Thread: How many people do true ATG on the upper lip?

No ATG on the upper lip or on my chin.

Originally Posted by rostfrei

Exactly. I use that method, as your link shows, and it works great. I found that site to be EXTREMELY helpful when I got started.

To clarify, I remember reading on the same aforementioned site about using a XTG when executing the coupe de maitre & it has a better cutting motion on the hair for me as opposed to just going simply top down on the upper lip. This XTG does the job better for me.

Never have never will


ian

For me, ATG is only possible after "Coup de Maitre" and then Cross the grain both directions then.......the final ATG from about a 30 degree angle using overlapping scything motion.


Take Care,
Richard

I have been doing a fool's pass even before I knew what a fools pass was. I thought I was cheating.

But I do have thick leathery skin that lets me get away with doing things that would leave others irritated and sore.

I do a sort of scything fool's pass under the nose & then a big scythe on the rest of the upper lip. Not brave enough to do a true ATG there. I do near-ATG on my neck as full-on is too much there. The only place I do a true ATG is my chin/jawline & only that after a good XTG 1st.

Many, many years ago when I was 17 years old I got out of Boot Camp for the Navy. Since Boot Camp I have not touched my upper lip with a blade so I can not help with your question except to say I would not do it.

Side burns and mustache, that is the way I go out each day.

Originally Posted by yohannrjm

I've been straight shaving for several months now, and I've got to the point where the only part of my face on which I don't get an adequately close shave is my upper lip.

Like most people, my mustache hair grows down and outwards on either side of my lip.

I can do nominal WTG (downwards) and inwards (XTG) passes quite easily. This gets the shave to be quite close in that area, but a true ATG pass (Upwards, or upwards-and-in) is still beyond me.

I usually finish up with a safety in that area, as I have thick black hair that would be visible towards the end of the work-day.

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So my question is: does anyone here routinely do an upwards-and-in pass on their upper lip? If so, how many of you do that?

I do ATG on my upper lip. I've been shaving with a straight razor for 3 days, and i get a perfect BBS shave ATG on my upper lip. i really dont see why everyone is so *scared* of going ATG on their upper lip. there's nothing to it, it's really quite easy.

I don't often do against the grain on my upper lip - it's a bit disconcerting even though there haven't been any mishaps yet - but elsewhere is fair game if I have the time and inclination. It seems to be most useful under my chin, where it's an easier action than shaving WTG actually. I agree with the people who say that it isn't really necessary though because a couple of passes approximately with and across the grain leave me very satisfactorily shaven in the usual run of things.

That is a tough area, and I have the thickest hair there also...I can grow a stache and goatee in a week, and the rest of the beard in two months.....SO the best technique I hav found is pulilling on the skin to create a taut flat surface to work with...And if the razor is not up to par I will do a buffing action taking short repeated strokes over the same area..Try that, sounds like we have the same skin types.