DAY 13 LATHER GAMES! DUPE ME BABY ONE MORE TIME!
- Prep: Water
- Brush: Zenith - MOAR BOAR #SUBBROOSH #OLDWORLD
- Razor: MM24 #RUSTYBUTTRUSTY #MODERNGEM #FLIPTOP #STAINLESSLESS
- Blade: GEM carbon
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. - AG 1889
- Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Prom King
- Fragrance: Ted Lapidus - Lapidus Pour Homme
Right, Dupe Day! How will I stand out today? Well no shenanighans were planned, and there aren't any 31(24/7) KFC's I can shate at, so I'll just be solid. Also I'm hitting 6 hashtags today, almost 1/3 of the whole LG Scavenger Hunt requirement!
I know how I'll stannd out, I did something, that no one else thought of. Which is making all your gear a sub-exclusive! Recently Chicago Grooming made a sub exclusive, AG 1889, which is a Jicki dupe. And while planning I had a genius idea of making everything in today's shave something that is a sub exclusive.(except the EdP, cause I couldn't find Santa Noir, not that it would even fit). And this SOTD is gonna be something of a synopsis of those products!
Now. Dupes. I hate them. This is not a dig at CG, I'm talking in general. For me it's just lack of imagination. I mean there are so many unexplored teritories that you could go for. Just look at Talen Soap Factory, that guy has beer scented soap, donut scented soap, motherfucking bacon scented soap. I guess it is connected with the fact that it's a financial risk, but fuck it, better to be yourself and fail, that to try to appease to other, just for the $$ But as I say this(and you're gonna remark "Yeah right, of course!"), AG 1889 is the first dupe I like, it just doesn't smell annoying like all the other dupes, it's subtle it has a character that doesn't scream for attention from people who pass by.
For the soap I want to give a HUUUGE shoutout to u/OnionMiasma. This soap is a very special gift, which annoys me to this day. Onion(the guys who saved the LG for 80%, or more, of the people participating) while sending me his Legacy seems that he included this soap. He had previously asked me if I want to jump on the train, but I declined. Lo and behold when I open the package and I see this soap.... He said he wanted to do some good and make a gift, and I was speechless, also fuming cause I don't like gifts like that(sue me) ouf of the blue. But in the end I am very thankful indeed.
If you've never tried the Darkwing base, you're seriously missing out!! One of the best bases out there, and I cannot stress this enough, the most economic bases out there. Last year I used 14 grams for 30 shaves! And I wasn't skimping on it either, full 3 pass lather.
Carbon GEM blades. Why? Why do they exist?!?! I got a hold of a pack of 100(thanks to u/EldrormR) and it seems they are not what I expected. There is a whooooole sidestory to this, but I ain't explaining that, I'd need a whole new post. So these blades shave terrible, do not buy them, tugging and scraping, just horrible. Good thing is that now I have 100 blades for scraping whatever I want to get cleaned, which is not that bad. And the razor, if anyone hasn't had something done by Eld, you're missing out, the guy is GEM GURU and an amazing craftsman!
MOAR BOAR!
- Need I say anything more
- From the day you arrived at my door
- Life was not the same anymore
- I wanted to try you and explore
- To see how you spread around day four
- I did not know what I was in for
- You ate soap like a whore
- But you never made my face sore
DAILY CHALLENGE:
Honestly I felt pretty fucked when I read yesterday, what today's theme was, cause I couldn't have picked a harder label to draw. Thankfully I saw that I was not the only one to suffer, so at least that made me feel better.
Here is my attempt
I should note, no mathematical compasses or other instrumets were used making this, only brain power and ingenuity!
Daily Lather Themes: 13/30