Aug 2, 2021 – Austere August. Day 2.
- Prep: Hot Shower
- Brush: Zenith - B16 24mm Boar
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb Gen 2
- Blade: GEM PTFE (2)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Sheep
- Post Shave: Zingari Man – Unscented - Aftershave Balm
- Post, Post Shave: Zingari Man – Rescue Potion
- Music: Dispatch – The General
Day 2 went better than day one. Ended the shave with 2 small nicks instead of the half-dozen I had yesterday. I corrected for some errors I made yesterday with pressure/angle, and really loaded a TON of soap onto the brush. I’m not usually a face-latherer, but I’m getting used to it. I still wouldn’t call my lather good, but it was 10x better than yesterday. The brush is (not surprisingly) still scratchy and a bit stinky, but I’m confident that breaking it in will just take a bit of time.
Shoutout to Zingari Man for making Rescue Potion, because it has been an absolute blessing to have yesterday and today. My goal is to not need it in a week or so, but we’ll see what my face has to say about that. For now though, it's absolute amazing.
While I’m sure the new boar brush and MMOC will be perfect by the end of the month, the unscented part may be the end of me. It’s only day 2 and I already don’t like it. I just feel empty at the end of the shave. It’s wild to think that I went years and year without the fun scents of wetshaving and now the thought of going another 29 days like that absolutely repulses me. But, once I commit to something, I go full-boar (pun & misspelling intended to tie the themes together), so I’m gonna ride this unscented wave all month long.
Even though u/Teufelskraft only requires two song selections to be part of his game, I decided I’m going to include a daily music selection because why the hell not. I went with Guster yesterday, and today I’m going with a very similar style band in Dispatch. They hail from Boston, where I went to college, and were active while I was in school there, so it would be rare to NOT hear their music at a college party in 2003 in Boston. So, hearing Dispatch will ALWAYS put me in a good mood and bring me back to the good old days of no job, no responsibilities, and making memories.
Tags: #unscented #rawhoggin #GEMsOfWisdom #sidetracked
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