Aug. 6, 2022 - Headless Mammoth Hoggin' Day 6 - A dissertation on why boars 🐗 are GOAT 🐐

• Brush: Proraso Professional Boar | Break-in photos
• Razor: Feather Artist Club SR (Kamisori)
• Blade: Schick Proline (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive - Balm

• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Alive - Eau de Parfum

AA Tags: #RawHoggin #MammothMafia

Soap Weight (post shave, lid off): 137.7g

The pokiness of the brush I felt yesterday seems to have subsided again and I'm not sure if the amount of time soaking has anything to do with it. I haven't really been keeping track of how long I've been soaking the brush for but it's probably around 3-5 minutes each day. I'm not noticing much boar funk during my shaves but if I put the wet brush up to my nose then it seems to be a faint combination of Alive and boar stank. The lathering is getting pretty easy, partially due to the fantastic Tusk base, with no fear of running out of lather but as the month progresses I want to become more consistent with how much I'm loading. I still wouldn't describe the face feel as soft, but more of a gentle scrub. Another difference I'm noticing with the boar is that it releases lather exceptionally well, and that may be partially due to the lack of density in this brush so we'll see if the Zenith behaves differently. The lather this thing produces is phenomenal. You know the lather is good when the some of the lather on the brush has slid down to the countertop and formed a puddle by the end of your first pass.

Today's shave was probably the closest shave this month at the cost of a bit of irritation along the jawlines. Yesterday u/StraightShaverSix kindly offered some tips after I mentioned some of my problem areas and I tried applying some of that feedback today which worked out pretty well. Those strokes/grips/angles are a bit unfamiliar to me so it's going to take a while to build the muscle memory before I'm confident doing those areas. good times and bad times, good friend go through shit together, newborn baby, unhealthy obsession

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!BEGIN DISSERTATION

!Boars offer exceptional value, and the biggest hurdle has to be the break-in period. I'm a big fan of synthetics and the right ones really have no weaknesses (MOIMO) for my personal use, but I don't care about water retention or keeping my lathers warm while I shave since I'm a cold water shaver. However, after spending some time getting reacquainted with boars, I'm beginning to understand that what synthetics lack is soul. Synthetics are great from the start and don't go through any changes from use, but they have no character.

!Boars, however, are bad to horrible in the beginning. What's unexpected is the relationship you build with your boar baby during the break-in process. Your baby may be cheap looking and full of unsorted black hairs, but it's your baby and you love it nonetheless. After its first bath, you can't help but be disgusted by its smell, but you soldier on knowing that with time, love, and lots of soap, it will smell a bit less like ass with each passing day. The first time you mash it into your face, you wonder what the hell you got yourself into, but with each subsequent swirl your face becomes more numb to the pain, knowing that it will all be worth it in the end. When you set the brush out on the counter to dry, you can't help but check on it every few hours to see if it's doing okay or if any hairs have begun to split, wondering what it will look like after it fully dries and shows its first bloom. At the end of a long day, you think to yourself, "Wow, that was only the first day. How am I going to do this every day going forward?"

!The trials and tribulations that you experience together forms a bond tighter than epoxy between you two and no one else. There comes a day when you realize, "Wow, this brush is phenomenal. When did you become like this?"

!Little did you know that day by day, your baby was growing up. After a few days, its appetite for tallow dwindles and you no longer need to bring back the tub of soap to refeed it in the middle of a shave. After a week, its tips have split generously, creating wonderfully luxurious lather in no time at all, giving your wrist a much needed rest. After a month, its fibers become more pliant, caressing your face during a face lather like your mother's bosom did when you were still spitting up breast milk.

!Each morning, you scan your bathroom shelf at your army of badgers and synthetics, but your hand unconsciously reaches for your boar. Why? Because it's the only one that's not merely a tool, but an everchanging experience, and that experience becomes a part of you. You'll never let that brush go. Not after all you've been through. Months, or even years, from now, you'll look back and wonder how you did it.

!But you did it. You made it. Together.

