Lather Games Day 1- Let's Fuckin' Go!
- Prep: Hot Shower - Preshave
- Brush: Semogue 610 #SMOLL
- Razor: Gillette Travel Tech #JETSETTER
- Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux (1)
- Lather: MacDuff's Soap Co. - Prairie Rumrunner
- Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Bay Rum Splash
- Post Shave: Zingari Man - AS Balm Unscented
Bonjour! Hola! Shalom! Welcome back to the month of insanity known as the Lather Games.
MacDuff's is a new soap company for me and since Prairie Rumrunner is their Bay Rum adjacent scent, I figured I'd snag a tub for this fine occasion. It was definitely interesting. It's a bit spicy and a bit dirty. I'm not sure I loved the scent, but I figure I need to get a few more shaves into the tub to make that determination. Performance-wise, it's a fine soap. It's not going to change lives though.
Also new to me is this teeny tiny Travel Tech I picked up as part of a vintage travel kit. Since I've tried pretty much every style of razor in the scavenger hunt, I could have attempted something like a Rolls Razor, but our friends who did the Audiobook Club Shaving podcast didn't exactly give the shave with this antiquity rave reviews. Why would I want to take a chance and slice the shit out of my face and risk looking like someone who survived a knife fight?
But have you ever used a Travel Tech? Have you ever shaved with something so fucking small? What kind of insanity is this?? It's damn near impossible to hold on to if you have average-sized hands. And I suspect it went out of production after loads of little children grabbed these fuckers thinking they were cool little toys. How many kids born from the late-50s to early-70s are nicknamed "Stumpy" as a result of losing digits to these cold-blooded killers of a razor? How many kids were unable to pick their boogers after an encounter with one of these things? I'm sure the Djudges will tell me to go pound sand because it's still a DE and I shave with loads of DEs. But this is some kind of special black magic-created DE. No one in their right mind should use such a thing. Hell, I might have been safer just shaving with the DE blade itself.
All that being said, I pulled off a decent shave to start the Lather Games. Easily better than attaching a DE to a chopstick and then slathering my face in mayonnaise.
So welcome to it, my friends. Good luck this month. Good luck also maintaining marital harmony and keeping your spouse from sending you off to a a padded room.