July 12, 2023 – The Winnie The Pooh Shave
- Brush: Stirling Synthetic
- Razor: Maggard V3
- Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
- Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – ’95 Liquid Labels
It’s Catie’s Bubbles. It’s today’s featured artisan for a reason.
Challenge: well, I both leg lather AND bowl lather. Legs are too much surface area to lather all at once. You will dry out.
Normally I shave in the shower. I directly load my brush to put a pasty proto-lather on, then whip up a soap soup runny lather in a bowl and finish the process with a leg lather as I approach each section.
But today is not that day. Today, we have to do the opposite. Today we get weird.
I shaved at the sink so it was a Winnie the Pooh situation.
Since I couldnt leg or bowl lather, and because of the aforementioned pants-less-ness I couldn’t go get a plate, so I went for the counter lather.
Now the problem is the volume of lather I need for legs. I couldn’t just lay out a large enough puddle of perfect lather in the space I had. So I built my own bowl of dryish lather up, and created a little lake inside of that. This way I was able to dip my brush in the wet, pick up a little bit of the denser lather and slap it all on my leg for a decent texture. All while standing like a flamingo with one foot in the sink.
Edit: formatting