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Aug 6, 2022 - AA: MA-RH-MM - Almond Leather - Day 6 (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boar)

• Prep: Warm Water Wash
• Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
• Brush: Zenith Cobalt Blue 28mm Boar Knot (505BC SE)
• Razor: GEM Open Comb Micromatic (2nd Gen.)
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (6)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Aftershave

Today's shave was close with very minor irritation. It ended with a nick right above the adam's apple—a not-so-gentle reminder to slow down and be a little less careless.

The lather this morning was excellent, even if it took a little longer to get it right. I am really embracing this boar break-in experience.

#GEMsOfWisdom #RawHoggin #MammothMafia

#sidetracked
Would anyone say that Tom Waits has a voice of an angel? Probably not, unless maybe a world weary war angel. His growling, downtrodden voice juxtaposed with the sweet lyrics of Picture in a Frame gives the whole song a different feeling.

Rating: 3.5/5

2022-08-06 - Austere August - Raw Hoggin' Mammoth MMOC

Prep: Warm Shower
Brush: Semogue Torga - C5
Razor: GEM MMOC version 2
Blade: GEM Stainless (6)
Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap
Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave
Fragrance: Issey Miyake -L'eau d'Issey pour Homme

https://imgur.com/a/tfilv9s

The brush is looking more broken in all the time. The razor is smooth, a DFS in 2 passes. Have a great day everyone.

#GEMsOfWisdom

#RawHoggin

#MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022 - Saturday sixth shave

• Prep: Hot shower
• Brush: Omega Pro 48 Boar brush 28mm
• Razor: GEM MMOC
• Blade: GEM PTFE (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Aftershave

A nice shave today. The blade is in the sweet spot for sure and it was an easy, comfortable 2-passer. Brush break in continues and Hygge still excites me.

Happy Saturday!

#GEMsOfWisdom

#MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022

• Brush: Summer Break Kearney B10
• Razor: Rockwell 6s
• Blade: Derby Extra (15)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Aftershave

• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Beloved

  #MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022

• Brush: Grey Chubby - Zenith B37
• Razor: Micromatic Open Comb
• Blade: GEM - PTFE Coated Stainless Steel (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Z - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Z - Aftershave

Another day, another negative result on one of those at-home nose-swab tests, telling me the cough that started up the other day is not covid. Just in case anyone in the US who happens to see this happens to be unaware, you can get free tests via USPS, with a limit. I used my last one today and ordered my third (perhaps final) batch a few days ago.

You know what sucks worse than shoving those swab things up your nose-holes? Face-lathering. At least nostril-penetration of this kind is purposeful, though, while face-lathering is at its core an ineffective exercise, except in achieving the worst possible outcome.

I didn't happen to notice the boar stench this time around; maybe it has faded beyond casual detection. A couple hundred years ago, I might have concluded that the boar bore a miasma that resulted in my ailment, which might have been avoided had I not been compelled to concentrate the release of this bad air directly under my nose.

No connection to u/OnionMiasma, of course.

#GEMSofWisdom
#RawHoggin
#unscented
#MammothMafia

August 6, 2022

• Preshave: Hot Water
• Razor: Blackland Era - Level 3 Plate
• Blade: Feather (6)
• Brush: Chisel and Hound 26mm Fanchurian
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Kryptonite
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Kryptonite After Shave Balm

Not much to add that hasn’t been said the last few days. An excellent shave with excellent hardware.

MammothMafia

A Mammoth Micromatic Raw Hoggin’ August

Brush Progress

• Brush: Zenith B26 #RawHoggin
• Razor: GEM MMOC #GEMsOfWisdom
• Blade: GEM (6)
• Lather: House if Mammoth - Hygge in Tusk
• Post Shave: Hygge Splash & Balm
• Fragrance: Hygge EDP #MammothMafia

Had to be a fast one this morning, kids stuff all day.

Great result, loving it. Not much to complain about.

