SOTD by u/souleater7173

June 12, 2024 - I'll show you mine since you showed me yours

• Brush: Prometheus Handcrafts w/ 26mm Oumo Motherlode
• Razor: Blackland Razors Vector (Lite)
• Blade: Schick Proline
• Lather: Proraso - Green Tea and Oat Sensitive Skin Shaving Cream
• Post Shave: Noble Otter - Two Kings
• Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - The Soft Lawn

This is one of the first lather products I ever bought, back when I started shaving my head. I almost immediately swapped it to soaps, but it worked ok today. Post Shave and frag are on theme for being fresh, clean, inoffensive scents to pair with the Proraso Green Tea scent. I really enjoyed smelling fresh and floral all day.

Shave went well. Got a good lather after really working the cream. This was the perfect brush for it. Started with way too much water so I had to really work the brush on my face to work out all the air bubbles. Anything stiffer and I definitely would've gotten some brush burn.

Den tour. Starting with most of the brushes, going to a lot of the splashes these really need some damn labels, next up is pic one and pic 2 of some generic storage, then you have the unofficial storage called the sink, and lastly the treasure trove of soaps. I hope you all enjoyed this foray into my great shame. In real talk, the vast majority of the hardware I own was purchased from you fantastic people, and I really appreciate how the community enables each other to try new things.

Today's photo contest theme is Hobbies. Please judge the photo in the title. My other big hobby is collecting slide rules. The one in the image is a pocket rule made by Pickett model number N600-ES. Astronauts on the original Apollo missions were kitted out with a model very very similar to this one so that they could double check rough calculations on the fly. I have talked before (and will again these Lather Games) about coaching the Calculator contest for the school where I teach, well a huge fun fact is that, for a very, very long time, Texas hosted a Slide Rule contest. Students would compete to do calculations as quickly and accurately as possible for nerd fame and glory. While I have plenty of Slide Rules that are just collectors items, I also have a whole set of plastic ones (like this), that I keep at school and use to host my own version of the defunct Texas contest with my students. The reward is still just nerd fame and glory, but at a smaller scale. #photocontest

**[June 12, 2024 - I'll show you mine since you showed me yours](https://imgur.com/a/4Mt4rQl)**

* **Brush:** Prometheus Handcrafts w/ 26mm Oumo Motherlode
* **Razor:** Blackland Razors Vector (Lite)
* **Blade:** Schick Proline
* **Lather:** Proraso - Green Tea and Oat Sensitive Skin Shaving Cream
* **Post Shave:** Noble Otter - Two Kings
* **Fragrance:** Imaginary Authors - The Soft Lawn

This is one of the first lather products I ever bought, back when I started shaving my head. I almost immediately swapped it to soaps, but it worked ok today. Post Shave and frag are on theme for being fresh, clean, inoffensive scents to pair with the Proraso Green Tea scent. I really enjoyed smelling fresh and floral all day.

Shave went well. Got a good lather after really working the cream. This was the perfect brush for it. Started with way too much water so I had to really work the brush on my face to work out all the air bubbles. Anything stiffer and I definitely would've gotten some brush burn.

Den tour. Starting with [most of the brushes](https://imgur.com/a/RYeZgko), going to [a lot of the splashes](https://imgur.com/a/VLrrZ7F) these really need some damn labels, next up is [pic one](https://imgur.com/a/FKjHTAc) and [pic 2](https://imgur.com/a/AhKdvaL) of some generic storage, then you have the unofficial storage called [the sink](https://imgur.com/a/5FrCsLt), and lastly [the treasure trove of soaps](https://imgur.com/a/6zcDxcX). I hope you all enjoyed this foray into my great shame. In real talk, the vast majority of the hardware I own was purchased from you fantastic people, and I really appreciate how the community enables each other to try new things.

Today's photo contest theme is Hobbies. Please judge the photo in the title. My other big hobby is collecting slide rules. The one in the image is a pocket rule made by Pickett model number N600-ES. Astronauts on the original Apollo missions were kitted out with a model very very similar to this one so that they could double check rough calculations on the fly. I have talked before (and will again these Lather Games) about coaching the Calculator contest for the school where I teach, well a huge fun fact is that, for a very, very long time, Texas hosted a Slide Rule contest. Students would compete to do calculations as quickly and accurately as possible for nerd fame and glory. While I have plenty of Slide Rules that are just collectors items, I also have a whole set of plastic ones (like [this](https://imgur.com/a/xzdH2DL)), that I keep at school and use to host my own version of the defunct Texas contest with my students. The reward is still just nerd fame and glory, but at a smaller scale. #photocontest