Quote Originally Posted by drzebra View Post
The hair under my jaw grows from the middle out toward my ears, but I cannot find an easy and comfortable way to go with the grain there.

I just settle with a north-south pass and a south-north pass for my whole face and find that gets me sufficiently smooth. Anything else just causes irritation if not outright bleeding.
This is about where I'm at with it. My hair is angled just downward enough for an upward stroke to feel like it's going against the grain, but it primarily grows east-west. If for whatever reason a 2 pass north to south, then south to North shave isn't going to be close enough for me the first pass will be a normal North-South pass to clear up the majority of the hair. The second pass, I will use what I would call an upward scything stroke. That is, the blade arcs over the skin like a scythe, or windshield wiper, in an upward sweep starting with the held horizontally with the toe pointed back toward my ears and ending with it tilted upward and toe pointed more toward my chin/jaw.

I don't do this often because I have trouble keeping the pressure light with normal strokes, and that problem is exacerbated with a 'fancy' stroke like this. Sometimes the razor burn is pretty gnarly, but that's a problem with the hands not the technique.