I shaved a good many weepers this morning, a very odd occurrence. I didn't see them, just smelled the blood. But I knew pretty soon into ATG that something was very wrong. At depth, the blade was finding resistance from something other than hair, which yet had point distribution like hair, and no sensation. Thickening of the follicle wall? Some odd developmental state of the root? I had to switch back to WTG to get it out of the buttresses.
Oh yes -- I shaved through it. No stabbing, I figured it couldn't be too bad, and kept my pitch low. (Numb fuck! But it actually did turn out okay, this time. Aftershave felt nicer than usual.) My lather was challenging me a little, my VDH/KMF croap, mixed a bit thin it seemed, and it wanted to dry out.
Then I have to think back to things I've done lately, in preceding shaves, of which this might have been the consequence. Wasn't it a cold water, PdP No. 63 shave, before this? And I put the Nizoral on my bald spot(s) before bed. Could that have come around to my chin, though?
I think the relatively high glycerin content of the PdP (my limit), maybe irritants in the fragrance. And propylene glycol in the croap couldn't soften the plaques of dried out shit It's not easy to track things down, when you change practically everything, every day. But maybe I'll figure out something new. Since I get pretty great shaves most days, maybe asking how -- precisely -- to screw up a shave is the most efficient experimental approach.
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