LG Day 3 - Where's The Beef
- Brush: Aurora Grooming LG24 w/26mm Oumo Synthetic
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (3)
- Lather: Grooming Dept - Mallard Corretto
- Post Shave: A whole faceful of OSMA
- Post Shave: Zingari Man - Unscented AS balm
Clara Peller would have been seriously disappointed with this shave. I know I was. Look, I love duck. A lovely roasted duck in some fruity sauce is fantastic. I've whiled away hours of my life playing Duck Hunt. I spent any number of hours of my youth stoned out of my mind watching Howard the Duck. My hockey-playing stepson loved watching The Mighty Ducks. Duck, Duck, Goose was a great way to show how much of a crush you had on a girl in 3rd grade. It was the only way I could get any girl to chase me, but therapy and time have addressed those issues. But duck in a shaving soap just doesn't work for me.
Thanks to u/Tetriside for this smoosh (and a couple of others). But on smoosh alone, I don't think I need to try another duck base. I remembered using a WCS soap sample a few years ago and thinking their duck tallow base was kind of meh. Forget "Where's the Beef?". Where's the residual slickness? Where's the post-shave? What's that quacking I hear in the distance? Oh, it's the ducks in the pond behind my house flying away laughing at my duck tallow using ass. Even they know their fat doesn't come close to rivalling cows.
I did like the scent of the smoosh, however. It's a light but complex scent. But I had a new problem on my hands- What splash to pair it with? I had a secondary problem- My sister-in-law who is visiting us and staying in the upstairs bedroom where my splashes are? Yup, she tested positive for COVID. What's a guy to do when Shaving Glory is on the line? Read the Daily Challenge, of course, and find out all you need to do is rub that sexy OSMA alum block all over your face. And I have OSMA. Do I use it much for shaving? Not really. Do my wife and I use it on bug bites or the on the dogs when their nails get clipped just a bit too short? Absolutely. It's a fabulous thing to have around for first aid purposes and the random shaving need. Today fell into the random shaving need category and onto the full face it went. The stinging was expected. My face trying to turn itself inside out from the drying of the salt...probably not expected. Yes, I left it on for 45 seconds and then washed it off. I debated sucking one up for LG and walking away with a tight face for the day, but my common sense kicked in and I balmed myself up. Between the Duck and the OSMA, this is about the driest my face has felt in a long time. The only combo that could make my face tighter would be a Cella (red) and OSMA combo.
On to this Monday where my coworkers are going to wonder if I've had Botox because my face is pulled tightly from this combo. Try to enjoy your day and remember to be kind to one another.