SOTD by u/kind_simian

LG SOTD 13Jun2024

• Brush: Yaqi Midnight Blue - 26mm timber wolf synthetic
• Razor: Karve - Bison (Blue)
• Blade: Wizamet - Super Iridium (3)
• Lather: Noble Otter - Orbit
• Bowl: CaYuen - Dark Nebula, large
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - Aftershave Balm, The Watchman

Happy Friday, beautiful people! Welcome to the fourteenth shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today's theme is “Frigid Friday” where we shave with a lather that is cooling.

I’m going to use Noble Otter’s - Orbit, another long time denizen. I only have two cooling soaps in the den, this and SBS’ Cannonball, and that’s my summer soap for the games. I dislike menthol, I pick up the smell strongly - Stirling’s Glacial Lemon Chill smells like a cough drop, Cryogen like being a sick kid slathered with Vick’s - but the synthetic cooling soaps are fun for a change up. Orbit contains something dubbed Koolada-23 to bring us the cold of space.

Built the rest of the shave on the space theme of Orbit. Got the dark nebula lather bowl, the midnight blue brush, the blue Bison, the dark void of The Watchman. Like shaving in space 🚀🪐

But, before I freeze my face in the vacuum of space, there is a request that we stack all of our treasures. I see what you’re doing. We just prettied up our hoard for the den tour, then you make us drag everything out for something as daft as stacking our soaps like terrible Legos, trashing our efforts for the judges’ amusement. Well, that’s exactly what I did!

Not sure how tall it was, but I’m confident it was over 6 feet as I’m 5’10” and I was reaching up to precariously balance the sample of Everett that is the top of the stack.

From the A&E St Barts downward, that’s the regular den inhabitants. Above that is the stuff currently on trial.

The shave was solid but I should have pushed the water a little further. Slickness would have improved though was good enough for comfort. Although I still want to see a more aggressive head, I seem to have worked out how to get a better shave out of the Bison with my normal 1.5 passes. Still not as good as I can get with any of the horsemen, but not so much that I feel like I should have sucked it up and gone for the second pass. Orbit is an odd scent - it’s there but never that strong. Yet, it does hold your attention. The chill comes out best when you rinse your face and is usually a pleasant level of chill. It was a good start to Friday.

One more shift to the weekend!

[LG SOTD 13Jun2024](https://imgur.com/a/XKTeEqU)

* **Brush:** Yaqi Midnight Blue - 26mm timber wolf synthetic
* **Razor:** Karve - Bison (Blue)
* **Blade:** Wizamet - Super Iridium (3)
* **Lather:** Noble Otter - Orbit
* **Bowl:** CaYuen - Dark Nebula, large
* **Post Shave:** Zingari Man - Aftershave Balm, The Watchman

Happy Friday, beautiful people! Welcome to the fourteenth shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today's theme is “Frigid Friday” where we shave with a lather that is cooling.

I’m going to use Noble Otter’s - Orbit, another long time denizen. I only have two cooling soaps in the den, this and SBS’ Cannonball, and that’s my summer soap for the games. I dislike menthol, I pick up the smell strongly - Stirling’s Glacial Lemon Chill smells like a cough drop, Cryogen like being a sick kid slathered with Vick’s - but the synthetic cooling soaps are fun for a change up. Orbit contains something dubbed Koolada-23 to bring us the cold of space.

Built the rest of the shave on the space theme of Orbit. Got the dark nebula lather bowl, the midnight blue brush, the blue Bison, the dark void of The Watchman. Like shaving in space 🚀🪐

But, before I freeze my face in the vacuum of space, there is a request that we stack all of our treasures. I see what you’re doing. We just prettied up our hoard for the den tour, then you make us drag everything out for something as daft as stacking our soaps like terrible Legos, trashing our efforts for the judges’ amusement. Well, [that’s exactly what I did!](https://imgur.com/a/F4eCNTs)

Not sure how tall it was, but I’m confident it was over 6 feet as I’m 5’10” and I was reaching up to precariously balance the sample of Everett that is the top of the stack.

From the A&E St Barts downward, that’s the regular den inhabitants. Above that is the stuff currently on trial.

The shave was solid but I should have pushed the water a little further. Slickness would have improved though was good enough for comfort. Although I still want to see a more aggressive head, I seem to have worked out how to get a better shave out of the Bison with my normal 1.5 passes. Still not as good as I can get with any of the horsemen, but not so much that I feel like I should have sucked it up and gone for the second pass. Orbit is an odd scent - it’s there but never that strong. Yet, it does hold your attention. The chill comes out best when you rinse your face and is usually a pleasant level of chill. It was a good start to Friday.

One more shift to the weekend!