Tomorrow's Atlas Shaves Theme:
Connecticut Shade by Catie's Bubbles
Notes: Tobacco, Vanilla, Oak, Nutmeg, Leather
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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Feb. 10, 2025
- Brush: Grizzly Bay BarBear Space Magic 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Blackland Sabre
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE [5]
- Lather: Catie’s Bubbles - Le Nude - Soap
- Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles - Cool And Fresh - Aftershave
Day 10 of Atlas Shaves and this sample of Le Nude I received about a year ago saved me today. 43rd Bubbles shave in a row.
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Today’s points.
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Half scent notes 2.
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Airbud 0.
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Cross posting 1.
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Good neighborhood 1.
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Day total 4.
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Overall total 42.
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Catie’s count.
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Day 1 Florentine Fern.
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Day 2 Ménage a Lavande.
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Day 3 Valley of Fire.
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Day 4 Lancaster Leather.
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Day 5 Le Piment de La Vie.
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Day 6 Azure.
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Day 7 Waterlyptus.
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Day 8 Revolution (AirBud)
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Day 9 Retreat
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Day 10 Le Nude (Sample)
I'm more and more thinking you might actually pull this off 😄
February 10, 2025
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Brush: Wald Nimbus Chryselephantine 29mm A1 Fan
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Razor: ERN 6/8 French Point Full Hollow
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Lather: Wholly Kaw - Entropy Man - Soap
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Aftershave: Wholly Kaw - Entropy Man - Aftershave
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Fragrance: Wholly Kaw - Entropy Man - Eau de Toilette
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Talc: Yardley Gold
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
I enjoyed this setup so much yesterday, I decided to use it again today. The only change I made was the brush.
Duodi 22 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Thimelé
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
- Razor: Koraat 14.2 Straight Razor
- Lather: Zingari Man The Watchman
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Pitralon Classic After Shave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I'm getting into a routine here, but I really like this combination of hard- and software.
Have a good evening!
Monday, February 10, 2025: Altas Shaves 2 - Day 10
- Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations "Nebulagance" - TurnNShave Quartermoon 26mm synthetic
- Razor: Eldrormr Industries - MM24
- Blade: Accuforge - GEM Microcoat (2)
- Lather: Dove - Sensitive Skin
- Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Roam Two Aftershave splash
- Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Roam Two EdT
Dove Sensitive Skin is fragrance-free and was an acceptable choice for today to keep me on theme. I got the same result that I get with my nicer soaps, but the shaving experience was significantly worse. One could get by just using something like this to shave, but I'm glad I don't need to.
+2 points for soap with at least half the same scent notes
+1 point for cross-posting
+1 point for engaging yesterday
Total points (40 previous + 4): 44
Atlas Shaves II - Day 10
- Brush: Farvour Turn Craft Harvest Moon 27mm Lotus Manchurian (LM-1) Badger Knot
- Razor: Blutt Rasur BR-1 0.99
- Blade: Gillette Nacet [18]
- Lather: 345 Soap Co. - White Buffalo - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Seville in Reserve - Aftershave
I managed to score some artisan points today thanks to a generous sample sent by @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social.
| Category | ∑ | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Daily theme soap | 12 | 0 |
| Artisan | 20 | 4 |
| Scenter | 0 | 0 |
| Half of the scent notes | 6 | 0 |
| Airbudding the day | 0 | 0 |
| Cross posting | 10 | +1 |
| Snitching | 0 | 0 |
| Snitching incorrectly | 0 | 0 |
| Goody Two-Shoes | 7 | +1 |
| Total | 55 | +6 |
February 10, 2025
- Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus Refills, Atra (2)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Promises - Soap
- Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
This soap is stronger than I remember it. I left it open in the bathroom and could smell it in the other room!
Does this mean you're out, or taking your Airbud today?
I think I'm out. I think I decided there should be a consensus to stay in, and there wasn't. Mostly I didn't want to use my unscented soap!
I get it.
And yeah, unscented soap is no way to live life IMO.
- lather: Barrister and Mann - Latha Unscented
Atlas daily points: 2 points for scent notes +1 for crossposting on lemmy and reddit
Atlas cumulative points: 40
Unscented alcohol splash seems odd to me. People being careful about avoiding frags on their skin, but using alcohol must be a small customer group
It's actually not alcohol based, latha was a weird era for Will
Oh, interesting!
Day 10 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
- Razor: Böker – 14er (8/8", extra hollow, carbon steel, square point)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Sheep
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Varen
- Fragrance: Catie's Bubbles – Blugère
LatherBot gave us an easy one yesterday with unscented 345 soap. Sheep is unscented.
Road to Victory:
| Category | ∑ | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Daily theme soap | 0 | 0 |
| Artisan | 20 | 0 |
| Scenter | 0 | 0 |
| Half of the scent notes | 8 | +2 |
| Airbudding the day | 1 | 0 |
| Cross posting | 10 | +1 |
| Snitching | 0 | 0 |
| Snitching incorrectly | 0 | 0 |
| Goody Two-Shoes | 9 | +1 |
| Total | 51 | +4 |