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Share your shave of the day!

If you're playing asking with the lather games on the other website, today's theme is:

Christmas in July, but in June

"Product must be:
     - Explicitly marketed as a Winter scent OR
     - Explicitly marketed for a holiday occuring between Winter Solstice and Vernal Equinox OR
     - Strictly feature pine, fir, or spruce.  (Evergreens with dirt or lichen?  Nope.  No dirt allowed in the living room - only the tree!)
Caveat: Products explicitly marketed for multiple seasons or other seasons do not count (eg. ""a summer breeze through pine trees"")."
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Christmas in July, but in June

  • Brush: Bite of Mammoth – Victor Hyggo
  • Razor: Henkotsu #KAMISORI #STR8SNOB
  • Lather: House of Mammoth – Santa Noir
  • Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth – Santa Noir

Today I'm using HoM, which means that it's a great opportunity to buts out Victor Hyggo, the French philosopher Mammoth brush.

Theme: Santa Noir is so on theme that the logo wears a Santa hat. I doubt that it's physically possible to be more on theme.

Relevant post and frag, Dickens is also totally winter themed with the splash bottle art depicting a snowball fight and the soap art depicting a couple on a joy ride on a horse-drawn sleigh.

Challenge: The Kamisori form factor is my least practised type of open blade, so I thought it appropriate mitigate risks and protect myself by wearing a helmet for this shave. unfortunately there is no good way to keep lather from messing up the chin strap even when it's dangling. shaking fist angrily at clouds