Shaving Saga - Palmolive for men Sensitive

Yesterday I bought a new shaving cream..

I haven't gave up my quest yet... I gave "Palmolive for men sensitive shaving cream" a shot




Just tried it.. and liked it :D


A review from http://www.ciao.co.uk follows:

I have always suffered with sesnitive skin around my neck area when I shave, I have tried many different gels and razors but until I started using Palmolive shave cream i never really found anything that didnt make my skin sore.
Palmolive is a traditional shave cream that comes in a tube - the cream has to be used with a shaving brush to create a thin water based lather on the face. The cream and the brush combined are what is important about getting the right shave, the circular motion of the brush helps lift the hair away from the face so it can be easily removed with one light stroke of the razor. A good tip before applying the cream is to soak your face for a while with hot water - this opens your pores and expands the size of the hair by 30% which makes it easier to shave off.

The cream is cheap about £1.90, and although it takes slightly longer to shave it is worth it as you getting a cleaner, closer shave with less irritation and it doesn't leave a oily film on your face that many gels do.

Shaving Saga - Sephora's Shaving Cream

I'm not completely happy with the results I'm having .. and perhaps this is related with a bad moisture.

So.. I decided to buy a new shaving cream. This one is from Sephora's:



I tried it in the next morning!
I start doing as usual: putted a small amount on the bowl, and start to develop with the brush.

Well.. what usually takes me about a minute to create with gillette contour... it take me a lot more with this cream... But even so, it even make me more anxious to try it!
When I start to apply it... It starts to drop everywhere.. and in the face it's way too liquid to be used as good lather.

I restart all over with the gillette cream.....

After this, I noticed that this two creams combine very well: the blade slides very well on the gillette cream applyed in the face washed with sephora's cream.

Maybe Sephora's cream isn't supposed to develop with brush and bowl...

Edited #1: I tried again another day direct on the skin...and it didn't work ... once again I had to put the gillette cream over it .. :(

Edited #2: After that.. I'm using it mixing it (1/3 sephora's, 2/3 gillette's).
It's way smoother, but the Sephora's looks like it takes the consistency (thickness) of the whole lather (it looks like the brush starts drooling over me :S )

Shaving Saga - Improved shave!

Hello

Latest weeks I'm been learning again how to shave....
I'm talking about the middle XX century "safety razors"

I learned about lather: how to create good lather
and finally, I learn how to shave properly.

I'm not talking about the well known instinct of an basic "clear the hair of the face" method
because "well.. here we go again.. I must do it again"
But facing the all process of shaving not like an "must do it" but an event you just don't want to miss

My gears:

Merkur Heavy Duty razor





Personna blades (from the same store I got the razor..)

Shaving Saga - Trying Blades

Since we're all different.. I though trying a new kind of blades..

the BIC blades:



They're look sharper than the wilkinson's. Unfortunatelly, they haven't the same longevity, so on the second day shaving I could notice it ....

Shaving Saga - My first Double Edge Razor

I got to try this new way to shave, so I searched about this kind of razor in several stores.

Unfortunately I wasn't something easy to find... Is much more easier to get a (in)famous Mach 3 /Fusin than this kind of simple tool...

But I just could find it in a local store. Its's not so elegant as I imagine... Somehow I always imagine something heavy with more adjustable options. Instead I got this "Wilkinson Sword Classic Double Edge Razor" for 4.50 Euros with 5 blades.






And it includes a set of 10 "Wilkinson Sword" blades



A lot cheaper than I expected to spent!

The First Shave

I already had the brush and the shaving cream, so I start to make the lather.
I inserted the blade into the razor and turned the knob completely.

Then I start shaving.
I wasn't unconfortable... and after the first shave (within the grain), I started a second shave, now perpendicular to the grain, After this I didn't felt confidence to shave agains't the grain... After all, I think already made a huge step just for doing this far!

Conclusions

I didn't get the shave I expected.... Is far from a close shave, but I just couldn't get the blade on my face anymore, because I should rest my skin for another day ....

