June 3, 2024 – Where’s the Beef
- Brush: Semogue - 2000
- Razor: Blackland - Blackbird Lite
- Blade: Personna Lab Blue (2)
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. – AG1889
- Post Shave: The Holy Black - Galleon Splash
- Fragrance: The Holy Black – Galleon EDT
- The Lather: I really don’t know why I haven’t bought any Chicago Grooming Co. soaps. Not only did this soap lather up easily, it has a fantastic scent. The only downside was the slight onion scent my brush picked up from rubbing against all the onions during my photo.
- The Shave: Pretty straightforward and smooth shave today. Just managed to nick myself a little under the nose so regardless of the challenge I needed to use the alum block today. It took care of the bleeding quickly as always.
- Aftershave/Frag: Today’s theme didn’t really make a difference when it came to choosing aftershave and frag. Do any aftershaves/frags even have beef? So I decided to link my post shave by scent instead. To my nose I can really catch the leathery notes from both AG1889 and Galleon. They actually complement each other reasonably well with their warm leathery scents.
- Theme: Chicago Grooming Co. website claims AG1889 is made in the Darkwing soap base which lists Duck Fat as an ingredient, shoulda named it Darkwing Duck though. Guessing they didn’t want to take on Disney though.
- Challenge: Today I used my Omega Alum stick, and I wish it had been Osma. I mean I got the onions all together for my picture, I used a soap smush from u/OnionMiasma, and I even ended up with a slight onion miasma due to the comingling of my shave gear with the onions. Alas I could not come any closer to the perfect OnionMiOsma shave and the shame is heavy. I will try to be better prepared next year.
- Acknowledgement: Thank you u/OnionMiasma for providing the soap for today’s shave.