Tag: traditional shaving

Shave of The Day: 29/3/2023

Simpsons Trafalgar T3

Timeless Aluminium .45

Voskhod (1)

Martin de Candre Original

A very nice shave today, I used top quality products and had a comfortable and enjoyable shave. The Timeless razor is a mild and comfortable shaver, though there is a little blade feel to remind you its there. The brush is a good quality synthetic fibre bristled brush, a bit on the large side – in hindsight maybe a T2 brush would be plenty. The soap is excellent with a beautiful herby scent, I can certainly make out the lavender. To look at it you would think its unused but over 2 or 3 years its been used about 100 times and barely a dent made in it, given the cost of it it has excellent longevity and value. For post shave I used a Baby Moisturiser that is good for adults with sensitive skin and finished off with a fragrance oil, the name of which slips my mind currently – a very nice fragrance with a very strong sillage and lasting.

This was the first SotD I set up to photograph in a long time, I’m undecided whether to stick with the set up or change to black or even use my bookshelves for a background. I’m sure I will chop and change until I decide on a set up or backdrop.

Been a While

I was laying awake in bed this morning and it struck me I had a blog on WordPress that I always fancied keeping up to date but somehow forgot about it. Luckily I had the username and password saved in the browser and well here it is.

I think i will certainly try my best to keep it updated more going forward and despite the username being ValleyReading, I would also like to get back into my hobby and interest of shaving things which I am a lapsed poster on Instagram of my Shave of The Day’s or SOTD. It was good fun to set up the photos and share my shave with other like minded people. It must be a year or so since I posted one. I really should get back into it.

Back to here and I should keep my reading up to date here, despite my laziness I do religiously keep my goodreads page up to date and as of right now have read 21 books out of 50 for my 2023 Reading Challenge. I just choose 50 as a nominal number and I know it will be exceeded to about 90 or even 100. I’m not a reader who will pad it out either with comics or short books, though I did read the entire Maigret series on 75 books, roughly 200 pages each. That was an enjoyable 4 years dipping in and out of them.

So if I remember and aren’t too lazy I will regularly update here with both my reading and shaving goings on.

My

Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8797999

Shaving IG https://www.instagram.com/valleyshaving/