Remarkable shave: OSS? Lather? Marvy?
Today I have one of those remarkable shaves, the kind that leads one to casually stroke his cheeks and chin to feel again the phenomenal smoothness. The causes are never clear, but it does cause a certain impatience to get to the next shave to try again…
The Vie-Long Gonzalo “professional” boar/horsehair combo brush is a terrific tool: resilient, with excellent loft, it quickly whipped up a fine lather from the Roger & Gallet shaving soap—a soap I wasn’t using because it seemed just so-so, but this method produced a very nice lather indeed: if not Creamy Lather, close to it. And the Marvy mug is (IMO) extremely nice: tough, capacious, and well-suited to the task. As noted yesterday, the hard rubber easily absorbs without damage the blows it receives from the Gonzalo’s brass ring and I did my vigorous, rapid brushing.
Three very nice passes with the iKon OSS—switching back and forth between sides lets each side work on every pass, and the result today is spectacular. This is the third shave on the Shark Chrome blade, and it’s doing fine.
After the third pass, I was reluctant to end the shave, but there was nothing left to do, and I didn’t feel like getting into full-body shaving. So a final rinse, a splash of Calvin Klein’s Obsession, and I’m read for the week.
