June 5, 2024 – Chinese American Goopy Barbershop?
- Brush: My Own Bare Hands
- Razor: Gillette Guard
- Lather: Ultra Max – Shave Cream Extra Thick
- Post Shave: Nivea – Sensitive Post Shave Balm
- Post Shave: Fine Accoutrements – American Blend
So I started the day by heading walking down to the barbershop for a long overdue cut. Rickey is my guy and as always did an excellent job. The shop was a turnkey operation, but owned and operated for 50 years by the same neighborhood gentleman. The new owner Dave kept it mostly untouched, the large last supper over the door to the back room, but updated the shop with the new school old school tattoo dude aesthetic. This includes the products. My cut was finished off with a straight razor shape up of my neck with some Lather Time machine soap and some healthy spritzes of Stephan Bay Run. And as always some brushings of Pinaud Clubman Talc. Perfect.
Tonight’s shave? Did it bring back that nice morning memory of the familiar barber chair and bullshitting about heading down the shore and how hot the Phillies are right now? No. But maybe kinda. Enough for me to blather on, and romanticize about a haircut..
Tonight I used for the second and last time the Ultra Max Shave Cream I purchased at a going out of business sale of an independent dollar store, an import directly from Guangzhou, China. I made sure this was the last time by answering the question of ,”How much lather is really in this can?” I still don’t know how to answer, I mean it seemed appropriate? My sink overfloweth. but in the end handled it. It did take a good five minutes to melt the goo with cold water and completely clean my sink.
The lather was fine, I applied it with my hands and found out it didn’t JUST smell like propellant, but also a bit like the Lather Time foam my morning cut. I used the Gillette guard I also bought for LG last year as I was traveling and it’s terribly forgiving and seems to be readily available in the Indian Market. I was tempted to then use the Indian Old Spice but deferred to both my old bottle of Nivea from my cartridge days and Fines send up to YSL Rive Gauche, American Blend. Mrs. Stallion always loves the American Blend and that always makes my night. Unexpectedly nice shave for an oft begrudged theme to end the day.
Cheers!