Beautiful Brush!View attachment 36340 ~SOTD~
Evening shave.....
Prep ~ Valbora Glicerlanonlina soap, Shower
Razor ~ Eskimo Ajustable set to 3
Blade ~ Personna 74*
Soap ~ OSP Peppermint & Rosemary
Brush ~ Semouge Owners Club (Taj) Finest two band badger
Post ~ Thayers Rose Petal
Scent ~ Guerlain Jicky EDP
A great close shave from the Eskimo paired with the 74* Blade, the OSP soap was outstanding, but of course it was, it's OSP!
My first use of the new line in Semouge Owners Club brushes and it lived up to my expectations, the same great knot with a quality resin handle.
A spray or three of Jicky and I'm done.
Have a great evening people ....P.
Thank you B.Beautiful Brush!
Which book would you take Iain? And what would be your luxury item?View attachment 36343
Sotd - Wednesday 13th of June -
Razor - ER 1912 British
blade - ER Corrux (pick a number)
brush - Stirling two-band fan
soap - Williams Ice Menthol cream
post - witch hazel
a/s - Artic Kinesia
balm - Barts Peppermint lotion.
Result - great.
I realised when I set about my menthol shave tonight - that the rain was battering off the window - looks like the weather has finally broken. Storm Hector apparently - can you be truly afraid of anything called Hector? Unless its a reference to the Trojan war - that Hector was a bit hard - perhaps I should be worried? The Williams cream is always a pleasure to use - punches way above its price point - well cold and excellent slickness. I've never seen the Artic Kinesia after shave for sale outside of Spain. Cheap as chips in ECI and it works very well for me. It has algae in it apparently - not entirely sure how that might help - other than making you attractive to whales - no - that's krill isn't it? Even Gemstone don't carry it - ordinarily suppliers of all things good in Spanish shaving porn. Finished off with @BartsBalm Peppermint lotion - any further praise for these products from me is redundant - if you haven't tried them - I would recommend you do so. So job done - bbs - another top end shave off the rank - yours - I.
Oh - today's sotd postcard - I have a dream that I will get to appear on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio Four one day - 'Well Kirsty - my next track is Jimi Hendrix performing 'The Star Spangled Banner' at Woodstock.' That's going to upset a lot of punters waiting for the Archers? It's easy at this remove of time to forget how radical this piece of music was - a young - black - hippy - dressed like a camp pirate - patently out of his face most of the time - unashamedly - taking a core American anthem - something sacral - twisting it, bending it - tearing it up - putting it back together again - reworking it and handing it back to the the 'straights' on wave after wave of deafening, demented feedback. Visceral - I sort of understand the treatment as a response to Vietnam - the auditory equivalent - and every bit as eloquent as Picasso's Guernica - as anti-war statements go. They would never let me on Desert Island Discs - I'd insist on the Bonzo Dog Band next - I'd have to have Ace of Spades in my choices too. Ha ha ha.
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