July 30, 2023 – Alpha and Omega
- Brush: r/wetshaving Zentih MOAR BOAR 31mm🇮🇹
- Razor: Valet Autostro🏴
- Blade: Feather – FHS-10 (5)🇯🇵
- Lather: Mickey Lee Soapworks – The Kraken🇺🇸
- Post Shave: E&S Rasage Traditionell – Equinoxe🇫🇷
- Fragrance: Jean Paul Gaultier – Scandal🇪🇸
And so it ends. The lather games are over, long live the lather games.
Daily Challenge included:
Soap:
A little bit of flex here. u/Djundjila provided me with a sample of unobtainium MLS – Kraken last year.
Made in the US, it lathered pretty easy, although I prefer my lather more dense. The soap scent is not that much for me. Aquatic patchoulli. It fits the name and theme, and although I have a thing for giant sea creatures, this one is not my thing.
Shave:
The italian Zenith, never felt so good. After all the shaves I had with it, it is very soft by now. Maybe not suited for samples with its loft size. The Valet from great Britain was my razor from first day (thats why I called my shave Alpha and Omega). Unfortunately, the japanese blades had seen better days. The shave did not feel comfortable, I have some stublle left. Not my standards.
Aftershave:
The french Equinox is a nice classic masculine fougere aftershave. Bergamot as a head note, jasmin and rose followed by musk, moss, sandalwood and amber. In my opinion, this is nothing special, but works fine for every day, especially in the office.
Fragrance:
Scandal is made in Spain. It is really sweet and often compared to One million, which I wore a lot in my early twenties. A small vetiver note is also there, probably to avoid little teens to drink that sweet juice.
I wear Scandal quite frequently, and it does not develop much during the day. It is my go to fragrance for warmer days.
#FOF
There is no link between my scents. I am mainly focused on the world traveler daily challenge than to have a great match here.
Extra:
Nobody asked for it, but I want to review the lathergames and reminisce.
Before the games started, we read on discord that a lot of high stakes players would not attend the games or do not go full throttle into them. Djundjila joined the djudges, RedMosquitoMM was hit by holiday season like many others. I was afraid the games would be boring and die.
In the first days, I felt confirmed. Was it a bad choice to make RedMosquito a LG winner? I saw a lot of people trying to copy his style. Quality posts filled with memes to support the written word and make the post more entertaining.
After the first week, I felt a bit like an outcast. There were few of those madness dipshit posts, and I read a lot of posts, especially in the first week. Finally frigid friday happened, and from then on I was not the only one to do unnecessary nonesense, I was outclassed from others. The lather games were exactly what I wanted them to be like. We had a great podcast with lots of posts mentioned.
To be honest, I hoped my posts would be covered a bit more. I feel like I started the frigid friday escalation with Priusaurus. Nobody mentioned my “F*** PAA” and other Memento Tatoos on duppleganger day. I guess I had a lot of misfortune with my djudges for my best days. But what happened is history. I see it as a sign. Marquis… it’s time to grow up. These games and your motorcycle travel were the climax of your egoistic year.
My plan was to reach the top 10, but it’s realy hard to stay creative every day. Nonetherless, I won a DG brush, which feels like second place. It’s okay to leave the games with a nice 25 bucks gift card and get a Blackland razor.
That brings me to my next point. The challenges. I loved the themes, I loved the challenges. Dear Djudges. You did a great job. The themes left a lot of creativity open and I hope not halve of the cast was disquallified during hippy dippy baloney day. Especially music day was great. We had so many opportunitys and soaps to choose from.
Die to the challenges, I got to explore wetshaving and answer some long lost questions about it. Why do we start WTG? How good is a GEM? And many more.
Knowing the next days challenge beforehand made my daily schedule so much easier. I shave before 7am in the morning. By 8 in the morning the post for the day comes online (german time). By knowing what the challenge is, I could already act accordingly. Last year, I had to shave after work and then prepare my post.
Last thing I want to make clear is, that this is the first games where we do not have TTS at hand and I for my side had some battles with the new database. I am very certain that two times my aftershave was missed in the markdown and after I clicked “edit” “save”, it was there. In the beginning of the games, I hoped to reach 3 consecutive days without talking to a djudge about something that went wrong in my post. In the middle of the second week, there was no need to talk to djudges anymore. I also loved the transparency the portal gave us and hope it did not overwhelm the djudged to fix our tiny errors.
Thanks everyone for these awesome games.
u/onionmiasma and u/Priusaurus are already planning shenanigans for next year with me. I got some idea for frigid friday to end the discussion of the coolest shaver once and for all.