Every man has their morning ritual. For many it consists of the simple “Tripple S”- Sh**, Shower, and Shave. Well, two gentleman have started a simple line of men’s grooming products that supports every step of the Triple S routine. Their company is called Ritual and they’re offering to giveaway $80 of their product to one lucky Art of Manliness reader.
Here’s what’s up for grabs in this contest:
The Kit- a $79 value
The Kit is Ritual’s entire line of products in a nice wooden box, branded with their ultra-cool old-school moustached man.The Kit includes the following products:
- Nature Calls Toilet Deodorizer Drops. This is for the first S of the Triple S. Just two drops obliterate odor. The woman in your life will definitely appreciate this.
- Trifecta Face, Body, and Hair Wash. The guys at ritual understand men like things simple. That’s why they formulated a product that can be used as face, body, and hair wash. One bottle and you’re good to go.
- The Whip Shaving Cream. A nice rich lathering cream that will feel really nice to apply with your badger brush. Contains aloe, and lidocaine to reduce burning and redness from shaving.
- The Balm Post Shave Gel. The Tea Tree Oil and Witch Hazel will continue to work throughout the day (or night) to soothe your skin and prevent irritation from shaving. It’s the perfect ending to your routine.
- Razor Rinse Shaving Blade Antiseptic. Use Razor Rinse on your razor before shaving to kill the bacteria that causes razor burn and bumps. This is a really cool product. While most shaving products work on treating razor burn and bumps after you shave, Razor Rinse prevents irritation before you even lay the cold steel blade to your face.
The guys at Ritual are also throwing in a few Razor Rinses to giveaway to runner-ups. So, if you don’t win the big prize, you still have a chance to walk away with something. Very nice.
How to enter
So are you ready to get some free stuff? Alright. Here’s how you can enter. You have four chances to enter your name into a random drawing for the Ritual Kit.
- Leave a comment under this post describing your morning ritual.
- Register as a member in The Art of Manliness Forums. If you’re already a member, you’re automatically entered!
- Sign up for RSS or email updates from the blog. A secret code will appear at the bottom of the RSS feed or email update. Email us what the secret code is through our contact form and you’ll be entered.
- If you have a blog, link to this post. Email us a link to your post mentioning the contest so we know to add an entry for you.
Remember, you can increase your chances of winning by doing all of the above, so make sure to get cracking on them.
Deadline to enter is Monday, July 14 at 9PM. The winner will be announced Tuesday, July 15. Good luck!
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Wake to the music and the sunshine.
Enter the bathroom, double checking for a handy, fresh roll.
Focus. Drain the main vein and then some.
Light a match.
*break* for nicotine rush.
Power-shower, but for no more than a quarter-hour.
Bust a move for that fresh towell.
Get my shave on. Aloe anyone?
Work the pitstick.
*break* for a creative, fast breakfast.
Mult-vitamin, ‘C’, and zinc, 16oz of H-two-O.
Rock the block with some wake up jams.
Put on those treads and paste-up dem purley-whites.
Loop the tie, straighten the collar and get the follicles in order.
*break*
Get the mega-head-start, early-bird, home-court advantage on another righteous day full of success and pure Manliness, oh yes.
7:30 – wake up to deafening alarm clock
7:31 – downstairs to feed the dogs and let them do their business
7:45 – relieve myself, maybe shave (I keep a beard so occasionally it needs a trim), and shower.
8:05 – get dressed, pick out a tie that doesn’t clash too horribly
8:10 – finish brushing teeth, splash on some cologne drive to work
10:00 – realize I haven’t eaten anything yet – grab a late breakfast
1.Wake
2. Pry one eye open, adjust to light, 5 minutes
3. Pry other eye open, adjust to light, 5 minutes.
4. Swing legs over edge of bed, hard, or I’ll decide it’s easier to stay there.
5. Stumble to bathroom.
6. Splash face
7. Brush teeth
8. Stumble to edge of bed, sit
9. Wonder why I don’t sleep more
10. Profit
Well, for me the standard “Triple S” is how I roll. You know, if that involves me shaving with a Badger brush about 4 times in a row because it feels so right! Can I get an Amen!
