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SOTD: 1st September 2016.
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Shaving recipe for today.
  • warm shower./ Cien Kick Shower Gel&Shampoo / warm wet flannel to my face.
  • Razor: Parker 99R.
  • Blade:Shark Super Stainless. (2)
  • Brush: Semogue 1470.
  • Cream: Derby Lavender. + 4 drops of glycerin in mixing bowl.
  • Warm wet flannel/ cold wet flannel to rinse my face.
  • Witch Hazel/Tesco Sensitive fragrance free body lotion .
  • A/S Superdrug Sierran Breeze.
  • Today i decided to try out one of my recently bought derby Cream's i got Lavender,Menthol,Lemon,Original(unscented)
  • i have to say for it's price i'm really pleased how it performed, excellent slickness, brilliant cushion protection, another silky smooth 3 pass shave with no irritation or shaving error's to report. Have a great day. Regards.:cool:
 
Norfolkdick said:
Greetings

Thursday 1st September 2016
Prep: Shower
Razor: Le Touriste
Blade: Le Touriste
Brush: Muhle Synthetic Small
Soap: Tabac Stick Grated
Aftershave: Nivea Sensitive Balm
EDP: L'Instant de Guerlain

Regards
Dick.

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Love a bit of L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme Eau Extreme. Good choice!
 
My second SR shave, but I dialled it in to only the face this shave.


- Eicker Solingen 4/8 full hollow

- Merkur 34C

- Omega Professional 49

- MWF (just to wind up @Fergiebilly )

- Thayers Aloe WH

- Speick AB


The fat is a weird soap, I love the smell and the after shave skin feel (moisturised and smooth), but this is only my second time using it and I can't get a thick, creamy lather, just lots of slightly airy lather. I will persevere though, just only when I fancy experimentig.


So to the shave itself, instead of getting excited like I did on my first shave, I reigned myself in and stuck to my face, no neck shaving. Two passes with the SR and my cheeks were in great shape, my top lip was a bit patchy and parts of my chin were patchy, but I'm getting better with both hands and there were no nicks and zero irritation this time around so that was a result. I finished he shave off with a single pass on my face and two passes on the neck with a Merkur 34C and ended up DFS all around so I'm happy!


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Looney12345 said:
My second SR shave, but I dialled it in to only the face this shave.


- Eicker Solingen 4/8 full hollow

- Merkur 34C

- Omega Professional 49

- MWF (just to wind up @Fergiebilly )

- Thayers Aloe WH

- Speick AB


The fat is a weird soap, I love the smell and the after shave skin feel (moisturised and smooth), but this is only my second time using it and I can't get a thick, creamy lather, just lots of slightly airy lather. I will persevere though, just only when I fancy experimentig.


So to the shave itself, instead of getting excited like I did on my first shave, I reigned myself in and stuck to my face, no neck shaving. Two passes with the SR and my cheeks were in great shape, my top lip was a bit patchy and parts of my chin were patchy, but I'm getting better with both hands and there were no nicks and zero irritation this time around so that was a result. I finished he shave off with a single pass on my face and two passes on the neck with a Merkur 34C and ended up DFS all around so I'm happy!


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Don't give up on the fat !
 
Looney12345 said:
My second SR shave, but I dialled it in to only the face this shave.


- Eicker Solingen 4/8 full hollow

- Merkur 34C

- Omega Professional 49

- MWF (just to wind up @Fergiebilly )

- Thayers Aloe WH

- Speick AB


The fat is a weird soap, I love the smell and the after shave skin feel (moisturised and smooth), but this is only my second time using it and I can't get a thick, creamy lather, just lots of slightly airy lather. I will persevere though, just only when I fancy experimentig.


So to the shave itself, instead of getting excited like I did on my first shave, I reigned myself in and stuck to my face, no neck shaving. Two passes with the SR and my cheeks were in great shape, my top lip was a bit patchy and parts of my chin were patchy, but I'm getting better with both hands and there were no nicks and zero irritation this time around so that was a result. I finished he shave off with a single pass on my face and two passes on the neck with a Merkur 34C and ended up DFS all around so I'm happy!


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Slowly slowly catchy monkey.

It takes time, congrats, it's a great way to shave.
 
So some what counter productively I've just realised I didn't post my very first SR shave from Sunday!!

Please see details and picture below;

Starting with software and hardware;
Solingen 4/8 full hollow from our very own @Fergiebilly
P&B Obsidian
Omega Professional 49
Alum (ouch)
Thayers Aloe WH
Speick AB

I was only going to do my cheeks with the SR and perhaps should have stuck to that plan... However I ended up doing a full 2 pass shave which I then needed to finish off as it was a patchy finish.

