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Put the razor aside and wait a few months. Your perfect beard is ready. End of article.

This is the image of beards for many men who have never grown a beard. Each to their own, but if you want to look stylish, you have to take care of your beard. If you are about to grow a beard, or if you already have a beard, this article is for you.

Growing a beard

The beginning is really so simple, don't shave. The key word here ispatience. The first few weeks often seem like you just forgot to shave. If you are not blessed with divine partages, certain areas may also look patchy in the beginning because the beard does not grow very densely there. There is no magic trick to these challenges: be a man and endure this phase, as millions of other men have done.

When does the beard first require care?

At the point when the beard starts to tickle your face, you can start usingbeard oil. Even if you just have stubble, it doesn't matter, because the purpose of beard oil is also to care for the skin under the beard. The oil slightly relieves the itching and moisturizes the skin. This tickling phase passes quickly anyway.

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First trim

Not all men want to trim their beards, and not all men even need to. However, some people grow a beard very wide around the neck, or unevenly on the cheeks, in which case shaping is necessary. Herein lies the first risk. Many end up shaving their hard-grown beard for many weeks due to unsuccessful styling. A very typical mistake is to shave the beard too high in the neck area. As a rule of thumb, you can put two fingers on the Adam's apple, and all the hairs growing above it are allowed to remain. Always drive very little at a time and look at the end result in the mirror. It takes a month before even the first cleaning. You will get a clearer picture of the directions in which your beard hairs grow and what your beard looks like.

People's opinions

For some reason, beards are the kind of thing people feel they can say whatever they want. As a child, you were taught that you shouldn't criticize other people's clothes, and you shouldn't bark at others. Perhaps it should be added to the lesson that you don't have to criticize beards if you don't like them yourself. That doesn't mean most don't like your beard, it just divides opinion wildly. So you will get comments, both positive and negative.

"It doesn't matter" - that should be your attitude. The beard is not grown for anyone else's pleasure but yours. Just because a beard is for some reason an allowed subject of criticism in our society, it doesn't mean you should listen to those opinions. In some cases, only your spouse should be listened to...

Longer beard care

After a couple of months (depending a little on the person), the different products and equipment will properly enter the picture. An unkempt, longer beard can easily look untidy. However, there is a solution to this. In the first place,use beard oil. As you already know, it moisturizes your skin under the beard, and with a longer beard, dry skin under the beard is a problem for many. Beard oil also softens the beard, giving it a healthier appearance and making it look fuller. It is not intended to bathe the beard in oil, but a very small amount will do its job. There are both unscented and scented oils.

Beard balms and waxesdrive more or less the same things, but also help in shaping the beard. For best results, you should use both. Finally, it is good to apply these to the beard with a comb or brush, thus preventing a shaggy beard at the same time.

With mustache waxlet's shape the mustache (surprise…). A short-trimmed mustache with a longer beard might look silly, but no one likes a mustache flaring over their lips. There is mustache wax for this purpose. With it, you can get your stylish, longer mustache out of your mouth. Contrary to popular belief, they don't have to be twirled like 19th-century gentlemen's mustaches. However, that can also be done if you want to. Individual beard hairs that can't be tamed with oils or waxes should be trimmed at regular intervals. Don't use any machines for this, just the right onecut. Electric machines cause bifurcations and do not give as precise control. Also remember to wash your beard properlywith beard shampootwo or three times a week.