July 12, 2023 – Flowers for GUTL
- Brush: Maggard Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Superspeed
- Blade: 7 O’Clock – Sharpedge (Yellow) (4)
- Lather: Martin de Candre – Rose
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Bergamot Lavender
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Sunrise on LaSalle
Today’s shave was thanks to a smush of MdC from u/loudmusicboy.
I’ve never used this soap before so I now better understand the title of today’s day.
For today’s challenge, I’m a bit of an odd ball, I basically equally bowl or face lather depending on how much time I have. But I pretty much stick to one or the other. Either I get out my bowl or I don’t.
So what’s the opposite of that? GUTL. Mixing my face and bowl lathering together and hoping u/merikus draws my post to judge.
Let’s do it.
Firstly, I’m kinda only aware of GUTL in theory so look up u/GUTL_bot to get instructions. Ok good.
Scoop into bowl. Now as I said I’ve never used MdC before so I don’t know how much. Based on u/EldrormR’s brain bowl experience I need less than a gram so put a little in and.. The whole smush crumbled in, whelp hope u/loudmusicboy gave me the right amount for a shave. I’ll smear it around the bowl. Doesn’t look like too much. Should be fine.
Make proto lather, ok that’s easy.
Put proto lather on face. Ok so far so good.
Return go bowl ok this I’m familiar with.
It’s about this point I think “man my face feels dry…is coconut oil the one that dries you out?" Oh it is.. Leaving a heavy coconut oil proto lather on my face while I build my bowl lather is… Probably not a good idea for my skin. Do I stop? No I press on.
OK tons of bowl lather built, now face lather. Ok… Explosion of lather on face… But the wet brush has hydrated it ok. Add some more water, keep building…..done. I look like Santa Claus (alas I forgot my phone and now having built lather twice for a single shave I’m running behind.)
OK, mix bowl and face lathers….I sorta did this when I went from bowl to face didn't I? (was I supposed to clean my brush at that step?) but ok.
Somehow this is making more lather!
OK, shave, with a 1 inch thick lather… Rinse my razor every 10 seconds.
I ended up with enough lather for 3.5 passes oh my face, 3 on my upper chest and probably another 2 or 3 that went down the drain. But shave complete. Apply balm. About 20 minutes later my my face feels like leather so…apply more balm.. 20 minutes later…well crap.
So one of two options here. Either my face does not like MdC or GUTL makes it especially drying. Or both I guess.
Huge time sink, for lather that was about my normal. So I don’t think I’ll join the GUTL crew yet. But u/merikus is right about the g20. That thing is awesome.
Edited: u/merikus and I have discussed in the comments and he has explained the errors of my ways converting me to GUTL going forward.
On to #fof. Should be obvious here I went for a flower heavy thing. Rose, Lavender, and Sunrise on Lasalle.
Lasalle market is interesting. It’s where all the local florists get their flowers. And this scent nails that. On Fridays you can run down and get “date flowers” which is a dozen roses for like $10. Though it’s probably gone up since I last did that. We have a few large local florists here, and they set their main operations on Lasalle, so it remains as it was long ago. One of the more interesting things in this sampler set which largely discusses the past. This one is the present. A rare unchanged thing I this town.
For #photocontest, probably my best shot yet, though I wish my back yard were less messy. As you can see in the heavy bokah background there is a pair of fawns, making this my wild animals entry. Keep plugging #ROTY friends.