As much as I can. My grain runs east to west so it's a bit weird.
That's what I ended up doing at the moment.
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My shaves improved 10 fold once I stopped chasing BBS. Haven't had time to burnish my Arks properly yet, but if Mastro Livi finishes on a trans they must be good. Really enjoying Thuri edges at the moment.
A little while back, I was getting BBS shaves 80% of the time by using slight angle adjustments on the hollows of my neck and the corners of my jaw since my hair (like many many others) grows at weird angles and/or circles in these spots. This always resulted in very minor irritation. On a scale of 1-10 a 1 being no irritation and a 10 being like fire ants were attacking my face/neck it was about a 3 or a 4. I was very happy with that result and it was pretty consistent. Then I decided, as Shaun pointed out, that I need only achieve a DFS and I was more than happy. I would do this with a one pass muti-directional shave straight N and S and it would leave some "cats tongue" in the hollows and corners but no irritation so I was happy with that. Then I was tweaking an edge with a hard/black/translucent Arkansas and when I shaved with it just a quick multi-directional single pass North and South BOOM! I was BBS even in the hollows and corners and no irritation. I now have three blades that will do this. A John Sellers & Sons, a Holley, and a Mappin & Webb. It can be done with the right technique and a very finely tuned edge IME.
Huge fan of the 1 pass Multi-directional shave :tu
If you know and have mapped your face it allows for a really close comfortable shave
For me it is one pass using whichever direction gets that section of face the best
I will let everyone else answer what it means to them :)
I do a two pass sometimes 2 1/2 pass shave and they are multidirectional, as in not all in one direction. If I have a really heavy growth I will do a mustache and goatee area north to south. Mostly I do a mostly south to north pass, with variations for odd spots and then the jaw up get ears to nose, with a weird diagonal pass on the underside of my jaw and then my neck also gets a diagonal pass but not in the same diagonal as the underside of my jaw. It is difficult to explain when thing it isn't a straight up direction. So on the underside of my jaw it goes ears to nose but combines it with northerly direction.