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here's the best way to create a curved
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line we're going to use our trimmer
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inverted to punch a line in
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and i'm going to stretch the skin up
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higher like this
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so you can see once we release that it
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has a slightly soft bend
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and that beard looks a lot better
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groomed hey gq
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as promised i'm back and i can't wait to
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clean this up
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okay let's recap about a month ago i
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shaved off a beard that i've had for
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almost
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10 years if you haven't seen that video
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go check it out so you probably noticed
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a few changes from the last video
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because
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after you cut off a great big beard your
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face shape changes substantially
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what we're going to do now is we're
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going to grow our beard back and i've
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been doing this just
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without touching it at all i haven't
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shaved i haven't shaped i haven't done
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anything i've just let it grow for four
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weeks now normally i wouldn't recommend
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people doing that
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sometime around the two-week mark is
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probably when you want to start creating
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a little bit of a shape
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but i wanted to leave it so i could show
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you guys the dramatic impact that it
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makes
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some of the things you're going to
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experience in the first four weeks
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itchiness
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disheveledness you're probably going to
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want to try to use beard oil
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don't you're probably going to outline
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it too quick
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[Music]
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and you're probably going to start
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taking clippers and guards to it don't
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do any of those things
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just wait and if you've avoided the
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temptation to do any of those things
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you're probably in good shape for a
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shape up for this what we're gonna need
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is a trimmer now remember a trimmer
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is about creating edges so it's very
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fine teeth and gets all the way down to
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the skin
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an electric shaver or a razor blade of
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your choice
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i like electric shavers because i don't
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get so many ingrowns on my neck
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you are also going to want to have some
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sort of a soft brush and a finishing
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balm
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in one of my previous videos i was
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showing you guys how to trim up a long
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beard
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now a lot of the concepts are going to
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be very similar but with a long beard we
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started
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by trimming down the interior at this
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length i don't want to remove anything
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so we're going to skip to step two which
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is the outline
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[Music]
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the outline is just three lines it's the
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top line
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the baseline and the lip line so let's
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start with the baseline because it's
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going to have the highest amount of
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impact
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the baseline of the beard is the line at
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the bottom
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that kind of echoes the shape of your
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jaw one of the things that happens when
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we first start growing our beards is
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that this area keeps growing and gets
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really really thick
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and if you notice when i drop my jaw
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down here you can still see
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all of the hair in behind seeing the
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hair in behind is kind of a problem
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because it softens the look of your jaw
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and we want that jaw to look strong so
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what we're going to do is we're going to
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bring this line up
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and we're going to make it really nice
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and clean so that when you put your
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neckline down it amplifies the shape of
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the jaw and gives it a stronger
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lineation
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we're going to start from the corner of
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the jaw and we're going to make a
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straight line down to the top of the
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atom's apple
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just like this
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you can see we've got that nice strong
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line down now we want to make sure we
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don't take that line up too high to the
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corner this little corner of the jawline
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because what happens is
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when you turn your head that line lifts
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up and it sneaks up over top of your jaw
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and that's what we call a chin strap
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it's not that flattering now this hair
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down here has a tendency to grow
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upwards to make sure that we don't just
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scrape this off using our trimmer
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i'm going to turn it to the softer
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position here and i'm going to work
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upwards into the line we created
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to remove all that nasty neck fluff
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i'm just going to take my soft brush and
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i'm going to remove
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any shrapnel making sure i get
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everything that's attached
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and right back here especially
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all right now you can already see a
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difference from side to side
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now let's get the other side to make
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sure we get that nice and even so i'm
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going to tilt my chin back
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go from the corner of my jaw
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now you'll notice on that side i started
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a little lower and work my way higher
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and the reason why i do that is because
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i want to make sure it's balanced on
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both
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sides so on the second side i usually
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start a little lower i check to make
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sure it's balanced
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and then i move it up as i need to
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[Music]
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now the easiest way to make sure the
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line is straight and clean is just tilt
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your neck back
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and have a look see if there's anything
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sticking out
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or any little bunk
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now that line should descend slightly so
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it's going to start up high and drop to
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a little bit lower just like your jaw
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does
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what our goal for this line is as we
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grow our beard out is to be able to
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bring this
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lower and lower and lower to match the
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front
