Journal Entry #796
2022 Shaves (DE: 16, SE: 2, Straight: 0, Cart: 0, Skipped: 9)
01/27/2022
Pre: Hot shower/splash of cool water
Razor: Parker Variant @2
Blade: Treet Platinum (3)
Bowl: Fine Accoutrements Lather Bowl
Brush: WCS Tortoiseshell Collection Torch Shaving Brush, Silvertip 26mm
Soap/Cream: RazoRock Blue Barbershop triple milled soap (1)
AS 1: Thayer's Rose Petal Facial Toner
AS 2: Nivea Sensitive ASB
AS 3: RazoRock Blue Barbershop AS Splash (1)
Fragrance: Boucheron Pour Homme EdP
Overview
Having a really barbershop-y day!
SOTD Pics
Shave Quality
This was my first go around with this soap. It stung my face a bit, but I think that is just my face adjusting to this new soap. The shave is BBS. The soap left my face feeling clean and smooth in the way that only an old-school milled shave soap can. The residual irritation is going away quickly. I am going to be using this soap more.
Gear
The razor and blade combo are still good. I think tomorrow, however, I am going to switch to my February setup for the One Blade challenge.
The soap stung my face a bit. I think it may be that I had the soap a little too dry. Or, perhaps, it was just my face adjusting to a soap lacking superfat. I will keep going with it until February and see how it goes.
The aftershave is great. I never took the opportunity to purchase Floid Blue. Now that I am using this I wish that I had.
Boucheron Pour Homme is beautiful. I love floral perfumes. The rose and ylang-ylang are a great together and in combination with the spices and oakmoss. This was love at first sniff.
Other Thoughts
Got to hang out with my card gaming friends last night and play a couple of games of
Vampire the Masquerade: Rivals (link for anyone interested in the game:
Vampire The Masquerade - Rivals Expandable Card Game). It was a ton of fun and really improved my day. Today I am thinking about building a couple more decks for next week.
I didn't do much knitting or crocheting in 2021. I really need to remedy that in 2022. I have several afghans that I need to make (one is in progress) and a cardigan that I really need to finish. Oh, and there is a ton of sock yarn in my stash that needs to become a ton of socks.
Thank you for reading and commenting on my journal. I hope you have a great day and stellar shaves, Cadre.