazel After shave Balm: Al's ASB, Caabria EdT: Paco Rabanne Results: After finally dialing in the edge, it was a smooth and very comfortable shave this morning.Swedish steel is good stuff Al's products delivers every time. Bring on the weekend!!
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Bjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
09-23-2011, 10:54 AM
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Who said you can't buy happiness?
Razor: Buddel 7/8 in Suminagashi Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Uber: Domenico Caraceni + SRD Bulgarian Rose + Glycerin Strop: Kanayama Toner: Thayers Lavender ASB: Bomb "Tangerine" Light ASB EdT: Creed Windsor Result: I'm knocking on heaven's door this morning. This shave was luxury to the infinite degree. I had a different plan for today's shave, until I was gathering everything up and I had an inspiration. I had to try the ultimate luxury uberlather--just because it was there. Everything came together like clockwork. It was truly a case of coming to a fork in the road and choosing the road less traveled making all the difference! The lather exploded in my bowl. When I started working it into my face, I couldn't believe how wonderful it felt. I was left with lather almost an inch thick on my face. The Buddel didn't know whether to shave my face or bask in the glory of this lather. In the end, it chose wisely. I was pretty much BBS after one pass, but I couldn't waste this type of opportunity. I did three full passes! Even then, I was left with half a bowl of pure heaven. What a way to wrap up the work week. I'm ready for court and for date night with my beautiful wife!
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
09-23-2011, 10:58 AM
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No shave for me tonight.
Its Friday night, the kids are finally in bed, and I'm just going to kick back.
Have a great weekend fellas
Grant.
"I aint like that no more...my wife, she cured me of drinking and wickedness"
Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