I´ll tell you what it was like today. Woke up, got dressed, walked out the door to go down the street to get some breakfast.
You know why? Because yesterday, everything I own on this trip to Peru was stolen during the bus ride from Ica to Nazca. I currently have no clothes, no toiletries, and nothing more than what I´m wearing plus my Lonely Planet guidebook and copy of Ulysses. I could really use some nice manly grooming products to pamper myself when I get back home on August 13th. I just thank the good Lord that I´m a guy, and it is possible for me to live without that stuff.
Stumble into the bathroom.
Brush teeth.
Body wash, shampoo, conditioner, and preshave face scrub.
Quickly dry my hair and body, but not my face.
Work lather of Trumper’s Almond with badger hair brush.
Shave.
Baxter of California aftershave.
Get dressed.
Bowl of strawberry and oats cereal.
Sprint to the the bus stop to barely catch the last of one of the two buses I eyed the night before to take.
My morning ritual consists of getting up very early. The dog & I watch the news & read email. About 45 minutes before work, I commence with the 1st “S” followed shortly by the shower. The shave usually takes place the night before.
I usually take care of my first S the at night before bed. When I wake up, I go for a run and then do some strength training with free weights (i’m too cheap to get a gym membership). After that, comes the shower, which I turn on very hot, and then turn down to very cold right before I get out, it’s very invigorating and it wakes me up. Then of course, the old fashioned wet shave(unfortunately with a cheap boar’s hair brush). Then I dress, eat breakfast, and brush my teeth right before leaving the house.
I just don’t feel good if I change something in my morning routine :
Wake up, (think about throwing the alarm clock as far as I can!)
Take my pills (oh disgusting !!! water magnifies morning breath)
Get in the shower (almost drown because I’m still asleep)
Shaving time (try to avoid cutting half of my upper lip)
Too hungry to take a step further without eating : two toasts with Phillie cheese.
Time for the first S. (just isn’t right if I don’t)
Dress up and leave for work.
Don’t mess this order or you’ll get me kinda destabilized for the rest of the day.
Here it goes:
1) 5:30 – get up to my dog (a 6-month old weimaraner) ready to go for her morning pee.
2) 5:35-6:30 – go back to bed.
3) 6:30-6:50ish – shower…Paul Mitchell Teatree Shampoo, Kheil’s Facial Fuel face wash, Kheil’s Ultimate Man body scrubbing bar.
4) 6:50-7:00 – shave…CO Bigelow Shaving Cream and Aftershave, Kenneth Cole Reaction Cologne, Tom’s All-Natural Deodorant.
Toilet, toothbrush, shower, beard grooming.
wake up, feed daughter, check email and news while eating breakfast, shower, shave, dress, done
check email wash up eat breakfast comb hair
Get up. Throw some old clothes on. Go outside and water the plants, feed the dogs, and clean up after the aforementioned animals. Go back inside, shower, shave (wetwshave), dress, say my goodbyes, and go to work.
Morning ritual Haiku:
sulk, shower, sun salute
settle in simplicity
sometimes sin, and smile
My morning ritual? Lately, I wake up about 5:30 a.m. as my husband oh-so-kindly tiptoes around the house, getting ready for work, trying not to wake me. I adjust my big pregnant belly, say good morning to our baby-on-the-way, say goodbye to my man, and try to fall back asleep about 6:00 a.m. I doze in and out of sleep until I’m forced to get up for yet another potty break, and I proceed with a bowl (or three) of cold cereal in my PJs. The rest of my day may be crazy and unpredictable, but I’ve always got my hubby, my baby/belly, my toilet, and good ol’ cap’n crunch to greet me in the morning!
Being a family man it’s tough to squeeze my personal time in so I get up before everyone else does in the home and go out for a nice run. I head back home after a 5 to 6 mile run and do my crunches and push ups. I then hit the shower and shave my face and scalp the old fashion way with a brush and shaving cream. I make my usual breakfast, kiss the wife and kids goodbye and stop at my local Peet’s for a cup of Joe.
