Morning gents,
Last night’s shave report below, my 14th SR shave and the last one with the pass around razors. Thanks to
@Nishy and
@RSSO for providing these, it’s been really interesting trying them out.
It was my first use of a very generous sample of ADP cream from Mr ADP himself
@Sid James with a recent purchase I made from him. Really nice stuff it is as well. I used my “Birthday brush” IC brush with Tuxedo knot. I haven’t used a scuttle for a long time, but wanted to see how this knot would perform when bowl lathering, the result, very, very well! As expected it whipped up a great lather, I find bowl lathering more “hard work”, but the quality of lather I seem to get at the end of it, is reasonably better than what I get from face lathering, I prefer the experience of face lathering though especially when using badger, so will reserve the scuttle for my synthetic brushes. The cream itself is very nice, lovely scent, thick lather, looking forward to giving it a go as a face lather as well, but first impressions are very good. Thanks again to
@Sid James.
I opted for the Krahn razor for the shave as I had a really good shave with it last time. This time around I had around a weeks’ worth of beard to mow through so it was a bit of a challenge in the top lip area and again, I had a big challenge with my chin. The first pass on my cheeks and most of my neck was fine. Under the nose, was a bit tuggy and painful, eyes watered a little bit! Got through it though. The chin, I realised what I was doing wrong, the angle I was going at it was too wide, not shallow enough. Rectified that and it was much easier, but there was a lot of struggling prior to that!
Second pass was reasonable, but I managed to dig in a little on my top lip, nothing major, small cut, reasonable bit of blood, but by the end of the shave it had pretty much scabbed over. Applied some aloe vera gel, straight from the plant and ended up with no irritation at all, just the small cut on my top lip, which is not pretty much healed, just a little mark there as a reminder for my stupidity. I ended with a socially acceptable shave, without the need for touch ups, but obviously I’ve had far better shaves!
I’ll now be having another break from straights razors whilst I experiment with some new additions to my den and a couple of pass around razors that are coming my way. Looking forward to having a little break from them and then coming back to them with renewed enthusiasm hopefully.
Hope everyone has a good Monday, I really do hate them myself, but that’s life!!