The first pass I was extremely tentative, but found that it wasn't a huge amount different to shaving with a Rolls Razor, just the blade is a lot longer and you have to be careful where it can end up going!! I started on the cheeks which I found were no real problem and gained a bit of confidence from that, I even did my left cheek with my left hand! Trying to remember all the great advice from guys on here and from YouTube I was trying to ensure the near vertical angle and feather touch.

I moved onto the lip and then onto the chin. The lip is an interesting area and I got a small nick just under my nose as I was trying to figure out the right angle and think I was a bit shaky. Not the end of the world though and it didn't bleed much. The chin, as most SR shavers will say, is a bit of a bitch. Whilst I didn't nick myself, I didn't get it completely clean either (but I also struggle with this sometimes using the Rolls or normal SE so no surprise there!)

I should really have stuck to two passes on the face and not gone to the neck as that's where the irritation and a couple more nicks came to play. My neck is troublesome anyway and I did come away from the SR shave very red and in more places than usual, but a good massage with some Speik AB and the redness subsided substantially within an hour, only leaving me with a couple of red patches in the normal area.

All in all I was bloody surprised how well it went for the first go and how much I managed to achieve. The end result under the jawline, chin and some neck areas was wholly unacceptable, but my cheeks were good, nearly passable and the top lip wasn't bad either... The Alum stung like a bitch and I needed to have a single clean up pass before applying it, but I'm happy I didn't end up in A&E and I'm looking forward to round two in a day or twos time... Ding Ding

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Blademonkey said:
Thank you, what are the advantages of a tilt head and why do you think the idea never made it into mainstream razors?
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It mimics the "Gillette Slide / Barber's Swipe/Swoop". You can do the first pass North to South with the tilt facing right to left (if you see what I mean), then the next pass North to South with the tilt left to right, so it covers the same are from two different 45 degree angles - pretty efficient . Why it never made it? I don't know. It looks odd, which doesn't help. Shaving is a skill most acquire as teens, so maybe the thought of modifying or learning something anew turned men off. A few companies made tilts. This is the best article I've ever read on slants, tilts and everything in-between, written by an engineer (to be fair it's the only article I've ever read about slants). Warning: Post from another forum coming up... :D
http://shavenook.com/showthread.php?tid=2522
 
Lord Fatboy said:
It mimics the "Gillette Slide / Barber's Swipe/Swoop". You can do the first pass North to South with the tilt facing right to left (if you see what I mean), then the next pass North to South with the tilt left to right, so it covers the same are from two different 45 degree angles - pretty efficient . Why it never made it? I don't know. It looks odd, which doesn't help. Shaving is a skill most acquire as teens, so maybe the thought of modifying or learning something anew turned men off. A few companies made tilts. This is the best article I've ever read on slants, tilts and everything in-between, written by an engineer (to be fair it's the only article I've ever read about slants). Warning: Post from another forum coming up... :D
http://shavenook.com/showthread.php?tid=2522
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Excellent insight on tilts.
 
Lord Fatboy said:
It mimics the "Gillette Slide / Barber's Swipe/Swoop". You can do the first pass North to South with the tilt facing right to left (if you see what I mean), then the next pass North to South with the tilt left to right, so it covers the same are from two different 45 degree angles - pretty efficient . Why it never made it? I don't know. It looks odd, which doesn't help. Shaving is a skill most acquire as teens, so maybe the thought of modifying or learning something anew turned men off. A few companies made tilts. This is the best article I've ever read on slants, tilts and everything in-between, written by an engineer (to be fair it's the only article I've ever read about slants). Warning: Post from another forum coming up... :D
http://shavenook.com/showthread.php?tid=2522
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Thank you very much for your reply and interesting information.
 
image.jpg SOTD Thursday 1st September 2016. Good morning shaving room.

Prep..shower
Pre..bloom water
Razor..Hone type 15a
Blade..feather stainless #1
Brush..omega pro boar
Soap..OSP Spice road
Post..Thayers AF WH
AS.. Tabac

The same three pass shave today this time with a Feather blade.
Today's shave mirror's yesterday's apart from the shave not feeling as smooth, I've found this with feather blades time and time again, I picked up two small nicks one on my jaw line and one on my neck.
The end result was the same, smooth as a really smooth thing.
Finnished off with my usual splash of witch hazel followed by a spray or two of Tabac after shave.

Wishing you all a wonderful September . Over and out.

I will post the second day of my seven day review on the reviews section soon.
 
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