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Spearmint and the Phoenix Artisan Double Open Comb
I really love Wickham’s Garden Mint with its spearmint fragrance, and my Simpson Emperor 3 Super seemed to like it as well: the lather was excelent. I have the aluminum version of Phoenix Artisan’s...
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Waterlyptus and TOBS No. 74—with Rooney and Ed Jagger
What a great shave! I haven’t used my Rooney Super Silvertip (each brushmaker has its own terminology regarding badger), Style 3, Size 1 for quite a while, and I do like it. And Catie’s Bubbles...
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Phoenix Artisan Doppelgänger and Feather AS-D1, with an assist from Rooney...
Not a very sharp photo. I had to take it freehand with my iPhone: the battery in my Nikon died, but I’ll have another soon. The shave, however, was totally satisfactory. Doppelgänger Orange is a CK-6...
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Starting the week with a caffeine kick: Up & Adam and Spring-Heeled Jack
Not a very good photo, I fear. Until the new Nikon battery arrives, I am using my iPhone, but it’s enough to show the essentials. The RazoRock 400 brush worked with with Stubble Trubble’s Up &...
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RazoRock entirely: Bruce brush, Zi’ Peppino, Baby Smooth
The new battery should arrive tomorrow, so by Thursday I will no longer depend on my iPhone for photos. This shave ended up being a RazoRock shave. I really like the fragrance and lather of Zi’...
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A Phoenix Artisan shave of the avocado variety
Today the camera battery should arrive. In the meantime, I did indeed “avo nice shave.” This is the regular Phoenix formula, but that is still quite fine and their Starcraft brush made an excellent...
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Unconditional Surrender with the Fendrihan Mk II
That’s more like it, eh? Battery did arrive yesterday, so things are back to normal. The soap is excellent and responded well to my Rooney Victorian, and the Fendrihan Mk II is an estimable razor:...
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A rose-fragranced shave
Soap Commander’s Love is a true rose shaving soap that makes a wonderful lather, this morning with my Rooney butterscotch Emilion. Three passes with the Maggard V3A head left my face smooth, and D.R....
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Planet Java Hive and the Baby Smooth
Another totally wonderful shave to start the weekend. That badger brush from Italian Barber has what feels to me like an enormous knot, which feels like a cushion on my face: very pleasant, warm, and...
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A rosy morning with shaving cream
I brought out the shaving cream, and I used a bit too much. Still, great lather and a face so slick that I did the last pass without lathering. My wonderful iKon 102 pleased me yet again with its...
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Los Angeles Shaving Soap Company’s lovely shaving soap
LA Shaving Soap Company’s Vanilla/Eucalyptus/Mint shaving soap has a great fragrance for the early morning and the lather too is quite good. My little Whipped Dog silvertip worked it up well, and the...
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A classic shave
Very traditional shave, beginning with my pre-Vulfix Simpson Persian Jar 2 Super and an excellent soap that the old Vintage Blades LLC (not the site that bought the name), which I’m sure is the...
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Van Yulay Achilles and the redoubtable iKon 101: Recipe for a perfect shave
Van Yulay shaving soaps, with their variety of formulations, don’t seem to attract so much attention as they should, but certainly I like them. The lather this morning from Achilles shaving soap was...
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Grand Havana and the Game Changer
The brush, from Strop Shoppe (now no more), has a snakewood handle and a very soft knot, but it easily made a fine lather from Mickey Lee’s Grand Havana, whose tobacco fragrance is (to my nose)...
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Finding the groove for the Omega 21762 with Van Yulay Puros la Habana
A commenter yesterday mentioned that I’ve not used my Omega 21762 brush in quite a while, and so I decided to use it to see why. This brush is exceptionally soft—not just exceptionally soft for a boar...
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Omega 20102 and Phoenix Artisan Cavendish CK-6
The Omega 20102 boar brush has long been my standard recommendation for a boar brush, and I enjoyed it anew this morning as it made a very fine lather from Phoenix Artisan’s tobacco-fragranced shaving...
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Omega Pro 48 and Zi’ Peppino in the tobacco series
Green tobacco today rather that cured tobacco, and I don’t know whether “green tobacco” is the fragrance of the tobacco flower or the fragrance of the uncured leaf, but I do like the scent—and the...
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Omega Mixed Midget and Tcheon Fung Sing Tobacco Verde: The end of the tobacco...
This is currently my only other boar brush, and it’s but half boar, the other half being badger. It’s a very nice little brush, which I soak for the sake of the boar, and it made a dandy lather from...
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The Drunken Goat and the Rockwell Model T
I decided to use my Omega 21762 again. I wrote in a previous post that I found that the best action in using this (very soft) brush was “painting” rather than “brushing,” but I realize now that the...
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Beeswax, honey, coffee, and a great shave from my Edwin Jagger
A wonderful shave this morning. Phoenix Artisan’s Green Ray synthetic brush, which I like a lot, worked up a terrific and wonderfully fragrant lather from Mickey Lee’s Bee Witched, a one-off shaving...
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