Day 1 Prep Video

RawHoggin Unboxing Pics

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Aug. 6, 2022

• Prep: Shower
• Brush: Semogue 1460 Boar Brush 21mm
• Razor: Razorock GameChanger .84
• Blade: Gillette Nacet (6)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Balm

Tags:

#RawHoggin

#MammothMafia

August 6th, 2022 - Raw Hoggin’ the Mammoth GEM

• Prep: Warm water and extra patience

• Brush: Zenith B36 “Copper Scrubby!”

• Razor: GEM (is truly outrageous) MMOC Gen 2

• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (sei)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive Splash

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive Balm

#MammothMafia

#RawHoggin

#GEMsOfWisdom

Day 6 Raw Hog Before and After

I really slept in today. Briefly woke up around 8ish, but went back to sleep and finally got up a bit before noon. Lazy day today, just some straightening up of the house. I think I am going to finally finish clearing out some junk from my home office/guest bedroom. It has become the place where clutter gets dumped.

Shaved earlier than normal today. Usually, I shave in the evening after work or after dinner. One advantage to having mostly white facial hair , I don’t get a 5 O’Clock shadow, so I look less scruffy with a day’s growth. Also, sometimes kids ask me if I’m Santa Claus 🎅. Shaving in the evening really frees up some time in the morning when I am getting ready for that long commute downstairs to my home office. Traffic can be pretty rough if the cats think they are underfed and want more food (they aren’t though, usually there is plenty left in their bowls.)

For todays shave, I might be a bit stingy with the soap, but looking at the tub, if I keep loading trying to get InstaYoutube levels of lather, the tub won’t make it to the 31st. I took a small scoop today and really tried to work it up on my face. I did reach a decent amount of well hydrated, but not runny, lather for the first pass. Second pass, not so much. I tried to squeeze out enough, but ended up loading about a pea sized bit of soap to get enough for a pass.

The GEM today really is starting to perform well. The feedback is smoothing out and second pass is feeling quite good. I think the blade has finished with the rough start, and now I hope it will last for the rest of the month or more. One thing I realized, when I mark the blade, I’ve been using a brown Sharpie. Those marks make it look like the blade is rusting in a pattern of dots below the spine.

The Mammoth set is going strong. I wonder which ingredients in the splash are settling at the bottom of the bottle. Got to remember, give it a good shake first. Today, I think my familiarity with the scent has finally let me get the fruit and floral notes up front. I really like this set, and will want to replace it when it is gone, but I need to kill 2-3 tubs before I buy another. Also, I would want a full set of Hygge sometime, but after the order for the 31mm sub exclusive boar brush, the den is closed for new software and hardware.

Happy Saturday everyone.

6 August 2022 - Austere August

• Prep: splash of warm water
• Brush: Zenith B33
• Razor: Blackland Blackbird Ti
• Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (6)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Balm

#RawHoggin

#MammothMafia

6 August 2022 - Austere August

• Prep: steamy morning shower
• Brush: Sterling boar
• Razor: Maggard V3
• Blade: Derby Extra
• Lather: House of Mammoth Fu Dao
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth Fu Dao splash

A nice leisurely Saturday morning shave: three passes with good lather with, across, and against. Quite smooth. I'm really digging the Fu Dao scent, and it doesn't stick around all day so I can use a fragrance later for a date night this evening.

mammothmafia

Aug. 6, 2022 - August Austere Day 6

• Prep: Shower
• Brush: Paladin Chief 26mm
• Razor: Merkur 34C
• Blade: Gillette Silver Blue

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

So today I went a little heavy handed loading my brush and ended up with more lather in my bowl than I needed. Not wanting to waste such a beautiful creation I called my young son (5) in and asked if he would like to try shaving. As expected the idea of shaving like dad really excited him, but having instilled a healthy respect for a razor blade he was a little worried about injury. Of course the real beauty of DE razor in this situation is the ability to remove the blade and allow my child to “shave” off the lather with no fear of injury. Nothing better than including your children. Happy Saturday all. #MAMMOTHMAFIA #UNCHALLENGE

Aug. 6, 2022 - Austere August - Z

• Brush: Declaration 28mm B14 Jefferson Artisan’s Choice
• Razor: Blackland Era lvl 3 oc
• Blade: Personna med prep (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Z - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Z - Splash & Balm

Great shave today.

