Special Birthday SOTD

What a wonderful day!

Merkur Classic w/Gillette blade
EJ Silvertip brush
EJ bowl
Trumper's Rose shaving cream
Truefitt & Hill Grafton Aftershave Balm
Creed Royal Scottish Lavendar Cologne

Gillette #58
7 o'clock sharp edge
Knotty Badger Silvertip
TOBS Sandalwood
SCS Sandalwood Splash
GFT Sandalwood Skin Food
SCS Sandalwood EDT

Couldn't have asked for a better bday shave. I am 27 today. It felt like one of those shaves where I could have done 20 passes if I wanted.

Prep: Kyle's Prep
Music: Portishead-PNYC

1954 SuperSpeed with Swedish Gillette
Edwin Jagger Best Badger Brush
L'Occitane CADE Shave Soap
L'Occitane CADE Balm
Penhaligon's Endymion Cologne

Now out for dinner at my favorite sushi restaurant in the twin cities

I'm 20 today, and I'll celebrate with an SotD post

Gillette #58 with fresh Feather blade
Vulfix #2233
C&E Sandalwood soap
C&E Sandalwood ASB
C&E Sandalwood EdT

Strictly speaking, this might not be a "special birthday shave", but it was still very, very good.

bennyJ82 said:

Couldn't have asked for a better bday shave. I am 27 today. It felt like one of those shaves where I could have done 20 passes if I wanted.

Prep: Kyle's Prep
Music: Portishead-PNYC

1954 SuperSpeed with Swedish Gillette
Edwin Jagger Best Badger Brush
L'Occitane CADE Shave Soap
L'Occitane CADE Balm
Penhaligon's Endymion Cologne

Now out for dinner at my favorite sushi restaurant in the twin cities

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Congrats !!!

28

Castle Forbes pre shave oil
Vintage Surrey Boar and Old Spice SS
New Deluxe with Red IP
Rose Hazel
Old Spice AS
Old Spice ASL
Old Spice Cologne

...Then I woke up, but quickly realized I hadn't been sleeping, just fantasizing about the present my lovely wife was waiting to give me - all this while shaving with my Red Imp #133. Yeah, the square point I almost VanGoghed myself with.

She is no beauty queen; however, it’s the first “Ebay treasure” that I made shave ready – you know how special that is.

Plus, for Christmas, I got myself Mr. Ellis's CD and my razor buddy just bought himself a complete Dremel set. So, next birthday, I plan to bring "razor porn" and better photos.

Rest of the stuff: 20+ year old boar brush, Body Shop Shave Cream, and C.O. Bigelow Elixir Blue AS.

The results: spectacular! No sliced ears, no nicks, no errors, and no whiskers left on. BBS at last - thanks to B&B!

Nice!!

What exactly do we have here? Balm, EDT, Shave Cream and what's the cylindrical shaped item?

Also, what size are the EDT and the Balm?

thirdeye said:

So here's what I treated myself this morning.
Now that I am forty-ei..ur ah twenty one I'm going to enjoy a nice Padron 64 tonight after football practice of course.

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Spur of the moment decision last night developed into this idea for my 48th Birthday shave. Of course I would have enjoyed shaving with my Great Great Grandfather's Wade & Butcher... next week I will do just that as it is on its way back from RupRazor restoration....

My goal for 2009 was to shave with a Straight Razor everyday of the year. I am putting that aside for one day, my 48th birthday, with this particular 1961 SOTD. I'm going to be using items that would have been available when I was born and would have been current in 1961.

Gillette 1-9 Adjustable Razor (Fat Boy) 1961 Date Code
Personna Blade
Williams Mug Soap
Drugstore Boar Brush
Pinaud Clubman Aftershave

1965 Gillette Slim / Feather
Mühle 19mm fine badger
Proraso Green SC
Tabac AS

Bought this razor because it and I are the same age.

Mama Bear's Rosemary Mint Shaving Soap
Kent BK4 Silvertip
1936 Gillette NEW Red & Black Set
Israeli "Red Pack" Personna
Mennen Skin Bracer Aftershave

Montale Aoud Damascus EDP

*Most of my shaving stuff is packed away. Not as luxurious as I would have hoped as for a birthday shave, but got a DFS 2 pass shave.

In honor of my birthday
Birth year 1956 Gillette Red Tip
fresh Feather
Sienna shave cream off a jager shorty BBB
WTG,XTG,ATG
George Trumper Coral Skin Food

Rib eye Steak off the Grill
Baked potato, Asparagras
Louis Martini Cabernet Savagion

Although this is a birthday shave, it is not my birthday but rather it would have been my Dad's 79th birthday. Several years ago I started a tradition of using his original 1951 black-tipped Gillette SS and using Old Spice a/s, which was his aftershave of preference along with Aqua Velva, on the anniversary of his birthday and this one will be no exception.

57th Birthday!

Bismark "Spitzenqualität" (Solingen) 6/8 straight razor
Rooney Style 1 Size 1 in Finest Badger shaving brush
Cyril R. Salter Wild Rose shaving cream
Witch-hazel
Le Labo Rose 31 EDP
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille EDP

JBHoren said:

57th Birthday!

Bismark "Spitzenqualität" (Solingen) 6/8 straight razor
Rooney Style 1 Size 1 in Finest Badger shaving brush
Cyril R. Salter Wild Rose shaving cream
Witch-hazel
Le Labo Rose 31 EDP
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille EDP

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wow, that tom ford tobacco is impossible for me to find!

21st birthday,
Shavemac 311
Penhaligon's Castile SC
DOVO Renaissance
D. R. Harris Arlington AS
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Hey guys,

For my B-day I used this:

Merkur Blue Handle 38C Classic Barber Pole (Durby Blade)
C&E Best Badger Brush
D.R. Harris & Co Ltd. Almond Cream
Georgetown Pottery Blue Scuttle
D.R. Harris & Co Ltd. Arlington Aftershave



Picture is not that great and backwards because my camera was stolen o I have to use my Macbook iSight webcam.

(Edit: 1st time posting in SOTD, did not see Bday thread until after post. Feel free to delete mods as I have posted in the appropriate thread)

Happy Birthday! Looks like a nice set-up for the big day. I like the blue handled 38C. Very cool.

JBHoren said:

57th Birthday!

Bismark "Spitzenqualität" (Solingen) 6/8 straight razor
Rooney Style 1 Size 1 in Finest Badger shaving brush
Cyril R. Salter Wild Rose shaving cream
Witch-hazel
Le Labo Rose 31 EDP
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille EDP

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Interesting - not seen anyone with the Cyril Rose cream on here for a while now. Care to add some comments to the reviews section on this cream?

Doc4 said:

I gave my #4 ... http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=34006&highlight=zowada ... it's innagural shave. (Mine had the scales replaced with lacewood, like in the stock photo from Classicshaving, bleow.) I've been saving it for just this occasion. TOBS St James, Vulfix 377, the usual suspects rounded up. (Turns out the Zowada will need a bit of work on the hones, but hey, what a great razor!)

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Wow, I have serious blade-envy! Still new to shaving with a DE, I had reservations about stepping up to a straight edge but a damascus work of art like that is very tempting. Beautiful!