Thread: Two Pass Daily or Three Pass Every Other Day or Something Else?

Im steadily getting into the swing of straight razor shaving and I m now conquering years of shaving rash and irritation and I only nowadays get the odd nick, usually on my chin when Im thinking about other things then shaving my chin.

What Im finding is that if I shave with two passes daily or three passes every other day I get very little irritation with known products. A three pass will give me a BSS and a two pass is an acceptable DFS although when I run my fingers against the grain I can feel whiskers. I have fair skin so It does look more "shadowy" after two passes. but to me it looks clean and acceptable.

So both methods are suitable and comfortable with my skin. A three pass shave daily very rarely ends up BSS, more a DFS but closer than a two pass day but mostly due to two stubborn patches on my neck, but It does irritate me a little. I don't have to shave everyday but I do love the time to myself and the fresh scents every day. Can you ever get too much I ask myself?

This got me thinking and wondering. What did our fathers do? Did it occur to them to aim for BSS every shave? Did they do One pass, two pass or three?

What do most of you out there prefer to do shave wise? every day, every other, two or three pass or more?

Generally for me, two passes and I'm good for every other day.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Generally for me, two passes and I'm good for every other day.

Do you shave ATG?

Originally Posted by kevinred

Do you shave ATG?

My routine is WTG all over, then I reapply lather. Then it's XTG on the cheek area and ATG on the neck area, and done! Sometimes seems it's the shave goes to quickly!!

I aim for 3 passes everyday, but on days I don't have the time i'll settle for one pass and a hybrid atg xtg touch up pass.

WTG, ATG, every other day. Great results.

Yeh I always go with a 3 pass Shave (W,X,ATG) every Mon, Wed &. Fri for work but sometimes more often if I want for going out etc
Now after 7 months get constant BBS with the odd extra directionals in the difficult spots on the neck

Two usually, daily.

Every day WTG, hybrid XTG/ATG, then ATG for moustache and chin, never do touch-ups (too lazy). Always a DFS, I've never had BBS, mainly because of sideways growth in my neck. I find that I slowly learn to get a closer shave, but my main priority is comfort. After all, we discard the hair and keep the skin, the latter may as well be in good condition when done shaving

Laurens has a good point. But for me, I just do what is necessary to get a good shave every day during the week. I don't always get it all completely but, after the aftershave it is hours before I feel any stubble peek out. On the weekend sometimes I sandbag and wait until Monday. That's always a really good shave. Like today, preshave oil, 24mm badger, MFW, Tony Miller cow hide and Mr. Sparticus left me happy as can be, Floid black topped it off.

Was that showing off? It took a long time to accumulate all this stuff.

Regards

Chasmo