Feather SS with Pro blade (#4 I believe)
Palmolive stick
Semogue 2011 LE
Sulhwasoo after shave & balm
Amouage Opus III
No photo, nice shave again, finally getting the lather spot on consistently, Mr. Nick visited us again below the chin (these Feathers I tell you are pretty mighty) but other than that all well and steaming ahead possibly for a new era (and I'm not talking about the leadership succession in North Korea...)
Gillette Old with Feather
TOBS Almond cream
Trumpers West Indian Limes skin food as a pre
Boots Freshwood aftershave balm
Didn't shave yesterday and there was a lot of stubble to be dealt with. As expected this combo did an excellent job. No nicks on the face, neck, ears but a really nasty one on my right hand middle finger. Bled quicker than I could wash it away and alum and styptic didn't help (but hurt like hell).
Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Shavemac 24 mm D01
Razor: Hachiken 13/16
Soap: GFT Sandalwood
AS: Dr Harris, Sandalwood
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very close
I like this soap, takes much longer than others though, for me.
Hot Shower
Merkur 38B
Gillette 7 O'Clock (3)
T&H Grafton
Kent BK4
Proraso Healing Gel (unfortunately a careless stroke caused a cut on the chin)
GFT Lime Skin Food
TOBS Jermyn Street Cologne
Decent enough effort, annoyed with myself for being a bit careless on the 2nd pass and nicked my chin.
Continuing my T&H Cream week, it was nice to use the Grafton again. It's been a while and has kind of been relegated in my T&H rotation by my recently found love of Trafalgar. Grafton is a very close 2nd, although it will be interesting to see where WI Limes slides into the 'rankings' once I crack it open on Xmas Day.
Off work now until the New Year so a nice run followed by a leisurely shower and shave today.....
EJDE89
Crystal
Vulfix Mix
Palmolive Cream
Ogallala Bay Rum Splash
Floris Mahon Leather
Great shave....Now the leisure time ends and its a tidy of the house and loading the washing machine....fun while it lasted.
However have got the German Market to look forward to this afternoon, and a few weissbiers!
Fatboy
Perma-sharp super
'Keith' 2 Band badger
Nanny's Cedarwood & Vetyver hard soap
Crabtree & Evelyn sandalwood edt
The Fatboy from Sir Dodgy's pass-around arrived yesterday, so I took it on its first outing this morning. Good results from 2 passes and some touchups, but no immediate 'wow' factor. It will be interesting to see how things progress with further use.
Thomas.W.Ward & Co 6/8 Near Wedge
Gentlemen's Tonic Super Badger
Truefitt & Hill 1805 Cream
Nannys Vanilla Coconut Post Shave Hydration
Nivea Intensive Moisterising Cream.
The Shave: This razors going back on the hones I was expecting better
The after party.... Beretta Silver Pigeon 3, Lyalvale 32gm 6's = half a dozen pigeons
Hot shower
Proraso Pre/post
MWF - absolutely love this stuff, I'd heard mixed things about it but I've had nothing but fantastic lather from it.
Merkur Futur @3
Feather blade
Alum
Pinaud Vanilla
Perfectly decent shave this morning. However I think I've fallen out of love with the Futur. I've been using a 39c for the past few weeks and just prefer it to the Futur. Might have to let it go...and replace it with something else!