04.05.2025

• Brush: TGS Galaxy 26 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: BIC Chrome Platinum
• Lather: Abbate Y La Mantia - Blu Tobacco
• Post-Shave: Lavera Men sensitive ASB

-> single pass WTG head shave again. Not very close, but comfortable nonetheless.

Trying to be more active in wetshaving is difficult when there's a thousand other things on your mind. I even had to get back to my bathroom because I couldn't remember the right name for the artisan...

However, this was a nice night shave to calm down before it's back to nursing school tomorrow. Final month before the exams, crunch time. A nice shave helps to clear my head before this (figuratively and literally).

Anyways, have a nice start into the new week! ✌🏻

It really is awful... usually letterboxes are spared from vandalism except the occasional guerilla sticker or graffiti. They're also built pretty safe, but my colleagues said that the lowlifes in their town usually used fireworks to damage them. I really am glad that the township and the Deutsche Post installed a letterbox right at the entrance of our nursing home recently. More watchful eyes thanks to our 3-shift-system so less chances of vandalism and short ways for our residents who want to send letters to their family from further away. Win-win.

Damn them indeed, but lesson learned - I now only trust the single letterbox left in my small village, but for everything international it'll be the post office.

Thanks! I sure will be relieved once everything's over, but at least there's light at the end of the tunnel now. 👍🏻

I finished the last day of my practical training (ok, it was just 500 hours total in my nursing home) before my exams. On Monday, it's back to nursing school and the exams start in June with the written part. I'm excited when I am finally done with my retraining and get my RN license in September.

The written exams will be the worst part, lots of theory to memorize and unfortunately they are the very first part. I'm not very afraid about the practical exam in July and the final oral exam at the end of August - there's a myriad of topics to draw, but I should have enough knowledge and communication skills to pass those. And more time to prepare. It's unfortunate how much I neglect hobbies and everything else due to the exam period, but thankfully I begin to improve in terms of my mental wellbeing. Slowly, but steadily.

I also think I know now what happened to the BVWSC March letters - if my colleagues who live in the small town where I work are right, it's not DHL who are to blame but stupid vandalism. According to them, the letterbox is now gone as it was in a very troublesome neighbourhood (who would've thought in such a small rural town?!?) and was often the target of idiots who put it on fire for fun. They told me the last known fire incident was at the end of February - which unfortunately matches up with the time I put my letters in. So it seems like everything was lost to a fire thanks to some morons. I always hated vandalism, but now I know for sure: if I ever send something important out again that I really, really want to reach its destination - I will only send it via post office. I will never understand why some people think it's a good idea to harm their own community - be it destroying letterboxes, park benches, sculptures or worst of all public playgrounds. But unfortunately, it is what it is. Just sad about the wasted postage and soap samples, but thankfully no one was seriously harmed.

Very late, but: Happy birthday! 🥳🎉

Thanks walden! I hope that everything goes smoothly and that I can be a bit more active here.

Hi! 👋🏻 Thanks, things are finally moving in the right direction. Hope to be a bit more active here even in my exam period.

27.04.2025

• Brush: RazoRock F-400 34 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: BIC Chrome Platinum
• Lather: Wholly Kaw - Transition
• Post-Shave: Lavera Men sensitive ASB

-> single pass WTG head shave and a bit of buffing. Comfortable shave.

This seemed like a cool combo for this Sunday night shave. Transition is warm yet inoffensive and WK soap always treats my skin good - it also helped that I used my mildest razor. Had some trouble to get a good lather with the behemoth of a brush, but it worked on my second attempt.

Stayed with a single WTG pass though, after weeks with just a trimmer I simply lack the muscle memory for more.

My Sunday was not only spent studying, so that's a big plus. Have a nice evening/day/night ✌🏻

Very late to the thread, but I don't mind...

