SOTD: Saturday 27 May - Friday 2 June 2023.

30 May

Sterling Campania
Cadman M55 Tuxedo
Rex Ambassador
Treet Platinum
Bart’s Balm Ben Kilbreck

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This Treet blade has completed six shaves. I felt the performance slightly lacking this morning so I’m not going to risk a seventh. The Campania and Cadman created a beautiful rich lather and two passes with the Ambassador did the job. Good stuff.
 
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3P "La Crema Prodigio" pre-shave cream.
Semogue 1250.
T.O.B.S. "Lime Zest" shaving cream.
iKon B1 DeLuxe / OSS handle.
Astra Superior Platinum (2).
Golonya "Lemon" EdC.
 
SOTD 20230530 ABC by IschiaPP @ Forio
  • Brush: Omega 10077 Blue, Boar, 22x50x98mm
  • Soap: A&B Cosmetics Ribera Sapone 150ml
  • Razor: DonJae Chopper 1.0 Blue
  • Blade: Lord Classic Superior Stainless Saloon Half Blade #5
#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
 
A good close shave from this Chinese Super Blue blade.
Really like this shaving cream's performance and scent.

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Razor: Gillette New (short comb)
Blade: Gillette Super Blue
Brush: Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Amber Aerolite Stygian Synthetic
Lather: Men Rock Black Pomegranate
Aftershave: Bio Fresh Rose of Bulgaria https://shavingbuddies.com/shave/6475fc3f7561cd6e4045cae4
 
30/05/23
Pre - Droyt's Classic Glycerose Soap
Brush - Semogue Torga C5 Boar
Soap - Martin De Candre Original
Razor - Mühle R89 Twist
Blade - Astra SP Green
Post - Cold water Rinse
Balm - Barts Balm Ben Kilbreck - Neroli, Rosemary & Jasmine
A/S - Williams Aqua Velva Musk
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I can honestly say that when i first started out i was not getting as good a shave with these "starter" razors as i have been getting this week. I hope its down to improved technique and understanding.
Proving to me at least, as the saying goes - "you cannot buy a better shave with more expensive kit".
A very comfortable 3 pass shave.
Stay safe and enjoy your day all.
 
The new week of SOTD's started this past Saturday and it has taken me a whole four sad days to scribble anything down. I am truly effing useless......but I do have a feasible reason (even if it is piss weak), but more to follow.

Anyhow, for my first entry for this new week of SOTD's I am belatedly pleased to offer a number of shaves wrapped in to one with the shared theme, 'I don't shave (some days)'

Saturday

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A razor for today - Stainless General
Saturday's blade - Feather Super Professional
Soap for today - Signature Soaps Londinium
The day before Sunday's balm - L'Occitane Cade
Scent of the day - Laboratory Perfumes Gorse

When my wife said to me last week 'I need to downsize' I really thought 'Bragging rights here', but then went to mention she meant the house. That one went away quicker than it arrived (apparently another problem she has with me). 'If you thought I was referring to you, I already downsized the moment I married you for the second time. No, get me a smaller house'. I did mention I wanted bigger boobs but I didn't get them.


'And stop staring at her fucking tits'

Since then I have spent all my time getting this downsize moving and I have somehow managed to make sense of it all and actually well down the road of selling and buying in a matter of days. Now I mention 'I' because she has just laid in bed pretending to be sick dishing out orders. I will let her off though as she is actually ill. Get well soon Mrs Satanfriendly.

Sunday

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Another razor of the day (just a different day) - Yaqi Excalibur
Oh just get on with it will you? - Kai Titan Mild
Sunday brunch Brush - Cadman 24mm Tuxedo
Lather generating material of the day - Officinia Argentia
Sunday's smelly stuff - Goutal Eau D'Hadrien


'I'm nicking all his lather while he's not looking'

Monday

Now I didn't shave this day, but instead I give you a Karaoke Shave! Takes me bloody ages to throw this crap together and why you are getting Monday's shave on a Tuesday. Just hit that 'Play' button and somehow manage to make the lines fit to the song. And if they don't, well just gabble them through or leave big silences.






