After 27 years of wet shaving(and 2 with a safety razor) I have come to the following conclusion. For the average man, a BBS shave is a hard thing to get. We are asking a lot of our razors(and ourselves) to think that all of us can get this result all the time. Now there are movie icons such as Cary Grant and Sean Connery who always seemed to have just the perfect BBS shave. The truth is some men have very tough, durable skin that is not prone to irritation. A friend of mine is like this. Heck, Mantic seems to be like this too. Just the way it is. Some kids get pimples and some don't. But seems to me that the average man is prone to irritation and ingrowns from time to time. I am. My skin is very sensitive and I cannot get a BBS shave on my neck without some downside. So I have forgotten the whole concept of BBS. Not going to happen for me. Instead I concentrate on my technique with WTG and XTG . And you know what? I've gotten the best results of my life with no irritation. So could it be we put too much emphasis sometimes on BBS? Could this be pushing some people,especially beginners, towards poor shaves? Something to think about.