DFS means it's close enough that anyone who isn't very close to my face won't know it's not BBS, but not so close it really is BBS.
how does one define DFS? Any way one wants to. Seriously. My definition is this: "any shave in which stubble is uniformly reduced and there is no bleeding or irritated redness."
For me it means that I'm satisfied, and I'll be darned if I spend another 10 minutes trying to chase down every stray whisker that I missed by half a millimeter, or leveling one little patch of stubble to skin level when it's too short to see anyway. BBS probably means that I spent too much time shaving that day. Or it could mean that I just got lucky with hitting all the angles right with a brand new blade.
First, it has to be a shave. That's the S. Then it has to be fine. That's the F. Fine means the razor removed the hair. And it did it so comfortably that my skin feels more peaceful after the shave than it did before. Finally, it has to be damned. That's the D. If the devil isn't jealous of my shave, then it can only be as good as a FS. They are one and the same
+1 to that! I am getting a DFS all the time now and without all the irritation and bumps from the ingrown whiskers that were scrapped off with the Mach 3 I used to use. If I really wanted to get a BBS shave I could do another ATG pass and hunt down any whisker survivors but what's the point? In a day they will all be back again right? I still get to enjoy the ritual and the warm lather and the scents and aftershaves without getting too anel about it. That was a good question though and not to discourage you from striving for perfection at least once just to experience total mastery of the art. Bruce
As far as I am concerned, a DFS shave is a BBS shave. Otherwise, it is a PDG (Pretty Darned Good) shave at best.
Not split hairs here (pun intended) but I think a BBS shave is definitely a DFS, but a DFS is not necessarily BBS. I suspect a DFS and a PDG may only differ by a hair to two here and there.:signs002
