Shave of the Day w/c Saturday 3rd April 2010
- Thread starter IanM
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- Monday January 11, 2010
- Location
- North London
N_Architect said:
Only when I've got a feather blade in it. You do need even less pressure than with the closed comb. I think I probably got more nicks from my Futur before I sold it on.
- Joined
- Saturday March 27, 2010
It's my main secret... :lol: :lol:IanM said:Slow Shaving said:[
Okay, what's the clothes peg for?
Ian
I use it for drying the blade, it works very well.
- Joined
- Sunday February 21, 2010
Thursday
Ever-Ready Peerless
GEM Stainless SE blade
Nanny's Warm Spice cream
Boots Witch hazel
Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum
First ever use of a SE razor - very enjoyable experience and a DFS too. Excellent speedy delivery of the blades from Connaught made sure I could try this out this 99p razor tonight.
Ever-Ready Peerless
GEM Stainless SE blade
Nanny's Warm Spice cream
Boots Witch hazel
Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum
First ever use of a SE razor - very enjoyable experience and a DFS too. Excellent speedy delivery of the blades from Connaught made sure I could try this out this 99p razor tonight.
- Joined
- Saturday March 27, 2010
- Location
- ATH
Friday
Today's shave is called "lathering problems". See separate thread.
Futur (2, 2 1/2) / Personna (1)
Dovo silvertip(s)
Splendid shaving soap powder / L'Erbolario Myrtle cream / L'Erbolario Fern cream
Alum
L'Erbolario Myrtle AS Elixir
L'Erbolario offers great scents, the AS is very good - very disappointing on the lathering, though, both creams.
I think I may be doing something wrong here, so I have made this a separate thread to see what the boards have to say.
An average shave overall with the Personnas initially appearing to be slightly more aggressive than the Merkurs.
Have a great and sunny day, gents.
Today's shave is called "lathering problems". See separate thread.
Futur (2, 2 1/2) / Personna (1)
Dovo silvertip(s)
Splendid shaving soap powder / L'Erbolario Myrtle cream / L'Erbolario Fern cream
Alum
L'Erbolario Myrtle AS Elixir
L'Erbolario offers great scents, the AS is very good - very disappointing on the lathering, though, both creams.
I think I may be doing something wrong here, so I have made this a separate thread to see what the boards have to say.
An average shave overall with the Personnas initially appearing to be slightly more aggressive than the Merkurs.
Have a great and sunny day, gents.
J
joe mcclaine
Guest
Friday
Bic Sensitive
Semogue 1305
Palmolive Stick (chopped into a mug)
Old Spice aftershave
Bic Sensitive
Semogue 1305
Palmolive Stick (chopped into a mug)
Old Spice aftershave
- Joined
- Tuesday September 8, 2009
Friday
Muhle R41 OC
Derby Extra (4)
EJ Med Pure
Proraso Soap
Proraso AS & Proraso ASB Mix.
This is my debut with Proraso soap and I think that I will need further work on its hidden mysteries to achieve the optimum lather. A good outcome however.
The next four days will be an appraisal of Sharon's new cream sample (Warm Spice) and I'm looking forward to it...
Muhle R41 OC
Derby Extra (4)
EJ Med Pure
Proraso Soap
Proraso AS & Proraso ASB Mix.
This is my debut with Proraso soap and I think that I will need further work on its hidden mysteries to achieve the optimum lather. A good outcome however.
The next four days will be an appraisal of Sharon's new cream sample (Warm Spice) and I'm looking forward to it...
- Joined
- Friday September 25, 2009
Feather Portable/Parker Handle
Wilkinson Sword (1)
Rooney 1/3 Super
DR Harris Arlington
Proraso ASB
Wilkinson Sword (1)
Rooney 1/3 Super
DR Harris Arlington
Proraso ASB
Friday
Feather Portable
Super-Max Super Stainless (1)
Kent VS30
Culmak Soap
Alum
Gillette Sreies AB
Denim AS
I forgot I had the Feather Portable and decided to give it a whirl, loaded it up with a Supermax (not the blue one) and a DFS was had, the Portable is an aggressive little bugger but thats how I like my razors.
Have a nice and pleasant day Gents.
Tony
Feather Portable
Super-Max Super Stainless (1)
Kent VS30
Culmak Soap
Alum
Gillette Sreies AB
Denim AS
I forgot I had the Feather Portable
and decided to give it a whirl, loaded it up with a Supermax (not the blue one) and a DFS was had, the Portable is an aggressive little bugger but thats how I like my razors.Have a nice and pleasant day Gents.
Tony
- Joined
- Monday January 11, 2010
- Location
- North London
Friday
M3 (thats right, don't ban me)
Pure Badger
GFT Coconut Cream
Alum
GFT Coral skin food
GFT Moisteriser
For a few reasons I decided to use the Mach 3 today. The shave still took as long, I still had problem areas that I get when using a DE. Still a DFS/BBS shave. Back to the DE tomorrow
M3 (thats right, don't ban me)
Pure Badger
GFT Coconut Cream
Alum
GFT Coral skin food
GFT Moisteriser
For a few reasons I decided to use the Mach 3 today. The shave still took as long, I still had problem areas that I get when using a DE. Still a DFS/BBS shave. Back to the DE tomorrow
- Joined
- Saturday December 19, 2009
- Location
- Ayrshire
Pre:
Hot bath
RSC face scrub
The Shave:
Merkur Futur
Merkur Blade
RSC Moisturising shave cream
Men U pure bristle brush
After:
Tabac AS splash
Proraso Pre/Post cream
Hot bath
RSC face scrub
The Shave:
Merkur Futur
Merkur Blade
RSC Moisturising shave cream
Men U pure bristle brush
After:
Tabac AS splash
Proraso Pre/Post cream
Friday
Gillette #58
7 O'clock D3 - Yellow box
Semogue 2015HD
Godrej Mental Mist
Alum
Aqua Velva - now in plazzie bottle.
Excellent lather from the Godrej. This 7 O'clock is the first I have used in a couple of years & its not a bad blade. It is not as sharp as Iridium or super thins though.
Roll on Miller time. Cheers.
Gillette #58
7 O'clock D3 - Yellow box
Semogue 2015HD
Godrej Mental Mist
Alum
Aqua Velva - now in plazzie bottle.
Excellent lather from the Godrej. This 7 O'clock is the first I have used in a couple of years & its not a bad blade. It is not as sharp as Iridium or super thins though.
Roll on Miller time. Cheers.
- Joined
- Wednesday August 5, 2009
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Thursday
Neo's BBBB
Wallace Armer 5/8 full hollow
Nanny's Silly Lavender flavour soap.
Pitralon Classic a/s
Firstly, nothing to say about the soap, yet; full review to follow in a week or so. The razor is one of the batch of three which arrived from the US the other day. (Since this is a sensible forum I'm probably okay to mention the vendor's name - Trey Dampier - and he's a gentleman to deal with). This one handles exceptionally well and was a real pleasure to shave with. Does anyone else use Pitralon, by the way? I quite like it, but it makes my wife go weak at the knees
Neo's BBBB
Wallace Armer 5/8 full hollow
Nanny's Silly Lavender flavour soap.
Pitralon Classic a/s
Firstly, nothing to say about the soap, yet; full review to follow in a week or so. The razor is one of the batch of three which arrived from the US the other day. (Since this is a sensible forum I'm probably okay to mention the vendor's name - Trey Dampier - and he's a gentleman to deal with). This one handles exceptionally well and was a real pleasure to shave with. Does anyone else use Pitralon, by the way? I quite like it, but it makes my wife go weak at the knees
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