I'm getting ready for my first shave with a straight. In various articles I've found online it suggests making the first pass WTG, but in most of the videos I've seen the first pass is just straight down (never any mention of grain.) But if I do this the first pass on the neck would be XTG.

My first thought was that for newcomers going straight down is the method that's best to suggest, my second was that I'm just weird in that my neck hair grows sideways.

Thoughts? Comments?