Should you straighten your beard before trimming?

Should you straighten your beard before trimming?

Straightening your beard is a regular occurrence and is part of a well-considered beard maintenance and grooming regime. However, is there a time where you shouldn’t straighten your beard? For example, should you straighten your beard before trimming? Will straightening your beard because your trim to be rubbish. Or, is it the secret ingredient for making a trim as perfect and well-defined as possible? In this article, we are going to go over whether or not straightening your beard before trimming results in a better-looking beard or one where it just seem a little off.

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The one inch beard: A complete guide!

The one inch beard: A complete guide!

The one inch beard is a fantastic length which allows you to have a full beard but without the maintenance and hassle of having a much longer beard. For most people a 1 inch beard is completely achievable. It is normally about two months of growing to get to about 1 inch of good growth. This means that the stronger growing parts of your beard will be slightly longer but the slower and weaker parts will have had enough time to get to about 1 inch of length. Then you can even it all up with a good trim.

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Why is my beard spiky

Why is my beard spiky? + Simple fixes

As you are growing your beard you may find that it is very spiky. The spiky nurse comes from a range of issues and properties of the beard but it is normally your significant other who notices how spiky your beard is. Beard hairs are strong and thick and can easily poke and penetrate into the skin like a needle. In this article, we can go over all of the secret fixes that you can use, and I have used, to make my beard less spiky so that it is softer to touch and doesn’t cause any annoyance to your significant other.

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Is it OK to dye your beard? Busting the myths!

Is it OK to dye your beard? Busting the myths!

Once your beard gets to a certain length you start to notice all sorts of colours in it. Personally, I have orange, grey, light brown, dark brown, and black beard hairs. Sometimes you just feel like you want to cover up some of those colours. Perhaps, you are greying and you want to find a beard dye to cover up the grey hairs that are slowly appearing throughout your beard. There is no doubt that dying a greybeard can be a great way to quickly take years off your age. In this article, we are going to look at all of the reasons why it’s okay to dye your beard and answer some of the most frequently asked questions about dying a beard.

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How can I naturally darken my beard

How can I naturally darken my beard?

Naturally darkening a beard is a fantastic way to achieve a number of ideal beard goals. For example a darker beard looks thicker and fuller, less wiry, and you can see through it less. The thing is that not everyone has a thick dark beard naturally. In this article we can look at all of the natural ways that you can darken your beard and they tend to fall into one of two things: firstly, there are a ton of natural dyes that you can use to fill in your beard. And for those that don’t want to dye their beard, there are plenty of products which you can use which don’t rely on dying there but rather filling in the gaps with other types of materials.

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Can you put hair conditioner on your beard

Can you put hair conditioner on your beard? Old

When we start growing a beard it is tempting to try to use the ingredients and products that we already have to hand to clean and wash your beard. Nearly everyone shower already has hair shampoo and hair conditioner and for a while it seems reasonable to assume that we can use both of these products on our beards as well as our heads. Is this truly the case? Can you put hair conditioner on your beard? Can you use hair shampoo to cleanse your beard? All of these questions are going to be answered in this article.

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How to tame a frizzy beard

How to tame a frizzy beard? 5+ simple fixes

As you start to grow your beard you may notice that it becomes frizzy. It is hard to work out exactly what is causing this frizzy appearance. There are many different types of frizzy that can happen in your beard. There are also terms including kinky, crimped, wiry, woolly – all of these have been used in the past to describe hard to manage and unruly Beard hair. In this article we are going to go over the simple fixes for all of the reasons why your beard may be frizzy and look at the best solutions for making your beard look awesome.

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Why can't I stop stroking my beard?

Why can’t I stop stroking my beard? Breaking the habit!

If you’ve got a beard all you are growing a beard it feels awesome to stroke it. Stroking a beard is a natural part of owning a beard. Maybe it is formed as a habit from when it is growing. When your beard is growing you are constantly checking in with your beard to see how it is going. Are there any wispy bits? Are there any long bits? Is it growing evenly? This habit gets deeply rooted into our subconscious which means that stroking at beard becomes unconscious and you do it without even thinking about it. In this article, we are going to go over all of the ways that you can stop stroking your beard as well as the answer to the question: why can’t I stop stroking my beard?

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Honest Amish soap review

Honest Amish soap review [Honest opinions]

Choosing the right soap for your beard is a very important decision. Washing your beard properly with a dedicated beard soap will give your beard the level up that everyone is after. This is because a beard soap is specially crafted for your face. It is a mild soap which means that it does not strip your beard of all of the natural oils and leaves the hair softer than if you were to use head shampoo on your beard. One of the most popular products for bearded people everywhere is the honest Amish soap. The honest Amish soap is highly recommended on online marketplaces and for good reason. This is a simple beard soap that simply works with your beard to keep it looking awesome.Here is my honest, honest Amish soap review…

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