Aug. 14, 2022 - God Child stag

• Prep: Icecold shower
• Brush: Böker Synthetic

• Razor: Böker Elite Carbon 2.0

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Balm

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag Splash

Barbecue with my God Child today. Took a day off.

#stagandstraight #substantialstag

Aug. 15, 2022 - Stag Day 15

• Brush: Zenith B26 Retro
• Razor: Merkur 34C
• Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

• sweeps: don't let it stress

Have the day off, so I will embrace the glory of Stag from the comfort of my own home. Praises be.

#SubstantialStag #RawHoggin

Stag Spray 15

August 15, 2022 – Austere August 15

• Brush: Cayuen Workshop with 30mm Timberwolf Synthetic
• Bowl: Cayuen Workshop – Dark Nebula
• Razor: Winning Razor by Wet Shave Club
• Blade: Gillette Winner Platinum (2)
• Lather: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Video: https://i.imgur.com/sSDie1X.mp4

We're about halfway done with this Austere August challenge, and I've gotten another BBS finish this morning. How are all of you holding up today?

Have a great week, men!

#AustereAugust #SubstantialStag

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaDTnrwCnk ← The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird)

Aug. 15, 2022

• Prep: Cold Water
• Brush: Semogue Barbear Classico Cerda 22mm
• Razor: Alumigoose
• Blade: Kai Captain Titan Pro Touch MG (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

3.6g of soap was used today.

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Spray that Stag

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Have a great week! #SubstantialStag

Aug. 15, 2022 - Austere August Ultra Nightmare RawHoggin Stagpocalypse

• Prep: Midnight Stag liquid soap and bar soap
• Brush: Semogue 1250
• Razor: GEM MMOC
• Blade: GEM PTFE (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Balm

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

Another great shave. It’s really nice to get in this kind of rhythm with both the hardware and software to just totally zone out for the shave. Quick slap of 8 sprays and I’m done.

SubstantialStag

GEMsOfWisdom

RawHoggin

August 15th, 2022: Office Staggin'

• Prep: warm shower with Stag bar

• Brush: Vintage Rubberset 400-3 with 24mm unbleached Zenith knot

• Razor: MMOC

• Blade: GEM PTFE (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post-Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Post-Shave: Chiseled Face - Natural - Balm

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - EdP

Monday weigh-in:

Soap - 113.62 Splash - 195.14 Balm - 149.81 Frag - 177.1

Definitely have increased soap usage but I think it's cause I am consciously loading heavier, my lathers before were ok but this past week they were definitely better than week 1. The unbleached pig continues to impress and I think I can say with confidence this is the best boar knot I own. I need to secure a 26mm and I think it'll be the 🐐 🦨 🐗

Splash and balm usage are pretty consistent, frag will continue to be depleted as I add more sprays each day. I messed up my video one day and ended up doing close to 30 sprays, thank fuck I was WFH!

Stag sprays of the day!

#SubstantialStag

#RawHoggin

#UNCHALLENGE

Aug. 15, 2022 - AA Day 15

• Prep: Shower
• Brush: Semogue 1305
• Razor: GEM Open Comb Micromatic
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

SubstantialStag

GEMSofWisdom

A fast and irritation-free shave, even on the sensitive areas that have wonky grain patterns and with products not made by a hippie soap maker. I could seriously only use Chiseled Face for the rest of my life and not pay tons of money to all the hippie soap makers who can’t possibly have the ability to research what is good for my face and are only out to hype their products in order to separate me from my money and still not pay exponentially more money to the mega-million-dollar-giant-corporations with unlimited R&D budgets who can research the latest and greatest products to make my shave and facial care the greatest it could ever be.

Sprayin’ for school

First day, but no students until tomorrow.

Edit: punctuation and formatting

August 15, 2022

• Brush: Zenith B15 (506 U/L) 27.5mm Boar
• Razor: GEM MMOC Gold Gen2
• Blade: Personna Gem PTFE (15)
• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap
• Post Shave: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum  

2 passes. Face lather. Good shave.

• Challenges: #GEMsOfWisdom #RawHoggin #SubstantialStag
• Brush Top (before use) - Brush History
• Fragrance Video
• Blade Edge (before use) - Edge Histiory
• Blade Orientation (black dots - odd days, red dots - even days)

Sit-rep: Lather and scent - great, brush - really good, razor - excellent, blade - starting to fade.

Other than a month of Stagnation, two other positives that I hope to obtain from this experience are a 2-pass pattern that will leave a better-than DFS shave, and better technique for smoother edges.

The edge on the blade has definitely changed. It is not cutting the way that I would like. For the remaining two weeks, I hope to develop technique that provides for a comfortable shave under these circumstances. My tendency is to go over areas until stubble is removed, but I think that as keenness is reduced, so is cutting efficiency. I'd like to adapt to this gracefully by getting the most I can out of the edge, without any irritation in the shave.

Here is an edge image that was taken at less magnification -- meaning that the primary bevel is smaller. The microscope is still scaling at this level, but the overall image appears a little sharper. For me, too much detail is given away in this image, but I'm also the one inspecting the entire edge with video from the microscope, and then curating an image for these posts. If you like the "sharper" format, just let me know.

