SOTD by u/djundjila

Bon Voyage!

• Brush: Мужской Материк
• Razor: Koraat Sparschweinchen
• Lather: Summer Break Soaps – Teacher’s Pet
• Post Shave: Ralon – Sport
• Fragrance: Maison Francis Kurkdjian – Baccarat Rouge 540

Oh wow, so LG 2023 are a wrap. Where did July go so fast? This year, the tunnel vision phase of the games started in March for me, when work on the portal picked up, and when the actual games started, I could actually take a load off and catch up on sleep and non-internet friends. I was still quite stressed out for most of the games because I expected that a critical and overlooked bug, server failure, or the like in the portal may show up any moment and ruin my day, but as the weeks moved past and the portal did its job as intended, I started to relax and enjoy the games.

I want to thank the participants who with their energy and creativity make the games into this happy and mischievous monument to our community. Of course I'm also a bit worried about the future of r/wetshaving and the Games, with Reddit firmly on the path to terminal enshittification, numerous fellow Redditors deleting their profiles in protest, and opening rifts between different factions here, but I'm hopeful that, however painful the transition ahead, we'll come out the other end as one community with the core of this tradition intact.

To today's shave, I live in 🇨🇭, my razor comes from 🇦🇹, the brush from 🇷🇺, the splash from 🇭🇷, the frag from 🇫🇷, and the soap from the 🇺🇸. A fully international shave for today's challenge, and the relevant post and frag category is that everything I used today is some shade of Red.

I borrowed the frag from my wife, and it's one of my favourites on her. A warm spicy amber scent, it pairs really well with Teacher's pet, playing against its warm sugar note and rubbing against the bright tart apple. Ralon sport smells like Rakija with menthol and is here purely, but the scent evaporates in 12 seconds.

#### [Bon Voyage!](https://imgur.com/7fhbeAc)

* **Brush:** Мужской Материк
* **Razor:** Koraat Sparschweinchen
* **Lather:** Summer Break Soaps – Teacher’s Pet
* **Post Shave:** Ralon – Sport
* **Fragrance:** Maison Francis Kurkdjian – Baccarat Rouge 540

Oh wow, so LG 2023 are a wrap. Where did July go so fast? This year, the tunnel vision phase of the games started in March for me, when work on the portal picked up, and when the actual games started, I could actually take a load off and catch up on sleep and non-internet friends. I was still quite stressed out for most of the games because I expected that a critical and overlooked bug, server failure, or the like in the portal may show up any moment and ruin my day, but as the weeks moved past and the portal did its job as intended, I started to relax and enjoy the games.

I want to thank the participants who with their energy and creativity make the games into this happy and mischievous monument to our community. Of course I'm also a bit worried about the future of r/wetshaving and the Games, with Reddit firmly on the [path to terminal enshittification](https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/), numerous fellow Redditors deleting their profiles in protest, and opening rifts between different factions here, but I'm hopeful that, however painful the transition ahead, we'll come out the other end as one community with the core of this tradition intact.

To today's shave, I live in 🇨🇭, my razor comes from 🇦🇹, the brush from 🇷🇺, the splash from 🇭🇷, the frag from 🇫🇷, and the soap from the 🇺🇸. A fully international shave for today's challenge, and the relevant post and frag category is that everything I used today is some shade of Red.

I borrowed the frag from my wife, and it's one of my favourites on her. A warm spicy amber scent, it pairs really well with Teacher's pet, playing against its warm sugar note and rubbing against the bright tart apple. Ralon sport smells like Rakija with menthol and is here purely, but the scent evaporates in 12 seconds.