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Brush: Chisel & Hound Kuai Taper w/ V18 Fanchurian 26mm #COMPOSITE
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Razor: Blackland Vector Ti #CNC
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Blade: Feather Artist Club Pro
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Lather: Southern Witchcrafts - Lycanthropy
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Post Shave: Lucky Tiger - Aspen
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Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - Fox in the Flowerbed
Today's Theme: Picked out a vegan base soap with Southern Witchcrafts. Great soap from a great soapmaker.
Today's Challenge: #(ICan'tBelieveIt'sNot)ButterTheToast Day
The Blackland Vector Ti is a very enjoyable SE razor that uses artist club blades. Definitely a bit of a learning curve for me because of how sharp AC blades are, but after trying out some more aggressive DE razors (and that GEM MMOC yesterday) recently I'm much more confident with the Vector than I was when I first bought it a couple months ago.
My theme for today's shave: Animals #photocontest
So today I wanted to explore the idea of animals and how they can be part of the consumption aspect of our hobby, so each of my fragrance choices carry some animalistic theme in their design: Lycanthropy (being a werewolf), Lucky Tiger (well, tigers), and Fox in the Flowerbed (well, foxes),in addition to the Roosevelt badged C&H brush. To be quite honest, these scents clash and are quite dissonant. Lycanthropy being a classic SW scent, it's musky and earthy. Lucky Tiger's Aspen is a basic "blue" cleaning scent. And Fox in the Flowerbed is a very nice floral fragrance that just smells generally "pleasant" to my nose. I wasn't able to have the introspective epiphany about my relationship with animals that I was hoping for, but not every day is going to be a step forward on the path to enlightenment.
I picked Over the Hills and Far Away by Nightwish for today's listening. Absolute banger of a power metal album, and one of my favorite tracks ever. I thought there was a wolf on the album art when I picked it out which would have gone with my Animals theme, but I'm realizing now that I was thinking of a Sonata Arctica album. Oh well, great tunes nonetheless #FOF #ROTY