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AA24 - Day 14
Brush: Zenith Multi-Color (2006 XSE) 21mm Unbleached Boar Knot
Blade: Gillette Platinum [14]
Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Soap (Mutton Tallow)
Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Heather - Toner
Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime - Eau de Toilette
Tags: $ShepherdsofStirling $RawHoggin $Discord
Heather and SSL pair together very well, so I wanted to see if Varen worked with them also. ๐
Quick morning shave before a busy day. I found the first split tips, we're officially entering the next phase of operation Raw Hoggin'.
August 14, 2024
Brush: Zenith r/Wetshaving 31mm x 57mm Moar Boar
Razor: J.A. Henckels Friodur 14 Full Hollow Square Point
Lather: Chicago Grooming - AG 1889 - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Lavender - Toner
Aftershave: Chicago Grooming - AG 1889 - Aftershave
Fragrance: Guerlain - Jicky - Eau de Toilette
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave. $headless $FriodomRiders #NoStrop
Well, I guess all this stropping business is highly overrated. Here is the microscope photo of the razor's edge after 14 days without stropping. You can look at the album to compare today's edge to photos of the same area in the past. My shaves have been as consistently good as this edge since day one. I did not expect this at all.
Very interesting!
I will have to try this after the vacation. Maybe it was all a lie by big cow-hide ๐ค
I wouldn't do this with a carbon steel razor. The stropping helps dry the blade at the apex. But, yeah, there might be some heavy lobbying by big cow-hide going on here.
August 14, 2024
$Discord
$ShepherdsofStirling
Progress Album
In an interesting turn of events, I used 4.9 grams of soap today! Way above average! That's why I'm taking a month long average, to take into account fringe events like this one.
Prior to shaving I scooped out 3 grams of soap to visualize what it looks like (because of a discussion on Discord), but I put that soap back in the tub, so that shouldn't have changed the weight. Here's what 3 grams of Stirling Mutton looks like. I shaped it like a nut to be funny, since people say "almond sized", etc.
14.08.2024 - quick & easy dome shave
-> 1 pass head shave. No frills, just good enough.
Yet another awfully hot summer day invoked a serious craving for menthol again. However, after a pretty exhausting day I needed something that would work quickly. Luckily, this combo of mentholated shaving cream and a Flat/Fan knot brush does just that. Definitely not my favourite scent, but still acceptable. I hope to use something fancier once the weather has calmed down a bit.
Today I decided to look up how Yul Brynner shaved his head and found close to no resources about it. After questioning DDGs open source AI, it told me that he was quite meticulous about it, often spent more than 30 minutes for shaving his dome and... he allegedly used a straight razor. Now, everything the AI says is to be taken with a massive grain of salt, but if true - kudos to him, that takes balls of steel. And in case anyone wonders why I know of such an old school actor, The Ten Commandments is shown every Easter season over here. Together with Telly Savalas of Kojak, he as King Rameses was one of my only two bald childhood heroes (pretty funny that I favoured the villain in the biblical epos though).
retty funny that I favoured the villain in the biblical epos though
You weren't Teufelskraft for nothing ๐คฃ
I knew Yul Brynner mainly as the king of Siam
Yep, I later found out that this was his parade role in Broadway musicals. Seems natural that he made an appearance as some kind of ruler again!
