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An Unexpected Journey: A Newbie's Walk In Wet Shaving
- Thread starter Blade-meister
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Ya, if they are anywhere near your chest something isn't going right. Just kiddin' Yep, best not to slather your skin with a foreign substance. Joint replacements are one big deal when it comes to sterility. Our docs wear space suit looking helmets and some hospitals have special rooms with laminar air flow for them.
I was hovering over that soap to add to my basket. I know I've smelled it, and I think I've used it, but I can't remember it for the life of me. It does sound good.
I was hovering over that soap to add to my basket. I know I've smelled it, and I think I've used it, but I can't remember it for the life of me. It does sound good.
SteveChuckFrank
Close Enough*
Can't go wrong with WSP! It's one of my favorites, although my list of soaps I've used isn't the most extensive lol.
What’s this? Mike ashamed of the Mammoth painting?
Naw, just afraid the heart monitors and such wouldn't stick to the skin with all that goodness still on it
Which reminds me, they'll probably do a hack job shaving my chest for all those sticky monitor things. Cheap disposable with a dry blade usually. They might need a weed wacker to get down to the skin though!The black vanille is amber, frankincense, & myrrh with vanilla obviously. Super great scent that women love!
Yes they have the space suits and special room for my surgery I'm told. I have to wash with the soap equivalent of kerosene 3 days prior to surgery to be sure my skin is good and clean.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
They'll use a jelly glue that will take a HOT shower and digging to get out of your hair if anything like when I had my shoulder surgery....
Well that's something to look forward to
Like a big old troll booger wiped on my mammoth fur. When I had a heart stress test over a decade ago they just whipped out this cheap big disposable and with water they just shaved my chest in those spots and put the things on there. I think it'd be worse now to watch that because I am a wet shaver.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
You could always ask them to use a Graham Field!Well that's something to look forward to
You could always ask them to use a Graham Field!
Or get a dollar store razor for them.
I wonder if I gave them a Mystic Water sample if they'd use it
Today's Shave: Shave #142
Razor: Parker Variant - Graphite handle / Chinese knock-off of Feather Kamisori Style (Top Lip Only)
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: Eric's Lignum Vitae Hand Turned Brush Handle, 22 mm Boss Knot
Soap: Mystic Water Lavender Lime
Bowl: Red Salsa Bowl (plastic)
Pre Shave: Wash with soap in the shower . Rub raw soap on face from the puck.
Total Razor on Face Time: 6 minutes
Post Shave: Cold water rinse, Witch Hazel (Walmart Brand) face only, Cold rinse. Every Man Jack AS Balm to the face only. Master Bay Rum AS splash on the mammoth fur.
I rolled out of bed this morning a little bit behind so I wasn't quite in the "zen" mindset when shaving. I still did a 3 pass shave, but I didn't really spend a lot of time each pass and I limited my clean-up just so I could be exiting the bathroom at my normal time. This resulted in a mixed shave results. Places on my face were BBS / BBS- and the rest of my neck was a BBS- / DFS+. Not bad for a quick shave. A splash of Master Bay Rum AS got me smelling like a proper man and I was ready for the day. Not a bad shave at all, but a notch down from my recent streak. I think I'm on my 5th shave for that blade so it's probably time to pitch it.
On the personal side, I have my last pre-op test today locally. I need to get an EKG done so that box can be checked. I'm ready to get this thing done! For someone like me who has a high pain tolerance, I'm curious about just how much pain I'll feel after the surgery. I've never broken a bone or had anything more serious than a couple of bullet wounds through and through (Ha just kidding & checking to see if you were paying attention!). That Irish/German/Native American brute DNA passed onto me has served me well over the years when my activities should have resulted in broken bones for sure or at least the loss of a finger
I could have kept my hip bone. There was a check box for that in all the paperwork. I thought for a bit on that and how I process fresh animal bones. I usually hang them in a tree and let the birds pick at them / bugs clean them up while the sun bleaches them. There was just something unsettling about doing that to a part of me and I really didn't want the surgeon to be distracted with having to put my hip bone in something. I want him to just concentrate on putting in my terminator parts and getting me patched back up. So believe it or not, those two thoughts changed my mind on keeping the hip bone. My I'm getting soft in my old age.
