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Brush: Chisel & Hound Kuai Taper w/ V18 Fanchurian 26mm
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Razor: Clix E-Z-Flo Razor #UNICORN
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Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum
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Lather: Wholly Kaw - Rebelle
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Post Shave: Wholly Kaw - Rebelle
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Fragrance: Maher Olfactive - Treachery
Today's Theme: Musical Monday - WK's Rebelle is tangentially related to David Bowie's song Rebel Rebel, though I can't elaborate further because WK never did either.
Today's Challenge: Draw a soap label - I drew Rebelle, but better
My theme for today's shave: Fight the powah
I'll do my writeup in a little bit, gotta finish my morning coffee #photocontest #FOF #ROTY
Edit: OK I'm at work now so let's do this. So for today's musical challenge, I went through my rolodex of soap scents and realized one could probably do 30 days of Barrister and Mann soaps for all of the lather games themes, but I settled on Wholly Kaw's Rebelle which features David Bowie's starman getup on the label and is ostensibly inspired by his song Rebel Rebel which is a banger of a tune.
So when thinking about what fragrance to pair with it, I thought hey rebels, treachery, thematically it's about fighting the current established order. Fragrance-wise the two couldn't be farther apart. Rebelle is easy on the nose, enough so that I kept wondering if it was a dupe of a mainstream fragrance. Treachery on the other hand is challenging. The pipe tobacco scent comes on thick. It doesn't smell like a cigar shop, it smells like you stuck your nose directly into the pouch of some fresh stanky pipe tobacco.
Music-wise, I picked Stratovarius' self-titled album. This album came out after a particularly tumultuous and drama-filled era for the band, and each song is basically the band doing their self-healing in public. It's about feeling crazy because of external pressures, fighting to stay true to oneself, the feeling of alienation, and the power of group unity.