2024-06-11 - Purple Haze
- Lather: Eleven Shaving - Clary Sage & Violet
- Post Shave: Noble Otter - 茉莉綠茶 (Jasmine Green Tea)
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. - Triumph
- Razor: Micromatic Open Comb (MMOC) #FLIPTOP #STAINLESSLESS
- Brush: Summer Break Soaps #FRANKENBRUSH
April Showers:
The very concept of spring is a lie being sold to you. It doesn't exist.
There is only the torment of the sun and its ceaseless barrage of death.
Simply step outside and see the wasteland of despair laid out before you.
Appreciate it well;
in mere moments, your desiccated ashes will be blown away into nothingness.
Unifying Theme: Color Coordinated
Color Coordinated:
It's well-established that a color-coordinated setup need not be monochrome.
In fact, you can have a color-coordinated setup with exactly zero matching
colors; you just need to deliberately navigate the colorspace.
For example, purple and green are complementary, a fact that
the Joker took full advantage of.
There's a number of
websites with handy tools
to play with how this works.
That one even has a feature to simulate colorblindness.
I'm admittedly playing it a little safe,
as each color featured in my setup is represented in the aftershave label,
which conveniently already has a tidy triad with purple, green, and
a tie-in to the razor with the gold.
Speaking of the razor: stainlessless.
Also, the purple frankenbrush is SBS with a timberwolf from Maggard.
I decided that I wanted to more fully incorporate the color scheme into
the shave itself,
fully decking myself out in purple and green, literally from
head
to toe
(the camera doesn't want to capture the green of the pants).
Side note: I do not recommend trying to perform fine motor functions with
your hands all wrapped up in cloth.
Trying to grip the thin handle gets unpleasant fast.
But I digress.
#FOF
Eleven's Clary Sage & Violet is a refreshing departure from the ocean of
lavender scents out there (I am so done with lavender).
It provides a floral scent that's not... well, that's not lavender.
Meanwhile, the sage provides a grassiness that keeps it from being too floral.
茉莉綠茶 is the second jasmine green tea soap that I nabbed as soon as I
discovered it existed.
While lavender is dead to me, I love me some jasmine.
The jasmine is much more prominent here than in the other such soap, Musashi.
It's worth noting that the aftershave of 茉莉綠茶 doesn't seem to deliver
grapefruit as strongly as the 茉莉綠茶 soap;
I favor the aftershave in this regard.
Triumph follows seamlessly, likely thanks to the common jasmine notes,
into a classically masculine aquatic to lead into the day,
which will, of course, involve remaining under shelter from the relentless sun.
#photocontest Grass
Grass doesn't actually exist, either.
Spring is a lie. Grass is a lie. This was a Triumph.