#MammothMafia #Unchallange #Unscented

Aug. 6, 2022

• Brush: Maggard Razors 30mm Synthetic
• Razor: Henson AL-13 ++
• Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (3)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Hygge - Aftershave

Less than 20 hours since last shave due to weekend obligations. Surprisingly, less irritation today than yesterday. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

#MammothMafia

Aug 06, 2022 - Getting Sidetracked while searching for the Wisdom of a Mammoth

• Prep: Hot shower and CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser

• Brush: Maggard Green Handle 2 Band Badger 24mm

• Razor: GEM - MMOC

• Blade: Personna GEM Stainless (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive Balm

• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Sonder EdP

Every day tags: #MammothMafia #GEMsofWisdom

#Sidetracked u/Teufelskraft

Fire - Mother’s Finest

Seeing as I have been sharing songs that remind me of my “Second Father” I figured that I should share one for my actual Father!

To say that my parents are straight-laced and on the uptight side would be putting things mildly. Both had struggles while growing up in large families but especially my Dad. His father walked out on my Grandma and her 4 sons when my Dad (the oldest) was a teenager and was remarried very soon after to the woman he was cheating with. Dad instantly became the “Man” of the house and never got to ever let loose. He ended up becoming a Methodist Pastor and has lived a life on the straight and narrow.

But every so often, on a Saturday dedicated to cleaning the house. He would pull out the old giant speakers just like these and absolutely turn it up to 11! His soundtrack of choice was ALWAYS Mother’s Finest! I like to think that he only chose their songs because my Mom absolutely hates their music for whatever reason. As a kid I enjoyed rocking out to their song as it made cleaning the house that much more fun!

I am really enjoying this setup for AA! Sonder and Alive complement each other better than I was expecting! I think that its the basil in the Alive balm that really grounds the entire scent!

I have been continuously surprised with how smooth of a shave I am getting from the MMOC. It is not exactly comfortable to shave with and I am shying away from going for a BBS shave but it ends up being a lot closer then I thought. I’m hoping that this blade gets me through the entire month without any issue. I was successful last year at getting a blade to last the whole month but the MMOC is a whole different beast!

Edit: I’m no good at grammar

• Prep: warm shower
• Brush: Semogue 1250
• Razor: Novelty Cutlery Co straight razor
• Lather House of Mammoth - Z
• Post Shave: Equate witch hazel
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - unscented aftershave balm

Headless Horsemen

#RawHoggin #unscented #MammothMafia

Austere August 2022 day 6 https://imgur.com/a/nGwg89Y

Aug. 6, 2022 - Austere August Day 6

• Prep: Hot Shower, Stirling Soaps Activated Charcoal Facial
• Brush: Zenith 508A SE 28mm
• Razor: GEM Micromatic OC Gen 1
• Blade: GEM PTFE (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Restore - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Restore - Balm

• Post Shave: Zingari - Unscented - Aftershave

• Fragrance: Tom Ford - Grey Vetiver

Day 6 under the belt. Good shave today. 5 to 10 uses on a GEM seems to be the best state of the blade IMO. Restore is a nice scent, but I am already jonesing for something else. I am already planning out my September 1st shave. This is going to be a great brush going forward, I am getting fantastic lathers out of it already.

Mandatory Tagging:

#GEMsOfWisdom

#Rawhoggin

#MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022

• Prep: Shower
• Brush: Raiser Pinsel Simfix SF1 Synthetic
• Razor: Van Der Hagen
• Blade: Voskhod (7)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Alive - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Alive - Balm

#MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022 - Austere August Day 6

• Prep: House of Mammoth Almond Leather Bath Soap
• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Mire 26mm Zenith Unbleached Boar
• Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb Gen 1
• Blade: GEM PTFE (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

🐗Raw Hoggin' Progress🤮:
•Unused
•Shave 1
•Shave 2
•Shave 3
•Shave 4
•Shave 5
•Shave 6

Thoughts for the day:
Stank was manageable today, but it's not gone... Shave was 🤌.