I noticed I could get a closer shave just by not closing the blade completely, and leaving the blade exposed.

Shaving Saga - Learning about Lather

I just watched on youtube a video explaining something that nobody ever explain to me: the importance of a good lather in the process of shaving.

I never cared much about this....
When I was a teenager, I didn't had much hair on my face, and shaving with hot water was enough to make an excelent close shave. At those days, lather was optional, but I was always invited to use it as it makes part of the process of shaving.

Today, my face skin is thin and my face's hair is middle/tough, so lather isn't optional anymore.

What people won't tell you about the good Lather

Today, everyone have seen those old brushes and bowls at some stores among the pen holders and other stuff, and most people won't even consider to use those stuff in our days.

We live in the time of the "instant foam cream" and the "shaving gel" and we just don't care about this old stuff.


My impressions

My razor is a gillette mach 3 turbo, and I used a gillette contour shaving cream, a brush and an ordinary bowl from the kitchen.



I takes me some minutes to make the perfect lather, because I just wasn't sure about when is it good enough! I start considering it is good enough when the brush can absorve the lather completely just by passing it by. After this, while passing the cream on my face, I can see the shape of the brush drawed in my face.



I must tell I felt some difference. The blade runs much easier on my face, and I start considering to start shaving with one of those old shaves from the middle of the XX century

worthless thoughts

The uncertain is a huge cloud, the future is unknown, and time keeps running..

The important is the path and not the destination... sounds intelligence when there's a bunch of controlled destinations.

life goes on... and there's only two great truths about life: death and taxes...

more to come someday.. in a better mood I sure hope..

"the wakening".. simple ...wanna make the puzzle? ... I hope not

some text missing.............. will it ever appear?

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence."

Buddha

Slightly above the thin "0-meter-above-the-water" line

Possession feeling
The winter comes and his possessive personality is hard to handle..
We only can wait for spring and hope (hopelessly...) that the harm had been bareable...
The rise of the phoenix

A bird in Egyptian mythology lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes. The Phoenix is a male bird that is a sacred symbol in Egyptian religion. The Phoenix symbolizes/represents a person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty, death, resurrection, immortality, life-after-death, and the sun, “which dies each night and rises again each morning, kind of like the phoenix when it dies, it will always comes back.”

extracted from: http://www.clipartstation.com/clipart_indexer4/index/view?id=8814

Back from the Wasteland

Preamble:
I'm been holding my silence due to a sequence of events that guided me to a state of mind that cohibes me of sharing anything ... blue state lol!
recently.. I can say .. I might had recover a bit :D so .... let's make an appointment, shall we?

briefing:
since August I'm considering to create a new company ... meanwhile ... I haven't got spare (mental) time to keep my blog up to date.... and a "dark self" seems to had emerged somehow... (some people notice that ... in a way or in another... but most were kept safe from my this shadowed state of mind)

keeping busy...
I bought my self a Rubik cube.. in middle august.. I learned to solve it (thanks, youtube ;) It was a good thing .. to give your mind a brand new problem to solve.. althought it is a old invention)

I started creating a program to write and maintain blogs (with the look and feel of ms-outlook, that offer you a easier way to post and configure). The goal here was to get acquainted with C++/wxwidgets .. the project remains frozen.. :(

Sunday hike (4 november)
Me and some friends had gathered with the purpous of take some good pictures and to enjoy a different day, for a change...
Destiny: Monsanto, Idanha-a-nova
* more pics from Monsanto here

Fair well!
misery .... I lost my cell phone :( I'm suddenly felt somehow disconnected from the world... no cell, no camera, no news,..... fortunately I had a backup of my contacts.. (I still have with me a bunch of A4 papers whith "everyone contacts").
I'm using "the old one" now.. Is a good phone, but ..... .... whatever...


now ... in less than a week for xmas... I'm counting on posting one or two posts in a short period :D

My laptop

I see people saying acer 4000 is old, slow ... well ... I can't complain .... :D



running quite well :D