The Signature Soaps inside my bowl
Gets whipped to overflow
And Satan’s not going to shave today
I’m gonna make my bristles free of foam
And my wife doesn't understand it
She always said I was clean and bold
And I can’t see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do I need to be shorn?


I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
I wanna shave the whole day down

The shower room sink is kept so clean
And it sparkles in my ideal world
My brother is amazed and shocked, I’ve just been defrocked
And I turn and look at the lathered brush whirl
Cashmere twenty four, ain't that a whore
It sold itself, to a man on the shelf
I can’t see see no reason
'Cause there is no reason
What shave do I really need? oh oh oh oh?

I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
I wanna shave the whole day down

And all the shaving’s stopped for this evening for now
Wife wants to play with her toys a while
You scruffy faced bugger are you not learning
And the lesson this evening is just don’t try
And then the old witch has a cackle and the captain’s ramshackle
With the problems and his rough as fuck swede
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What shave do I really need?, oh oh oh oh?

The Signature Soaps inside my bowl
Gets whipped to overflow
And Satan’s not going to shave today
I’m gonna make my bristles free of foam
And my wife doesn't understand it
She always said I was clean and bold
And I can’t see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do I need to be shorn?

I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I just don’t
I just don’t
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I just don’t
I just don’t
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't shave on Mondays
I wanna shave the whole day down



Some day or another

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Some razor or another - Muhle R89
There is a blade included? - Polsilver Lodz
A brush for all seasons - AP Shaving 24mm Cashmere
Some stuff for making the day's lather - Extro Arzanchena
Splash of the day - Extro Arzanchena splashy stuff


'I thought you were ill?'

'Tell them the truth you bastard, tell them the truth'

Okay the shave for 'Some day or another' was actually yesterday and it was today I gave bristle removal time a day off. I couldn't contrive a song called 'I don't like Tuesdays'. Just wouldn't be right, so better tell fibs if only to sound half decent.

I am a shit.

More important. All that drivel to get to the only part that matters, the Japanese girly moment. It is over to Otoboke Beaver and just to remind me 'Love is short', and if I carry on at this rate it will be....



 
Rockwell 6S (plate R5) :: Personna Platinum blade (3) :: Stirling Coniferous soap :: Semogue SOC boar brush :: Lea splash
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Very smooth result, but I think my sweet spot with the 6S will be R4. A new soap: amazing performance, but the scent may not be for me; it may grow on me though, it's happened before.
 
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SOTD: 30/05/2023

Razor: Rockwell 6s
Blade: Voskhod Teflon Coated, 1st use
Brush: Yaqi Sagrada Familia
Bowl: 3D Printed Bowl
Preshave: PAA Cube Unscented Soap
Soap: Goodfellas Smile Chronos Puck
Aftershave: Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man EDT
Balm: Liz Earle Aftershave Balm Balm

A brilliant first shave while away, just what was needed to start the day!
 
Tuesday 30th May

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Imperial Leather (Vintage) Shave Bowl & Macy Associates No.5 w/Muhle Silvertip Fibre 22mm
Gillette Tech pre-War American (Brass) & Super Gillette Blue (NOS T4 1999) (2)
Imperial Leather Classic (Vintage) Aftershave

Second go with the NOS Super Gillette Blue and a little scratchy from the off? Only on one side, though. Slacken head, give it a little jiggle, tighten up and ... oh, so smooooth. Loved it! Did three relaxing, purposeful and thoughtful passes. Quality time spent. Super-thick lather from the Imperial Leather.
 
Wed 31
Cream & Aftershave Old Spice Musk & Original
Brush Yaqi 26mm Rainbow
Razor Marshes & Shepherd Ponds Works
Nice lather from this cream and together with the splash...smells good.
This razor is very good and the shave it provided was just awesome. Stropped (my computer still does not recognize this word :LOL:) on the roo leather, 3 buttery smooth passes for a bbs-dfs finish...
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