How Often Should You Cut Your Beard?

As a rule, we recommend avoiding touching your beard for the first month. Simply put, you should quit shaving and not touch it for at least a month.

Two weeks after surgery is when you may start cleaning up your neckline.

After 30-60 days, you may begin shaping the mustache and defining the cheeks.

Just put:

After two weeks, you may start shaving your neckline.

After four weeks, you may begin reducing your cheek lines.

Trim your mustache after four weeks at the earliest.

So, let's go line by line and figure out what to do.

Rectifying Your Neckline: A Guide

Fetch the electric hedge clipper.

Put the joint of your index and middle finger on your neck, with the joint of the middle finger resting on your Adam's Apple. The joint between your head and neck is at the tip of your index finger. This is where you draw the line.

beard Trim the dangling skin just above Adam's Apple using an electric trimmer. Do what works with your jawline.

Cut the ends straight from the top of the sideburns to the ground.

Remove hair that falls beyond the freshly drawn line by trimming or shaving.

Advice for avoiding common mistakes while shaping your collarbones

Several guys nowadays shave their neck hair and cut their beards to the jawline. You shouldn't take that neckline too high unless you're looking for a chinstrap appearance, which you shouldn't be unless you were living in 2002.

The neck region determines most of your beard's form and length. You won't want to seem like Spanish moss with those wispy cheek curtains that result from raising your neckline too high.

If you screw up your neckline, here's what to do:

Have some composure. If you make a mistake while cutting your beard now, growing back won't take long. If your neckline isn't completely level and straight, it's not the end of the world or a cause to shave it all off and start again.