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Oh Satan, where have you been? Well I decided to take a break in the British summer, if only to cool down from the pit of eternal fires and souls doomed to an eternity of beardom. My God, their whining and whinging exceeds that of Mrs Satanfriendly and her powder puff clogging facial hair.
But one thing for sure, I haven't thrown my shaving towel in to the sink and quit planet razor. Oh no, oh no, never in a month of Wednesdays. What is it about Sundays? Stand up for the drabest day of the week.
So my last two shaves (which is starting to become a bit of a pathetic fashion statement from Satan's towers) and they arrive pixilated with the theme, 'Burn beards, burn, burn, burn'
Reasons to be shaven part 1
Burn baby razor - Ikon B1
No razor burn blade - Wizamet Super Iridium
Burning bushes - Yaqi Moka
Burning beds - Kent soap
Burn cream - L'Occitane Cade balm
Burn your bras boys(?) - Eau Sauvage
'What? I've got to grow a fucking beard as well?'
MWF by any other name? Says 'Kent' on the bowl and hence that is what it shall be called by no other name. May be it is the same, but those chaps down south have must have added some kind of magic Southern fairy dust in there as it lathers so easily. May be us fellas up North like life to be hard and those Mitchell folk have added nails and segs in to the mix. Bowls made from old wooden clogs.
Perhaps one of the only Soaps where I think the Moka shines through. It succeeds where other brushes fail and a most wonderful facial creaming to cut in to. And cut the Ikon did. Brilliantly and smoothly to a big shiny face of a finish. Must be the fairy dust.
A slap of Cade, a savage spray of scent and ready to throw some hard as fucking nails Japanese girls at you. Oh hail the Beaver.
Reasons to be shaven part 2
Pyrogenic razor - Razorock Hawk V3
Bonfire blade - Feather Professional
Blazing brush - Razorock 400
Conflagration cream - Penhaligons Blenheim Bouquet
Phologistic moisturiser - Pure
Scintillating scent - Penhaligons Blenheim Bouquet
'Burn Satan and take your Japanese girly music with you, you sad old git'
I have never thought the Hawk as being the best SE in the bunch and to be honest I find the manufacture and quality to be rather savage. Certainly the blade fitment is all a bit clumsy and to me it appears to be all the wrong way around. Far better than the Enoch though. But I do find with the Professional slapped between its cheeks it does one bloody fine job and well makes up for its lack of finesse in other areas.
Another great finish with the Blenheim cream doing a fine job of lathering duties. Not a cream I will buy again as there is better and certainly overpriced. Even the outlet in York doesn't knock that much off the price. It does however do a good job of creaming on my face with the matching brush to the razor (in a way). Not something I have experienced since last wearing my wife's best frock on the corner of the docks.
The Blenheim EDC isn't that much better either for the price and if it lasts much longer than exiting the bathroom it would only because I have just cleared the space faster than Usain Bolt.
Still, a superb bit of shaving effort and grin value a very nice 7/10. 7 out 10 what, I have no idea.
So at this point I exit my SOTD faster than the longevity of the Blenheim Bouquet and all it takes is for me to say 'I love you all' and leave you with those talented beauties Band Maid and their new single
But one thing for sure, I haven't thrown my shaving towel in to the sink and quit planet razor. Oh no, oh no, never in a month of Wednesdays. What is it about Sundays? Stand up for the drabest day of the week.
So my last two shaves (which is starting to become a bit of a pathetic fashion statement from Satan's towers) and they arrive pixilated with the theme, 'Burn beards, burn, burn, burn'
Reasons to be shaven part 1
Burn baby razor - Ikon B1
No razor burn blade - Wizamet Super Iridium
Burning bushes - Yaqi Moka
Burning beds - Kent soap
Burn cream - L'Occitane Cade balm
Burn your bras boys(?) - Eau Sauvage
'What? I've got to grow a fucking beard as well?'
MWF by any other name? Says 'Kent' on the bowl and hence that is what it shall be called by no other name. May be it is the same, but those chaps down south have must have added some kind of magic Southern fairy dust in there as it lathers so easily. May be us fellas up North like life to be hard and those Mitchell folk have added nails and segs in to the mix. Bowls made from old wooden clogs.
Perhaps one of the only Soaps where I think the Moka shines through. It succeeds where other brushes fail and a most wonderful facial creaming to cut in to. And cut the Ikon did. Brilliantly and smoothly to a big shiny face of a finish. Must be the fairy dust.
A slap of Cade, a savage spray of scent and ready to throw some hard as fucking nails Japanese girls at you. Oh hail the Beaver.
Reasons to be shaven part 2
Pyrogenic razor - Razorock Hawk V3
Bonfire blade - Feather Professional
Blazing brush - Razorock 400
Conflagration cream - Penhaligons Blenheim Bouquet
Phologistic moisturiser - Pure
Scintillating scent - Penhaligons Blenheim Bouquet
I have never thought the Hawk as being the best SE in the bunch and to be honest I find the manufacture and quality to be rather savage. Certainly the blade fitment is all a bit clumsy and to me it appears to be all the wrong way around. Far better than the Enoch though. But I do find with the Professional slapped between its cheeks it does one bloody fine job and well makes up for its lack of finesse in other areas.
Another great finish with the Blenheim cream doing a fine job of lathering duties. Not a cream I will buy again as there is better and certainly overpriced. Even the outlet in York doesn't knock that much off the price. It does however do a good job of creaming on my face with the matching brush to the razor (in a way). Not something I have experienced since last wearing my wife's best frock on the corner of the docks.
The Blenheim EDC isn't that much better either for the price and if it lasts much longer than exiting the bathroom it would only because I have just cleared the space faster than Usain Bolt.
Still, a superb bit of shaving effort and grin value a very nice 7/10. 7 out 10 what, I have no idea.
So at this point I exit my SOTD faster than the longevity of the Blenheim Bouquet and all it takes is for me to say 'I love you all' and leave you with those talented beauties Band Maid and their new single
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