SOTD by u/PhilosphicalZombie

2023-07-14 Frigid Friday or, How to Feel the Brrr..n

• Brush: Stirling Soap Company - Li'l Brudder, Synthetic 22mm
• Razor: Stirling Soap Company - Stirling Stainless Steel "SSS" (Austin Handle / HA plate)
• Blade: Astra Superior Platinum, DE
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Glacial Obsidian
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Black Ice

Glacial is menthol, at list for me approaching icy-hot. Almost a numbing agent is that cold. So the challenge for today, "This is not the way" being to shave in an order not usual to your normal way of going about things could prove somewhat tricky to get a great shave. I can get a great shave out of this soap and with this razor but in messing up the order the feedback is kind of a mess for me.

Easy enough if normal = WTGxXTGxATG (Buff) then today = (Buff) ATGxXTGxWTG.

Okay the buff part seemed a bit ornamental. How do you touch up something that has yet to be touched? I dunno so I hit my usual problem spots with a mostly non-directional volley of short strokes.

Next to go against the grain. I have a new blade in and this is a rather aggressive head - Stirling's ST head offering - it should plow through fine. It did. However any miss is not going to get another ATG pass so unless the XTG catches it there is an unlikeliness that the WTG is gonna level it. So, yeah that took down a lot.

The cross grain run was more comfortable but still left a few stands of my stubble in a couple places upon checking.

WTG did manage to clean up a few remaining pockets of stubble but upon rinsing this was still a rather rough landscape.

So we will just touch up this! Nope, already did that. Did that first. So yeah the most visually telling was the small strip of stuble thinly residing over my left upper lip.

Not ideal, and what made it harder was that with the power of "Glacial" I could not as easily feel the out of sync WTG pass.

Have a good one.

[2023-07-14 Frigid Friday or, How to Feel the Brrr..n](https://imgur.com/DSITmXR)

* **Brush:** Stirling Soap Company - [Li'l Brudder, Synthetic 22mm](https://imgur.com/m1xr6GO)
* **Razor:** Stirling Soap Company - [Stirling Stainless Steel "SSS"](https://imgur.com/a/wuIhGK2) (Austin Handle / HA plate)
* **Blade:** Astra Superior Platinum, DE
* **Lather:** Stirling Soap Co. - [Glacial Obsidian](https://imgur.com/2PVDUjg)
* **Post Shave:** Stirling Soap Co. - [Black Ice](https://imgur.com/BRbxvM3)

Glacial is menthol, at list for me approaching icy-hot. Almost a numbing agent is that cold. So the challenge for today, "This is not the way" being to shave in an order not usual to your normal way of going about things could prove somewhat tricky to get a great shave. I can get a great shave out of this soap and with this razor but in messing up the order the feedback is kind of a mess for me.

Easy enough if normal = WTGxXTGxATG (Buff) then today = (Buff) ATGxXTGxWTG.

Okay the buff part seemed a bit ornamental. How do you touch up something that has yet to be touched? I dunno so I hit my usual problem spots with a mostly non-directional volley of short strokes.

Next to go against the grain. I have a new blade in and this is a rather aggressive head - Stirling's ST head offering - it should plow through fine. It did. However any miss is not going to get another ATG pass so unless the XTG catches it there is an unlikeliness that the WTG is gonna level it. So, yeah that took down a lot.

The cross grain run was more comfortable but still left a few stands of my stubble in a couple places upon checking.

WTG did manage to clean up a few remaining pockets of stubble but upon rinsing this was still a rather rough landscape.

So we will just touch up this! Nope, already did that. Did that first. So yeah the most visually telling was the small strip of stuble thinly residing over my left upper lip.

Not ideal, and what made it harder was that with the power of "Glacial" I could not as easily feel the out of sync WTG pass.

Have a good one.