Razor: Parker Variant - Graphite handle / Chinese knock-off of Feather Kamisori Style (Top Lip Only)
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: Eric's Lignum Vitae Hand Turned Brush Handle, 22 mm Boss Knot
Soap: Mystic Water Lavender Lime
Bowl: Red Salsa Bowl (plastic)
Pre Shave: Wash with soap in the shower . Rub raw soap on face from the puck.
Total Razor on Face Time: 6 minutes
Post Shave: Cold water rinse, Witch Hazel (Walmart Brand) face only, Cold rinse. Every Man Jack AS Balm to the face only. Master Bay Rum AS splash on the mammoth fur.
I rolled out of bed this morning a little bit behind so I wasn't quite in the "zen" mindset when shaving. I still did a 3 pass shave, but I didn't really spend a lot of time each pass and I limited my clean-up just so I could be exiting the bathroom at my normal time. This resulted in a mixed shave results. Places on my face were BBS / BBS- and the rest of my neck was a BBS- / DFS+. Not bad for a quick shave. A splash of Master Bay Rum AS got me smelling like a proper man and I was ready for the day. Not a bad shave at all, but a notch down from my recent streak. I think I'm on my 5th shave for that blade so it's probably time to pitch it.
On the personal side, I have my last pre-op test today locally. I need to get an EKG done so that box can be checked. I'm ready to get this thing done! For someone like me who has a high pain tolerance, I'm curious about just how much pain I'll feel after the surgery. I've never broken a bone or had anything more serious than a couple of bullet wounds through and through (Ha just kidding & checking to see if you were paying attention!). That Irish/German/Native American brute DNA passed onto me has served me well over the years when my activities should have resulted in broken bones for sure or at least the loss of a finger
I could have kept my hip bone. There was a check box for that in all the paperwork. I thought for a bit on that and how I process fresh animal bones. I usually hang them in a tree and let the birds pick at them / bugs clean them up while the sun bleaches them. There was just something unsettling about doing that to a part of me and I really didn't want the surgeon to be distracted with having to put my hip bone in something. I want him to just concentrate on putting in my terminator parts and getting me patched back up. So believe it or not, those two thoughts changed my mind on keeping the hip bone. My I'm getting soft in my old age.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Knowing what I do of you Mike you're gonna regret not having that to make something out of it.....
Ok, now I'm rethinking it and may just have a shaving brush made out of it. Now wouldn't that be cool. The hippest brush in the whole world
Of course, the last pre-op appointment digs up something. I had an abnormal EKG so now I need an echo cardiogram. I guess I'm glad they found whatever it is so I don't die on the operating table. I sure hope my surgery doesn't get scrubbed because of it.
Of course, the last pre-op appointment digs up something. I had an abnormal EKG so now I need an echo cardiogram. I guess I'm glad they found whatever it is so I don't die on the operating table. I sure hope my surgery doesn't get scrubbed because of it.
I like the idea! Good read
SteveChuckFrank
Close Enough*
I second the idea of a hip bone project!
This morning I really had to work at feeling relaxed and getting in the zone to shave. It felt like a no-shave morning really, but I have to be out in the car today finding people so I have to look presentable. My poor mammoth hair. It looks like aliens landed in there and left crop circles Ahhh, the smell of Bay Rum makes it all ok!
Today's Shave: Shave #143
Razor: Parker Variant - Graphite handle / Chinese knock-off of Feather Kamisori Style (Top Lip Only)
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: Eric's Lignum Vitae Hand Turned Brush Handle, 22 mm Boss Knot
Soap: Mystic Water Bay Rum
Bowl: Red Salsa Bowl (plastic)
Pre Shave: Wash with soap in the shower . Rub raw soap on face from the puck.
