July 30th 2023 - Lather Games Day 30
- Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR
- Razor: Mühle Rocca R95
- Blade: Polsilver Super Iridium (1)
- Lather: Abbate y La Mantia - Don Jose
- Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Grapefroot
- Fragrance: Louis Vuitton - Météore
Congratulations everyone on completing the Lather Games! Like the marathon runners who shit themselves at the end of the race, I disgraced myself at the finish line by using a soap and a brush from the same country, and realizing this morning that I have three post shave products that aren’t from the United States but I used all three of them already. So since I am chasing 30 post shaves, I had to use something American. So my brush and soap are Italian, the blade was made in Russia, fragrance is French, and the razor is German, but Southern Witchcrafts is American like myself. Womp womp.
And the shave itself was terrible. I’m not familiar with the AyLM base at all, because this is a sample I bowl lathered it, which I am out of practice doing, and using the soap-hungry MOAR BOAR just ruined the poor lather. Too much water, not enough soap, just a drippy mess. What made it to my face had enough slickness to get through two passes but it was ugly.
At least I did get a nice balance of summer fruit scents, the banana and coconut from the soap intermingling nicely with the grapefruit splash, and then topped off with the oranges, bergamot and vetiver from Météore.
I’m proud of myself for completing my third Lather Games, and getting 30 different soaps, post-shaves, and frags for the first time. Maybe next year I’ll try getting 30 soap makers too. Big prayer hands emoji of thanks to the djudges for orchestrating all of this fun, and taking time from your real lives to make this happen for us all.