Sorry for blurry photo.
Today’s shave is to cap a week of slant-razor shaves, and I thought I’d repeat the cover set-up on the book. However, my supply of Castle Forbes, a luxury shaving cream, is gone, so I substituted instead a luxury shaving soap: Creed’s Green Irish Tweed. That also determined the aftershave I’ll use.
The brush is also a substitute for the brush on the cover: that one is a G.B. Kent BK8 and I discovered that I preferred the Kent BK4, which is slightly smaller—but still has the G.B. Kent power to make lather very quicly. Creed’s shaving soap is superb—as it damn well should be—and I quickly got a creamy, fragrant lather.
I put a new Kai blade in my trusty ’40′s Aristocrat—and this is the one shown on the cover—and executed three comfortable passes, leaving me BBS with nary a problem.
A good splash (i.e., several sprays into the palm) of Creed’s Green Irish Tweed EDT, and I’m ready for a big day.
As usual, I had a good amount of lather left in the brush, so before cleaning it out, I gave my bathroom mirror a treat and lathered it well and then, after letting it sit a minute or two, rubbed it off with a dry paper towel. That should fog-proof the mirror for a while.
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