Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!
June 16, 2025
- Brush: Chisel & Hound Raven 26mm V26 Fanchurian
- Razor: Dovo Art of Shaving 5/8 Hollow Ground Round Point
- Lather: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Soap
- Post Shave: Noble Otter - Cerberus - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Thayers - Coconut - Toner
- Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Eau de Parfum
3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
For today’s theme, this soap contains bison tallow in its Milksteak base.
For today’s challenge, I chose to do a 3-pass trifecta shave in reverse order. My progression for today was:
- Fragrance
- Aftershave
- Toner
- Third pass (lathering, then using my third pass pattern)
- Second pass (lathering, then using my second pass pattern)
- First pass (lathering, then using my first pass pattern)
- Pre-shave - my normal “peoples’ preshave” method; working proto-lather into the face with water
I will say that this was, by far, the best shave I’ve had … today.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Where’s the Beef?: Day 16 of Lather Games
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Theme justification: This base has duck fat. Almond vanilla has this sweet kind of almond that smells like cherry, and its a fun little experiment to sniff it between more almondy almond like HoM Almond Leather and real cherry in TF Lost Cherry. When I sniff Almond leather and Almond Vanilla, Almond Vanilla smells like straight cherry to me. But after sniffing a bit of Lost Cherry, Almond Vanilla switches to almond in my brain. Oh the fun you can have.
I typically lather up and then shave, and today’s challenge would invert that order. Luckily for me, I forgot about the challenge until it was too late.
I honed up this razor during my lunch break, just before the shave, and its a pretty one. I thought I was buying a typical quarter- or half-hollow W&B à la FBU, but this one is fully hollow ground. I didn’t know that WB did such grinds until now.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Now that’s a razor with a lot of character! I love it! I’ve seen hollow ground W&B online. I guess they got in on the craze once the Hexe was invented.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 2 weeks ago
Yes they did, and this particular one is full hollow by modern standards, not like the Celebrated. Quite fascinating, this.