Beard maintenance doesn’t have to be complex. In fact, it isn’t! As long as you know what the basics of facial hair care and shaving are, the professionals from BillyJealousy.com assure that you’ll be good to go, and good to conquer your day with your beard shining in all its glory. Remember my days backpacking in Hampi when a beard trim was essential?
4 How-Tos For A Magnificent Beard: Facial Hair Care, Shaving, And Maintenance
It’s All About “U”
Shaving can be quite perilous. “Perilous” for the look of your facial hair, that is. Hence, experts recommend that you follow a “U” shape when shaving below the chin and around the neck. Don’t be too hasty carving out a neckline, especially if you’re not exactly sure how to go about it.
Instead, said beard neckline should emulate the bottom part of the letter “U”. This can be difficult to achieve if you want to shave around your Adam’s apple. In this case, still follow the “U” curve, but be sure to shave off a bit of hair right above the laryngeal prominence. And yes, that is the scientific term for it.
Relax. It’s Just Mustache.
When shaving or trimming your moustache, relax the muscles in your face. A quick technique in doing is to raise your brows, smile as broadly as you can (baring teeth and all), and widen your eyes.
P.S., you will look like a scary clown from a horror flick. But what you’ll want to pay attention to next is that after holding this look, drop it all. Let your facial muscles return to their untensed positions.
If this doesn’t work, use your fingers to massage parts of your face such as your forehead, temples, cheeks and cheekbones, fulcrum or medial cleft (the groove between your upper lip and nose), and the moustache area itself. Now that you’ve achieved your “resting face”, you can begin trimming.
Beard Care Equals Skin Care
Maintaining your beard is no different from keeping your skin well-cared for. Most guys think that the first is a tedious routinary task while the second doesn’t matter as much. The rest think that attaching the word “care” to bear and skin management equates to wasting too much of their time.
This isn’t so. The only thing you need to put to mind is having the right products and tools to help your beard grow majestically. It’s as simple as these:
*Cleanse your beard with a beard wash (this means washing your face with skincare products as well) once a day, apart from letting the water from the shower run through it. Next, lather your facial hair with some conditioner after.
*Use a toner on your face to get rid of excess dirt and oil, and then apply a light moisturizer on your bare skin (areas on your face not covered with hair). As for your beard, apply a specialized balm or oil to soften and tame it.
*Repeat daily.
Good Old “Eat Healthy” And “Drink Water”
You might think that this part of the book is too passé, perhaps even irrelevant, to apply to care for facial hair. Yet this golden rule is ever-applicable in having healthy skin and a luscious beard.
A string of vitamins, along with iron, biotin, and protein, among others, all of which are found in healthy eats, are what prompt the growth of healthy hair. That includes your beard. At the same time, regularly having your fill of around 2 litres of water a day will naturally hydrate your strands from within.