Post 'Friday Austere August SOTD Thread - Aug 09, 2024' of challenge 'Shepherds of Stirling 2024'

AA24 - Day 9 - 🫐💙 Blugère+Varen 💚 🌿

• Brush: Zenith Multi-Color (2006 XSE) 21mm Unbleached Boar Knot
• Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Plus
• Blade: Gillette Platinum [9]
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Soap (Mutton Tallow)
• Post Shave: Catie's Bubbles - Blugère - Aftershave Lotion

• Fragrance: Hermès - Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver - Eau de Parfum

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Happy Fougère Friday!

Brush Break-In Progress Album

Down On The Farm For AA - Day 9

• Brush: Omega 81151
• Razor: Merkur 37C
• Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux (9)
• Lather: Stirling - Scots Pine Sheep
• Post Shave: Stirling - Baker Street splash
• Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial unscented AS balm

$BarnyardChallenge Day 9 rolls on.

Brush has lost 1 or maybe 2 hairs since this started so kudos to Omega. Today's before and after pics.

Today's $BarnyardChallenge musical inspiration is "Down On The Farm" from the UK Subs. It's a punk classic to add a little pep in your step on a Friday.

Coffee is adding the pep to my step this morning. Try to enjoy your day and remember to be kind to one another.

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2024-08-09 🐑

• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Port au Prince
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Alighieri
• Razor: Wolfman Razors - Guerrilla
• Brush: Yaqi Metal Timberwolf

That lambs dislike great birds of prey does not seem strange; only it gives no ground for reproaching these birds of prey for bearing off little lambs. And if the lambs say among themselves: "these birds of prey are evil; and whoever is least like a bird of prey, but rather its opposite, a lamb—would he not be good?" there is no reason to find fault wih the institution of an ideal, except perhaps that the birds of prey might view it a little ironically and say: "we don't dislike them at all, these good little lambs; we even love them: nothing is more tasty than a tender lamb."

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August 9, 2024

• Brush: Summer Break Soaps w/Maggard 28mm Silvertip Badger
• Razor: Baili BR171
• Blade: Derby Premium (1)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Port-Au-Prince - Soap
• Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Incorporeal - Aftershave (with Roman Spice frag mixed in)
• Fragrance: Cross/Cut - Warm Woods - EdT

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Progress Album

August 9, 2024

• Brush: AP Shave Co. Synbad Fan
• Razor: Razorock Mamba 70
• Blade: Wizamet Super Iridium
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Electric Sheep
• Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Co. – Seaforth! Sea Ice Lime – Splash

I learned this morning that I have officially earned my LCSW, allowing me to independently practice therapy (a huge step in my career).

To celebrate, I gave myself an easy-peasy shave today with this setup which gives me a good shave no matter what. $ShepherdsofStirling

August 09 2024

• Brush: Omega 13732 24mm
• Razor: Solingen Best Silver Steel 6/8 (Straight shave #106)
• Lather: Stirling - Varen
• Post Shave: Stirling - Varen
• Fragrance: Ineke Perfumes - Idyllwild

Brush progress album

Quick two passes today, but the fact that I'm able to get a relatively quick and work-presentable shave with the straight is progress.

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August 9, 2024 * Prep: Hot Shower * Brush: Grizzly Bay - Dark Magic - 26mm TNS Shoat Boar * Razor: Blackland - Sabre * Blade: GEM PTFE * Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen Soap * Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Picture Day Splash * Tags: $ShepherdsofStirling $RawHoggin $Discord

Happy Friday!

• Prep: Hot water splash with face wash
• Razor: Rockwell 6C
• Blade: Astra SP (4)
• Lather: Stirling Scots Pine Sheep
• Brush: Maggards 22mm B&W synthetic
• Splash: Skin Bracer

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Great BBS shave. No irritation with just one tiny weeper on my jawline. My skin is taking up shaving every 2 days well. Even my hair tolerates it well. I’m genuinely surprised about it, as I thought both of these things wouldn’t take that beating well. Still, we only got two-thirds of this month to go, so we’ll see how well my skin and hair continue to cope with shaving every 2 days. Overall, great shave heading into the weekend.

Aug. 9, 2024
Brush: Semogue Pharos-c3 Pure Black Horse Hair Shaving Brush
Razor: Gillette 1959 Super Speed (Blue Tip)
Blade: Bolzano Superinox Inossidabile [2]
Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Scots Pine Sheep - Soap
Post Shave: Stetson - Original - Aftershave
Fragrance: Stetson - Original

This morning was one the best shaves I’ve had in a long time. I’ve never been able to achieve decent results with a single WTG pass, but that changed today. May or may not have been a fluke. Only tomorrow will tell.

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August 09, 2024

• Prep: Hot Shower
• Brush: Omega 10098 27mm Boar
• Razor: The Holy Black SR-71 Slant
• Blade: Astra Superior Platinum
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Sheep
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented Witch Hazel & Aloe
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented Post Shave Balm

If anyone’s got any tips for going against the grain on the neck, hit your boy up.

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Edit: Fixed Imgur link

August 9, 2024 – Fine Nine

• Brush: Semogue Torga C5
• Razor: Karve Christopher Bradley B plate Aluminum/Maggard Handle
• Blade: Wizamet (9)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Varen
• Post Shave: Noble Otter – Orbit

Earlier shave than I’m used to, working evening shift this weekend so I’ll have to squeeze in a shave before work tomorrow. Blade is holding up, still comfortable but definitely not as efficient. Two passes without incident. Mutton is still awesome, Varen is still awesome.

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