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2 days ago😂
I’m sure it was a bit like a broken record, it was drawn out over months.
Thanks in all sincerety 🙏🏻
DaveWave94
31 M | he/him | wetshaving hobbyist from Germany | GER & EN speaking
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Cake day: August 15th, 2025
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Thank you!
No worries, I think it’s good advice. I’ll stay in touch through messengers with the most important ones and we made plans to meet up again. 😉
Thanks! 👍🏻
Today was our certificate ceremony with a little celebration afterwards, so it was a pretty exciting day for me.
I already got all my written exam results on Wednesday and I was really surprised how good I was:
- Written exams: day one: 1/A; day two: 2/B; day three: 1/A
- Practical exam: 2/B
- Oral exam: 1/A
For a final score of 1,4 for my exams stand-alone and 1,2 for the theory of all three years of my retraining combined. Together with another classmate, we were awarded as the best male and female new nurse of our year respectively. Each of us got a nice flower and 50€. I never, ever was the best in anything… So currently I am really proud of myself. The only thing we have to wait for is our official nurse title, as this is handled by the state administration office and official documents take time to be printed. I hope we can hold them in our hands by Mid-late September. My mentors/practice instructors from my workplace were at the celebration too and seemed to be really happy about both me and another colleague/classmate passing our final exams.
The biggest part of my class went to eat at a greek restaurant with our teacher after the main celebration was over, which was just a twelve minute drive away. It was nice to wind down with good food, joke around and to revel in memories of the past 3 years.
What’s my plan now? I’ll stay working at my nursing home, just with reduced hours for the first year (30-35 h/week depending on staffing and workload) and then I want to become a mentor/practice instructor myself. For now, I’m so damn satisfied to have mastered a big step up in my career. My emotions are a weird mixture of pride, happiness and satisfaction, but also sentimental melancholia because I’ll most certainly miss a few classmates a lot…
29.08.2025
- Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
- Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
- Blade: Personna Super
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - The Full Measure of Man
- Post-Shave: OAM - oli del benessere - sensitive skin toner; moisturiser
- Fragrance: Bentley for Men Intense EdP
- Passes & Info: 2-pass head shave, a bit rushed but thankfully no irritation.
I actually did this shave way earlier, before my certificate ceremony w/ celebration - but I just now found the time to post.
This shave was great, even though I had to do it very fast. I didn’t stretch my skin very much, just went with long strokes of the razor. Two passes were necessary this way, so I don’t know if I actually saved that much time. I still showed up late (though not last) because the school had chosen a very remote location for the ceremony - had to walk through mud after finally finding a place to park my car and almost ruined my good leather shoes 🙄 More in the FTF thread.
FMoM seemed quite fitting to me: I like good tobacco scents and despite not owning it for long, it’s one of my absolute favourites. The mild razor helped so I don’t cut myself, as lots of photos were taken. My class - at least the biggest chunk of it - went to a greek restaurant with our teacher after everything was done. A nice day and a good shave beforehand, what more can I ask before the weekend?
Thanks! 🤝🏻
Thanks! 🙏🏻
Thanks! It’s like a huge burden was lifted from me.
26.08.2025 | Celebratory Shave
- Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Bullet Tip/Flying Wing, gold plated
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
- Lather: HAGS - Barberwood
- Post-Shave: HAGS - Barberwood toner
- Passes & Info: 2 passes on the head, single ATG pass on the neck; kinda rough shave due to a new GEM blade, still enjoyed it very much.
It is done. Finally, I passed the last exam today and I aced it! It was an oral exam where we had to draw envelopes with different case studies and questions regarding nursing topics. My first draw was shite, but thankfully you get another: woohoo! A child w/ neurodermatitis, blood sampling, medical advice for the parents, skincare for ND and the impact of chronic illnesses on young people. Totally up my alley, so I passed with flying colours (A/1). Couldn’t be happier since.
I wanted at least a short shave to celebrate, but in the end it was enough lather for 3+ passes. So I went with it, even though the shave was a bit rough thanks to the new GEM blade. Well, I wanted to use my only golden razor. Still worth it - as much as I dislike the generative AI tub art of this soap, the scent is so good. A bit sweeter than I usually like my barbershops, but at least the toner brings more of the woody notes that its name promises. This isn’t the best HAGS base IMHO, even though “Hathor” sounds like the premium line. To me, the best is undoubtedly the mutton tallow base which seems to be a common preference in the wetshaving hobby. IDK, maybe sheep are really slick & greasy?!
Tomorrow we’ll get our final results of all exams in the afternoon and on Friday our graduation certificate. I’m really stoked 👌🏻
This sounds just as bad as a bear encounter. I sure would’ve died. Good that you got home safely!
How was your hiking trip? Glad you weren’t eaten by a bear!
25.08.2025
- Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
- Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
- Blade: Parker Super Platinum
- Lather: Wholly Kaw - Vor V
- Post-Shave: Moon Soaps - Old School “balm”
- Passes & Info: 2 passes on the head, 1 on the neck. Not the worst shave, but this blade isn’t very sharp either. One small blood spot on the scalp, another on the neck.
