SOTD by u/PhilosphicalZombie

2023-07-20 Pasty Dupelganger

• Brush: Summer Break Soaps - Mountain Laurel, synthetic 26mm Maggard knot (from London Razors Mountain Laurel release PIF)
• Razor: Blackland - Blackbird, DE safety razor, Brass, 101 mm handle
• Blade: Treet Falcon, DE
• Lather: Chicago Grooming Co - Irving Park
• Post Shave: Chicago Grooming Co. - Irving Park

Chicago Grooming Co.'s Irving Park is the Dupeelganger for today (YSL Rive Gauche).

Scent note list as follows: Bergamot, Star Anise, Rosemary, Lavender, Geranium Leaves, Cloves, Vetiver, Guaiac Wood, Patchouli.

I love this set. But ya gone and made me lather it wrong. As I mentioned on another post I have mild OCD (was worse as a kid but you work on it). I bowl lather and work for that perfect whipped wholly hydrated lather and that is where I like to fall. Not loose, and runny, bubbly or chunky. Nor thick enough your fork can stand up in it (we are not aiming for a perfect bowl of chili here folks).

So the default is to be pasty. ^(Grumble).

Picked my brassbird because it handles most any lather (good or bad) quite well. Grabbed a new blade I had never used before (not great idea).

Was an okay shave. Not gonna blame the soap or the razor. Can't say for the razor blade. The technique - all pasty like...means rinse, swipe, rinse, swipe, no good.! Oh well.

So, in the immortal words of DJ Pete Nice and Secrch (3rd Bass) from Herbalz in Your Mouth:

[Serch] Weebles to the weebles to the wobbles - to the herbalz

[Nice] I don't drink milk when it curdles

[Serch] Cause then it's too pasty, French like pastry

[Nice] It's like gettin caught boostin at Macy's

[Serch] True indeed, Cogswell Cogs, and Sprockets at Spacely's

[Nice] I make like George, and Jet-i-son safely

Take care and have a good one.

[2023-07-20 Pasty Dupelganger](https://imgur.com/3zg3bru)

* **Brush:** Summer Break Soaps - [Mountain Laurel, synthetic 26mm Maggard knot](https://i.imgur.com/Zk63C7Z.jpg) (from London Razors Mountain Laurel release PIF)
* **Razor:** Blackland - [Blackbird, DE safety razor, Brass, 101 mm handle](https://imgur.com/40xVJdM)
* **Blade:** Treet Falcon, DE
* **Lather:** Chicago Grooming Co - [Irving Park](https://imgur.com/ANenDen)
* **Post Shave:** Chicago Grooming Co. - [Irving Park](https://imgur.com/F68T6oj)

Chicago Grooming Co.'s Irving Park is the Dupeelganger for today (YSL Rive Gauche).

Scent note list as follows: Bergamot, Star Anise, Rosemary, Lavender, Geranium Leaves, Cloves, Vetiver, Guaiac Wood, Patchouli.

I love this set. But ya gone and made me lather it wrong. As I mentioned on another post I have mild OCD (was worse as a kid but you work on it). I bowl lather and work for that perfect whipped wholly hydrated lather and that is where I like to fall. Not loose, and runny, bubbly or chunky. Nor thick enough your fork can stand up in it (we are not aiming for a perfect bowl of chili here folks).

So the default is to be pasty. ^(Grumble).

Picked my brassbird because it handles most any lather (good or bad) quite well. Grabbed a new blade I had never used before (not great idea).

Was an okay shave. Not gonna blame the soap or the razor. Can't say for the razor blade. The technique - all pasty like...means rinse, swipe, rinse, swipe, no good.! Oh well.

**So, in the immortal words of DJ Pete Nice and Secrch (3rd Bass) from** [Herbalz in Your Mouth](https://youtu.be/kD_SAUHMN4Q)**:**

*\[Serch\] Weebles to the weebles to the wobbles - to the herbalz*

*\[Nice\] I don't drink milk when it curdles*

*\[Serch\]* ***Cause then it's too pasty, French like pastry***

*\[Nice\] It's like gettin caught boostin at Macy's*

*\[Serch\] True indeed, Cogswell Cogs, and Sprockets at Spacely's*

*\[Nice\] I make like George, and Jet-i-son safely*

Take care and have a good one.