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May 27th, 2025
$discord
Superb!
This blade is just great. Very close and comfy. Hardly any aftershave feedback, and Clubman aftershaves have a hefty dose of alcohol in my experience.
May 27th, 2025: sample killed
First sample kills dead
@djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social does the portal pick up lemmy posts too?
$roty
Sorry, no. At this point, the portal is too much of a mess to extend it to lemmy, and I don't have it in me to do a full rewrite right now 😞
That's ok. It's not worth it to encourage me to play when ive never really played the games anyways
May 27th, 2025
Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations "Nebulagance" - TurnNShave Quartermoon 26mm Synthetic
Razor: Gillette - Rocket HD
Blade: Parker Premium Platinum (5)
Lather: Ariana & Evans - Daniele Maullu Legacy - Soap
Post Shave: Fine - Italian Citrus - Aftershave
Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented - Balm
Fragrance: Roger & Gallet - Jean Marie Farina - EdC
May 27th, 2025
Feeling under the weather today. Reflection is my go to comfort scent. Hope everyone has good short week ahead of them.
May 27, 2025
Octidi 8 Prairial an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Martagon: Zingari Zischtig
Morning shave today, with Zingari. I took Bon Monsieur, because of how much a good boi I have been.
Have a good day!
The practice portal for lather games is up and running. Use it to check your formatting if you like!
I’m seeing Tabac come up more and more and I feel like I should try it. I see it comes in a balm.
It's one of those love-it-or-hate-it fragrances :)
It’s a staple for good reason. The scent is love/hate for a lot of people.
May 27, 2025 -- Tea for Twosday
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Wonderful tea-themed shave for the day. I really liked the way the scent filled the room this morning, enjoyed th omnibus lather, and really enjoyed this new Art of Shaving Dovo razor.
$discord
