23.11.2013
Prep: FitjarSoap Pre Shave Soap
Razor: Merkur HD
Blade: Polsilver Super Iridium (3)
Brush: Frank Shaving Chubby Badger
Soap: Sterling Cool
Aftershave: TOOBS Shave Shop
Moisturiser: Fitjarsoap Shea Butter Moisturiser
Another fine result lathering the Stirling soap. Not as good as last time, but still more than sufficient.
The flavour for the shave was the Cool scented soap, and although I felt just as cool as always, it proved that I am sufficiently cool on my own. :icon_cool:
The procedure was almost the same as last time. I loaded the brush for forty seconds and transferred the brush to my scuttle to build my lather. The first stage was the foam/mousse like lather, and following the advice of experienced Stirling shavers I added lots of water, probably around 1dl.
And that helped quite a bit. The foam developed into the kind of lather we like to see in our shaving. Granted I probably added a little too much water, since the lather was a tad “wetter†than it was yesterday. But it felt slick and elastic and ought to perform just fine.
Unfortunately I never experienced that. The shave itself was rather horrid, the reason for that was the blade and razor combination. Apparently the Polsilver SI on its third shave loaded in a Merkur HD razor is not my cup of tea.
With multiple small cuts on my neck I looked like I had been shaved by Windom Earl
After the shave I put on some TOOBS Shave shop AS and I finally achieved my Macauley moment. It also smelled pretty bad, so I can understand why it is being discontinued.