June 15, 2024 - Near Death Experience
SOAP - You know how it is when you get your first car and it’s a hand me down but you are excited because it’s your first car! Then after a while using it you want something different and better and so you get a truck and forget about the Toyota Tercel! It just sits there since you can’t sell it due to all the emotional attachment you have but you don’t really want to drive it cause the truck is so much better. Well this is TOBs for me. When I first got it I used the crap out of it. I was so excited to be wetshaving then I discovered all these other younger, better looking, in shape soaps that didn’t nag at me or give me shit for not taking the trash out in time!!
Soooo… I upgraded and left TOBs until today when I realized it was there all along and I just didn’t give it enough time to get to know it. But now things are different and shaving with it is not the same, it’s familiar but different and awkward and I wish it was like it used to be but it can’t cause I have moved on. So I use it and put it away again because the memories just adds to my loneliness and makes me sad.
RAZOR - Nothing knew here. BUT TOBS Royal Forest has lots of musk so I did matched it with a splash that had a lot of musk on it like leviathan. AND since I needed something of a frag why not throw in executive man which is a dupe of creed A and hence a big chunk of musk on it as well. Yes long road there but it matches?
THE THEME - I learned from some of the veterans here how to properly add water to my lather! Well today on order to stay on theme I added almost no water! It was the longest shave of my life. My razor kept getting clogged and before I knew it the lather on my face had dried! I finally crossed the finished line and my face felt like the Sahara! Which is how it always felt when I was shaving with the market goop. I had to add so much lotion afterwards still feels like it’s going to crack. As they say “No Pain No Lather Games”.