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:hmmm:Great question - here I am into speculation as I have not seen this under microscope.

I speculate that if you just went into shaving a let's say 2 day old beard growth, the shaft of whisker...

I don't think it does. For me, I am talking about how agressively. I am going after stubble.

If I go agressively after the whisker, I get a close shave and irritation.

If I go lightly after...

The way it works for me is this.


I have sensitive skin and I shave daily. If I don't do my passes very lightly, I will end up with horrible razor burn. The only way I have found to get...

All right all right. I'm about to get my butt handed to me by my fellow SRP members. : - )

I take beard reduction to mean progressively shortening the length of your beard by taking light...

LOL - Oh my God is that classis.

I wish we could speak in person sometimes. Almost all of the varying opinion is not rooted in varying opinion but rather varying definition.

What is a BBS shave? What is a multi pass shave? ...

Ok - I think we have lost sight of the original intent of my post.

It has been said time and again here that the strategy for single blade shaving, both straight and DE is beard reduction over...

Yep - I agree with that. So when I read something like "a BBS shave is possible in 1 pass", what that might actually mean is "a BBS shave is possible for ME", given all the person specific variables.

Cliff notes is you perform mutliple light passes in the different directions. Each pass reduces the whisker some nominal amount. This allows you to get a shave as close as possible with the minimal...

So I was thinking this morning. I have read a number of threads where people state that they get a BBS from a single pass. They site a number of techniques. Some say they scythe, some say they...