Aug. 8, 2022 - AA Day 8
SubstantialStag
GEMSofWisdom
Going back to the angles from the weekend, today I used both the conventional GEM angle on one side and the slightly increased angle on the other. Again, I noticed a tendency to apply more pressure with the GEM angle and I tried to give a lighter touch. Comfort-wise I noticed little difference between the two sides, however, on my second pass, with is more like a diagonal to the grain in some places, there could have been the slightest beginnings of tugging, though it was more like feeling the blade cut through the coarse whiskers. I get a distinct, needle-like feeling when a blade is bad enough to tug and it was not that. What was noticeable was the cleanness of the shave from side to side. The shavette angle, as I will call it, gave me an ever-so-slightly better shave.
I want to shift gears and talk about the brush for a bit for you raw-hoggers. Last year I bitched a lot about the Semogue 1305. So much that I was ready to be done with it after I got the Zenith B33. Now the Semogue wasn’t brand new when I started AA last year. It just hadn’t been a brush I was super in love with. I thought giving it a whole month would, like the spirit of AA suggests, help me get to know it better. Don’t give up on those boars. I’m getting fantastic lathers from the 1305 this year. I really think the key is GUTL. Starting out with a drier brush and keeping that drier base of protolather to build on have made me very happy so far this month. But that brush… very comfortable and pleasant to lather on my face. Last year I struggled to have enough lather and this year it’s the total opposite, and I’m essentially using the same amount of soap as I typically do. My SOTD photo is what’s leftover from my shave today.
Keep raw-Hoggin’!
Spraying it, baby!
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