SOTD "Free Week" 28 July-3 Aug 2014

Tweezerman Brush
TOBS Rose SC
Schick Type G Injector/Schick Blade (4)
Old Spice Classic

Friday

Shavecraft 101
Polsilver
Calani Dubai
Plisson Synthetic
Myrsol Antesol

Having fun with repeat scenes but different lighting techniques. <3 photography

Friday morning -


Prep - Noxzema & hot towel
Lather - Cella Extra Extra Purissima & suribachi
Brush - Omega 40033
Razor - Gillette Single Ring
Blade - Feather (4)

2 pass
Warm water rinse & cold water splash
Alum block & Witch-hazel AS

For the first day of August, a shave in the ZEN spirit - inner meditation - the search for that elusive state of shaving perfection -


The result -

A few moments of shaving nirvana.

"We have been in Nirvana since the beginning; all we have to do is open our eyes." (quote attributed to Gautama Buddha)

Friday shave.

Hot shower
TOBS Sandlewood cream
EJ98 w/Wilkerson Sword
AOS Badger
RR Alum stick
Clubman

robk said:

Handicapper's Odds?
Four days into a ten-week recovery period for a ruptured extensor tendon on the ring finger of my dominant right hand.

The treatment? A splint for 24 hours a day for the next two months.
The rules are: if I bend that joint even a little ... even only once ... before the ten weeks have elapsed, the clock resets to zero.

Is shaving a challenge? A little bit.

So the question of odds here is not about whether I am going to be a 100% compliant patient, but rather will the demands of compliance lead me to regrow my Santa Claus beard?

Today's shave was my first since Monday.
Click here to view quoted image.
In the larger scheme of trials and tribulations we all face, this one is but a mere incovenience.

And, a splint is sure better than surgery and pins, etc.

Friday, August 1, 2014. Nine weeks and a couple of days and counting down.
Rubberset 400 ... TGN F2 Finest ... Slim ... Personna Israeli Red ... Jabonman Bresia de Oriente ... Fine Clean Vetiver

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Rob, perhaps you need to find a barber to give you an old fashioned shave two or three times a week!
Good luck and happy healing!

Sarimento... thank you!

Sekuss... Hic!

My SOTD: August 1st, 2014



Pre: Hot Shower w/ Nivea facial scrub
Prep: none
Soap: Arko stick
Brush: Bukaty custom silvertip badger
Razor: Ever-Ready “Shovel-Head” SE razor
Blade: GEM SS (2)
Lather: Face
Moustache: Handlebar
Wax and Pomade: Joe Grooming compounded wax & Reuzel WB pomade
Post shave: CWR & Shavex alum
After shave: Fine “American Blend”

Gillette Ball End Tech + Asco
Semogue Boar Brush
Palmolive Shave Stick
Thayer's Original Witch Hazel
Old Spice Whitewater AS

Robk!
I read only now of your troubles!
Fortune is blind but tough luck sees perfectly: your dominant hand!!!
I know what that means... got three knee surgeries, but, as a matter of fact, I could shave...
But do not think shaving is your biggest problem:
Wish you an easy recovery, really!

Oops, forgot to post!

robk said:

this one is but a mere incovenience

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Good attitude, best of luck with your healing and recovery!

Saturday evening:

Razor: Merkur HD
Blade: Lord Platinum (1)
Cream: Euro Palmolive
Brush: Penworks Finest
A/S: Old Spice
ASB: Gaia Organic ASB

August 1st shave:



Gillete Fat Boy
Feather (#1)
Frank Shaving Silvertip 22mm
Truefitt & Hill 1805, shaving cream
Truefitt & Hill 1805, ASL