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Nice, clean barbershop scents for this Thursday morning. Long live Picture Day!
Rating: 4.5/5
June 22, 2023
The Yates EH plate is smoother than I remembered, perhaps the Wizamet is a particularly good match for the razor or my lather was just on point. Tusk remains a top tier soap base for me, and Voices is just wonderful every time I use it.
An aluminium open comb Karve Christopher Bradley with a box of Via Barberia 3 Herbae shave soap on the original packaging Karve box between a Zenith B21 brush and a bottle of Speick Men splash
In this episode of @[email protected] generosity, I'm using his Aluminium Karve Christopher Bradley with an open comb E plate, and a Semaj3000-provided Big Ben blade and this new-to-me Via Barberia 3 Herbae shaving soap.
The Karve left a good first impression: the distinct blade feel makes finding the right angle very intuitive.
SOTD Jun 22, 2023
New GEM blade—very smooth shave, but at least one weeper. Fresh GEMs be like that.
I should have pushed that previous blade to fifty.
Jun. 22, 2023
Ok shave. This soap is not very good I would not buy it again. I do like the scent.
The RK blade was very average to me in both sharpness and smoothness but overall it was a good shave.
22 June, 2023
6/22/23
Felt like having another go with this set. Really nice scent.
Now that I’m back home from vacation, I’m back to trying my DEs again. I hadn’t shaved for a few days, and yet again the Slim Adjustable did a pretty good job with all that growth. I was getting irritation when I tried it on only one or two days growth, so it will be interesting to see how it goes later tonight or tomorrow.
Even with a few days of growth, that sounds very brave to be using a Slim on a 9.
I’m so used to the MMOC at this point that it feels only mildly aggressive at 9!
SOTD Thursday 22 June, 2023**
The Ball End Tech keeps getting better and better. Have a great day, everybody!
Ball end tech is a magical razor. Feels mild and yet gives a great shave.
June 22, 2023
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
A very nice shave. I haven't used a Zingari Man soap in a bit over a month, but Heather's soaps, both Sego and Vegan are top tier for me. They perform exceptionally well but, more importantly, they impart their own character to the shave. I can get pretty much any soap to provide a close and comfortable shave. The feel of the Zingari Man lather (Sego in this case) has a unique and delicate silkiness that is a distinguishing feature for me. And that silkiness somehow continues post-shave. Thoroughly enjoyable. I'm a fan.
June 22 2023
I probably should have saved this potent combo for a day when I’m in the office and have a 40 minute drive to enjoy it by myself, and not a day where my wife walks into the bathroom and asks what stinks. Live and learn. We’re headed to Miami tomorrow morning for a short cruise so tonight is packing up my trusty Catie’s Bubbles sample tub of Barnegat Bay.
My wife hates Varen. But she’s out of town so I get to use it. It’s such a perfectly dank scent. I also love how it’s in Stirling’s Sheep base, that’s one of my all time favorite bases.
Less than 24 hours since my last shave and the 5 felt too mild. Going to try it even milder tomorrow, just because.
