Well, I didn't know that for many years, I was trimming my beard all wrong. It wasn't until about
a couple of years ago, I was getting my hair cut from my stylist who I go see every three to four
weeks. And one day finally he goes, you know, man, I think you're trimming your beard all wrong. And
I said, really? He said, yeah, yeah, it's not really the best way you can be doing. I said
what's the best way to do it? And he said, see what's happening is you're coming down way too
low, and it's making your neck look bigger. And it's not making your jaw more square. And I said,
okay, so what's the trick? And I'm going to show you right now. Okay, so here's the trick. You take
your fingers, you put them right here, right below your ears, under the corner of your jaw right
here. And you try to meet your fingers together by doing a straight line. Now, as you can see,
I do have a somewhat of a trim going, I'm going to show you a little bit more, then you start to meet
your fingers. So again, this is a correct one. This is correct right here, it makes
your jaw look more square. Now I'm a little bit rough, I'm going to shave it all in a second.
But again, finger here, finger here, and then you just meet. And what happens is you end up meeting
a lot higher than if you were trying to get this all appropriately lined up. See, what I used to do
is I used to trim it down here. So I'd have this big patch of hair right here, that would go all
the way across. And when you have that it makes your neck look less square and your neck look
like it's almost bigger. It doesn't shape your face appropriately. So we're going to going to
do it again. So right here at the corners, and you come and you meet. So really, the beard is
going to stop just a little bit below your chin. And that's how you make a really good beard.
Just like that. Now one of the tricks is when you're actually going to do the shave,
let's say you have it all fully grown out, obviously, I can kind of see where to go
because I've done it before. But even so it starts to grow in a little bit, and I still have to find
it. So what you're going to want to do is when you're coming in and making that line right there,
you can take your shaver and just make a little bit of a line right there. There's another trick
to do this, I don't have a comb on me, but you can take a comb. Imagine this is the comb right here
and you shave right underneath there. I'm going to do a full shave and show you how it looks.
So as you can see, I made the line right there and I'm gonna follow it. And sometimes
I go even a little bit higher, just to make sure that it's not too low.
Now, I'm about halfway done with the neck. So as you can see, I'm starting
to really shape it up here to make that line straight where it's going from here to here.
Okay, so I'm going to make sure that I'm pretty tight against the jaw,
I don't want it to come lower. That's the whole point - we want it to be against the jaw line,
then to meet up here. So you're going to be taking your fingers going against your jaw line,
and then you keep on going straight to meet here with both your fingers.
Now, something I did as well to show you is during the trimming process, when I finished my neck,
I did go all the way down here because I want all of my neck to be completely clean. Okay,
so all the way down to almost the collarbone. I want all this completely clean to really make
it so the beard and the jaw stand out. A couple other tips too. I like to make a straight line.
I come here and I make a straight line and anything above this line,
these little hairs right here, I shave that off. I did that on each side so it gets a really nice,
clean look. I trim the hairs right here. I'll take this shaver, by the way, if you're interested,
this is a Philips Norelco and I just boom, boom, boom. Get all those off so that's clean around the
lip as well. I'm pretty much done if you wanted a full beard like this. Now I go the extra length. I
take this, it's just like a Wahl shaver W-A-H-L that's the brand. Put it on the lowest setting
possible so it gets as tight as possible and I'm gonna go over all this just to make this a light
stubble. That's how I do it. It's up to you. Some people just keep it like this. Some people grow it
out even further. But if you wanted to stop here, you could. And look at that. See, you can almost
see the jaw. If I had hair, if I had hair down here it would just continue. My jaw would look
longer than it is, but it's not there. Now, as you can see, I'm not done, I still have more to
go. But it's got a nice cleaner shave here, it's gonna grow out a little bit more evenly. And one
thing I wanted to talk about now is the sideburns. Sideburns is obviously a personal choice. What I
think looks the best, in my opinion, is a sideburn that's not too long, like we're in the 70s and not
too short, like we're in the military, but just even. I try to get it to right about that point
in my ear, right about halfway through. And I'm going to do the same on this side as well.
Alright, so you can see the after here, I went pretty tight.
So it almost looks like there's a stubble everywhere. But as this grows out,
and I decide to do another trim down here, it's gonna make everything look even more
squared off. I don't really have a super square jaw to begin with. But having the
beard outline the jaw helps a lot. And don't forget that the reason why we're doing this and
the reason why we want to have a really good trim is because, what, we're going to be more
attractive. And that's going to help us with women. It's going to help us with self esteem,
all those good things. Would love to hear if you're a guy with a beard who trims as well, any
tips that you have. I think I gave everything that I could have here to have the best beard possible.
I know people do it in different ways, but this one has worked the best for me. So let's hear
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