GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
It has its perks!Such is life for parents of youngsters. Still the greatest gig in town.
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GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Shave #296 (355 Open Blade Shaves) of 2019:
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL Cherry Blossom & Bamboo soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Fine Platinum AS, and Greet Aventus clone to finish!
Oh man...I am 4 fer 2 on my CBL purchased to far. Yes you read that right!
Mr Mom duties end later today! Whoop whoop!
Most excellent shave with my first time use of CBL Cherry Blossom & Bamboo! The name fits perfectly! Otherwise I’d call it a nice light, refreshing oriental scent and not know what the notes were. Darn good stuff though. For some reason I couldn’t grasp the notes well when I first got it and sniffed, but today they were very present. Almost felt bad masking the lingering scent with my Aventus clones...but oh well, there will be other days and other shaves!
Huge relief coming back from dropping the kids off at school. Sunday afternoon I had put out a pile-o-crap for a scheduled early Monday morning pick up...but the city never came to get it! I don’t know about your neighborhoods, but around this part of town, all it takes is literally one box laying on a side street and by week’s end it will mysteriously grow into a monster pile of garbage. To avoid paying dump fees, some folks literally, in the dead of night, drive to a random side street and dump a truck full of garbage then hightail it out. It’s happening less often, but it does still happen. Anyway, my nice neat pile had already been picked over a couple time by Monday evening and partially strewn on the sidewalk. By yesterday morning it had begun it’s mysterious growth process, adding in some broken electronics and rubbish. This morning before heading out with the kids, it was a little bit bigger. Just stupid...
Wednesday night programs this evening at work. Missus is supposed to get back into town around the same time. I’m stoked!
Have a great Wednesday all!
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL Cherry Blossom & Bamboo soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Fine Platinum AS, and Greet Aventus clone to finish!
Oh man...I am 4 fer 2 on my CBL purchased to far. Yes you read that right!
Mr Mom duties end later today! Whoop whoop!
Most excellent shave with my first time use of CBL Cherry Blossom & Bamboo! The name fits perfectly! Otherwise I’d call it a nice light, refreshing oriental scent and not know what the notes were. Darn good stuff though. For some reason I couldn’t grasp the notes well when I first got it and sniffed, but today they were very present. Almost felt bad masking the lingering scent with my Aventus clones...but oh well, there will be other days and other shaves!
Huge relief coming back from dropping the kids off at school. Sunday afternoon I had put out a pile-o-crap for a scheduled early Monday morning pick up...but the city never came to get it! I don’t know about your neighborhoods, but around this part of town, all it takes is literally one box laying on a side street and by week’s end it will mysteriously grow into a monster pile of garbage. To avoid paying dump fees, some folks literally, in the dead of night, drive to a random side street and dump a truck full of garbage then hightail it out. It’s happening less often, but it does still happen. Anyway, my nice neat pile had already been picked over a couple time by Monday evening and partially strewn on the sidewalk. By yesterday morning it had begun it’s mysterious growth process, adding in some broken electronics and rubbish. This morning before heading out with the kids, it was a little bit bigger. Just stupid...
Wednesday night programs this evening at work. Missus is supposed to get back into town around the same time. I’m stoked!
Have a great Wednesday all!
Not in my neighborhood, I usually drive mine over to Sacramento.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Gotta take the bad that comes with the good right?
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
I'll give you an idea of the bathroom rip out debris removal. I literally piled it in the back yard took a torch to it to get it started and kept feeding the fire till everything was gone and watched it burn down until it was safe to walk away from the embers. Trash gone and no where near a road for people to add to it 
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
I’d like to say my neighbors did that...but they’d probably burn down Northern California in the process.I'll give you an idea of the bathroom rip out debris removal. I literally piled it in the back yard took a torch to it to get it started and kept feeding the fire till everything was gone and watched it burn down until it was safe to walk away from the embers. Trash gone and no where near a road for people to add to it
No hot dog roasting?I'll give you an idea of the bathroom rip out debris removal. I literally piled it in the back yard took a torch to it to get it started and kept feeding the fire till everything was gone and watched it burn down until it was safe to walk away from the embers. Trash gone and no where near a road for people to add to it
Wow, I've never seen such a thing occur. Bush league, to say the least. We experience the opposite behavior in my neighborhood - trash gets picked over regularly. If someone can use what I no longer can, then more power to them.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Shave #297 (355 Open Blade Shaves) of 2019:
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL Fresh Vetiver soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Lucky Tiger AS, and Humorous TDH clone to finish!