Lots of positive changes happened lately. I was able to score an A in my last "preparation exam" - to explain, a teacher from nursing school visits us in our workplace and we're graded on our performance in just the 'nursing' part of our job, not the documentation. We give a good overview of our patients/residents' diagnoses and medication, but we don't write an extensive daily care plan like we do in the real final exams. My score was barely an A (1), but I'm still very confident in my skills now.

Second I was finally able to order a used car for me, even though my mother had to get involved to validate my credit rating. The bank didn't care that as a future nurse I could find work easily. Well, now I wait for the delivery... Thankfully it has all the features I was looking for and my favourite design of the line (all black with a red stripe around the roof).

Currently most of my time apart from working and household chores is spent on preparing for the written exams, as they'll be in the first week of June. Not much time for hobbies... But I hope to get a nice and relaxing shave done today.

Happy belated birthday! 🎉

30.03.2025

• Brush: TGS Galaxy 26 mm
• Razor: Leaf Thorn
• Blade: Perma-Sharp half DE
• Lather: Declaration Grooming - Unscented
• Post-Shave: Lavera - men sensitive ASB

-> single pass shave, head and face area.

Had nothing else to do so I figured I might as well take a nice slow relaxed shave.

Did better than expected, just one weeper on the head and a bit of redness around the goatee. I went back to partial beards since minoxidil wasn't working after 2 months, if anything it made things worse.
Hope everyone has/had a nice Sunday.

Thanks a lot DJ 🙏🏻 Unfortunately currently nothing is anywhere close to fun for me, everything feels like a chore and there's quite a lot to get done. At least I don't have any suicidal thoughts anymore so that's a little better. Small steps.

Thank you very much. Fortunately I didn't send the razor head you were asking for with the sample, as I really don't want it to get lost in an uninsured and untracked letter. I hope everything will get easier soon, currently it's just loads of stress in every aspect of my life. Nothing's fun anymore and shaving has also turned into a chore again.

I'll do my best

Thanks. I hope it'll become less stressful soon.

It's just a very unfortunate situation though - I guess if there's one thing that's certain, it's the unreliability of our postal services...

Thank you I didn't want to spoil the fun, but currently it seems like everything I undertake turns into shit.

I am deeply sorry to everyone involved. I don't know what kind of dumbfuckery is going on with DHL/Deutsche Post, I put the letters into one of their old yellow mailboxes near the end of February and it seems like no one received theirs yet, not even sahenders who's residing in Germany. Even though it's not my fault directly, I wish to apologize to you all for ruining BVWSC. 😥

As for my personal situation; I want to inform you that I had a massive load of shit happen to me recently and so, my depression is back at full force. Therefore I won't be able to participate in any shave events in the foreseeable future - atm, it's very hard to just get everything in my daily life under control and my final exams for the RN are coming up in early June. My appearances here will be sporadically at best during the whole spring and summer months, I hope everything will look better & brighter once September rolls around and I hopefully passed everything. Shit's though.

Due to some technical problems with my smartphone and certain apps, I also lost my Lemmy login info around my birthday and was just recently able to retrieve it via Windows password manager. Thanks for those who inquired about me - I'm not dead (yet), but I'm seriously struggling mentally. (Proof being that writing this took me way longer than usual and tons of edits).
Again, sorry everyone for all this mess. I seriously hate how this turned out

Not in this contest, but this sounds very weird: so if the chosen soap would be something of the now-defunct Oleo Soapworks, you can't use anything under Chicago Grooming Co. despite Vida being the artisan behind both names, just re-branded? Same with Scott and L&L/Declaration Grooming? IMHO, that sounds like BS to me. The rules don't seem to mention the same brand name.

tbh, this can happen to anyone of us. I immediately recognised the handle and just zoomed in to see the little holes indicating what base plate it is that GreenCult uses. I always found this little detail very neat!

Not OP, but if I am not mistaken it's a GreenCult 2.0 with adjustable base plates (similar to Karve/Rockwell), stainless steel safety razor made in Austria.