Mandatory Taggage:

#GemsOfWisdom

#RawHoggin

#MammothMafia

Aug. 6, 2022 - Day Six - Ahh fiddlesticks! I cannot rhyme this time.

• Prep: Warm water wash
• Brush: Zenith B33 Copper Boar Brush
• Razor: GEM MicroMatic Open Comb
• Blade: Persona GEM PTFE Coated (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - 福 (Fu Dao) - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - 福 (Fu Dao) - Aftershave

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - 福 (Fu Dao) - Balm

• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - 福 (Fu Dao) - Eau de Parfum

Day six, this blade kind of sucks a big bag of sticks. Anyone have any advice on getting this blade to stop tugging? It is actually worse than a DE blade with the same uses.

I am not loving this knot. It’s real scritchy, doesn’t build a lather all that well, and holds water in the base that it won’t mix with the soap. Hey, at least it doesn’t stink anymore. The handle looks pretty cool.

Brush break-in album #rawhoggin #mammothmafia #GEMSofWisdom

Aug. 6, 2022 - Austere August

• Prep: Tears
• Brush: Zenith B10 Boar
• Razor: Feather Artist Club SR
• Blade: Feather Professional (3)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Aftershave

• Post Shave: alum, Zingariman Sego

Shave of austerity #6

2 pass shave; just as I have confidence in my shaves, I decide to jump off the deep end to shave without any prep. I had a nice lather though. Ultimate product was weepers but a very close shave.

Tags and challenges: #MammothMafia & HeadlessHorsemen

Aug. 6, 2022 - SOTN AA Sonder 6

• Prep: splash of cold water
• Brush: Summer Break 26m SHD
• Razor: Merkur Progress
• Blade: Wizamet (1)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

• Post Shave: Zingari - Rescue Potion - Serum

• Post Shave: Zingari - Unscented - Balm

• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Eau de Parfum

Ended up cutting my top lip...ironically not because I was actually shaving but because I accidentally grazed my lip with the blade. Was in a bit of a rush and it was kind of embarrassing because looked like it bit my lip or something... have a great day and shaves all #MammothMafia

Aug 6 2022

• Prep: Mineral oil massage

• Brush: Wenghè Pure Bristle 🐗

• Razor: Brassbird head CG brass bishop

• Blade: Voskhod

• Soap: Mammoth Z

• Balm: Mammoth Z

I. Want. To. Wear. A. Fragrance.

Fin

#RawHoggin

#MammothMafia

#Unscented

#ZFighter

Day Six of this rassafrassin boar

Aug. 6, 2022 - AA Day 6

• Prep: Hot Shower
• Brush: Zenith B34
• Razor: MMOC (Gen 2)
• Blade: GEM PTFE (6)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

• Post Shave: Thayer's Witch Hazel - Lavendar, Osma Alum

Quick shower and shave tonight. A thunderstorm is rolling in with lightning strikes that seem pretty bright and close - I never used to worry about them but lately I have a rough time getting in the shower while there's lightning. I know the chances of dying from it are almost 0, but, you know. There is a chance.

The hair products from yesterday continue to take over the bathroom counter. It's getting scary in there.

So, my brush didn't soak as long as it probably should have, but it still whipped up an easy and creamy and smooth lather that performed beautifully. While it's still not opened up just sitting there, the performance is about as good as any of the brushes I own. It's excellent. Maybe boar is best after all.

Sonder, as I said, was great. Typing these up as my face cools down every day just sublime, especially after a day in the high 80s with humidity so thick that just sitting outside had sweat running down my whole body. Feels so good to wash that off and then rest in the cool of Mammoth Splash. I might need to grab me some of that Permafrost that just dropped, well, after AA anyway. Plus I've got a killer green sub exclusive brush to save my dollas for. It pains me every time I tub load, but it is what it is. I so much prefer the cleanliness of scooping to this mess every time I open it up, but it is what it is. I certainly get enough soap on the bristles for a solid lather this way.

