July 23, 2023 – Spark joy day
- Brush: DG 14/ Dowgood Handcraft – Sonder release
- Razor: Böker – Elite Carbon 2.0
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Fragrance: Yves saint laurent – Y
Lather audit. I put a lot of pressure on myself today. As I recently won the DG brush, I wanted to test it, and today is the first day I was able to do so. No lather challenge, except: “Try to make the best lather you can.” Maybe I am boring, or do not udnerstand this challenge. Is this the r/wetshaving pendant to r/roastme?
More importantly I was afraid of u/Phteven_j. What if he sees my lather and goes full ”Taken” mode?
#FOF
Soap:
The soap choice was pretty easy for me. Whenever I give people a den tour, as we have guests over, at some point I ll pick SSL. It is refreshing, inoffensive, but there is more depth to it than just lime. Spicy pepper, the sea spray taking you to a holiday at the beach. Unfortunately this soap is not yet available in the Highland base, but the 20.1 base does not need to hide.
Shave:
I was curious about the brush, and will focus on it, as it is new to me and DB brushes are always in the top 3 worldwide. Once soaked, I could watch how it swallowed the lather like watching a pipette pulling liquid. In my f2 mug, you can barely see any of the soap thats too dry. After lathering in my f1 mug and put the brush to my face, it was a completely new experience to me. Lots of backbone, but without beeing scratchy, without too much backbone and stiffness that make it difficult to lather my face and force me to “paint” the lather. So good.
Wait? f1, f2? What?
For my lather audit, I used the successor of u/Merikus GUTL method, the fmf method, to get even better lather.
To keep things short, we add a third mug, with to dry soap to the GUTL method and then iterate between the mugs and face as we need it.
result in the mug, result on face
Once the lather was done, the rest of the shave was no effort and fun.
Aftershave:
I did not want to clash scents and went again with SSL for reasons you read above. Lucky for us europeans, there is a toner without alcohol that we can buy from Maggards.
Fragrance:
My GF recommended me that fragrance because of Insta where it was praised at a scent that would make her “eat me up”(?). With bergamot and citrus we have a classic start, which then goes over geranium and woody accords. As I learned a few days ago, a classic fougere.
There is also some ginger and incense in it to make it a bit spicy and… the incense gives it a mysterious vibe. There is a bit to explore in the scent and I should not write down a quick first impression. Minute by minute it pulls me in and gets interessting with its combination of freshness, woody spice and the well placed incense.