WTG and XTG usually does it for me. Oh yeah, ATG under the chin.
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WTG and XTG usually does it for me. Oh yeah, ATG under the chin.
One pass and one pass only. Starts WTG but with a pronounced sything action to so there is clearly a XTG component.
I do a 3 pass shave, WTG, XTG and ATG. But my WTG is always a N/S and ATG is S/N. I don't really bother about which direction the hair grows under my chin. The main reason for this is that my hair grows sideways about Adams apple downwards (if you see what I mean) and the amount of contorting I would have to do to follow the grain would be a PITA. I do have a bit of roughness on my neck but I tend not to worry and I don't often wear a tie any more for it to matter too much.
I only shave my neck against the grain when I am using a short straight razor. It just feels too dangerous otherwise
I do four passes
1. WTG
2. XTG - Chin to ear
3. XTG - Ear to chin
4. ATG
For the neck XTG I stretch the skin sideways and use a 45 degree angle placement of the blade on the neck to catch sideways growing neck hair. Note that I am still shaving with a 30 degee cutting angle, the blade is just at a 45 degree orientation vs a straight horizontal orientation
Max
The "how many passes" question is kind of like the "how many strokes on what grit stone" question...and the answer is is the same...it depends.
Personally sometimes it seems like I have hair growing in all directions and all of it is wire brush tough. For example for me to do a true XTG pass on my throat would require going mostly from right to left...which is no big deal on the left side but I've never really quite fiqured out how to hold the razor with either hand that doesn't scare me trying to do that on the right side.
Bottom line is there are a couple places on my face that aren't BBS but in the overall scheme of things it doesn't matter because it looks decent, feels decent to me, and as far as I know there aren't any stubble police around where I live. :w