Pre-Shave: Hot shower Brush: Simpson Chubby 1
Razor: Gotta 6/8
Strop: 40/60 Neil Miller Linen/English Bridle Soap: Tabac
After shave: Tabac ASB Results: Blix lent me this Gotta to try the other day, and let me just put it this way: Now I want one!! (Like I don't suffer from RAD already ) A splendid evening shave!
Thursday St. Ives Apricot scrub prep
EJ Sandalwood soap
EJ de89l with a Vidyut Supermax Platinum blade
Barbasol Pacific Rush splash
EMJ post shave lotion
Feather SS w/ Pro (#4 or #5, can't remember now...) Semogue 2011 LE boar 2 Palmolive Sulwhasoo 'Skin' and 'Lotion' (i.e. after shave and after shave balm) Tom Ford White Suede
What a shave! I'd heard guys talk about this new R41 as an aggressive razor; they were not wrong! I heard it cutting whiskers before it even touched my face. Amund (Blix) warned me to make sure I had a good lather, so I spent some extra time building the Cade into a nice creamy bit of heaven. When I loaded the blade, I could immediately tell this was not like my R89. A LOT of blade sticks out. But, I gently took the razor to my face and it glided effortlessly. After one pass, I was beyond DFS and almost BBS. But I had so much fun that I couldn't bear to not do a second pass. After that run, it rivaled my best BBS from a straight. This is one serious DE.
Gentlemen, I wish you all the happiest of holidays!
Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: Schick G1 Blade: Schick Soap: MWF Brush: Simpsons Duke 2 Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5 Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue