Complementary Non-Dickhole Day: Day 4 of Lather Games
Brush: Djed Flanders Leftorium #FauxFur
Razor: Henkotsu Kamisori #Kamisori #Str8Snob
Lather: House of Mammoth – Almond Leather
Post Shave: Declaration Grooming – Fake Yellow Light
Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Gratiot League Square
Theme justification: These three fragrances Almond Leather, Fake Yellow Light and Gratiot League Square are three different plays on leather, working as a progression from simple to complex when put together in this order. It’s a combo good enough that I remember when I found it, and I’ve since tweaked it, but I keep returning to it because it just feels like it’s meant to be. This is a warm scentscape, and it reminds me of winter.
Today’s challenge: I made this brush for my first leftorium challenge and I made it with my left hand. As a result, it’s ugly, yes, but perfectly serviceable, even if the cheap faux badger knot is a bit poky.
The leftorium challenge is trippy with safety razors, because that’s something we usually use with our dominant hand only. But with straights, where one of the first things one learns is to use both hands, it’s easier. Now there was a bit of discussion around traditional grind kamisoris on the discord these past two days, and this made me wonder: How difficult is it to use a right-handed (traditional grind kamisoris have a chiral geometry and mine’s right-handed) with my left hand?
Well, it’s clumsy, it’s slow, but works out. I got a better shave than with my new-to-me choice.
Complementary Non-Dickhole Day: Day 4 of Lather Games
Theme justification: These three fragrances Almond Leather, Fake Yellow Light and Gratiot League Square are three different plays on leather, working as a progression from simple to complex when put together in this order. It’s a combo good enough that I remember when I found it, and I’ve since tweaked it, but I keep returning to it because it just feels like it’s meant to be. This is a warm scentscape, and it reminds me of winter.
Today’s challenge: I made this brush for my first leftorium challenge and I made it with my left hand. As a result, it’s ugly, yes, but perfectly serviceable, even if the cheap faux badger knot is a bit poky.
The leftorium challenge is trippy with safety razors, because that’s something we usually use with our dominant hand only. But with straights, where one of the first things one learns is to use both hands, it’s easier. Now there was a bit of discussion around traditional grind kamisoris on the discord these past two days, and this made me wonder: How difficult is it to use a right-handed (traditional grind kamisoris have a chiral geometry and mine’s right-handed) with my left hand?
Well, it’s clumsy, it’s slow, but works out. I got a better shave than with my new-to-me choice.