Austere August Day 3
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Prep: Hot shower
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Brush: Chisel & Hound Government Issue with 28mm Turn-N-Shave Shoat (Boar)
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Razor: Atelier Durdan Le Maurice 1.4 (SS Premium Polish)
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Blade: Wizamet Super Iridium (Edge 1 - 3rd shave)
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Lather: Gentleman's Nod Mushashi Soap
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Post Shave: Cold shower, Gentleman's Nod Musashi Splash
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Tags: $UltraNightmareMode $RawHoggin
Day 3, and another smooth, comfortable 2-pass WTG / ATG shave with BBS finish from the Le Maurice. My skin still feels great. I'm actually getting some great lathers from the GN C4 base. This stuff is better than I remember it being when I first bought it. Today's lather consistency was perfect. The brush feels slightly better than yesterday, but not as noticeable of a difference as between Day 1 and Day 2. The knot fell out while I was shaking out the brush post-shave, so I had to re-glue it in... hopefully it stays put this time.
Here is an album that I am going to continue uploading to throughout the month to show progress of the brush. I weighed the tub again pre and post-shave today and found that, pre-shave, a gram of water had evaporated since the post-shave weigh-in yesterday. Went from 168.1g to 159.6... a difference of 8.5g, down 3g from yesterday's 11.5g difference.
Austere August goals below...
I decided that Austere August was the perfect time to accomplish three things:
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Kill some soap (I have too much)
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See just how many shaves I can put on each edge of a Wizamet (I usually toss them after 10-12 shaves, but not really out of necessity)
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Further refine my technique to see if I can achieve daily BBS for a month straight (if I start getting irritation, I'll drop to WTG and XTG, and if I need to, drop to two WTG passes)
Gonna move the Discord tag to see if Discord LatherTwot picks up my post this time.
$Discord