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drakulton said:
Top tip before growing a beard, is to have about a days growth, and apply hair removal cream (No competitor discussion!) to it. This dissolves the sharp cut hair ends into rounded tips. So no itchy scratchy feeling as it start to grow.
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Interesting idea but I'd say after a day I still have hairs yet to emerge hiding under the skin. Though the cream might still destroy the root. Not going to try and find out though :P
 
Feek said:
I wash my beard with head and shoulders shampoo for men roughly once a week. I don't want beardruff.
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This made me chuckle, but it is a thing. I can see it in mine which is now like a bushy thatch of wirey pubes so I am really going to have to try some of this treatment stuff or else get rid. It can't stay like this much longer without mrs ik9000 taking scissors to it when I'm asleep.
 
Anyone got a good grasp of beard shaping on here?

Im having issues. I can grow a full beard no problem, but once it gets longer than about grade 8 then I get really frustrated with the under chin section (i.e the 5 to 7 o clock position). It seems to go really long and thick here, and just looks scruffy. I end up getting so frustrated with it, can't shape it how I am imagining and then end up just ripping it back down to grade 6 all over. Doing this makes it so much softer and less irritating. Im using oils etc on it.


I have a fairly thin face so Im trying to grow the beard to thicken up the look of my face. But it just ends up looking a mess under the chin area. I don't really want it to be that long, just squarer, and with the under chin part being graded back shorter so it blends into my neck. Not sure if any of that makes any sense.
 
Once a beard goes above a certain length it becomes practically impossible to shape using clippers with a guard on and you have to do it carefully by hand with no guard.

I often grow my beard out to Uncle Albert lengths and I get it trimmed and shaped by the local barber who only charges me a fiver. Once you get the basic shape then you can trim it yourself to keep it that shape. It's just a case of practise and a steady hand.
 
@Feek can I ask you about the section actually under your chin i.e between your chin and your neck. How long is it there, or is it hanging down from your chin but not going back at the same length to your neck?

What happens with me is as I brush it each day, it ends up brushing under my chin you see and around the contour of my chin and to my neck. Rather than hanging down in a straight line. Then it gets incredibly thick underneath rather than being squared off.
 
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That picture was about six weeks ago, I took it all off just before the longest day and am back to a goatee now so I can't do a side on picture.

I tend to trim the neckline about an inch and a half up from the bottom of the growth and the beard gets progressively shorter as it goes towards the back of my head.

It's really difficult to explain!
 
Feek said:
It's really difficult to explain!
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Yeah Im having trouble explaining what I mean.

Imagine a slick back haircut vs a spiky upright haircut. In the slick back, the hair is long and the strands follow the contour of the head backwards. In a spiky cut, each strand stands upright then is cut off at the correct length.

Should the beard under the chin be like the upside down version of the slick back, or like the upside down version of the spiky? Do you brush the hair down and around the bottom of your chin?
 
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