LG SOTD 15Jun2024
- Brush: Yaqi Mojito - 24mm two band synthetic
- Razor: Gillette - 109 Super Adjustable (1970) #ADJUSTABLE
- Blade: Personna - Lab Blue
- Lather: Cella - Bio Organic (Green)
- Bowl: CaYuen - Dark Nebula, large
- Post Shave: Afta by Mennen - Aftershave Lotion, Original
Happy Saturday, beautiful people! Welcome to the fifteenth shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today's theme is “Near Death Experience ” where we shave with whatever lather we have a tub of that is closest to being killed.
That is an easy pick - my tub of Cella green was the second shave soap I bought. Between the donations to my soap base PIFs and shaving, the tub is mostly gone.
For reasons, I did not change up the planned razor upon reading the daily challenge; I may regret that. I will be trying out a 1970-P2 Gillette 109 Super Adjustable with pasty lather 😅. This is not as nice as the Lady Gillette but it is still in very good condition for something that entered the world before me. A bit of tarnish & pitting on the upper handle and some pitting on the underside of the base plate is the worst of it, the business parts are in fantastic condition. I’m eager to try it as I am mostly sure it was an 84 Super Adjustable that my father had in the medicine cabinet and I tried (badly) while learning to shave. Kind of full circle - as a teen I tried this razor and went with the Atra cartridge razor, now I return to it decades later as an adult and experienced wet shaver to use it for an exhibition shave 🤔
The daily challenge is an amuse the judges for another 0.16% of your score challenges. Anyone that would choose to participate is stuck with the bad path and the panel knew it. May as well call this challenge “Fu*k Your Face!!!”
I hope this counts because it was the worst lather I’ve deliberately put to my face in memory. Turned foamy worked in, thin, dried quickly. Worst of all, none of that sweet creaminess you get when you’ve matched structure to hydration. I hated this lather. That unnatural blob on the brush stayed unchanged throughout the shave 🤮
I hope it’s a good thing I have the 109 planned for two more dates where there will (hopefully) be no more “FU Face!” challenges 😅, because no surprise today was not unlike that proto shave of yore and left my face more angry than it’s been in a long while. I want to assume that was the shite lather and not the razor. The Afta did a good job calming my face down.
Uncomfortable shave aside - cheeks weren’t too bad - detected no issues with the razor. Played with settings 3-5 on the adjuster, could tell there were differences, but all the iterations were not great with the lather. Very minor nick on left side of my face near where I got myself with the Lady Gillette - something different in the vintage Gillette head geometry and my face I’ll need to pay attention to tomorrow.
Enjoy the weekend!