This Wednesday is the day, so start blooming your smush!

I was wondering about the immediate sequel: Our Mayday shave is set, and I guess in June, there will be the Lather Games. Is this correct, and do we go on hiatus, just as we did last year for August?

It is time again to suggest your soaps for the May edition!

Proposals close on Friday 4, 12:00 MEST.

As of today, I still have not received the smush from @[email protected], and this Wednesday is the last one in March. So, what do we do?

Option 1: We drop the club shave for March, and if we still receive the smushes, maybe convene twice in April.

Option 2: We shave with a soap we all have. We discussed this issue briefly on Free Talk Friday, and the only soap that has a chance to be the common denominator is Tabac. However, I don't know whether everybody here has it, and whether you would be interested in shaving with it in the first place.

Opinions?

It is time again to prepare for the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club April edition, which will take place on April 16. Nominate your soap here!

For those new here: we choose a soap, the lucky proponent sends smushes out to all participants, and we all shave with the same soap on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. If you want to join: simply nominate a soap, and vote for a winner!

Proposal thread remains open until Sunday March 2, 22:30 CET (whatever that is where you live).

It's time again!

• Grab your smush (mandatory)
• Heat up your scuttle (optional)
• Hone your razor (optional)
• Moisten your brush (strongly recommended)

It is time to prep again! Please nominate your soaps for the March edition by commenting below.

This thread closes on January 31st, 23:00 Central European Time.

Prepare your smush, and choose your brush wisely!

Thanks to the newly acquired logging capacity of sotd.el (the oldest SOTD plugin for any reasonable^TM editor I am aware of), I've been logging every shave this year, and I thought: why not inflict the data on you?

I shaved 231 times in 2024 (roughly every 1.5 days). The move from reddit to lemmy coincides with a switch to straights – straight razors dominated my routine in 2024 (64.5%), though I still used my DE razors (22.5%) [though mostly when not at home], and occasionally I used GEM (9.5%) or AC (3.5%). If this continues, I will never again have to buy new blades. My brush collection splits between horse (45%), boar (32%), and synthetic (22.9%).

Let's go into the details, shall we?

Razors

It's high time we got started again for our February meeting! Nominate your soap here!

You have until Saturday 4th January, 18:30 CET.

Prepare your samples and get ready!

You should be able to vote now - the address should be available at the BVWSC community.

I hope that I did everything correctly - if not, let me know what the problem is.

It's time to prep for next year!

Nominate here your soap(s) for the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club January 2025 edition, which will take place on January 15!

This thread will remain open 48h, that is, until Wednesday 4, 14:00 CET (or whatever time that is in in your timezone).

Now that everybody has digested somewhat their voting trauma, it is time to reopen the wounds. 😱

The voting procedure for the BVWSC consisted up to now in me simply winging it, but last month, I didn't wing it correctly, and dukkha ensued. First, I got trigger happy and announced a winner when some important members (ahem @[email protected] ahem) had not yet voted. In order to prevent this from ever happening again, what I would like to propose is that we formalize a bit more the process, in the sense that there should be some fixed amount of time (48 hours?) for each of the soap nomination thread and the voting thread, and that a winner can be announced only after this time.

Second, there is potentially an issue with the voting procedure and count. What I have done so far is to allot a number of points which is inverse to the rank you proposed. That is, assuming three proposed s

¡Compañeros afeitadores!

This is just to remind you that Wednesday is this day - prepare your Oro Valley!

EDIT: Winner = You and I (Must Die) by House of Mammoth!

Vote below by indicating your choice for your soap!

PS: Nearly managed to list the soaps (counter-) alphabetically 🙄

December is the busiest month for postal services, so it's time to prep. Please nominate here your soaps that you wish to be used on December 18 for the 5th installment of the BVWSC! For the newcomers: If your nominated soap wins the election, you have the honor and priviledge to send out smushes to the other shavers here.

Reminder:

• July: AYLM Don José
• September: MacDuff's Old Strathcona
• October: LPL Narcisse
• November: Stirling Oro Valley

Since I had to throw away my trusty Floid The Genuine , I live in dissatisfaction: I don't have anymore an aftershave that fits basically any soap, smells good and plays nice with my skin.

Do you have any recommendations for one-size-fits-it-all aftershaves?

It's time to prep for November's BVWSC!

In October, Narcisse eaked out a very narrow win against Stirlings Oro Valley.

@[email protected] – who proposed Oro Valley – would be open to repropose it for November.

Therefore the question: Can we forgo the normal voting procedure, and use Oro Valley by acclamation?

Aye or Nay?

If the Nays win, I will open a soap proposal thread, as usual.

Get ready for tomorrow; sniffing the smush seems promising.

Vote for your favorite soap! The people has spoken: Narcisse