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23.06.2024
- Prep: warm water
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Bullet Tip/Flying Wing, gold
- Blade: GEM PTFE
- Brush: AP Shave Co. 30 mm Tuxedo Fan w/ black & clear handle
- Lather: Jean & Len - Fresh Menthol Rasierpaste (shaving cream)
- Post Shave: Thayer’s Cucumber facial spray; Jean & Len moisturizer
A short head shave I did before departing for a final time to my internship place. One pass and done.
This shaving cream in a glass jar arrived together with the Feather Popular I could finally get yesterday, so today was a first experience. Jean & Len make interesting skincare products that I really dig, although this shaving cream is not available on their website anymore. It still was there on Amazon, so I grabbed one. They advertised it as “made in Germany”; so I believe it’s made for them by Meißner Tremonia. MT also uses glass jars and also has a scent of the same name in their line-up. Actually, the smell is pretty much all eucalyptus and rosemary - kinda like a sports cream. It is nice to spread around and easy to lather though, no complaints here. The glide is pretty good, not as great as for example the WK Siero base, but still very useful for shaving…
Using a GEM again after a long time, at first I thought it’d turn out bad. To my pleasant surprise, it was a very good and comfortable shave!
24.06.2024
1 pass head shave plus neck contours. Except for one weeper due to the careless comfortable feeling the Popular evokes, a good shave.
As already said, the Feather Popular is a very mild and comfortable razor. It even makes Feather blades somehow more tolerable for me, but as usual they’re deceptively smooth - I only realised that I got a little weeper on my scalp when I rinsed the remaining lather off. It used to be my first safety razor ever back when I tried to get into traditional wetshaving at 18. So 12 years ago, it was a nice first experience and still continues to be a good shaver nowadays. If I don’t let it drop again (cause of death of my first one) it should be a reliable travel bag razor.
Today my classmate and I have our final week at the internship at the neurological rehabilitation centre. Finally! We can’t wait to leave this place behind us, and only now people seem to remember that we still need some stuff for our documents. So we actually had lots of interesting things shown to us and could do a few things with instructions. Actually, if most days would’ve been like this we’d be far more satisfied with the internship as a whole. Unfortunately, it now marks a low point in our retraining even if the last week should probably be our best…