💥 🎇 🎆 SOTD "New Holiday Gear/Happy New Year Theme Week" - December 26th, 2022 - January 1st, 2023 💥 🎇 🎆

[SharpieB]

Happy almost new year, all!

This is a fun SOTD Theme Week!

Let’s see any Christmas/Holiday gifts or recent purchases with images this week.

Let’s see the shaving gear you were gifted over the holidays or stuff that you bought yourself that recently arrived…and lets see it in use!

Get a new razor for Christmas? New soap or AS you bought yourself? Let’s see it. We want to see you incorporate your new stuff into a photo.

This isn’t only about the holidays… if you have something new you bought yourself, we want to see it!

Per usual, if you don’t have anything festive or recently purchased… post your shave or tell us about it anyways! As always, being creative and having fun IS mandatory but sticking with the theme is NOT mandatory but encouraged.

Have a Happy and safe Holiday season, All!!!

 

[Chard52142]

Mon 26
Soap Colonel Conk BayRum
Brush Yaqi 24mm Sagrada Familia
Razor Joseph Elliott "Fine India Steel" 13/16
Aftershave Aqua Velva Musk
The soap scent is light but the lather is just superb...very slick!!
Another excellent shave with this banana-shaped favorite razor. Stropped it on the 0.1um balsa (60) then on the Kanayama. Didn't seem to improve or degrade the edge...hmmm. Otherwise, 3 smooth and comfortable passes for a bbs-ccs finish...

 

[ajkel64]

1) Great Britain: Brush Simpson Chubby 1 Best Badger.
2) China: Shaving Cream Jack the Barber Sandalwood Shaving Cream.
3) England: Razor Gillette Flat Bottom Tech.
4) Israel: Razor Blade Eddison Stainless.
5) France: Alum Block Osma.
6) Malaysia: Aftershave Lotion Nelum Sandalwood Aftershave Lotion.
7) USA: Lather Bowl Captain’s Choice Copper Lather Bowl.

 

[Norman Gunston]

Prep: Country Life Tallow/Lanolin/Glycerin Soap, Myrsol Emulsion
Brush: Tony Forsyth P&C LE 2020 Matilda Rhodium 2-band Silvertip Badger
Soap: Extro Felce Biancospino
Razor: Gillette Super Speed
Blade: Vintage NOS Aussie Spoiler (6)
Post: Thayers Cucumber Witch Hazel, Bootlegger's Green Freeze Aftershave Lotion

 

[Beto Salatini]

Hello friends,

Nobody forgets their first time with R41. Today was my turn…
Lo Squalo, how the Italians call the The Beast, was my Christmas gift and it was very appropriate, since I have always had a love and hate relationship with myself.


Happy Shaves!

 

[Str8_Shaver]

26 December, 2022

Prep: Hot towel
Razor: Rockwell 6S – #3
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Rod Neep CS-1 "Forest Flame" 30mm Extra Dense Silvertip
Soap: Barrister & Mann: Vespers ( Excelsior )
Post: CeraVe moisturising lotion..
Fragrance: Tuxedo by Yves Saint Laurent

today was Barrister & Mann: Vespers in the Excelsior base... one thing that I did notice was that it felt slightly richer and more luxurious compared to the Glissant base, which also become evident in the post shave feel.

 

[Raz0rboy]

Hello friends,

Nobody forgets their first time with R41. Today was my turn…
Lo Squalo, how the Italians call the The Beast, was my Christmas gift and it was very appropriate, since I have always had a love and hate relationship with myself.


Happy Shaves!

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After many years is still one of my fav razor.
In italy we call Squalo the first 2011 version but this too is a great razor .
Don't close the angle when shaving, keep an open angle and it will be gentler than an R89 .
I used it yesterday so today something kinder

 

[uptown]

Ikon Tek
Gillette 7 "Clock Black
Ogallala Bay Rum Stick Soap
Q Shave Badger
Aloe Vera
Ogallala Bay Rum Aftershave

 

[ChrisPL68]

Razor: GEM Damaskeene.
Blade: GEM
Brush: Erskine #4, 26mm TGN best badger.
Soap: Lea.

