July 15, 2023 – I have become death, destroyer of videos.
- Brush: Body Shop Synthetic #runt #smoll #ANCIENT
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24 #brassing
- Blade: GEM (2)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann – The Four Horsemen: Death
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Alive
- Fragrance: Maher Olfactive – Red Skies
So here we go.
First parts first: I did a video. It needs to be cleaned and uploaded so I’ll update once I have time to get to my desktop.
This pushed the boundaries of my desire for a sort of privacy. Interacting through text (even if many of you have my name and address from trades) acts like a mask.
So the mask slips a little and I’m uncomfortable, but the point here is to get out of our comfort zone. It’s not a good video but I tried.
Edited: As promised here is the video. TBQH, it's painful even I couldn't watch all 8:37 of it and it's me. My demanded we watch 3 minutes then they got bored.
Before any judge hits me with a negative point, I warned you! You can simply verify there is a video for the challenge.
On to the choices and #fof. So death is a chypre (yes I mispronounced it in the video.) the others, I’m not sure they haven’t become a new category. They’re built off a chypre accord, but Will didn’t call them chypre so… I didn’t take the chance.
But I do want to use war “during” lather games. So next Saturday, leg day, gonna use war for shave 2 (non LG shave) to shave my face.
So, I am a bit superstitious, so after slathering death all over my face 3 times, I countered it with Alive. Take that death! (Edited: according to our Chief Justice, Alive is also a chypre! So my superstition created a chypre trifecta. How's that for a feat of fragrance! "
Red Skies is listed on Shawn’s website as a chypre so I went to it get back to the theme. Given its name comes from the old adage “red skies at morning sailor take warning…” it also ties into the overall theme of death and life I got going too.
After I turned off the camera I nicked myself 3 times. Twice under the nose (as I noted is giving me trouble with the MM24) and once during the cleanup pass with the tech, because I forgot to tighten the head (doh).
Today’s #photocontest is water. That is actual holy water. My wife, who isn’t particularly religious, grabbed that many years ago after a Christmas Mass, because she thought you were supposed to. I, who is religious can’t bring myself to throw it away, so I keep it in a drawer. A friend, who’s a priest, saw it and told me I can dump it onto dirt and that’s proper disposal, but it still seems weird. I did not use it to make lather either. But it goes nicely with the death and life theme.
I did a shout out to my fellow #ROTY in the video but will do one again here. I count about 15 of us remaining. Since we’re halfway there here’s a song “Shaving our hair” to the tune of “living on a prayer”
Tommy’s got his moar boar in hock.
Now he’s letting grow what he used to shave off
Ohh shave off
Gina wishes the beard would go away
When she cries in the night tommy whispers
“Baby it’s ok, I’ll shave today”
You’ve gotta load up with what you got
It doesn’t make a difference if you GUTL or not
We’ve got each soap and that’s on theme for now
We’ll give it a shot
Oh, we’re half way there,
Oh-oh shaving our hair
Your skin is raw, but we’ll make I swear
Oh-oh, shaving our hair.
(Edited Video above)