For me, it’s all about the freshly pressed coffee, in a French press, of course. I wake up, pee, and make my daily coffee (a cup in the morning and a travel mug for class). I then shower, get dressed, skim the RSS feeds, grab my gear, and I’m out the door.
Then there are the days where I wake up 10 minutes before class, and none of that happens. I throw the clothes I wore yesterday on, grab a Mt. Dew, grab my bag, and head out.
Get up, stumble into door frame, back up and try again, this time getting by the door frame into the “WC,” thereupon doing whatever Nature has decided for me to do this morning at this particular time. (Also depending on whether or not I can stand up or have to squat and pee…)
I then look out the left window to see if the cardinals have hatched or hatcheted their eggs, look out the right window and see if the deer are scarfing up breakfast in the upper or lower pasture, or if they’re running helter-skelter from the coyotes.
Once I have splashed enough water in my face to re-moisturize the Empty Quarter, I stumble in to the kitchen where the “giver of the elixir of life” lives–the coffee machine. I know where this is by built-in radar!
After dumping about “yo-much” coffee into the cute little white cupcake-holder-looking-paper-thingy and pouring about “yo-much” water into the-big-black-water-gulping-plastic-thingy, I collapse onto the couch.
Once I have re-educated myself on the magical goings-on of the TV remote, I turn on the news to see what-fools-have-done-what-to-which-other fools.
(I don’t hear what they say the first 15 minutes anyway–I’m checking out the sexy wardrobe of the gorgeous female newsperson–ain’t that whatcha ’sposed to do? If not, make them wear long dresses with collars up to their necks. I mean, gee whiz, fair is fair!)
By the time I have re-sorted out which planet I’m on, which country I live in, and what my first name is, the coffee is ready. To me, coffee is nothing but black blood–if my red blood isn’t half coffee, it sure isn’t because I haven’t tried–God knows I’ve drunk enough the ‘morning after’ to turn me into the “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
Where was I? Oh yeah, morning.
Once I’m again amongst the human race (’bout a pot and a half of Holy Nectar later (that’s coffee to you lesser Earthlings)), I do all of that other stuff: shave–mainly, most of it, all that I can reach quickly anyway; I’ll run the electric razor over it later before I go out again anyway, so who cares.
Then, I wet both hands, wipe down both sides of my hair, and out the door to tackle the world once again!
Oh wait; damn. My office is downstairs–where am I going?
Normally, I get out of bed reluctantly in the morning. Go to the head and take care of business. After that, I head to my closet and find the clothes I’m going to wear for that day and lay them out. I cook myself some breakfast (normally chopping up some red, green and yellow bell peppers, onions, eggs and habanero sauceroll in a burrito). Sit down to eat, while watching the news or weather channel. Then head to the shower. After washing, I use soap and a straight razor i bought a couple of years ago to shave, it gives nice straight lines. I pop out of the shower, brush my teeth, get dressed and start my day.
I get up in the morning and hit the shower,dry off, shave (except on Wednesdays), brush the teeth. I then get my clothes together for the day, plug in the iron, go into the kitchen, grind some fresh Trader Joe beans and get the coffee going. I go into the bedroom, iron my stuff. Then it’s time for a bit of coffee and RSS feeds before I have to walk the dog and get my son ready for daycare.
Having a nice set of shaving stuff would probably help my razor burn I get everyday from shaving … damn you military. Haha.
I wake up, turn on the light to my fish tank, cook up two eggs and two pieces of toast, down it all with a glass of milk. Brush my teeth, check my e-mail, brew a cup of coffee, and head off to welding class.
Wake up to first alarm at 7.
Fall back asleep till second alarm at 7:10
Actually get up at 7:15
Shower, Shave, Hit the Road by 7:40
4:51 am hit snooze
5:00 get up and let dog out
5:01 feed dog – he eats while I pee
5:02 he waits while I still pee
5:03 he pees while I wait
5:06 he goes back to bed and I hit the shower, shave and shake
5:15 dry off, brush teeth, get dressed
5:16 kiss wife, pet dog (he is now lying in my spot on bed)
5:17 drive to work…
The three S’s? I usually only do two.
