3 Tips for The Best Fall Beard

Shaving in the fall, these days, incorporates a little beard action for most dudes. In order to make sure your look is dialed, there are a few things you should consider.

It is really easy to get out of “balance” from one side to the other. Where the hair and neck meet, how far down the cheek the hair begins, coming to a point or rounded at the Adam’s apple, or the ‘right’ distance from it to go.

Multi-blade razors are notoriously shitty at performing this task because you can’t see a damn thing over, through or around that big ass cartridge with five blades. So, lots of guys try trimming it up first with something electric, and then go after the area in very small ‘bites’ from the razor to get the sharp line where we want it to be. It kinda works, but is not super efficient - and generally leaves you with that “shit, I went too far” situation.

The benefit of an UNO’s smaller head geometry and the blue/black meeting point on the cartridge edge is that you can detect where the slice is going to happen with much less guesswork.

Here are the three things that work the best for me when I want a little scruff:

1.) Uniformly trim the entire beard so it is at the length you want with your preferred trimmer before picking up your razor.

2.) Wet your entire face and beard to get the hair to look like a wet puppy so you can see the individual follicles at the margins of where you want your line.

3.) Put some shaving cream on your UNO cartridge (not your face) as a lubricant such that you can see exactly where the cutting is going to happen. Add as needed.

If you try this method you will undoubtedly experience less “shit, I went down too low; gotta even this out” or “damn I went too far, now I look like Abraham Lincoln” issues that arise out of making those little adjustments that result in an inferior and unintended look.