photocontest - Water

(the key element for wet shavers and tea brewers)

Prep: shower with Barrister and Mann - Cheshire bath and body soap

Brush: Omega - EVO Titan
Razor: Rex - Konsul adjustable
Blade: Voskhod - Teflon Coated
Lather: Noble Otter - The Noir et Vanille
Post Shave: Noble Otter - The Noir et Vanille
Fragrance: Masque - Russian Tea

CHALLENGE FOR WHOM?

Today offers various challenges to various people.

For me, a big one is trying to remain civil and politely sip my cup of tea while I try to share with you my constructive disagreement about WetTubing.

"If this is truly impossible...", you pre-emptively concede.

Well, it is impossible.

Not logistically, but logically.

Here, let's try not to be emotional, and rely on rational thinking to calmly discuss the issue with quiet, dignity, and grace.

IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE TO BLABBER ABOUT HOW INSIGHTFUL WET SHAVING IS, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO TAKE A MOMENT JUST FOR OURSELVES, AND THEN ASK FOR A FUCKING VIDEO OF IT!

If you have some kind of insecure histrionic itch to scratch, just follow Randy's lead and stop pestering me here!

But if you keep asking me for my own video, this is what I do have for you!

Guys, today's challenge is not for me, but for you.

Just make peace with your own brains and start making sense.

I am still a newbie and still too mad to remember names and make effective searches, but the one member of this sub who did a meaningul YT upload is [edited to add name] u/phteven_j, the guy who contacted the late Gilbert Gottfried ~~that American comedian~~ thru Cameo to do a video about shaving and brushing your teeth. Remind me his name and link and I'll be happy to edit accordingly. His video says everything.

FOF WRITEUP

Hard to write this one, because I'm still madder than a mad hatter at a tea party.

For my pre-shave shower I decided to start with the soft, soothing notes of BM Chesire, a scent that for me works perfectly as a nice "background" that smells good without being imposing.

Then I turned to the NO The et Vanille soap + AS set, as it was my first time using them (I had previously only tried a sample of the TeV soap), and I wanted to take them together to an open road test.

While the soap mostly delivers a Jasminey-forward note, that can somewhat evoke the olfatctory world of tea, the AS provides additional depth not only with the titular vanilla note (not that perceivable in my soap tub), but also with an orange note that, combined with jasmine, almost veers towards a strawberry-ish accord.

As overall the NO dickhole combo leans toward a gourmand accord, I felt the need to add a layer of complexity.

I thus decided to try my sample of Masque Milano's Russian Tea: while the actual Russian Tea beverage (to which I paid homage in my picture with a cup of Damman Freres Grand Gout Russe) leans citrusy gourmand, Masque scent not only provides all of it (with raspberry instead of strawberry), but also adds a rather transparent leathery-spicy accord that finally reminded me of the "darker", tannic black tea vibes that were still missing from the picture.

I do like NO TeV, but in the future I think I'll not repeat the combo, so to tweak the gourmandy-ness with something darker.

My experiment with Masque was great, but I was so mad that I accidentally broke my sample vial while i was putting it back, so I will not be able to trying it again anytime soon.

FOF

EDITED to add the names and link I was not able to retrieve: special thanks to u/ginopono for providing the essential info.

And a big shoutout to u/phteven_j for bringing to fruition the only YouTube wetshaving video you'll ever really need.

ROTY

Detected Items:

Razor: Rex - Konsul adjustable
Brush: Omega - EVO Titan
Lather: Noble Otter - The Noir et Vanille
Post Shave: Noble Otter - The Noir et Vanille
Fragrance: Masque - Russian Tea

This SOTD is part of the challenge

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