I get up, use the restroom, and shower. I don’t shave everday like I should, so just go slightly scruffy on the days I don’t.
So, I shave (with a Gillete Quattro and whatever cream I decided to buy at the store!), wash my hair and body in the shower (using a fog resisant mirror for the shaving part). If I think I need to smell particularly nice that day, I use Oxy bodywash, which also is supposed to aid against pimples, as does their face wash I use. Now whether it really works or not is another question….
I usually use Pert and some other shampoo such as Suave as well as Proactiv shampoo occasionally to break things up. I often use like Ivory or whatever for bar soap.
After that, I dry off, use some kind of deodorant (often Right Guard, etc.), get dressed, maybe a bit of cologne, and I’m off to work.
If I feel like it, I use a bunch of Proactiv products to attack my pimplifurous face. Very expensive, yes, but what can I say? I’m 19. ‘Nuff said.
Anything more than that, no one needs to know. ;-P
Spencer
Morning Ritual
7 Put baby bottle on to heat, boil kettle for tea and make toast with marmalade for wife ( helps greatly with the morning sickness if eaten before even trying to stand up).
7.10 Give breakfast to wife and feed baby
7.30 Shower, shave, dress
8.00 Have breakfast
8.20 Do house work before leaving for work any time between 8.45 and 9.30 (hurray for flexible working hours.)
I’ll do the 3rd S shortly after arriving into work, I’m convinced the vibrations from my motorbike give my bowels a good kick start in the morning.
Wake up, drink a glass of water, check my email, wake up hubby, shower, make breakfast
I’ve been late so many times I actually jump out of bed when the alarm goes off. I’m a writer, so I write first thing, take a bike ride, read the Bible, check email, take a shower, eat breakfast w/ my family, and take off for work.
I always heard it as the 4 S’s…..
Every morning I cook breakfast [ bacon, oatmeal, apple slices, smoothie], brush my teeth and lotion my face, get my gear on, kiss my girlfriend goodbye and bike to work at the greatest bike shop in Orlando, FL. I usually shave after I shower at night because soon after that is when the smooth face comes into play.
I usually don’t save much time in the morning, so I take a quick shower and run out the door. On mornings when I don’t have anywhere special to be I’ll save some time and have a good shave with my straight razor. If I don’t have time I’ll do a quick shave with a double edge safety razor.
My morning ritual?
I wake at dawn. The air has a stillness and a dryness only found on this plain, only at this time of the season. It feels good in my lungs. I lift the mosquito netting, roll out of the tent, and begin the fire. I prepare the coffee for it. Then gather the water from the salt lick for my shave. The straight razor feels strong and wet across my beard. It is a good feeling. It is right. I continue over the ears, across the top of the head, and down the back of the cranium. I wax my mustache, then apply a salve that the natives have given me of berries, mixed with beetle dung, to sooth my weathered face and scalp. It burns, slightly. The coffee smells strong in the morning breeze. It fills my nostrils with life.
I pick up my rifle, and ready it for the kill. The heaviness of the strap across my shoulder, the smell of the gun oil so close to my face, are full with memories of my youth, tinged with sadness.
The hunt commences. Somedays it’s kudu. Others hyena or rhino. Most days only opossum or squirrel. They like the backyard the best. Gentle reader, do not judge. I kill them not for the thrill. Not for the sake of the killing itself. I kill them to give the squirrels…the opossums…maybe, the occasional salamander…the dignity of a death they so richly deserve! After which, I empty my bowels, almost ritualistically, in the chamber pot. Then I make a morning meal of salt-cured, cold smoked kippers, as I drink the steaming, bracing coffee in the morning air. It feels good to be alive. To be a man.
