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The Heysi Missive

heysi said:
It only took me 40 years to learn to be frugal with my Williams lather.
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At a point in your life, that you now have more soap than you've ever had, and probably more than you know what to do with..... you're being frugal with your soap. SMH
heysi said:
but the slight tingle tells me its doing something.
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That tingle tells you where you screwed up with your technique, and gave yourself tiny cuts or abrasions, lol. Get better at shaving! :ROFLMAO:
 
Spider said:
That tingle tells you where you screwed up with your technique, and gave yourself tiny cuts or abrasions, lol. Get better at shaving! :ROFLMAO:
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Its not like its tingling all over my face....just in one or two small spots. Is the alum just supposed to tell me I cut myself?
 
heysi said:
Its not like its tingling all over my face....just in one or two small spots. Is the alum just supposed to tell me I cut myself?
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Yep, pretty much. Where you got a little too close. It can also seal up tiny weepers.
 
NurseDave said:
Yep, pretty much. Where you got a little too close. It can also seal up tiny weepers.
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Cool. So I'm not too bad as KJ would like me to believe.

I'll be honest, I used to always get weepers around the corner of my mouth but the help I've gotten from the forums has eliminated that issue. I guess I'll use the alum block as a way to ensure that I'm keeping a good, solid technique going. Thanks for the info.
 
Spent the weekend in Los Angeles visiting my friend. His mom died in december and he held the memorial on saturday. It was a nice occasion and there were no tears all day. Lost of laughs and smiles and good stories. That's how I want to be remembered.....not with sadness but with laughs and happy thoughts.

Anyway...did torture my friend by watching the Dodgers on his tv a few times over the weekend (his cable company won't show the Angels games....been there). The Dodgers lost all three games to the hated Giants but you can't win them all.

Travel Shave:

I'm still working out a better travel shave experience and lets just say....I'm not even close to there yet.

Used my '64 Flair tip with a brand new Gillette Silver Blue blade. With all the different variables in this shave...I was asking for trouble with a brand new blade.

For travel soap I have a tub of Ambition from Soap Commander. I like the scent and at home it lathered up well but I think my friends super soft water was causing limp lather.

The very first brush I ever owned was put into my travel bag some time ago and its in need of a cleaning. Its a badger from Hoffritz and its about 35 years old. The bristles were just not as fluffy and healthy as they used to look (now that I know better what they should look like). The lather was paltry and weak after my usual amount of work so I had to keep adding drops of water. It took some time but I finally built up a half decent lather.

Between the fresh new blade and the frustration with the lather I ended up giving myself a less than perfect shave. Had a weeper at the corner of my mouth and just generally felt like a half-hearted attempt. Didn't even remember to put any aftershave in my bag so that was a bad way to finish.

So I have a few things to work out with my travel shaving gear. Definitely need to have a blade with a few shaves under its belt and I do need to switch out the brush for a synthetic....after I clean up the Hoffritz (that was bad form on my part, not keeping a good brush clean). And I need to go back and see how some of you all are traveling with aftershaves. I can't let this happen on future trips. Its unacceptable. I remember watching a great video from KJ where he took his travel shaving gear to the beach for a small tour for us all. I need to be thinking along those lines from now on.

See ya Later.
 
heysi said:
Just got done watching your video. It is now in my amazon shopping cart. Just need to figure out how to tell the wife what it is and how it arrived in our house.
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I watched an episode of The League and it had answers to this very crisis er situation.

Basically - you just look her in the eye and repeat the very question she asked. Then you have to flip the situation immediately.

Mrs. Heysi: “What is this?”
Heysi: “What is this and did I buy it…..Umm……Well what does that say about you? What’s going on with you today?”

You‘re welcome……

And if when that inevitably fails, as long as you can take 89 degrees Fahrenheit in the house… (which is much cooler than the 10 degrees from Hell outside)…….then @BarberDave I think has a very nice couch for you to sleep on. Heck of a commute though.
 
The problem with arguing with the mrs is that if you are wrong, you owe her chocolates and if you are right, then you owe her flowers and chocolates. i have instead taken a leaf from Basil Fawlty's playbook and run with 'yes dear, you're always right dear and i live only to serve you', at which point i'm usually called something with 4 letters, but the argument ends!

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