SOTD by u/pridetwo

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts 49ers Custom w/ Declaration Grooming B5 28mm

• Razor: Muhle Rocca R94

• Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum

• Lather: Zingari Man - The Watchman

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Trade Winds

• Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - Every Storm A Serenade

Today's Theme: Sunny Days - my lather, post shave, and fragrance are all explicitly aquatic fragrances.

Today's Challenge: Color Coordinated - I could not make this work under the stipulations that the djudges set forth (no samples) without causing a cascading failure of my entire lather games calendar, so instead you get a shitty black and white instagram filter picture of only samples. Pic below.

My theme for today's shave: Ocean Voyages

To be honest, specifically "Summer" seasonal soaps aren't really my jam, so I was actually really looking forward to working in a completely aquatic fragrance profile instead. For me, the ocean has been something I've always been physically close to, and has been something of a constant source of spiritual peace in the least crunchy way. I just really like being around the ocean. But last year I moved to my first landlocked region, and it's been totally disorienting knowing that there's no ocean nearby. No sound of lapping waves or salt spray to help clear my mind if I need it. So that's been a bit of an adjustment for me, and this shave actually was very comforting in that it really made me feel like I wasn't so far away from the water even if none of the scents specifically smell like the ocean.

For today's music, I picked Lemuria by Therion. It's part of a 2 album set they released alongside another album named Sirius B, and both albums carried a theme related to the title. Lemuria is historically an Atlantis-adjacent "lost continent" theory, so many of the album's songs center around nautical myths in addition to the usual smattering of mysticism that Therion likes to write songs about. If you're a fan of Dethklok's Thunderhorse then you owe it to yourself to listen to Three Ships of Berik, Part 1: Calling to Arms and Fighting the Battle which is basically an unironic version of the same song. #photocontest #FOF #ROTY

* **Brush:** Dogwood Handcrafts 49ers Custom w/ Declaration Grooming B5 28mm

* **Razor:** Muhle Rocca R94

* **Blade:** Bic Chrome Platinum

* **Lather:** Zingari Man - The Watchman

* **Post Shave:** Chiseled Face - Trade Winds

* **Fragrance:** Imaginary Authors - Every Storm A Serenade

Today's Theme: Sunny Days - my lather, post shave, and fragrance are all explicitly aquatic fragrances.

Today's Challenge: Color Coordinated - I could not make this work under the stipulations that the djudges set forth (no samples) without causing a cascading failure of my entire lather games calendar, so instead you get a shitty black and white instagram filter picture of only samples. Pic below.

[My theme for today's shave: Ocean Voyages](https://i.imgur.com/oNnv7YE.jpeg)

To be honest, specifically "Summer" seasonal soaps aren't really my jam, so I was actually really looking forward to working in a completely aquatic fragrance profile instead. For me, the ocean has been something I've always been physically close to, and has been something of a constant source of spiritual peace in the least crunchy way. I just really like being around the ocean. But last year I moved to my first landlocked region, and it's been totally disorienting knowing that there's no ocean nearby. No sound of lapping waves or salt spray to help clear my mind if I need it. So that's been a bit of an adjustment for me, and this shave actually was very comforting in that it really made me feel like I wasn't so far away from the water even if none of the scents specifically smell like the ocean.

For today's music, I picked Lemuria by Therion. It's part of a 2 album set they released alongside another album named Sirius B, and both albums carried a theme related to the title. Lemuria is historically an Atlantis-adjacent "lost continent" theory, so many of the album's songs center around nautical myths in addition to the usual smattering of mysticism that Therion likes to write songs about. If you're a fan of [Dethklok's Thunderhorse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvlBFR4gKs) then you owe it to yourself to listen to [Three Ships of Berik, Part 1: Calling to Arms and Fighting the Battle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgyZU-iJ-k) which is basically an unironic version of the same song. #photocontest #FOF #ROTY