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Mickey Lee’s Drunken Goat: Prayers for its return
My favorite of the Mickey Lee soaps I’ve tried is The Drunken Goat. This morning I got a very nice lather (with that wonderful TDG fragrance) using my Rooney Victorian Super Badger. (“Super Badger,”...
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Unconditional Surrender, with the WSP Monarch
The Wet Shaving Products Monarch is a superior brush. With a slightly longer loft than the Rooney Victorian, it has more give, which I like. The feel is quite smooth, and the lather this morning from...
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Reacquaintance renews pleasure
I’ve mentioned how interesting and pleasant badger brushes felt after using only synthetic knots for a while. This badger brush, Mr Pomp, felt quite nice, but I can tell I am becoming accustomed again...
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Trying the OneBlade once more
The OneBlade’s feel and performance are great, and in use the only drawback for me is that it is a single-edge razor, and I find the double-edge format better in practice since I can accumulate more...
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OneBlade Second Day, with Antica Barbieria Colla
The Wet Shaving Products brushes arre quite good, and the lather this one made from my tub of Antica Barbieria Colla was excellent. OneBlade did a good job, though I did indeed notice a very slight...
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OneBlade Day Three, with Wholly Kaw King of Bourbon
The Wet Shaving Products Baroness has not so dense a knot as others in the line-up, and this morning I didn’t quite load it fully enough with soap. Still, the lather I got was quite good — just by the...
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OneBlade Day Four, with I Coloniali and Barrister & Mann Reserve Classic
Today’s shave was much like yesterday’s, though I did linger longer in the lathering, not only because it was enjoyable (with RazoRock’s barrel silvertip and I Coloniali’s very nice lather) but also...
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Day Five on the OneBlade, so I bring out the big gun: J.M. Fraser shaving cream
The blade now needs all the help it can get, so it’s time to call on the curiously effective J.M. Fraser shaving cream, and the lather (thanks in part to the Copper Hat’s silvertip brush with a...
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Parker Semi-Slant and Nancy Boy
I didn’t want to shave a two-day stubble as shave six on the OneBlade, so decided to do the usual and use a slant. Since J.M. Fraser’s shaving cream worked so well, I was drawn to my other favorite...
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Day 6 with the OneBlade and an Emillion experiment
I received a query regarding Rooney’s Emillion brush, here in butterscotch. The issue was the amount of water the knot retains, so this morning I kept track. I decided to use a shave stick — the...
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Planet Java Hive and the Rockwell 6S: A very pleasurable shave
I figure that 6 shaves is enough — for me, since I skip shaving on Sundays, six days is a (shaving) week. So today I’m back with my regular double-edge razors, and I find that absence has made the...
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Phoenix Solstice for the equinox, with Baby Smooth for the shave
I think Phoenix Artisan might consider a couple of Equinox shaving fragrances: Vernal Equinox (a floral, surely) and an Autumnal Equinox (dead leaves, moist earth, smoke). And a Winter Solstice (lots...
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Sherlock and the iKon OG1
My Rooney Finest made a fine lather with the able assistance of Chiseled Face’s Sherlock shaving soap. This is my second outing with the iKon OG1 , which as you see from the photo of the bottom of the...
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J.M. Fraser returns, with the Baby Smooth
I realized this morning the fragrance memory that J.M. Fraser evokes: the tapioca pudding a neighbor made when I was a child. For me, that’s a very fine fragrance — and certainly the lather itself and...
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Move Day Shave
A two-day stubble but the Baby Smooth had no problems. The lather from Tcheon Fung Sing (which perhaps was the first hard shaving soap in Italy) was excellent, thanks to my Copper Hat silvertip, and...
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First shave in new place
Everyone has rituals to make a new place familiar, and I’ve done a few of mine. Last night I cooked a meal and slept in my bed, and this morning I had a good shave. I need to find a location for the...
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Late start, but good shave
I slept late — restorative sleep is just what I needed — and then after shaving decided to upgrade to Catalina. That took a while, and some things required tweaking (and some just no longer work —...
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Phoenix Solstice and the vintage white Bakelite Merkur slant
I’m having problems with the lighting, as you can see. I’ll get it sorted in time. In the meantime, Ifeel like a cheering shave was needed, so I returned to Solstice. The Solar Flare seems the...
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RazoRock and Rockwell
A comforting shave to end the week: Everything shown works so well. There’s little more to add: it was the sort of shave that is just what I thought/imagined/hoped shaving would be like: warm,...
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Ah, the iKon 101 — what a pleasure!
My Omega 20102 made a wonderful lather from LA Shaving Soap Company’s Vanilla/Eucalyptus/Mint shaving soap — and a fine soap it is, one of those standards everyone should try. I’ve been told that the...
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