Amen to that! I find a close shave is dependent on lots of variables - prep, product, technique, and compatibility of all of those with my face. Today had what could be best shave ever - o don't the elusive BBS: Merkur 23c, Feather blade and AoS system sampler. I normally get a good shave with other product combo but this time I'm saying wow-wow-wow.
Is bbs a myth
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Amen to that! I find a close shave is dependent on lots of variables - prep, product, technique, and compatibility of all of those with my face. Today had what could be best shave ever - o don't the elusive BBS: Merkur 23c, Feather blade and AoS system sampler. I normally get a good shave with other product combo but this time I'm saying wow-wow-wow.
For me it is a mix. I get BBS on certain parts of my face everyday. Other parts can't take an aggressive ATG pass without irritation so just a DFS shave there. This is clearly one of those YMMV areas, but not a myth.
Lots of good in this thread, especially the posts about BBS being a happy surprise when it happens and not something to chase. They happen fairly regularly for me, despite me only shooting for a DFS, but going all in on insisting to get one usually leads to irritation, and that's just silly.
Lots of musing on this theme over the ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
Lots of musing on this theme over the ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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One of my sons has slower growing softer facial hair and can easily get a BBS nearly any time with anything. The other has tough, course, fast growing facial hair like me and has never gotten one. Neither have I. Like Red One, I can get it in some places but never the whole thing. As long as it's decent I'm OK though.
This is closer to the truth...bbs on some parts which means it is not a bbs. I still say it is a myth unless you are pubescent or have really fine hair...neck and jaw line my friends, neck and jaw line.
Neck and jaw line, what?
I have pretty thick, wiry facial hair, and can get BBS, (yes I said it, and I know what it means...) almost any time I want to. Notice I said want to, not just every time. That requires a couple of things: I have to spend the time to do clean up, and get those spots I might have missed, and usually it means I was in the mood to use a more aggressive razor. Merkur Futur, R41, Fatip, ATT H2 and S2, are all razors I would use as an example. Taking the time though, is the most important factor.
I agree with you that it may be overplayed a bit. I also agree that young, fairer haired types probably have an easier time, but it is hardly a myth. Even for an old silverback gorilla like me.
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I'll give you that...and probably mention "almost any time I want to" due to the condition it would leave one's skin in. Why bother to chase the monkey when DFS will do superbly?
I stumble into one about once a week. Three pass and out, no matter the outcome.
I am so sorry, please forgive me, but I can't help getting this image of some guy who's face looks like Freddie Krueger's in my mind saying, "I got a bbs and all it took was a Frankenrazor, a feather, and some touch up"! I just had to share that image lol!
...but seriously, if I get a shave that is totally smooth in three of the four directions and almost non-existent on the forth I'm so totally happy! It means I most likely checked razor burn from occuring, and I didn't cut the hair below the skin for ingrowns to occur.
Of course. That was the point of my question in this thread http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/473637-BBS-What?highlight= I didn't understand there was anything else.
I am pretty much convinced that not achieving it is a combinations of:
A. Not even time - who wants to spend a lot of time shaving. Life is short. I got other stuff to do.
B. Irritation. It hurts. Time to move on.
But the goal every time is BBS.
I don't know about myth, subjective maybe.
tankerjohn
A little poofier than I prefer
I can definitely get there, though I don't chase it. I do need to go ATG to get to DFS, let alone BBS. Having said that, I may feel BBS (i.e. glassy smooth in all directions, can rub the cotton ball all over, etc), but I will never look it. Thanks to my Irish ancestry, I have pasty white skin and dark, thick stubble, therefore I sport a shadow to some degree.
Realistically though, is much of what happens in daily routine really worth it? Sure we all have business meetings sometimes, but the odds of one of them being 'important' are small usually. I'll go for BBS on a first date, or an important meeting, but overtime those things get smaller in numbers, sort of.
I don't know, I most often go for BBS on a weekend, when I have absolutely nothing else going on. Just to bask in the glow of my own awesomeness, because I can.
If I take 5 B&B members and provide them with the same razor, blade, soap, etc., and then provide them with specific instructions to follow under the guidance of a monitor, I'd still expect 5 different results. Why? Hair, skin, age, weight, visual acuity, strength, steadiness of hand, and other things that go into making a human.
I get BBS slightly more than half my shaves. Why? (read my list above - then add to it, blade, razor, lather quality, etc.), but... Who cares? So long as the experience is pleasurable. When it's all done and I splash on some Clubman Special Reserve, I grin about the same amount whether it is BBS or DFS.
I get BBS slightly more than half my shaves. Why? (read my list above - then add to it, blade, razor, lather quality, etc.), but... Who cares? So long as the experience is pleasurable. When it's all done and I splash on some Clubman Special Reserve, I grin about the same amount whether it is BBS or DFS.
I'm the opposite. Thanks to being Dutch I have a very light complexion with very light red/blond hair (mostly white now). I have the type of skin that never tans it only burns. I look like I have absolutely no facial hair two days after a shave, yet I never get a bbs if I did I would have razor burn from hell.
You had me locked in till you said Club man Special Reserve. [emoji6]
I struggle with the complexion thing too, and the bloody burning up in the sun light thing! Luckily I live at night and sleep through the day! However I have quite 'course' dark brown (and silver
) facial hair. Kind of a struggle being rough enough to get through that but be gentle to my face at the same time. NO pressure is a great idea with me!Similar threads
