August 23rd, 2025: Cream
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Dorco SD507 Disposable (3)
- Lather: The Body Shop - Maca Root & Aloe - Cream
- Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
This hotel must have a water softener. Nice easy shave.
walden
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You're in Europe, right? I would have thought PieFed would be slower since the server is in the USA. Lemmy is in Finland.
PieFed (https://wetshav.ing/) has been running smoothly from what I can tell.
Fun fact, since the images are handled differently than Lemmy and I still want to keep them in an object storage bucket, I was forced to learn how to route everything through Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a corporation and is therefore evil in some eyes, but it does come with a lot of free features that prevent being spammed by AI bots, for example.
Lemmy sometimes suffers from AI bot attacks (at least I think that's what causes the slowdowns). In the future I'd like to get Lemmy routed through Cloudflare as well, but I'll need @djundjilla's help.
August 22nd, 2025: cream
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Dorco SD507 Disposable (2)
- Lather: The Body Shop - Maca Root & Aloe - Cream
- Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Kelp & Sea Mineral - Lotion
2 quick passes to clean up any overnight growth. I shaved last night but this disposable isn't the most efficient, so I think I'll switch back to morning shaves.
August 21st, 2025: cream
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Dorco SD507 Disposable (1)
- Lather: The Body Shop - Maca Root & Aloe - Cream
- Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
Nice shave despite being cream and a disposable.
August 21st, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (6)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Classique - Soap
- Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Nefertiti - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive Beard & Face - Balm
2nd shave of the day, and the first time using straight razors twice in one day. I have some early mornings coming up for work, so might stick to the night shaving schedule.
August 20th, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Koraat 15/16 Full Hollow - Sub Exclusive 'Moarteen' (6)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Geoffrey Beene - Grey Flannel - EdC
Great 3 pass shave. I didn't do any additional pickup/cleanup strokes on the fat parts of my neck because it didn't feel like it needed any more work. A couple hours after the shave my opinion changed a bit -- some cleanup work would have made a difference, but this is still a very very nice close shave. No regrets.
I'm in love with the Excelsior soap base. So good.
No it isn't, but we have a strict no-rules policy here.
I had a Dark Lord sample and it's an pretty incredible scent. The frag is very strong and lasts for ages. I honestly don't have high hopes of the dupe being close to the real thing, BUT I'm looking forward to something along the same vein!
August 19th, 2025
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Atra - Handle
- Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (6)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
- Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
Quick travel shave. Only two passes.
This is good and everyone is happy. Nothing is wrong. Everything is wonderful.