Thread: ATG Necessity?

If I'm going on a date its just atg to give smooth appearance and no burn..of I'm feeling dangerous its 3 pass..but 1 does well for me.

One of the nice things about this activity is that it's Face Specific. You're there all by your lonesome to do whatever you want, any way you want to. Fantastic!

I only started doing ATG this past 2 weeks, I've been straight shaving for about 4 months. I was probably doing it wrong before, I found it very uncomfortable. Now I can do it no problem at all. The trick is no pressure. Literally, none. That and the blade flat against the skin. If I do that and short swiping strokes I get no irritation.

How many passes and their direction is all on you, and the little woman of course... you want her to be comfy to.

jim

I think it is impossible to get a real smooth face without ATG. For me a shave exists of two lather ups. The first for a WTG and XTG, the second for an ATG.

I can get a really nice acceptable shave with just two passes, but I really like feeling BBS, so the ATG is necessary for me to achieve that level of smoothness. Now necessity doesn't demand that I make that final ATG cut, but I just really prefer it. I know a ton of guys swear by cleaning up with the DE. I even do that under the chin sometimes, the neck is really hard for me to get ATG. If I don't do an ATG stroke, then I am smooth in two directions, but I'll still be slightly sandpaper when rubbing my face in the opposite direction.
So in essence, what I am saying is that, for me, I like to do the third pass every morning. I do also have to mention that my beard is VERY coarse, if yours isn't it may not be necessary to achieve the same goal.

Hey, some people are obsessed with BBS and will do WTG XTG and ATG. personally like others have said i too get a really close comfortable shave by just going WTG and XTG. If you do decide ATG is you thing and want to try again make sure you blade is super sharp and when shaving the skin is pulled nice and tight whilst the razor angle is non existent and kept pretty much flat to you skin.

No, ATG is not necessary for a good shave.

For some reason it never dawned on me to use a DE to clean up. I guess maybe it felt like cheating on my straight, or forcing it into an unwanted manage toi.

The other night I was thinking about a TV show that used to be on, called 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy', anyone used to watch that? I remember they (the queer guys, who would gleefully bombard the straight guy with their queer fashion and grooming advice) used to shriek at the monitor as they saw their 'charge' forget their oft repeated advice to NEVER go ATG. But of course that wasn't with a straight...

I go ATG only along the jawline. I get a perfectly good shave from just a WTG with all but one of my razors (one needs a bit more work), but a perfectly good shave is relative. If I don't want to FEEL ANY whiskers at ALL, then three full passes is needed, but really, there's no need for me to be that smooth all the time. I don't think I'd ever go ATG on the chin. When I shaved my goatee a while ago (just to see what it was like, it's grown back now) I found ATG on the chin almost impossible, and did just WTG and XTG on that area.