SOTD by u/Teufelskraft

AA D31: Stagtastic! It's Over!

• Prep: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag bar soap and 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: #RawHoggin #SubstantialStag

It's over. We're done. Finally? Well, there's a good amount of take aways for me from seriously doing AA for the first time this year: mainly that natural hair brushes are quite awesome once they got a few uses under their belt. That I love CFGs soap base and alcohol aftershave formula. That Stag and VoA combined is really awful on extremely hot and humid days, especially if you're needing to be in close contact with some people. That trying to organise a side challenge on top of a very stressful work and private life is biting off more than you can chew at once. That I still suck with shavettes and only guarded AC blades save my clumsy ass from cutting myself to pieces.

No joke, I actually had a bit of fun during August too. But overall, I'm not sure if I don't fancy the idea of Februarity Austerity uttered by another member on here more next year.

My nerves are in high stress mode atm because I worry a lot about my first day of nursing school. It was good to just have a autopilot setup for the last day before. September 1st will be just a feel good shave with the new Protouch MG of today's shave. Oh, and the Midnight Stag bar soap from u/Marquis90 reached me just in time for today! Isn't that great? I'll continue using it for a bit.

Sidetracked
Bauhaus - Mask

I think it's about time I share a song by my favourite goth rock band. Mask isn't my favourite of them, but it got me through a very troublesome time in my life. I often listened to it when I felt very depressed and down. Especially the guitar part in the latter part if the song gets me. It's kinda like a relief after lots of suffering... Which fit my situation back then and also kinda could be said about Austere August. It's an interesting experience, but overall I prefer the Lather Games. Nevertheless: thanks everyone who organised a challenge. Thanks to all the sidetracked challenge participants, you're all awesome despite me being kind of lacking as a host. Special respect to those who posted a song or album every single day - you know who you are and you're all awesome. I cherish being part of this community.