Total Razor on Face Time: 8 minutes
Post Shave: Cold water rinse, Witch Hazel (Walmart Brand) face only, Cold rinse. Every Man Jack AS Balm to the face only. Mammoth Painting.
Since I'm down to just some bits of soap on the very edges of my container I really have to work at getting the soap out for a lather. I have about a 1/4 inch ring of this great soap left with the center completely gone down to the bottom of the container. I got a great lather after dipping in again for more. I truly love everything about this scent and I need to get a refill puck soon. Since I had some slight irritation on my right cheek yesterday I decided to keep it to a straight 3 pass shave. I put in a new blade, set the razor at 3.5 and got started. Everything went well and I did minimal clean-up for a BBS shave. I tried using my DE to do the top lip, but it just caused a lot of irritation again. The kamasori and a cart seem to be the only things that don't irritate the upper lip.
On the personal side of things, what an interesting time it was getting the sticky EKG sensors off the mammoth hair. I told the nurse I'd handle it. I tried everything, but a good hard rip was the only thing that got them off. Never heard the sound of hair popping out of their follicles before
I got all dressed and that's when they said they had to do it all again, but this time they got out the shaver. To my relieve it was a fine hair clipper operation. That poor little junior razor almost stalled out in the mammoth forest, but they managed some nice holes in the canopy to stick those sensors on better. The upside......they came off without ripping any more mammoth hair. The Master Bay Rum AS had begun to really fill the room and I was as impressed as a baby skunk on his first spray! That was my adventure yesterday.
Happy One Year Anniversary TSC!!!
Ahhh, the smell of Bay Rum makes it all ok!Today's Shave: Shave #143
Razor: Parker Variant - Graphite handle / Chinese knock-off of Feather Kamisori Style (Top Lip Only)
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
Brush: Eric's Lignum Vitae Hand Turned Brush Handle, 22 mm Boss Knot
Soap: Mystic Water Bay Rum
Bowl: Red Salsa Bowl (plastic)
Pre Shave: Wash with soap in the shower . Rub raw soap on face from the puck.
Total Razor on Face Time: 8 minutes
Post Shave: Cold water rinse, Witch Hazel (Walmart Brand) face only, Cold rinse. Every Man Jack AS Balm to the face only. Mammoth Painting.
Since I'm down to just some bits of soap on the very edges of my container I really have to work at getting the soap out for a lather. I have about a 1/4 inch ring of this great soap left with the center completely gone down to the bottom of the container. I got a great lather after dipping in again for more. I truly love everything about this scent and I need to get a refill puck soon. Since I had some slight irritation on my right cheek yesterday I decided to keep it to a straight 3 pass shave. I put in a new blade, set the razor at 3.5 and got started. Everything went well and I did minimal clean-up for a BBS shave. I tried using my DE to do the top lip, but it just caused a lot of irritation again. The kamasori and a cart seem to be the only things that don't irritate the upper lip.
On the personal side of things, what an interesting time it was getting the sticky EKG sensors off the mammoth hair. I told the nurse I'd handle it. I tried everything, but a good hard rip was the only thing that got them off. Never heard the sound of hair popping out of their follicles before
I got all dressed and that's when they said they had to do it all again, but this time they got out the shaver. To my relieve it was a fine hair clipper operation. That poor little junior razor almost stalled out in the mammoth forest, but they managed some nice holes in the canopy to stick those sensors on better. The upside......they came off without ripping any more mammoth hair. The Master Bay Rum AS had begun to really fill the room and I was as impressed as a baby skunk on his first spray! That was my adventure yesterday.Happy One Year Anniversary TSC!!!
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Have them save the mammoth hair too. What a brush that would make huh?!?!
(Yeah... I saw the finger comment.
I thought you might catch that finger comment
I hadn't thought of trimming some mammoth hair for the brush idea I wonder if Eric would tackle the hip bone brush project??? The mammoth hair would be softer than boar!