July 1, 2023 – LG2023 Day One – New To Me & A Slight Hiccup

• Brush: Semogue – TSN 2018 Boar 24mm #OLDWORLD
• Razor: Ali Express – Folding Razor #YTHO
• Blade: Cloud (1)
• Lather: Elysian – Pineapple Ambrosia
• Post Shave: Elysian – Pineapple Ambrosia
• Fragrance: Creed – Aventus

It’s finally here, the most anticipated day in the faced paced high octane world of wetshaving.

I have a bad habit of grabbing items especially soaps and not using them so finding a brand in the den that I haven’t used before wasn’t too hard and this set from Elysian has been glaring at me for a while.

Slightly trickier was today’s challenge of a different style Razor, like most in the hobby I like to try things old and new so I have tried most things but luckily u/USS-SpongeBob sent me a link for what I thought was just a shavette but luckily the blades it takes I have never used before so here we are.

The base from Elysian was decent and better than I thought it would be if I’m honest. The scent I wasn’t as keen on though, the creamy pineapple was just a little Meh for me so back in the trade pile.

I didn’t dare shave my head with this beast as I have tried in the past and it’s just a blood bath, I mistakenly thought I would just give me beard a trim and a tidy up I mean what can go wrong? Well this went wrong OUCH one miss judged stroke and it seems I have cleared a strip of skin away from my face, at least I will probably have a lasting scar to remember the start of LG2023.

I finished of with a plaster and a quick spray of my dying Aventus Decant as its the only thing I could think of with pineapple in the notes, that said I once loved this massively cloned fragrance but now I find it a little underwhelming.

I’m not 100% sure my Brush qualified for the #oldworld because I’m unsure where the knot was made or if you just needed the handle to be made in Europe, if I’m wrong someone give me a poke.

Here’s to everyone having a great games, happy shaves to you all.

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July 2, 2023 – Vegan Day

• Brush: Dogwood Badger
• Razor: Mongoose – Mongoose SE
• Blade: Schick Proline (5)
• Lather: Southern Witchcrafts – Arcane Abyss
• Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts – Arcane Abyss
• Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts – Arcane Abyss

So Vegan day just so happened to land on the day I was doing the most English thing possible. Watching the cricket, cooking roast beef on the BBQ in the rain so I thought I would capture it in my picture as that must tick a box or two on the Photo Contest.

The software today however was vegan and I would imagine most of the posts today will feature Southern Witchcrafts as for me they are a top tier base and being vegan is just a bonus for many.

This Trickhole (although the brush being a Dogwood Arcane Abyss would make it a matching 4 piece so not sure what that makes it) was from my first PIF (Hosted by the Grand Master Of Stag Himself u/phteven_j ) win shortly after me first LG a couple of years ago. I’m a big aquatic fan and this one is brilliant, and being SW it couldn’t just be your normal run of the mill scent. For me this scent is a warm jumper (sweater for you non uk folk) that you put on after a day at the beach while you are sat around an open fire on the shoreline, it’s has a real warmth to the scent that I really enjoy.

Today’s challenge was a winner, most of us head shavers love a SE and I went with the Mongoose today. It’s big, bulky, not overly pretty (yup we are still talking about the razor) but boy it gives a great shave.

Have a great rest of your weekend guys.

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Well composed, and on theme for both the tag Vegetables and relevant for the daily theme.

July 4, 2023

• Brush: r/wetshaving Zentih MOAR BOAR 31mm #CHONK
• Razor: Stahly – Live Blade
• Blade: Polsilver (6)
• Lather: M & E – Memories
• Post Shave: M & E – Memories
• Fragrance: Lush – Grass

Morning All, Happy Merica Day

So these morning shaves are killing me but its the lesser of two evils as I know from the last few years that the wife will kill me if I spend too long in the evening larking about.

A quick science shave first thing and I thought it would be a good time to roll out the GUTL created by u/merikus

I Have photographed for documentation here

• 6:15am: The GUTL Experiment Begins
• 6:16am: 2 Grams of Soap added to the bowl
• 6:17am: The damp brush which had taken on 6.6 grams of water due to soaking was then swirled in a clockwise rotation until the protolather was formed.
• 6:19am: I moved the brush to my head and continued to created the protolather in an anti-clockwise rotation 17 times
• 6:21am: Moving back to the bowl I added 4ml of room temp water and began a 20 second clockwise rotation, added 3ml more water which was followed by a 15 second anti-clockwise rotation.
• 6:22am: Moving the brush again back to my head a added 4ml of water to the knot and refined the lather getting ready for the first pass before the next crucial step.
• 6:23am: A 25 second clockwise rotation on the brush in the bowl and the lather was ready along with the reserve lather ready for the 2nd pass.
• 6:24am: The Grand Unified Lather stage was completed.

The science part out the way I revved up the Stahly (well turned the handle) and off she went buzzing away like a Love Honey (Google it if not sure) parcel, I'm not sure the vibrating head brings much to the shave but it added a little variety to the shave and as they say that is the Spice Of Life. This base from M&E isn't too shabby but I find can be a tad airy, the scent however is beautiful with notes of sweet freshly cut grass filling the bathroom and this is echoed by the 0.6ml of splash I used in my post shave.

I finished up with Grass by Lush which for obvious reasons compliments this perfectly. Grass starts as the name suggests with a freshly cut grass note which slowly fades down to a musky almost Smokey hay scent, not a scent I wear daily but nice to spritz on a lazy Sunday sometimes.

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