Leg Wecking Day (oh, and Berries)
- Brush: Мужской Материк Orange Stabilised Burl with 28mm Oumo boar knot at 57mm loft
- Razor: Weck Sextoblade Med Prep
- Blade: Kismet Rostfrei, Polymer beschichtet (6)
- Lather: Abbate y La Mantia – Don Jose
- Post Shave: Abbate y La Mantia – Don Jose
- Fragrance: Abbate y La Mantia – Don Jose
So yeah, bananas are berries, Don Josè is banana, coconut, and menthol (in that order), and me trickholing this should make djudging my post and frag relevance maximally efficient.
Now, today wasn't ideal for three reasons: we have guests at home, it's lather games podcast recording night, and it's travel day for Djunior and me. So this is how the last hours before leg day unrolled:
The guests staying over are a couple with their 7 month old baby in the guest room, a.k.a. Djunior's room. So everything has been a bit hectic and improvised, tiring and happy in the last few days. The evening before leg day was our last dinner, and it's time for me to come clean, because there's no way that I record a podcast in the living room and shave my legs (two separate activities) before taking the train with Djunior without our guests noticing in such a crowded and intimate setting.
Djundjila, at the dinner table: "BTW, don't be surprised, but I'll get up at 03:00 to record a podcast in the living room. I'll try to keep volume down not to wake baby Guest Baby"
Guest Wife: "Oh interesting, what kind of podcast?"
DJ: "The weekly Lather Games podcast"
Guest Husband: "What are 'Lather Games'?"
A lengthy discussion, including a den tour, ensued. It turned out that Guest Wife had been silently wondering about the large number of weird cosmetics in the main bathroom and had unsuccessfully tried to figure out what my wife might be doing with "Tabac", "Haverford", or "Massacre of the Innocent".
By the time the discussion ended, we were tipsy and it was three hours before I had to get up again for the podcast recording. I got in a solid 2.5 hours of sleep before waking up sleepy, but mostly sober. During prep, I realised that our special guests, the djudges of the photocontest, all overslept and I was really jealous of them.
By the time recording was finished, the sun was up and birds were chirping, and I really wanted nothing but to go to sleep, but it was fucking leg day. (Mandatory before pic (Safeish for work) )
So I smushed about a table spoon of Don Josè in my lather bowl, grabbed the big Мужской Материк brush and sat down on the edge of the bathtub to lather up, following u/newtothethis's advice to work in quadrants (thanks!).
I felt very proud with my genius decision to use the Sextoblade. I had shaved my left leg for Atlas shaves one and a half years ago, and I knew that even open comb safety razor clog when shaving full length leg hair, and for the first leg, everything went well. Slow, but no blood. By the time I reached the second leg, I was cocky and went fast with the commensurate result (blood, NSFW). Nothing that a styptic pencil couldn't stem, but I felt less smug at this point. The final result is disturbingly smooth (Safeish for work). I later found that I had missed a good 2×4 cm patch on my left knee, a blatant violation of the challenge rules which I corrected with a Gillette Goodwill having already packed my Weck for the trip. I attribute the oversight to sleep deprivation. By the time I had finished, Djunior was up, and it was time to get breakfast, get packed, and get on the train. It was the beginning of a loooong day.
BTW, I'll be away from my den for the rest of Lather Games, and I had to pack a pretty ridiculous amount of shave wares as a result.