SOTD "Free Theme Week" July 20-26, 2015

celestino said:

Great photos, everyone! Enjoy your Tuesday!
Dave (wonderful orange!)

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Thank you sir

skypsyd said:

Happy Tuesday Gents, Nice photos and posts:
Enjoy your day!

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Thanks, Dave!

celestino said:

Great photos, everyone! Enjoy your Tuesday!

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skypsyd said:

Happy Tuesday Gents, Nice photos and posts:


Enjoy your day!

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Thank you very much,my friends!

Thank You Celestino, Dave, WiteQ!
Just me or is it quiet in here this week?

Wednesday morning:

Razor: Superspeed
Blade: Personna Lab (4)
Soap: mennen
Brush: omega 10018
A/S: Aqua velva Musk
ASB: Gaia Organic ASB

Thank you celestino, Dave and witeq for your kind words!

Semogue 620
Proraso red
6/8 Joseph Elliot Best Silver Steel
Floid Suave

Semogue 610
Czech and Speake Number 88 Shave Soap
Fat Handled Tech / Personna 74
George F. Trumper Coral Skin Food
Lubin Idole EdP

Head & face shower shave. days growth.

Technique: WTG / XTG / ATG
Prep: Shower.
Soap: Dapper Dragon Soaps "Festival" (Summer 2015 LE)
Brush: Ever-Ready 100T restored by Thomas Burgess with TGN Finest Badger knot
Razor: Mongoose M1
Blade: Feather Artist Club Professional(2)
Post: Dapper Dragon Soaps "Festival" Scale Polish

I'm enjoying the Mongoose, but I can't say it provides a better shave than most of my other razors. The weight is good, but I'm not crazy about the "Ginger Swirl" handle of the M1. The extra weight coupled with the shallow knurling pattern doesn't lend well to shower shaving. I haven't dropped it yet. I can't wait for my Triad handles to come in. I feel like they will change the experience a bit.

The Feather Artist Club Pro blade settled down some from the first shave, but it's still not as comfortable as my Treet DEs. It's not a traumatic shave, but it's just not as smooth as I like. I have the Mongoose Sampler from tryablade.com. I think I will try the Kai Captain Titan Milds after I "break-in" the Feathers a few more times.

The real shining moment of this SOTD was the Dapper Dragon. "Festival" has quickly become one of my favorite scents. It is truly intoxicating. I've reviewed Festival soap and Scale Polish before, so I won't belabor it here (original review can be seen here: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...e-22-28-2015?p=7485436&highlight=#post7485436)

I'm not over-stating this. If you haven't tried Dapper Dragon's Scale Polish aftershave product, I highly recommend you do. Scale Polish is a unique product that results in a very refreshing, cooling, soothing post-shave that has the longest effects of any post-product I've used.

SOTD 22 July 2015


I'm very pleased to receive from my friend PMT this new soap for me: Captain's Choice Lime.
I will use it with my standard benchmark hardware for three days, so I will discover it better.


Day 2: lather and performance are very nice. Scent is delicate and natural, a little more intense could be also more interesting.
Slick as a heel, and that's great.
A wonderful post shave, almost no need of an AS, even using a shavette!




Pre: 30" rinse
Brush: Omega Italian Flag
Razor:Universal shavette whole blade
Blade: Astra SS (1)
Soap: Captain's Choice Line
AS: Floid the Genuine


Moisturizer: My home made cream "Skin Bomb"with shea butter, lanolin, wheat germ oil, avocado oil and argan oil.


Music: Hadouk Trio - Shamanimal


EDT: L'erbolario - Periplo







Have a wonderful shave and a fresh day to all gents!

22.vii.2015