I think anyone would be upset over such treatment.
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Life On the Wee Woo Box
- Thread starter bentheduck
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Hey whose side are you on anyway?!
SteveChuckFrank
Close Enough*
I know I personally can’t stand it when people put me in things upside down
I'm on the side of that poor, uncomfortable blade.Hey whose side are you on anyway?!
I'm not even gonna ask...I know I personally can’t stand it when people put me in things upside down
I can't say I blame you. I'll go sit in a corner and wait until I get home to shave.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
But if shave 1 with the spine of the TP's gave a good shave ????
I'm a bit of a wizard, Harry. I don't think that's how it goes, but whatever.
Maybe you should have a featured partner of the week! Get them to shave and you video it. Or maybe just some footage of you and your partner doing...well...stuff!
It'll be hard to get a video of the guys shaving, but I can try to get some footage of us training or something. Fair warning, we're not very exciting. Haha
- Pre-shave: Warm shower and apricot scrub
- Razor: Weck Sextoblade
- Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (1)
- Brush: Vie-Long horse hair
- Soap: CBL Cut Tobacco
- Aftershave: Thayer's, Siliski Santa's Pipe
- Music: Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
- Pomade: none
Today's metal stuff was provided by @The Monkey, so I'd like to take a second to thank him for graciously offering it out for us to try. John, my face hates you. Haha.
Before I get to the juicy details, let's talk about the other stuff. I picked Cut Tobacco because it smells amazing and I know it has the slickness to easy the blade through my whiskers (read: face). Santa's Pipe is the best complimentary aftershave I have for Cut Tobacco at the moment.
Onto to the good parts. I whipped up a nice lather and went to work. I thought I was so slick until I got to my neck and felt a nick. Turns out that I also had more than a few weepers under my bottom lip and on my neck. That's just from the first pass. I got super brave and went for my customary atg passes (L&R) with few issues other than more weepers under my bottom lip. I don't mean to brag, but I bled less than @dangerousdon probably (read: for sure). I needed to break out the alum and the feedback was horrible. Everything but my cheeks stung like hell. I threw on some witch hazel, I knew I needed it this time. The witch hazel really soothed my stinging face. Santa's Pipe feels more oily than anything else, but it was incredibly soothing too, and it gets absorbed into the skin fairly quickly without any oily feeling afterwards.
In all I think I had a decent first go with the Weck Sextoblade. Thanks Don, I hear you saying it every time I read or type it. Tomorrow should be a little better. I need to use a lot less pressure and I'll make the adjustment.
A little Streetlight Manifesto never killed anybody. This is their debut album and it's incredible. The composition of music is beautiful and the lyrics touch on the lesser talked about stuff regarding mental health. With that being said, if you're having a rough time with something, reach out to anybody. I promise you're not alone.
I'm off to eat cereal with Matilda and Emma. I wish you all a wonderful day. Thanks for reading!
I forgot to add that I finished my shave at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, ER 4. The doc wasn't happy that I kept trying to shave while he was doing his assessment.
Gracias, Tim!
Rumors of my demise will probably be very accurate!Clearly successful when mass amounts of precious bodily fluids are spilt. No transfusion =
Thanks. I am too. It was an interesting experience.
Not a bad start. Just focus on just skimming the lather off. Nice and light.
SteveChuckFrank
Close Enough*
You sound like me with an open blade...I thought you knew what you were doing? Lol