 

[CapnPanther]

Boxing Day
Pre-shave: Jack Black Pure Clean Daily Facial Cleanser /King C Gillette Transparent Shave Gel
Razor: ATT SE1 Windsor
Blade: Kai Captain Titan Mild Pink Protouch MG
Brush: Rudy Vey Custom w/TGN Two-Band
Soap: TOBS Lavender
Aftershave: Alum/Thayer’s Lemon Witch Hazel/Pinaud Clubman
Balm: Neutrogena Hydro Boost Moisturizer

 

[ackvil]

Pre	Face wash with Neutrogena Liquid Face Soap
Soap/Cream	Barrister & Mann Leviathan
Brush	Rudy Vey with Shavemac D01 knot
Bowl	Captain’s Choice Copper
Razor	Henson Al ++
Blade	Personna Medical Prep blade
Aftershave	Thayers WH & PAA Mysterium Serum
Fragrance	Yves Saint Laurent
Rating	10/10
Comments	Today was the last day of use of the B&M soap. After 43 shaves (four passes on my face and neck and two on my head) the soap is all used up. Very nice soap and I can recommend it to all. The shave was uneventful which, to me, is a good thing. Have a good day.

 

[awk_m4]

Monday December 26, 2022
Brush: Simpson T3 Trafalgar
Bowl: Captain's Choice Copper Bowl
Lather: Southern Witchcrafts Incorporeal
Razor: Henson Ti22 mild
Blade: Wizamet Super Iridium (1)
Post: Osma Alum Block
Post: Southern Witchcrafts Carpathia

 

[Guido75]

26.12.22

• Guido75
• Dec 26, 2022

Mühle R41 • Timor (1) • Simpson T3 • Haslinger Sandelholz

Date	26.12.2022
365 days of shaving	363/359 (100%)
GRUME December	25/30 (97%)
Discovery Blade Adventure	Bolzano 3/3 Timor 3/3 Eddison 2/3

Passes	3
WXTG	first pass cheeks: CB Curve (NW-SE curving midway to NE-SW) second pass cheeks: Gillette Slide (NW-SE) first pass neck: Gillette Slant (NE-SW) second pass neck: Gillette Slant (S-N)
ATG	Straight & Slanted (SW-NE | cheeks) (SW-NE | neck)

Razor	Blade	Brush
Mühle R41	Timor (1)	Simpson T3
Pre-shave	Soap & Bowl	Post-shave
Cold splash Proraso Green pre-shave	Haslinger Sandelholz Face lathered	Cold splash Proraso Green (AS) Proraso Green (Balm)

Efficiency	Quality
9/10 (~20 minutes)	7/10 (nick on the jaw line)
Effectiveness	Comfort
6/10 (DFS-)	6/10 (Tuggy)

Notes to today’s shave:

Medium shave or perhaps mediocre shave is a better term. This blade and I are no match - at least not in the first run anyway. Rich and tuggy from the first stroke so I did light WXTG and very shallow / light touch ATG (and not in all areas).

Sufficient for today and sub par compared to other days. That’s what’s great about this Discovery Challenge: find out about blades and find out your own version of YMMV.

New T3 was amazing to use!

Enjoy your shave today!

 

[Sascoman]

Rocnel ️ / Gillette Platinum New / DG B15 / House of Mammoth

 

[Beto Salatini]

After many years is still one of my fav razor.
In italy we call Squalo the first 2011 version but this too is a great razor .
Don't close the angle when shaving, keep an open angle and it will be gentler than an R89 .
I used it yesterday so today something kinder

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Thank you very much for your kind reply, for the hints on how to use R41 and for the explanation about the 2011 version being the real Squalo. I love the nicknames the Italians give for an special item. Lo Squalo is a wonderful definition for it and so is L'aratro for the old Fatip.



Yesterday, I managed a wonderful shave with R41, but was cautious enough to have a 2 pass, only. In a few days I will follow your recommendations and try a 3 pass shave.

By the way, I love your close up pics.



Cheers!

 

[primotenore]

Monday, December 26

Arko~~CH2 Synthetic~~Cobra Classic/Feather~~Nasomatto Absinth
Have a great day!​

 

[Oberloser]

 

[md1234]

Nivea makes a shaing soap now!?

 

[Ted A]

Razor: Gem 1912
Blade: Gem SS PTFE (14)
Brush: Ever Ready 100
Lather: PAA Black Shroud
Aftershave: PAA Black Shroud

The PAA Black Shroud is a recent purchase.

 

[J-MN]

Razor: Blackland, Vector
Blade: Feather Professional
Brush: Zenith, Boar
Soap: RazoRock, Santa Maria del Fiore
Post Shave: Duke Cannon, After-Shave Balm