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length of our beard the big key here is
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that you don't want to see
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any hair growing on the neck behind the
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jawline because once we remove that
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it creates a stronger more amplified jaw
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the next line we need to work on
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is our top line a lot of guys don't pay
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attention to this but the top line
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is how we're going to edge out where the
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beard interacts with the face
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you have two options for this line you
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can either make something that is really
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straight and linear
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or you can make something that is
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slightly curved and that really depends
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on your face shape when you have a
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narrow face
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shape you want to work with something
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that is a little bit more of a curved
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line
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if you have a fuller face shape you want
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to try and keep that square
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because it gives a slightly leaner
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appearance i think i'm going to go with
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the curved line
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here's the best way to create a curved
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line we're going to use our trimmer
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inverted to punch a line in
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and i'm going to stretch the skin up
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higher like this
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by stretching that skin and putting a
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straight line in
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when i relax that skin it's going to
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have a slight bend to it
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so you can see once we release that it
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has a slightly soft bend
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and that beard looks a lot better
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groomed
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now i'm going to remove the hair on top
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of my cheeks with my trimmer
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and i'm going to repeat this on the
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opposite side
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that's looking a lot better already now
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what we need to do is keep these pesky
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little hairs out of my mouth
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they're really short and this is maybe
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something that you won't need to do for
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the first
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even six to eight weeks but eventually
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that mustache
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is gonna start to overtake those lips
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for this part i usually like to just
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take my trimmer
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and just clean my lip line to make sure
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that when i'm drinking coffee out of a
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mug
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it doesn't go all down my white t-shirts
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now the trick to this line is that it's
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slightly peeked in the center
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you don't want to just come in and
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hammer a straight line across
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what you want to do is you want to angle
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from the center down towards the corner
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of your mouth
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and again from this side down towards
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the corner of your mouth you can do that
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by taking your trimmer and
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angling it before you press in to remove
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those hairs
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now we don't need to do much to the
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interior at this point and you can see
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that as far as beards go it's looking a
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whole lot better we're just going to go
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over our neck and cheeks
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using the shaver or using whatever razor
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that you want to use to remove the hairs
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this is just
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one more element of making it look extra
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clean and polished
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and this is a really good way for you to
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be able to do the maintenance that this
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is going to require for the next few
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weeks
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you really want to just keep this area
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clean and free from hairs
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so i'm going to take my shaver and i'm
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just going to go over that and clean it
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up
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and voila you've crafted for yourself a
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fine looking beard
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now if you really want to crisp this up
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or you want to take this a little
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sharper
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use things like powders or color go
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visit your barber
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he's going to have great advice on how
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you're going to be able to make this
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look sharp
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on the long term
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the last thing you want to do once
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you've shaved things down to the wood
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especially if you've shaved with a
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straight razor
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or any kind of a safety razor is you
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want to make sure your skin cares on
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point for the next little while you want
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to make sure that you're using a good
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moisturizing wash
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and for those of you that shave and
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outline your beard every day
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i really suggest using some sort of an
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aftershave balm
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i don't love the idea of using liquid
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aftershaves when you have facial hair
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because it tends to dry them out
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and it actually makes things itchier but
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what i like to do is i like to use some
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sort of a cream aftershave
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or a cream balm which is more
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moisturizing and is better because it
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actually moisturizes the beard
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also at this point i would really
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suggest staying away from beard oil
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beard oil is meant for longer fuller
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beards it's really about
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conditioning the hair with a little bit
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of moisture for the skin as well
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the more oil you add to it at this point
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the more you're going to increase the
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likelihood of having oily skin or
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breakouts
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so try and stay away from that i suggest
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using some sort of a beard balm
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just to get rid of those little flyaway
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guys or the ones that are starting to
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stick out
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so take a little bit of that just to
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finish try and stay away from oil-based
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ones i like things that are a little bit
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more of a wax and a matte finish because
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i don't like it when my beard looks
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shiny
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and i'm just going gonna work that on
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just to take away any of the little
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flyaways or the guys that are sticking
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out
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and not looking too clean if you're
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watching along and you're still not
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convinced
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and you don't see the value in growing a
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beard let me be the first to tell you
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a beard can change your life
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