The MMOC performed well tonight. Just a 2 pass shave with a bit of buffing on my chin - I can't stand finishing a shave and having my chin still be prickly. My neck below my jawline, fine. My sideburns, sure. Stache, whatever. But chin - nope. BBS or bust.

Sonder thought of the day: While I understand that everyone is living these vivid lives, it makes certain types of people more challenging to understand. I know that I'm selfish - getting married showed me that, and then having kids showed it even more. But, people like the car salesman that called me yesterday. Just, scummy. Starting the call by pseudo-offering me a vehicle that's not available, only to later tell me that I can't buy it because it's a customer order that's sitting and waiting to be picked up. Then offering to let me test drive one of their vendor's vehicles since they don't have any stock before I place the order. Then, when I mentioned I may end up going used if the used market bubble bursts, he offers me a vehicle that will cost within 5k of the price of the new vehicle I'm looking at, but with 95k miles on it. People, just don't be sleezy. In the age of the internet and transparent prices, I can't understand why salesmen still behave like this. It's not my first interaction with this dealer and after the first time I said I'd never buy from them again (and I won't), so it's not altogether surprising, but I just wonder how people get there. Is it selfishness? I'll do literally anything I can to make a few dollars? Is it high pressure from management? If so, why do people work for scummy dealerships/managers? I recognized that I'm extremely fortunate to do a job I love with people I love, and that it's probably not the norm, so perhaps I'm showing my ingnorance here - but just have an ounce of human decency, don't scam people, and it feels like you're going to be a lot more successful in the long term. This dealership sold me one (terrible) truck 5 years ago. That's the only sale they'll ever have from me. Not only that, but I've told anyone in the market about my experience. So they've lost other potential buyers. For what? So - how do people end up like this? And what do I do with it? How do I show kindness and empathy while recognizing that too many people are still out to take advantage of whoever they can to make a buck. It's not an excuse to say that I should treat them poorly, certainly not. But - complicated, anyway. As we all are.

Anyway - that's a random rant, I guess, but I'm trying to look at life from the other side in all this and it's not always easy.

Have a good night, all.

#sidetracked u/Teufelskraft

For my first sidetracked song I choose the Theme song from "Lost". Every time I play this, I feel deep nostalgia. Sad that it's over, happy that I experienced, and a deep longing to re-watch Lost for the first time. It was the first TV series that my wife and I really got into, and we were both young (20) and in college and had the foolishness and the free time to dive in, staying up until 2 or 3 am to watch "just one more!" and experiencing so many twists and turns and so much character development together. I know I'll get hate for this, but Lost is by far my favorite TV series of all time and the score is seriously amazing. So many riffs on the same little tune (I don't know music terms), and certain songs/chord groups (?) played at specific types of moments. Just so powerful for communicating the significance of a scene or something that's happening in a relationship. I'd like to be able to have this stuff on as background music to study while preparing for this or reading, but it just makes me feel to much that I can't focus on what I'm trying to accomplish, but that's what makes it so significant. Any music that has the ability to take me completely out of the present and back to an experience, especially a shared experience, is just a powerful and unique thing. This song from Lost (along with many others from the score) accomplish that for me.

Other tags: #mammothmafia #RawHoggin #GEMsOfWisdom

August 6 2022

• Brush: Zenith B28
• Razor: GEM MMOC (Gen 1)
• Blade: GEM PTFE (9)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo splash
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo balm
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo

#MammothMafia

#GEMSofWisdom

Aug. 6, 2022 - AA 6

• Prep: Water Splash
• Brush: Semogue 1305 Pure Bristle 22mm
• Razor: GEM MMOC Gen 2
• Blade: GEM PTFE (12)

• Lather: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap

• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Sonder - Balm

• Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Seville - Eau de Toilette

Progress album. SOTD pic in title.

Still same same. Nothing really insightful this evening. I’m doubting this blade coupled with my technique will make it to end of month. Perhaps I’ll just continue torturing myself in the name of camaraderie with my fellow internet shave friends. I did see a few split hairs today when looking more closely. #GEMsOfWisdom #RawHoggin #MammothMafia