Oct 26, 2023 - Theme Thursday: Gunfight at the OK Corral
- Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
- Brush: Wild West Brushworks Matador 26mm Sweet Spot Badger Knot
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE [4]
- Lather: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Soap
- Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - History 101 - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts/Shawn Maher - Gravefruit II - Eau de Parfum
I was just thinking the other day that it is a shame I didn't get a chance to use Lonestar this Summer. Luckily, Lonestar fits the Old West theme today with scent notes like sage, lemon, magnolia, Texas cedar, oakmoss, leather, and hay.
History 101 actually brought the gunfight with Clary sage, leather, gunsmoke, smoke, dirt, tobacco, and sawdust.
In any gunfight, there's the quick and the dead. Gravefruit tied together the smokey woods, magnolia, and Texas cedar to finish off the shave.
Rating: 4/5
Twenty-sixth Day of TabOKtoberfest
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal
- Razor: Dovo Shavette (split DE version)
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
I've had this shavette for a while, bit this is the first time I'm using it. It has a plastic point protruding beyond the corner of the blade. Doubtless meant as a safety feature, it just makes it difficult shave close to the nostrils. Split DE shavettes have no soul. Sad.
Stank ++;
Split DE shavettes have no soul
After the Weck [and you talked me into that], the only shavette I've even considered is the Tedalus Essence, but that's mostly due to how cool it looks.
Oct. 26, 2023
- Brush: Omega 81052
- Razor: Karve Overlander
- Blade: Personna Platinum
- Lather: Macduffs - Dark Sky Preserve - Soap
- Post Shave: Macduffs - Dark Sky Preserve - Aftershave
Good shave. Very nice scent but I do miss the alcohol splash.
October 26, 2023
- Brush: Maggard 24mm 2 Band Badger
- Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
- Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome (4)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Reserve Fern - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Eufros - Dama Noche - Balm
Omnibus can take a ton of water, but also it doesn't need it. I spent relatively little time lathering today and it turned out great.
October 26, 2023
- Brush: Oumo Compass Bonfire 27mm Emperor-2
- Razor: Filarmonica 14 Doble Temple Gen 1 (Straight Shave 359)
- Lather: The Holy Black - Gunpowder Spice - Soap
- Post Shave: The Holy Black - Gunpowder Spice - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Old Spice with a note of gunpowder. What's not to love! And then, of course, there's the Filarmónica 14. It doesn't get better than this!
Fili 15; // ;-)
Oh, this makes me want to pull my own 15 back out
You won't be disappointed! :)
- Razor: Weck Sextoblade
- Blade: Kismet (2)
- Brush: Mühle 23mm STF
- Lather: Canada Shaving Soap
- Post: Thayers
My one-pass few-variables shaves continue. Kismet blades are nice, this went better but maybe it was the soap--my Canadian MdC tribute showed up quickly (snagged one of the last two they had at amazon) and wow, the tub was so full it didn't quite close. Needed to add water as I unexpectedly loaded a sizable amount of soap, I think I expected it to load slower being so hard. Very slick, and very unscented unlike MWF which I find stronger than I expected (though unobjectionable).