6 fer 3 on my CBL soap purchase...we have another winner! Ding ding! Sadly the last, my SIR Fougere tonsorial will have to wait for it’s first shave till I find a tub for it.
The missus is back...and I’m pooped! I did get to sleep in this morning as a result, then slowly shambles around doing some light cleaning...then in for my wake up shower n shave.
CBL Fresh Vetiver was calling my name and I was anxious to try it and give a scent comparison to Chris’ 50 Shades of Vetiver MDC soap demo batch. Night and day differences but all good! Having been now able to try over 6 of Chris’ various soaps, I can say he’s got his consistency of base down pat! I do feel like there’s been slight adjustments since I got my first tub of CBL many moons ago, but they’re definitely improvements (not like they were needed in the first place). As for Fresh Vetiver, it’s a great, lightly scented soap, a hint of a grey vetiver. This is another scent that I think anyone within a wide variety of folks could use. I think it wouldn’t be bad to add a little of the sharp spice of the 50 Shades version, for just a little kick, but overall great scent. Performance is elite of course!
Finished off with Lucky Tiger and some spritzes of Humorous, which is actually a fairly faithful clone of Terre D Hermes, one of my favorite frags!
I did pile on the spritzes of Greet a bit yesterday morning and at least one of my coworkers asked me what great frag I was wearing many hours later...so there’s that.
Super busy day today, ending with a late night. Our campus is hosting something called the “Q Commons” for the evening and they don’t finish up till near 10pm. Which leaves me getting out much later than my normal 10:30. Le sigh.
Have a great Thursday all!
ps - finally got Monday’s recording up! I’ll post once the Tube is done processing it.
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL Fresh Vetiver soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Lucky Tiger AS, and Humorous TDH clone to finish!
6 fer 3 on my CBL soap purchase...we have another winner! Ding ding! Sadly the last, my SIR Fougere tonsorial will have to wait for it’s first shave till I find a tub for it.
The missus is back...and I’m pooped! I did get to sleep in this morning as a result, then slowly shambles around doing some light cleaning...then in for my wake up shower n shave.
CBL Fresh Vetiver was calling my name and I was anxious to try it and give a scent comparison to Chris’ 50 Shades of Vetiver MDC soap demo batch. Night and day differences but all good! Having been now able to try over 6 of Chris’ various soaps, I can say he’s got his consistency of base down pat! I do feel like there’s been slight adjustments since I got my first tub of CBL many moons ago, but they’re definitely improvements (not like they were needed in the first place). As for Fresh Vetiver, it’s a great, lightly scented soap, a hint of a grey vetiver. This is another scent that I think anyone within a wide variety of folks could use. I think it wouldn’t be bad to add a little of the sharp spice of the 50 Shades version, for just a little kick, but overall great scent. Performance is elite of course!
Finished off with Lucky Tiger and some spritzes of Humorous, which is actually a fairly faithful clone of Terre D Hermes, one of my favorite frags!
I did pile on the spritzes of Greet a bit yesterday morning and at least one of my coworkers asked me what great frag I was wearing many hours later...so there’s that.
Super busy day today, ending with a late night. Our campus is hosting something called the “Q Commons” for the evening and they don’t finish up till near 10pm. Which leaves me getting out much later than my normal 10:30. Le sigh.
Have a great Thursday all!
ps - finally got Monday’s recording up! I’ll post once the Tube is done processing it.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Shave #298 (355 Open Blade Shaves) of 2019:
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, Cinnanilla soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Bootlegger’s Bay Rum AS, and Rosemary/Cinnamon/Lime EO to finish!
Don’t know why I’m still holding on to this cinnamon soap...it’s failed me pretty much every shave. It has pretty good slickness, it just really lacks everything else. Cella and Williams do pretty darn good on their own and I’d bet they’d do amazing together, but this soap just kills it for some reason; must be too many oils. I should have been a bit smarter and only used part of the cinnamon puck instead of all of it. Darn frugal nature! Oh well, hopefully I won’t have to deal with such a soap anymore. It gets scooped out and dumped, freeing up a tub (albeit one way too big) for my SIR Fougere.
Yep, another late night last night...got home around 11:45. Stayed up just to have at least a little quality time with the missus. Thankfully today at work won’t be quite as bad and I get to head in an hour early. Besides a few meetings going on, most of the day will be spent prepping the campus for the annual Trunk-or-Treat community event tomorrow afternoon. Decorated trunks, games, bounce houses, food trucks, and more! We usually draw over 1000 from the neighborhood and it ends just before normal trick-or-treating begins so families can still do that.
