Aug. 1, 2024
- Brush: Declaration Grooming B14 “Nebula” Badger
- Razor: Schick Hydro Magic
- Blade: Schick Injector (1)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Sheep - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Aftershave feat. House of Mammoth - Permafrost
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
Well here we are—welcome to the $ShepherdsofStirling month! I really want to thank my fellow flock of friendly fjudges, /u/hugbckt and /u/TheStallionPartThree for taking this idea and running with it.
The idea came out of a $Discord conversation where I mentioned I’m using Sheep for the whole month because my wife is pretty scent adverse and I didn’t want to choose something that would bother her. /u/StBandicoot came up with the name, and in a few minutes the fjudges were planning the whole thing via DM. It literally came together in about a half hour two days ago—which is why you all had such little warning about this excellent challenge.
So we now have what is objectively the best AA challenge. It’s the best because it doesn’t ask you to shave every day. It just asks you to use what is arguably the best soap base out there, with which you can double down with one of the best scents out there (Varen++) and you have a great month ahead of you. It’s the chill challenge; the challenge reflective of the easygoing, no nonsense, no fuss vibe of our good friends over at /u/StirlingSoap. And it benefits 4H too!
(As an aside, as a kid growing up on suburban Long Island, New York, the only thing I knew about 4H was that commercial which frankly tells you nothing about the organization, and I had no fucking idea what 4H did until I moved to rural America as an adult. But for some reason that jingle always stuck with me: 4H! For you! For America! 4H!)
A few words on the other choices here. I haven’t used the Hydro Magic in a long time so that’s how that won out—looking for a month of nice easy shaves. The brush choice was simply because its pretty much become all boar all the time with my brushes, and I wanted to give my Dec some love.
Good shave, looking forward to the rest of the month!
EDIT: It would be nice if I could spell the name of my own challenge right.