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FFFMM (Fixed Four For March Madness) 2025 Edition

1. Do you want to play a shaving game?

2. Do you want to dial a particular piece of hardware or software in?

3. Are you on a restraint?

If you answered YES to any of the above, “Fixed Four” may be for you.


IT’S SIMPLE (Rule 1)

You just pick one BRUSH, one SOAP/CREAM, one RAZOR, and one BLADE*.
And you use ONLY those four for the whole month.

*With blades, if you chose say “Astra SP” you would stick to that blade, but use as many of them as you see fit.

That’s the end of Rule 1. Rule 1 is the only rule.


For an example, this was my choice for FFFMM 2024:
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Brush: Shavemac Silvertip D01 16/47 🇩🇪
Soap: Chiseled Face Natural 🇺🇸
Razor: Yaqi SS Duomo on Chiseled Face Ti Industrial handle 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
Blade: Gillette 7o'clock Black 🇮🇳


Pre and Post Shave stuff isn’t included, so you can do exactly as you please in that area.

You can shave as often or as little as you like.

Typically you’d post saying “I’m in” and telling us your Fixed Four, but you don’t need to.

You can post every day to tell us how you’re getting on (we like that, and we like pics). You can also join us Fixed Fourers without making a single post (it’s entirely YOUR CHOICE).

If you post your Fixed Four during February, then find out that you’d like to change it… that’s fine. Just let us know the changes before your first shave in March.

Let the madness begin.
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I am in with:
Prep: Hand & Face liquid soap
Razor: King C Gillette
Blade: Bic Chrome platinum
Soap: Noble Otter
Bowl: Phoenix Shaving scuttle
Brush: Noble Otter
A/S: Noble Otter
Bear in mind that the only "fixed" items for you are the four (in bold) below, Bobby:

Prep: Hand & Face liquid soap
Razor: King C Gillette
Blade: Bic Chrome platinum
Soap: Noble Otter

Bowl: Phoenix Shaving scuttle
Brush: Noble Otter
A/S: Noble Otter
 
Bear in mind that the only "fixed" items for you are the four (in bold) below, Bobby:

Prep: Hand & Face liquid soap
Razor: King C Gillette
Blade: Bic Chrome platinum
Soap: Noble Otter

Bowl: Phoenix Shaving scuttle
Brush: Noble Otter
A/S: Noble Otter
Thanks for catching this and correcting it. I was rushing to get out to minor medical appointment.
 
I’m in Cal

My Fixed Four

Blade - Single Use Feather🇯🇵
Razor - Lupo OC95 driven with a Chinese Dscosmetic Titanium Handle 🇨🇦 🇨🇳
Brush - Boti White Haired Weng Boar Bristle Bule Knot 30mmx40mm set in a Boti acrylic handle 🇨🇳
Soap - Saponificio Varesino Felce Aromatica🇮🇹

This boar knot has been the toughest stiffest knot to break in. It’s stiff enough to scrape the paint off a barn door. So I’ll continue to beat on it the whole month of March


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I'm contemplating this challenge. I'm thinking of trying a Straight Razor. Has anyone done this with a Straight? I have one that has a fresh hone on it. 31 consecutive Days may be a stretch but a fresh edge should hold up with some stropping.
I'll go back and look at 2024 posts to see if anyone tried this with a Straight. I have the rest of FEB to decide.
 
I am in too. My choice of tools:

Razor: Rockwell 6S in red, base plate 6.
Blade: Gillette Nacet.
Brush: Semogue 620S
Shaving Cream: Proraso Red.

I reserved some of my last Gillette Nacet blades just for this FFFMM. My other blades are the Feather and with those I can't do the against the grain pass with the base plate 6. And the rules don't allow me to use multiple base plates even from the same razor. Maybe you guys can consider relaxing it for the next year at least because I won't have any more Gillette Nacets left.
 
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