Thread: what kind of passes?

WTG and XTG usually does it for me. Oh yeah, ATG under the chin.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I don't typically shave based on the grain direction, unless I want to go BBS. I always do my first pass downwards. Second pass will either be up or diagonally up and in/out. Typically two passes is all I do, but sometimes I do a touchup after the second pass if I'm feeling a lot of stubble while rinsing off.

My hair changes direction a bit in a nubmer of places, and I can't be bothered to take that into account.

A fine point. When I wrote in my post WTG and ATG, please interpret it in the sense as holli4pirating explained.

Bart.

One pass and one pass only. Starts WTG but with a pronounced sything action to so there is clearly a XTG component.

Originally Posted by Buckler

WTG, XTG (gets a business job acceptible shave for sure, but not BBS)

ATG comes on days i have time. (Im still not good at this yet)

I do exactly the same (and for the same reason), and have found that on really tricky parts such as just under the tip of my chin, if I run an ATG using only water, I can cut a lot closer and remove a lot of hairs that don't seem to cut well any other way.

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.