My man’s ritual-
4:30 – early AM bathroom & then back to bed
8:00 – hit snooze
8:45 – shower, shave, dress in business casual/very casual, eat breakfast
8:55 – leave the house
9:00 – arrive @ work
…actual times may vary, sometimes he doesn’t have to work until 10…
Meanwhile, I’m up at 6 AM to shower, dry hair, style hair, apply makeup, try on 5 pairs of pants to see which one still fits, end up in some sort of acceptable business wear & heels, run out the door with a piece of bread & jam in hand, and make a 30-minute drive to work before 8, thinking on the way about how he kept me up late & is still soundly sleeping…
Not sure yet how we are going to mesh those morning rituals if we decide to take that big marriage leap…
wake up, take shower, brush teeth 3 times or less, work out if time permits, check email, read some of the bible, dress to impress, and the day begins!
When I get up in the morning, here is what I usually do:
Turn on a show for my girls, who get up WAY too early (so my wife can snooze a little longer)
Head to the bathroom with a book (aka the library)
Do my stuff on the toilet, reading my book until my legs fall asleep (I love to read)
Shower, and while in the shower I brush my teeth and shave.
Get dressed. Head out to my home office in the garage.
I usually grab a breakfast bar and drink on my way out and eat when I have a break.
That’s about it.
Thanks!
Jason Ellis
jasonellis@gmail.com
alarm, gum, go!
Alarm goes off at 6AM
Hit the restroom and complete 1st S…
Put on deoderant.
Get dressed.
Put on hat and go to work.
15 minutes tops!
Alarm goes off at 6:30. Breakfast is usually handled by 7. Hit the first S then lather up, shave, and clean the blade. Done with the three S’s by about 8. Get dressed and do some work till 8:40 then out the door.
I wake up, grab some strong coffee
let that work on me for about 10-15 minutes, then head off to take care of the first S
hit the shower, where I shave my dome with my HeadBlade
get out of the shower and shave my face, minus the ’stache and goatee
get dressed, grab some food, kiss the wife and kiddies and I’m off for the day
My boyfriend drinks a glass of water when he wakes up. And then he would wash his face with water (alleging he doesn’t need any more). But i force him to wear moisturizer, and on some days, he agrees on a toner!
Shower, shave, brush my teeth, hastily get dressed, cup of tea, and out the door!
I wash my face with soap and water and I brush my teeth. I’m getting married soon and my fiancee has been asking me to start a regime and moisturize, but I didn’t know what to get.
The ‘triple s’ may be for some men – but not always for me.
Every morning (after the fight with the alarm clock) I’ll take my morning shower.
Every 2nd day I’ll do a shave.
I never seem to have the strength for the third ’s’ though. Maybe I need to do some morning exercises?
Triple-S, breakfast, Sportscenter or a little Mike & Mike, and check the weather before I’m out the door.
Wake up. Make coffee. Boot up my Mac. And then — ideally at least, for best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry — sit down to write. To quote novelist Jonathan Franzen, ” One abiding rule is that if I don’t start writing first thing in the morning, I won’t get any writing done at all.”
Turn over in bed, hit the snooze, and check the blackberry for e-mails and baseball scores.
Roll out of bed and hit my knees for a quick moring prayer. Put on shorts and run outside the get the paper and then read the sports, business, and funnies while taking my morning dump.
Have a shower, get dressed and grab my bible, my bagel, and kiss my baby before locking myself in my home office and having a quick breakfast and scripture read before starting work.
I wake up, call my wife (I am in Iraq), go back to bed. Get back up and run 4 miles. Take a combat shower and use bottled water to brush my teeth. Then check on my soldiers. I can’t wait until I am back to civilization.
I typically get up around 7, brush my teeth and wash my face, eat breakfast, blog for a popular gadget blog, get showered, shave with a single-blade razor (which is great if you haven’t tried it. This site has a good post on it), and then begin my day with whatever I have to do.
“Woke up, fell out of bed, drag a comb across my head….”
OK, so that was just a Beatles reference.
“The day breaks, your mind aches…”
OK, no more songs:
03:50 Clock radio chimes (snooze)
03:59 repeat
04:10 cell phone chimes
04:15 start coffee
04:20 shave (I shower at night)
04:30 dress / while scanning e-mail
04:40 bowl of cereal, vitamins, supplements
04:55 in the car, starting my 2 hour commute.
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