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  • MaplePoplar
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    Dec. 6, 2023

    • Razor: Karve CB SB D
    • Blade: UK Tech Statum
    • Lather: Spearhead - Sea Ice Lime - Soap
    • Post Shave: Spearhead - Sea Ice Lime - Aftershave

    Good shave. Quite the blast of menthol and lime this morning.

  • djundjilaMA
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    Back in Black

    • Brush: Dogclaration LG 2022 Mystery Brush (B16)
    • Razor: Böker S.S. Paris Wins
    • Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Black Watch
    • Aftershave: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Black Watch
    • Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Black Watch

    I’m celebrating Black Watchday with an all-black hardware setup. This fragrance just can’t but put me in a good mood, and the ship Böker is a great razor. Good start into the day.

    After yesterday’s double trickhole shave, this starts to look like a bit of a Dickhole December.

  • spj_hook
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    Wednesday, December 6, 2023

    • Prep: hot shower
    • Brush: Yaqi Cashmere Synthetic Shaving Brush, Dandelion Green Handle, 24mm
    • Razor: Gillette Slim Adjustable H3 (1962, 3rd quarter)
    • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (1)
    • Lather: Barrister & Mann - Leviathan Shaving Soap (Omnibus base)
    • Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Leviathan - Aftershave Balm

    Not sure what happened the other day but today’s shave was infinitely better. Same blade and razor, but today was pure bliss by comparsion.

  • gcgallant
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    December 6, 2023

    • Brush: AP Shave Co Black 26mm G5A

    • Razor: Ralf Aust 5/8 Stainless Full Hollow Spanish Point

    • Lather: Barrister and Mann - Vespers - Soap

    • Toner: None

    • Aftershave: Barrister and Mann - Vespers - Aftershave

    2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.


    This is my travel setup through Friday. All the accoutrements for luxury shaves while away from home.

    • waldenMA
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      1 year ago

      Safe travels. Anywhere fun or interesting?

      • gcgallant
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        1 year ago

        I’m in Cleveland visiting my daughter. Doing some hiking and photography.

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      A R. Austfrei travel straight + synth is the way to go: peace of mind without 💯% dry gear++;

      • gcgallant
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        This time around, the pièce de résistance is my travel strop. After seeing yours, I got Tony Miller to make one with a piece of premium steerhide and flax linen. He also sent me a 280mm x 75mm piece of steerhide so I could make a bench strop from it.

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            Bandwidth is poor where I’m staying. I might have to wait until I return home for pics.

  • PorkButtsNTaters666
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    December 6, 2023


    After yesterday’s meh experience with Ishtar, I tried a synthetic brush, and didn’t use any preshave. I loaded abundantly, and got loads of dense lather. It’s not as slick as Southern Witchcraft’s base though, even with lots of water. Yeah, it doesn’t spark as much joy as before.

    Have a good night!

    • djundjilaMA
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      You used to love Ishtar, no?

      Is it just the lather, or do you also dislike the scent now?

      • PorkButtsNTaters666
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        The scent is great, but it’s gotten very weak since I had to change the tub (there was some reaction of the tin tub with the soap). I don’t know whether the lather quality declined with the scent, but I don’t get the wow effect anymore 😞

        • djundjilaMA
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          1 year ago

          #sad

          Did the soap react with the original tin from AYLM?

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            Yes, in both Ishtar and Marduk - and that’s why they changed most of their soaps to hard soap, with the rest going into glass containers (which are outrageously priced)

            #sadindeed

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              Thanks, I had no idea and this is good to know. I’m lucky then that my Don Josè is still fine. Maybe I should play it safe and switch to bowl lathering it to avoid feeding the reaction with moisture.

              The hard soap is actually quite nice, I enjoy the Verbena Toscana one a lot.

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                I only bowl lathered, and still got the reaction (I thought it was stronger with Marduk, but maybe only because it is white, and it is more visible.

                • djundjilaMA
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                  It’s probably the clay reacting with the aluminium. The older soaps don’t have clay iirc, so they wouldn’t have that issue.

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              Oh damn, you weren’t kidding about outrageous prices!

              RIP AYLM Thrill

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                RIP AYLM Thrill

                To be fair, they increased also the tub size (from 150 to 200ml) - but they matched the 33% increase in size with a 50% increase in price.

                As much as I want to like their Babylonian gate themed soaps (they released a new one, Urash, recently), between issues of evaporated scent, latherability and €€€, it’s become hard to be a AYLM fanboy

                • djundjilaMA
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                  To be fair, they increased also the tub size (from 150 to 200ml) - but they matched the 33% increase in size with a 50% increase in price.

                  Isn’t it more like a 100% increase? I have some memory of passing less than €30 for a tin a year or so so.

                  it’s become hard to be a AYLM fanboy

                  💯

  • DaveWave94
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    SOTD 06.12.2023

    • Prep: warm water
    • Razor: Headblade S4 Lunar Eclipse; Stando Perun
    • Blade: HB 2; Voskhod
    • Brush: AP Shave Co. 30 mm Tuxedo Fan w/ black & clear handle
    • Lather: Wholly Kaw - Vor V
    • Post Shave: OAM sensitive skin toner; Aloe Vera gel

    1-pass head and face shave. Head with the Headblade, face with the mild Stando Perun.

    Vor V is one of my favourite scents in wetshaving due to being a TF Tuscan Leather dupe. Fruity leather is something I’ll never grow tired of. The OAM fragrance by their “wellness oils” line goes oddly nice with it.

    The only blood loss was due to a bump on my jawline. Other than that, a totally comfortable and relaxing Wednesday night shave. Tomorrow I want to take “Farewell selfies” with my favourite colleagues, not only for myself but also as a parting gift for them. I really cherish the connections I made with them; even though we won’t share the same place of work by next year, we’ll stay friends 🍀

  • waldenMA
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    December 6, 2023

    • Brush: Maggard 24mm SHD Bulb
    • Razor: Micromatic Clog-Pruf (Gen 1)
    • Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (3)
    • Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber - Soap
    • Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Sni Mato - Aftershave
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Balm

    A couple of under-the-nose weepers. They were actually a bit more intense than a standard weeper, but at the same time didn’t quite warrant a styptic.