DaveWave94

19.08.2025

• Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
• Razor: Stando Perun
• Blade: Personna Super DE
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - Le Grand Chypre
• Post-Shave: OAM - oli del benessere sensitive skin toner
• Passes & Info: 2-pass face shave, felt good except the same 3 tiny blood spots as last time appeared. Contouring the doorknocker isn’t the strong suit of this razor either.

This was a rather comfortable shave except when it came to lining up the beard. The Perun really does great on my head shaves, but this seems to be its weakness. Had to put a little bit more pressure on and go over the same areas multiple times, so the exact same pattern of 3 small blood spots appeared again. Oh well, one can’t have everything.

I really took my time for the prep and lathering though and it paid off. Used a “pre-shave scrub” peeling and hot water, built a nice slick lather and the shave was rather smooth.

Also, LGC with its cola scent never ceases to amaze me. This is a really slick soap, but despite all the fancy scent notes it’s just pure coke with lime to my nose.

18.08.2025

• Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
• Razor: Stando Perun
• Blade: Personna Super DE
• Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber
• Post-Shave: Lavera - Men sensitive ASB
• Passes & Info: 2 passes on the head this time. Nice, quick and uneventful shave.

Today it was due time for a good head shave, but I only got to it shortly before Midnight (local time). I had a lot of stubble to cut down, but the Perun did it with ease. Maybe this blade is a good fit for it, unfortunately I just have ~4 of them left.

Chiseled Face’s and Stirling’s soap bases are kinda my “Ol’ Reliable”, i.e.: Nothing too fancy with tons of exotic butters and oils, but good ingredients to whip up a nice lather fast and have just enough slickness for your shave. It also helps that GTB is such a interesting & spicy take on the faux genre of barbershop scents that it’s quite pleasant to use.

Pretty niche but nice nonetheless 😉 The “missing link” sounds very likely. Most Lemmy clients I had except Raccoon don’t show the SOTD thumbnail, but it does add some context IMHO.

17.08.2025

• Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Hawk V2 w/ Cyber handle
• Blade: KAI Captain Protouch MG
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - The Full Measure of Man
• Post-Shave: Moon Soaps - Old School “balm”
• Passes & Info: 2-pass face shave around a very short-trimmed circle beard, just 3 small blood spots but otherwise a good shave!

First test of an SOTD post from my PieFed-account. Otherwise yeah, it’s the same old Dave you all know.

I’ve now landed on Summit as my Fediverse app of choice, unfortunately not on Droidify/F-Droid but seemingly a nice app with the same high level of customization as I was used to by Raccoon. As for PieFed, it’s still a bit early to make a full statement - it seems like it federates well with Lemmy but I can’t make any further statements yet. As a normal user who isn’t a mod/admin of any community, my first impression is that it loads everything quickly and that’s nice - I haven’t seen too many bad posts that are auto hidden or anything in terms of low quality tags yet, but maybe that’s an API thing too. Unfortunately Summit doesn’t show our SOTD logo picture, and according to walden PieFed still lacks picture upload support at the moment (which would be better for our hobby). Maybe I can share more concise thoughts in a few weeks, so I’ll still keep my Lemmy account on standby…

So for this shave itself: I basically had to wait until today for everything to heal up after my misfortune with the shavette. As for a tiny mishap, I forgot to check which guide comb was on my trimmer earlier and trimmed my henriquatre to just 1.5 mm instead of 3 mm, so I actually had to re-shape it with my zero gap trimmer as it was barely recognizable from the surrounding stubble. This shave was really necessary to give it a sharp look.

The shave itself went way better than expected, just 3 little blood spots appeared on the second pass (I couldn’t really call them weepers since they immediately stopped bleeding after a cold water rinse and applying the aftershave). FMoM is great as always and it was slick enough for the tricky contouring work. A big success!

Anyways, please let me know if anything looks weird in my posts. Still getting used to the new app. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Hello from PieFed too!

Unfortunately Voyager for Android isn’t the same as for iOS. The Android version doesn’t support sign-in via PieFed yet. I currently try an app called Blorp. I am actually on the more feature-rich Summit now! Still getting used to it, just leaving this here for other mobile users with an Android OS!