Even though my father uses modern gear, this is about technique. As we all know the same techniques can be applied to all safety razors.
He was hospitalized recently and asked me to give him a shave. I couldn't get the angle right on the disposable, and we positioned the mirror where he could shave himself.
My father has always been a one-pass shaver, but while I've watched him shave countless times during my childhood, I never paid close attention to his shaving pattern.
I had already drawn up a pan of hot water, and he had washed his face with it and applied gel. From his advice when I first shaved, I thought he'd follow the grain more. Instead, it was WTG on the side of his face, cheeks, chin, and beneath his nose; XTG on the jaw line, then WTG and ATG on his neck. All of this was one pass, tightening his skin in places as he shaved.
I've adapted his neck pattern myself, and it does give me a better shave than WTG. Usually I have to do a WTG followed by ATG. This doesn't give a BBS shave, but it is quick, and, to my surprise, I haven't had razor bumps from it.
I'm thinking of trying his pattern single-pass with a DE razor. That's what he once used, and I strongly suspect he shaved the same way with it as he does with a disposable.
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Watching My Father Shave
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