It's a whole new world...
Indeed. We'll see how he feels at 9 p.m. tonight when he gets off his first 7-hour shift!
Fun shave!
My first job was at a famous hometown German deli/bakery. Great learning experience in service...and good leftovers! I hope it goes well for him!
Thanks!
Good to hear you enjoyed the new razor. I find anything narrower than 9/16 too narrow for me, even 9/16 depends on other factors. Sounds like the narrow blade didn't hold you back though.
Good news about the Deli Counter job, that area of the grocery store tends to be a solid job. My son has been working for a semi-local chain for a couple years and it has afforded him the ability to go to school and provided some interesting stories. There is more politics involved in the union grocery store jobs than i had every imagined, he's learning to navigate those waters too. Good for your son, you should be proud.
Thanks, Chris. Interesting thoughts on blade size, too.
Nice shave ! Soapy Science in the Lollipop Citrus scent sounds awesome and you sure give it a workout.
I keep track of how many shaves I get from each soap, so I know that yesterday was my 20th shave with Lollipop Citrus. I have logged 25 with Doc's Special Blend. So it seems like I need to give the Lollipop Citrus even more of a workout!
Great stuff Randall! Lighter blades can present their own challenges, but can be extremely fun to whip around the face since they're so agile!
Congrats on your son landing the deli gig!
Thanks.
159/196 this morning.
So I decided to try the Sta-Sharp again this morning, to see if with experience I could improve on the experience. For lather, I decided to try one of the samples that Chris generously included with the razor. For this morning, I went with Lisa's in the Black Velvet scent. It looks like this scent has been discontinued. I found it interesting that Lisa was surprised that men would want, for example, white florals and the like, when this Black Velvet soap smells like a high-end women's perfume. At least to my nose it does. Not saying it as a dis; I really enjoyed the scent of this soap in the container, but it did smell, if anything, even more feminine than Dr. Jon's Savannah sunrise, which is a combination of peach and about 4 or 5 flowers.
Anyway, I scooped out an almond-sized amount with a spoon (maybe a bit more) and put it into my lathering bowl. At the beginning of the lathering it became very bubbly very quickly, which worried me, but as I worked it more, it began to look much nicer. I think I used enough for about two shaves, but oh, well.
Anyway, as I started to lather it, I detected an earthy, almost dirt smell, which I suspect is a vetiver. I don't know what the scent notes are.
By the end of the lathering, though, I had a really nice lather that smelled great and shaved great. Unfortunately, about the middle of the second pass I began to feel a tingling all over my face that suggested that my skin didn't like it as much as my nose did.
The first two passes with the mighty mite Sta-Sharp went very well. I was careful to keep a light touch and a shallow angle, and I also watched where the point was at all times. No problems at all.
At some point I wondered whether the feeling I had on my face was a reaction to the soap or whether I was irritating my face with the razor. So after two passes, I rinsed all the lather off my face and switched to Cremo cooling and did the third pass with the Ming-Shi.
I've been using a mild, low-alcohol aftershave splash, but today I decided to go with Myrsol F.Extra to help me figure out what happened; I figured that if I had been shaving too aggressively and the tingling in my face was from that, the Mysol would light me up. Well, the Myrsol went on smoothly and without any problem at all. Felt good, in fact. So I suspect that there is some ingredient in the soap that my skin doesn't like. Too bad, because I really enjoyed the soap's scent and lather.
In the end, it was a DFS without any weepers, nicks, or irritation other than the soap reaction. So, all-in-all, a great shave. And I am liking the mighty mite quite a bit. I have to rinse more frequently, but other than that, it's all good.
I'm giving the edge an A-, the soap an A-, my shaving skills a B+ today, and the shave an A-.
Have a great day, gents!