Skin issues yet again, so I used one of my mildest razors available. I seriously don’t know WTF is going on with my facial skin, but I kinda got it under control with charcoal soap, a mild peeling and ceramide cream. Moustache and soul patch are gone for good, but no face shaving in the foreseeable future either.
Anyways, I still wanted a shave to calm down and center my focus on something nice. I’m really nervous about tomorrow’s oral exam and it’s been hard on me. So this was my type of relaxing & self care for today. Vor V with its awesome fruity leather scent, another indian blade with a platinum coating - this one is kinda good, but still too dull for my preference - and the misnamed aftershave lotion by Moon. The latter seems to finally go really bad, I’m afraid I’ll have to dump it.
Despite those little blood spots, the shave was actually not that rough. At least I’ll look sharp for tomorrow; I just want to get it over with and finally finish my retraining, get my degree on Friday and be done with learning dry stuff. I’ll just need to pass this final obstacle!
Thanks! That’s super helpful. I’ll check this out soon.
23.08.2025
- Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
- Razor: Greencult GC 2.0, plate II
- Blade: The Gentleman’s Super Platinum (DE blade, made in India)
- Lather: E&S Rasage - Shaman
- Post-Shave: OAM - oli del benessere sensitive skin toner; moisturiser
- Passes & Info: 1-pass + cleanup on both head and face around a short moustache & soul patch. Just one tiny blood spot on the chin, but the blade felt rough in general.
Today was a day where I actually shaved again. Despite the uneven moustache growth atm, I was so fed up by the full goatee that I just cut it off earlier today. I look a bit weird with both the 'stache and the patch being rather short, but I hope it’ll grow out soon. I was kinda itching to shave my chin again, both figuratively and literally.
Today’s blade is a mysterious case: I genuinely don’t know where I got this pack of 7 blades (“5+2”, as the ad on the cardboard box says) from. I know I got some “Willy’s” which are made in India from a Pearl Razor, but this one was strange. It definitely was a freebie, since I never ordered these blades. And probably with good reason: the shave wasn’t abysmal by any means, but the blade felt pretty rough on my face. On my head, it’s less of a problem since the hair there is softer. But I already felt that it wasn’t the best on the back of my head, where some coarse hairs reside. And once it got to the steel wool of my face, it was not very smooth.
However, it also didn’t help that my lather was a bit too dry today and that I had some issues with shaking hands after my first home workout in months. So I will probably need to test it again. But if the first impression isn’t the greatest, it usually isn’t improving much with me. Maybe it’s better in a different razor, who knows…
I haven’t until now. After 3 different songs, it feels pretty smooth IMHO. A bit of prog rock, a bit ambient, some britpop influence (mostly in the vocals). Thanks for the suggestion! It sounds a bit like artists I’d find on Digitalis by soma.fm (I don’t know if you’re familiar with their different online radio stations). Maybe you’d like something like this here too?: HTRK - Gilbert and George Most of my other ambient consumption is from the darker side of things and soundtracks.
The problem is that I downloaded a Linux distro on the stick but it says that it can’t be opened. Judging by the files, I don’t know where/how to run them from. It seems like I need something else on the USB stick to compile & run the files in the right order, I guess? I’ve unfortunately done my research pretty superficially, I admit 😅
I’m currently in the final phase of preparation for the last part of my exam: the oral exam. TBH, it’s 60% knowledge and 40% luck of the draw: if I draw an envelope with topics that I’m well-versed in, I’m sure I can pass it with flying colours. It’s next Tuesday and currently I just want it to be over, I’m so tired of studying. I want to convert my school laptop into something for personal use, in case anyone is familiar with running Linux from an USB drive hmu - I have a few interesting distros installed but I can’t seem to get it running.
However, since a peculiar bout of melancholy overcame me as I suddenly realized that after 3 years of constantly preparing for new things and always preparing for something different will end, I got myself an online piano/keyboard course today. Of course I won’t ever be a classical pianist, but since this course seems to focus more on playing contemporary music instead of reading sheet music and complex arrangements, I should be alright. My end goal is to be able to play some ambient music that sounds more interesting and unique than the awful AI ambient music circulating YT and streaming services. I also have taken up listening to Ambient while I shave now: it helps me to be more “in the moment”, so to speak. It’s difficult to explain and maybe it’s an ADHD thing. Relaxing Ambient and Drone can help me to be calmer, Dark Ambient generally helps me to stay alert and keep my focus, Experimental stuff helps me to try out new things. I often think about certain situations and events and definitely connect some kind of music or melody to it. Perhaps that’s strange, but that’s how my brain works.
I can also happily report that I successfully got back into reading as a hobby thanks to the tip of a YouTuber: he recommended reading before sleeping and starting with short stories or shorter books. I have read “The Stranger” by Albert Camus this month, and even though this wasn’t the most motivating literature, I like how I could finish an entire book just by nighttime reading sessions.
31.08.2025
A night shave before my first shift as a RN tomorrow. Kinda nervous, kinda excited.
Rambler’s sweet scent is kinda intoxicating, normally I’m not too keen on sweet things but this one is really fascinating. Had worked up a really good lather today, so it was quite enjoyable to shave today.
Have a good start into the new week!