June 23, 2024 - Sweet Sunday
- Brush: Rubberset 49-3 Boar
- Razor: Game Changer .68P
- Blade: Gillette Nacet
- Lather: Caties Bubbles - Saturday Morning
- Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Bell Ringer
- Fragrance: Dr.Jon’s - Hydra EdT #FOF
Sweet Sunday:
I went for the sweetest set I could today. Saturday Morning on a Sunday is pure sugar cereal. Bell Ringer is very fruity. Hydra was made when Dr. Jon’s couldn’t decide which citrus scent to use, so it has all of them.
Kitchen Shaving:
I headed to my ~~Shaving Den~~ kitchen with the chosen set for today. I gave myself 1/2 teaspoon of soap in the mixing bowl. I knew to really get the most out of this long whippy brush, I needed a large bowl and lots of soap. This brush really works great in a big bowl. I whipped up a few cups of shave batter. I covered it with my favorite ~~shave~~ kitchen towel to let it proof before the shave. I looked at my ~~mirror~~ microwave door. I needed more light and a quick clean of the door to see my reflection better. Time to check the shave batter. It is at soft peaks and ready for the shave. I lathered my face for the first pass. Looking at the picture, I think some lint got left on the door. The photo makes it look more reflective than my eyes saw it in person. It was mostly a three pass shave by vaguely guided feel. Maybe next time mount a real mirror in the kitchen. I know I won’t, but it would be easier to shave.
Fragrances:
Caties Bubbles - Saturday Mornings is a pure blast of childhood nostalgia. Growing up my mom let my brother and I pick one box of sugared cereal a month. Rest of the time it was Grape Nuts, Cheerios, or Rice Krispies. Sometimes I’d have Malt O Meal or Cream of Wheat. Now when I was 7 or 8, the biggest criteria for a sugar cereal was of course the best toy in the biggest box. Often that would be Froot Loops which is the scent of this soap. Not a distinguishable type of fruit, not at all as Froot Loops smells and tastes like Froot. Just a fruit punch flavor is what it is. Now what about those colors? I’d expect cherry, lemon, lime, orange, etc. from all the colors. 7 or 8 year old me wouldn’t believe it, but all colors have the same flavor. Well watching cartoons after a bowl of cereal, maybe I’d have a glass of juice. Bell Ringer is a very fruity cocktail with the mango and apple being what I get from it. In the Spring through Fall, after this breakfast of champions (not Wheaties though, yuck), I’d be off to play soccer in the first Youth Soccer League started in Wyoming. We had in town a British ex-pat that missed football, so he started the youth league back around 1978. It was a few years before other towns in Wyoming added leagues of their own. Our little town for a while was a powerhouse in this little big state. I wasn’t very good, but when we’d go have a friendly match against a town that had just started up, then I was a goal scoring machine. Only hat trick I ever got was against a team from a town in their first year of soccer. So Hydra being a citrus kick gives me that quartered orange sensation from half-time during our matches. Gives me a hit of nostalgia, and a little guilt remembering how we’d roll in and destroy these new teams. I think in my hat trick game, in the second half our coach moved everyone to play in different positions. Somehow I ended up in goal so that team at least scored. In our town, I was average at best. My older brother was much better and played varsity through high school.