August 15th

• Brush: Zenith Boar - 505NK 27mm
• Razor: GEM - MMOC
• Blade: Gem PTFE (15)
• Lather - Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag Soap
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag Splash
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag Edp

#GEMsOfWisdom #RawHoggin #SubstantialStag

Edp video

15 down and 16 to go, starting to go a little easy on the splash as need to make it last and not run out too soon.

AA D15: Halfway there, or Midway Stag

• Prep: cold water
• Brush: Tadé NOS vintage boar 22 mm
• Razor: KAI Captain Standard CAP-J7 kamisori shavette
• Blade: KAI Captain Titan Mild Protouch MG
• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - shaving soap
• Post-Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave
• additional care: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - ASB
• Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts - Valley of Ashes - EDP

AA tags: #SubstantialStag #RawHoggin

Anyone else getting some different notes from their AA setup from time to time? Today, I got very sweet notes: more of bourbon in Midnight Stag and more bergamot in VoA. Could be my nose being weird, or it's just a quirk of using this for 15 days straight now...

Anyway, relaxing Monday SOTN. Two passes, now with more XTG on the cheeks. I'm getting confident with the Captain, even with a fresh Protouch MG. I've discovered that if I hold it like a Eagle Claw grip sometimes, it gives me great results.

Here's my wet boar after 15 days. It became a really nice brush so far. Lathering with it is a breeze now and that shows the good quality. I'm happy that I've chosen it for this journey: it's odd, but lovable. How can one not like vintage stuff?!

Sidetracked
Going for something different from metal or synthwave again, today my choice of song is Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn, NSFW . BHG became really popular over here in Germany, due to not many people understanding the lyrics and just enjoying the good tunes. I suppose they didn't get much airplay in GB or the US. Nevertheless, they are a band I enjoy since my early teens and even until today I love their lyrics. They don't take themselves too seriously while still making good music. Fire, Water, Burn is also a good farewell song for my old ward. I'm officially out of fucks to give what happens there after the last day of August. I'll do my work as best as I can while I'm still there, but one can only spend so much energy on things that won't change for the better. So, in the immortal words of BHG: "Burn MFer, burn!"

Day 15 of Austere August! Staggin on!!

• Prep: Water on Face
• Brush: Zenith 2004/B SE

• Razor: Filarmonica Double temple 14

• Lather: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag

• Post Shave: Osma block
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag Splash
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag Balm
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag EdP

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I really do suck at making photos during the evening, but this one is probably my best so far😅

Kind of a boring shave today, nothing noteworthy, just going through the motions, one thing that really helps is the smell of THE STAG you just don't get tired of it☺️

Other than that I was bad at the internet thing today, went to the autoshop, got my rim straightened and an alignment, and since the guys at the service are super cool I stayed there 2-3 hours shooting the breeze and having smokes, I usually stay after they're done working on my car, and you can roam around the shop and chat with the mechanics, at least I can, they let me and it's a grand ol' ball!

Afterwards I went to the post to check on the Timeless Ti 0.95 how it's trucking on and when it might arrive, some 10 more days I think. Then I got back home, did some house work, had a shower and shave and after that went to a birthday party. Not much time in between for the internet thing.

• #RawHoggin
• #SubstantialStag

Aug. 15, 2022 - AA - Sexy Stag Flair Quest

• Prep: Face wash
• Brush: Semogue 1305
• Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Ti
• Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock yellow (1)
• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

Busy af. It doesnt matter what blade I use, they are all sharp, they all cut my stubble. May the Stag be with you.

Week 3, 3 sprays

#SubstantialStag

Cheers.

Aug. 15, 2022 - AA Day 15

• Prep: Warm shower
• Brush: AP400B XL Handle (AP ShaveCo) - 28mm Maggard Boar Knot
• Razor: GEM MMOC - Gen 1
• Blade: GEM PTFE (84)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Aftershave

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

Another fantastic shave this fine Monday morning. I did get a slight itch to use something different today, but no faltering here. The brush isn't changing much at this point, but the lather still isn't as good as I would have hoped for at this point in the month.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Monday!

Stag Spray 15 #GEMSofWisdom #RawHoggin #SubstantialStag

Stag Headlessly Hoggin' August Day 15

• Prep: Hot shower with Midnight Stag Soap.

• Brush: Zenith B33

• Razor: Cloud Shavette

• Blade: Cloud whatever that blade it is (20)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag

Good shave, rough jawline.

Hail Stag!

-#Stagposting

-#SubstantialStag

-#RawHoggin

Aug. 15, 2022

• Brush: Maggard 28mm Boar
• Razor: GEM MMOC
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (15)

• Lather: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Soap

• Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Balm

• Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag - Eau de Parfum

3 spray days, things are getting serious!

Boar Break In Album

Stag Spray

#RawHoggin

#SubstantialStag

#GemsOfWisdom

#UNCHALLENGE