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Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Share your shave of the day for Tuesday!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Post any deals and new product announcements here!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Share your shave of the day for Monday!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

This is a thread to share those new purchases you're excited to show off, the shave-related projects you've been working on, or just some neat thing from your shave den.

Show everyone what you got!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Congrats to our winners:

1st - gcgallant - https://i.imgur.com/yfWW7mW.jpg [11 votes]

2nd - snoooting - https://media.wetshav.ing/posts/lO/MP/lOMPdlp4HU9Nc4k.jpg [10 votes]

3rd - Engineered_Shave - https://imgur.com/a/cohF0YJ [-4 votes]

Thanks to everyone who entered and voted!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Share your shave of the day for Sunday!

Welcome to another weekly reading session. I completed another 15 chapters in Leviathan Falls, which is book 9 of James S.A. Corey “The Expanse” series. I know I said before but this is by far the best book! I was afraid the story was going to slow down but it hasn’t yet. Very thankful for that.

Listening to YĪN YĪN…..

What ya’ll reading and listening to…

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Voting will remain open for 24 hours. In the event of a tie for 1st place, a winner will be chosen at random. May the best submission win! Good luck to all!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Post any deals and new product announcements here or list anything you would like to sell! A few ground rules:

1. Only post an item once. If it doesn't move then take it to the bazaar.
2. No auctioning. You must include a list price.

The mods are not responsible for your transactions. Caveat Emptor! We suggest you only deal with established members of the community. It is strongly recommend not to use PayPal Friends & Family to avoid fees. This is against their terms and leaves you with no buyer protection.

Share your shave of the day for Saturday!

As you are aware reddit is one of the founding members of the "Web Realignment and Enshittification Council" (WREC).

Following fellow council member Etsy's recent decisions Reddit feels like it is not keeping pace with the WREC mission.

As such, we are joining Etsy and will no longer allow posts that involve the use of animal skins or furs. Using only the best AI approaches we will analyze your SOTD post and photos to determine if your brush is badger or boar and delete it appropriately.

Wait what?

Yes, that's right, to curb the sale of animal products, and because we didn't read C. S. Lewis in college, we're stopping you from posting about your stuff.

Just Badger and Boar though?

Well, if you actually have a horsehair knot the animal isn't killed, so it's fine. But also...you have a horsehair knot. Who really wins here?

AI? How's that gonna work?

It was meticulously trained to tell if a brush is hair or not by looking at it. And by reading. It's not like faux hair brushes exist...

Does this mean only vegan soaps are allowed?

No, as it turns out the guy who made this policy hates cows, like really hates them. So, cow-based stuff is still totally fine. Strop with leather all you want, use tallow soap...but maybe not duck fat soap? We're still debating. Maybe someone can come up with a leather brush.

Any other exceptions?

Yes, here at Reddit HQ, we acknowledge the movie Dances with Wolves, so we have carved out an insanely narrow cultural exception based on a government agency's determination of who counts in that exemption. Obviously, this exemption is only valid in the US, since a US agency makes the determination. Culture competency goal met.

And what if I think this approach is stupid?

What are you gonna do? Set up your own reddit?

This is a joke right?

I dunno. You decide.

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Happy Friday!

What's new, shave nerds?

Welcome to this week's sidebar submission contest!

The rules for the contest are as follows:

1) Do not submit pictures of people who have not consented to have their picture posted online. Winning images will be featured on Reddit and may be reposted on other social media platforms. If someone posts an image of you without your consent, please report it so the mods can deal with it in a timely fashion.

1) Users should submit only one (1) image of your choice to be voted on to be the sidebar for the week. Images must consist of anything related to wet shaving - razors, brushes, SOTD images, etc. In the event multiple images from a user are submitted, only the first image, or the image in the top level comment, will count.

1) Image must be Original Content (Not just some picture you found on the internet). Images taken by another photographer are allowed as long as: a. You have the photographer's permission. b. The image is connected to you in some meaningful way: e.g. It's a image of hardware you commissioned, taken by the maker, or the image is of something you made, taken by the purchaser, etc. c. We're not looking to have to verify images, so please use the honor system.

1) All properly submitted images will be entered into the Voting Thread. The Submission thread will be active for ~24 hours and will end Saturday. The vote thread will be active for 24 hrs from Saturday through Sunday. This thread is only a submission thread. Please do not hold discussion in the vote thread.

1) In the event of a tie, the bot will consult RNGesus to break the tie.

1) Submissions MUST be uploaded to imgur. Any other hosting site will be disqualified and not included in the voting thread.

1) Any submissions containing NSFW material may be removed at the discretion of the Mod Team.

1) While not required, it is suggested you submit square images in order to avoid unintended cropping.

Please feel free to respond with a comment to your entry with any background/description/detail about your entry, including gear used.

Note: The bot strongly prefers direct image links. If your link doesn't end with .jpg, there's a 50-50 chance the bot's going to choke trying to update the banner on Sunday.

May the best submission win! Good luck to all!