2024-06-16 - Smooth
- Lather: Maurer & Wirtz - Tabac (1845)
- Post Shave: Lucky Tiger - Aspen (1935)
- Fragrance: Creed - Aventus (1760!)
- Razor: Gilette Tech (1964, this razor)
- Brush: West Coast Shaving Two Tone (meh)
Unifying Theme: Older than me, and you can bet I was born after 1935.
Leg Day:
Some of you guys are really opposed to this prospect.
What kind of misogynistic, toxically-masculine ideas did your fathers instill into you?
Whatever. Leg-shaving is awesome
and I don't know why it's been 11 months since I last did it.
At least it makes the super airy feeling feel more exceptional.
I very well may go back over them tomorrow, because I did not get
as close as I would have liked.
(E: In my zeal, I overlooked the before/after part of the challenge,
but it is—strictly speaking—in the video, even if it's not very clear.
It went well, though I was reminded that that little ledge, being against the shower
wall, is quite restrictive when doing the left leg. It occurs to me I would
do well to stretch more; I figure I'd be a bit more
flexible if I did this regularly.)
I think there's really something to using longer-handled razors for leg-shaves.
Last year, I chose my longest one, because it's often said that that's useful.
Today, I went with the Tech because of the day's theme even though it's shorter,
plus I thought the Tech
head would be mild enough, considering that I have a Travel Tech reserved
for shaving the, uh...
But I digress.
Yeah, a longer handle would probably have been good.
#FOF
The biggest problem I had with today's shave was with the fact that my nose
was full of Tabac the whole time. I thought I was going to choke to death on
powder. Lucky Tiger leans pretty heavily into powderiness, too, and of course
I used a fair amount of that in order to get coverage.
You'd think that Creed would offer some relief, but I've come to determine that
I do not care for Aventus, to the point that I'm kind of baffled that it has
the reputation that it does. It's just so damn fruity, but still doesn't
overcome the diaper-bag stench of Tabac.