The shave itself felt very rough and i was expectinh a lot of irritation, howver smooth after 2 passes and only a small nick on the lip, a little angle practice is needed me thinks...
Last had a shave late afternoon yesterday so just a quick 1 pass shave with touch-ups.
Gillette Contour with Wilkinson Sword Profile
Noxzema Menthol
Givenchy Gentleman edt
Feather AC SS
Feather Pro Blade
Edwin Jagger Silvertip Brush
Proraso Shaving Cream (Green tube)
Witch Hazel
3rd shave and best result so far with the Pro blade. 1 pass WTG on face and neck, an ATG pass on the neck only and then a little jaw-line touch up. Not totally BBS, but more than good enough.
Prep: Hot Shower
Cream: TOBS Jermyn Street
Brush: Neep 28mm Extra Silvertip in Kenya Soapstone
Razor: Feather AS D1
Blade: Gillette Super Thin
A/S: TOBS Jermyn Street
Nice pleasant shave, this razor is really growing on me now, I understand why people like them so much.
I decided to give the Hishakaku Kamisori another run out after the great shave I received the first time I used her, and what can I say another fantastic shave from this razor, two pass shave BBS.
Pre Veleiro soap + Razorock XXX + Simpson Duke3 Best + UFO U2 Long with Gillette New and Iridium Super #2 + Myrsol Agua de Limón + Razorock Wax Eucaliptus&Tea Tree
An excellent shave! Yeah, both Razorock are superb products, although I don't like the scents much: XXX reminds me to Nenuco cologne and Wax is almost identical to Vicks Vaporub, hehe
Gillette Fat English Tech
Red Personna SS (1)
Simpsons Wee Scot
Omega Soap
Harvard ASB
Boggi (Red) EdT
Three pass, face lather.
No shave yesterday.
Deluxe and delightful.
Great shave but the star is the Boggi EdT (bought last week in Verona). I have no idea about base notes et cetera but it has a superb scent and it lasts...
Monday 1st October 2012
Prep: Shower
Razor: ER 1914 Little Lather Catcher
Blade: GEM Stainless Coated
Brush: Omega 10810 Boar
Cream: Erasmic
Aftershave: Nivea Sensitive Balm
Super shave. After condemning this cheap boar brush and labelling it as useless I do believe it is at last starting to 'open up' a bit, although I still feel that the knot's width is too much for it's short loft, making it very stiff.
Geo F. Trumpers Lime shaving cream
Henk silvertip badger in walnut
Progress on 1 with Rhino blade (silver stainless)
Boots Freshwood aftershave balm
Got some of these from a UK seller on ebay who had Flying Eagle in the photo. His description said blades will vary. After some correspondence it transpired that he had a load of brown sealed boxes and was just selling whatever ones came out of the boxes first. In my case the order was entirely composed of these Rhino blades.
Translation software on my phone revealed these are silver coated stainless blades. With the Progress on its lowest setting I started work. You can really feel the edge on these blades. Not because they're draggy - quite the opposite. They feel and shave a lot like Feathers; perhaps not quite as sharp but still very sharp. I got a nick on my top lip without even feeling it. A blade to take your time with. If the rest of the consignment are as good as this one was I have bought a few excellent blades.
Even with the