Have a great Friday all!
Gear: RR GC .68, Astra SP blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, Cinnanilla soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Bootlegger’s Bay Rum AS, and Rosemary/Cinnamon/Lime EO to finish!
Don’t know why I’m still holding on to this cinnamon soap...it’s failed me pretty much every shave. It has pretty good slickness, it just really lacks everything else. Cella and Williams do pretty darn good on their own and I’d bet they’d do amazing together, but this soap just kills it for some reason; must be too many oils. I should have been a bit smarter and only used part of the cinnamon puck instead of all of it. Darn frugal nature! Oh well, hopefully I won’t have to deal with such a soap anymore. It gets scooped out and dumped, freeing up a tub (albeit one way too big) for my SIR Fougere.
Yep, another late night last night...got home around 11:45. Stayed up just to have at least a little quality time with the missus. Thankfully today at work won’t be quite as bad and I get to head in an hour early. Besides a few meetings going on, most of the day will be spent prepping the campus for the annual Trunk-or-Treat community event tomorrow afternoon. Decorated trunks, games, bounce houses, food trucks, and more! We usually draw over 1000 from the neighborhood and it ends just before normal trick-or-treating begins so families can still do that.
Have a great Friday all!
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Use it for bath soap Mr Frugal
Wait. Rosemary, cinnamon, and lime???
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Nah, not good enough for that either.
Yep! It’s different, but not at all bad! It, along with the others EO scents I’ve been using, we’re concocted by a friend who obliged me some large samplings. It’s fleeting anyway, lasts less than an hour with a light cinnamon note lingering on the skin after, so even if it did smell bad I wouldn’t have to worry about it. I am going to spritz a frag before I head out to work.
Have you thought about adding a couple of drops to a sample of WH? The lab is calling your name.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
These are already diluted with carrier oils, but it’s a possibility I guess, spicing the normal generic WH!
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Wow, that's a shame
Sounds like science to me! Reasons! Reasons, I tell you!!!
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Shave #299 (355 Open Blade Shaves) of 2019:
Gear: Schick M Adjustable, Supply blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL SIR Fougere soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Pitralon Classic AS, and Cypress/Melaleuca/Siberian Fir EO to finish!
It’s official...I’m 8 fer 4 on my CBL purchases! 16ish oz of high quality soap, 4 bangin scents, solid deal at $28 shipped.
Had a nice relaxing morning - coffee and bagel with the missus while the kids played at a park. Then back home for a refreshing shower n shave.
Instant classic shave today - CBL SIR Fougere, Pitralon Classic, andCypress/Melaleuca/Siberian Fir EO...perfection! Loved the shave SF gave. The scent was fresh, light, green fern...a distant cousin to CBL Money if you’ve used that. Had a hair cut last night with the ol clippers, so I trimmed up the sideburns during the shave. The Schick Adjustable cruised along on setting 5 for 3 passes, then dialed back to 3 for cleanup. Oh yes.
Off to work in a bit. Trunk or Treat will be kicking off shortly after my shift starts. Then later it’s clean up and prep for Sunday services. I’m ready for my weekend!
Have a great Saturday all!
Gear: Schick M Adjustable, Supply blade, RR Big Bruce synth brush, CBL SIR Fougere soap, generic witch hazel, Thayer’s Medicated, Pitralon Classic AS, and Cypress/Melaleuca/Siberian Fir EO to finish!
It’s official...I’m 8 fer 4 on my CBL purchases! 16ish oz of high quality soap, 4 bangin scents, solid deal at $28 shipped.
Had a nice relaxing morning - coffee and bagel with the missus while the kids played at a park. Then back home for a refreshing shower n shave.
Instant classic shave today - CBL SIR Fougere, Pitralon Classic, andCypress/Melaleuca/Siberian Fir EO...perfection! Loved the shave SF gave. The scent was fresh, light, green fern...a distant cousin to CBL Money if you’ve used that. Had a hair cut last night with the ol clippers, so I trimmed up the sideburns during the shave. The Schick Adjustable cruised along on setting 5 for 3 passes, then dialed back to 3 for cleanup. Oh yes.
Off to work in a bit. Trunk or Treat will be kicking off shortly after my shift starts. Then later it’s clean up and prep for Sunday services. I’m ready for my weekend!
Have a great Saturday all!