Thread: Sun - March 17th - Sat March 23rd

Originally Posted by dzacca

no shave today

Then it will be doubly good on the next

~Paul

Prep: Hot Towel / Eucalyptus EO
Lather: MB's Lemon Grass / Ginger
My Last Restoration: Japanese Frame Back In G10
Post: Nivea Energy
Music: Zen
.... I think I see a trend here ....

Shave of the Evening, before bed tonight:

Preshave: Utterly Smooth cream
Razor: Max Sprecher restoration, Wade & Butcher in dark blond translucent horn
Brush: Custom badger & elephant ivory by our own Pixelfixed.
Shave Cream: Mama Bear Honeysuckle shave puck
Followed up by, Shavex Alum Bar & Thayers Lavender Witch Hazel

Thank you for looking.

Monday morning:



L´Occitane Cadé SS
Shavemac 2Band
Guinard a Lyon 6/8 wedge
Musgo Real AdC No. 2 Oak Moss

Have a nice day!

Originally Posted by lotse

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Great photo, really cool...

Monday

Razor | Wade and Butcher Special | Cream | Musgo Real Orange Amber | After Shave | D. R. Harris Bay Rum

This past weekend I ripped the skin off four fingers bouldering. This is my normal weekend ritual these days. My back is still doing stupid things, like bulging, slipping to one side and otherwise being stupid; which has caused pain walking and putting on my socks, an unequal gait and pains running down the back of my legs but still I went bouldering. I soldier on and do what I can, nevertheless, like the stout-hearted little trooper I am.

This morning’s shave was a disaster; not in the mechanics of it, but in the Zen of it. I was not in tune at all; out of synch with myself, that which is other than myself, God and the whole bloody lot of it. Yet I soldiered on like the stout-hearted little trooper I am.

On exiting the room in which one bathes oneself I noted I had forgotten to spray that stuff in the can under my arms; the stuff that stops one smelling like a human and makes one smell like vanilla, or wild berries, or a Norse forest; but in a chemically way. I returned to said bathing room and dutifully applied said chemical mix to the underarm area, just so I could ‘fit in’ with the rest of the vanilla-smelling humans, like the stout-hearted little trooper I am.

On once again exiting said bathing room I came to the shocking conclusion I’d forgotten to apply the morning’s choice of gentlemens’ after shaving lotion. I once again returned to the bathing area (like the stout-hearted little trooper etc) and applied said scent, being D. R. Harris’s excellent product, purported to be manufactured from Bay Leaves and rum, yet I applied it with tentative fingers, due to the fact that as previously discussed skin had been removed from four fingers; making the application of an alcohol based gentlemens’ after shave lotion a particularly tricky and sensitive affair.

The drive to one’s workplace was carried out with much gazing at the season’s especial golden morning light; it makes God’s high art of the most mundane rubbish, such as dry short dead grass (beyond the ability of any mere mortal to fully process).

I engaged in the act of trying to fully process said visuals; the trees and the rocks and that little pool of water I’m sure would harbour platypus, and the road up that hill where on a misty morning it looks like you’re driving straight into heaven, and that railway line where the tracks are golden threads, and that broken down farmhouse with the old peach tree at the side under which I always visualise a young girl dressed in flowing Victorian skirts reclining, with peach in hand, and juice in mouth and hand dripping - just the way time drips, slowly but steadily, until it’s all gone and you're left with just that ridiculous looking seed-thing in the middle of the fleshy fruit; which you look at in a disdainful manner and then toss over your shoulder, discarding it.

You wipe your hands on your trousers and walk away, discarding the remnants of the fruit, its memory like the fragment of time that it was.

Old, used, gone, forgotten and dismissed.

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Martinez' Custom: Chess King w/ 26mm silver tip badger
Soap: Truefitt & Hill: Luxury Shaving Soap
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: C. V. Heljestrand MK No. 31 (11/16) - Ivory scales
ASB: Mama Bear's Aged spice

A good start of a Monday morning. A comfortable and smooth shave.

Prep: Hot Shower
Soap: MWF
Brush: Mountain Badger
Razor: Worldmaster #137
Post: Proraso AS/ Iggy's Balm
Result: No shave Saturday and a luxurious 3 pass shave Sunday left me with little stubble, so a quick face lathered 1 pass ATG shave and I am smooooth. Off to work feeling like a million.

Have a Great Monday Gents!

Prep - None
Strop - 3 Inch bridle leather/hard felt
Razor - Crown&Castle "The Silver Star"/stropped night previous
Brush - Simpsons QE II Jubilee Manchurian Badger
Soap - DR Harris "Arlington"/cold water face lathered
Post - Alum bock followed with Thayers witch hazel

Seems PB is having it's problems so no photo as yet anyway.

Bob

Photo Bucket is back up

Hot Shower, C.V. Heljestrand Mk4, Semogue 1305, Tabac Shavestick, Aqua Velva Classic, Pierre Cardin, Murray's Pomade