July 11, 2023 – Sunny Days
- Brush: Ever-Ready 200 w/ Oumo Badger Fan 24mm
- Razor: GEM Featherweight
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (8)
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
Challenge
I really like the look of the Ever-ready 200 handles. I bought this one on ebay. The knot is scritchy and agitates my skin. The shave was a bit painful. Unfortunately, the seller set the knot with epoxy. I need to look into bleaching the tips.
I’ve started scooping new soaps instead of loading from the tub, especially if I’m not sure I want to keep it. It’s also more precise. I have too many brushes to know how quickly each of them will load with every soap base in my den. I opened SSL and saw I had loaded from the tub previously and was pleased. It feels more satisfying to load from the tub for some reason. Not measuring out my soap kind of bit me. I way overloaded. It was a mess. I inadvertently ended up using my chest to store excess lather (NSFW).
The Featherweight is my least favorite GEM that I’ve used. It’s way too mild. However, the handle looked good with SSL label.
Sea Spice Lime was the subs favorite new fragrance of 2021. It was mine as well. Shawn Maher has done an awesome job with the fragrances for the Seaforth! line. Sea Spice Lime is my favorite of the bunch. The lime forward fragrance is bright, sweet, smooth, and fun. There’s a sharper citrus note I think is bergamot. There’s a soft spice and a touch of aquatic feel. There’s an underlying note of something green/earthy/mossy that’s subtle but keeps things from becoming overly sweet. I wish I had the Ice version. But, I’m hesitant to add another soap to my den when I already have SSL.
This is my first time using the edt. It's been on my wishlist, but the challenge nudged me to finally purchase it. The fragrance presents the same in all three mediums. I went nose blind to the edt fairly quickly. It doesn't have much silage.
#FOF