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Friday SOTD Thread - March 1st, 2024

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SOTD 01.03.2024

  • Prep: warm water
  • Razor: Wilkinson Sword Classic
  • Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
  • Brush: AP Shave Co. Snakeskin w/ 26 mm Flattop/Fan hybrid
  • Lather: Moon Soaps - Union
  • Post Shave: Isana toner; Phytorelax Headshave ASB
  • Fragrance: Tom Ford Ombre Leather EdP

Birthday head shave. I actually post this on the second of March in my time zone, but on the first I turned 30 years old.

When I was younger, I always thought that by 30 I’d have everything in order: successful job, a own house, a wife, maybe kids or at least plans to get one. Instead I celebrated my 30th birthday with Tom, my classmate from nursing school who accompanies me during an internship because I am currently still in a retraining to become a registered nurse as I realized by 2020 that being an occupational therapist isn’t my ‘real’ thing. We did a small celebration in our little room at the rehabilitation centre in Bad Liebenstein where we’re currently working and sleeping. I swerved. I realised that I was on a wrong path and that something else is my true passion that I’d have never thought of if it wasn’t for the Covid pandemic forcing me into that job. Still no house of my own. Still no wife, not even a girlfriend. But I still have something worthwhile: friends. So many people wrote to me today, it was overwhelming to see what a positive impact I have on others.

Oh, the shave itself was rushed. Just one pass before my late shift at my station. Moon’s Union is a small diameter tub so it fit nicely into my backpack as I wanted to have at least one luxurious shave for my special day… But this being a barbershop soap fits. A clean cut, a fresh start, a new decade of my life. Time to rock my thirties!

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