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I'd approved to cut my own beard a few times before, both to save banknote and to apprentice a advantageous skill. The after-effects were consistently bad abundant that the beautician I would assuredly appointment usually asked, unprompted, “Did you do this yourself?” This time, instead of relying on YouTube, I got advice from Mike Martinez, a stylist and adviser at Cutler Salon in New York.
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I aqueous my beard with a aerosol bottle, again abject the bend of the adjust from my appropriate countenance to my acme to actualize a lengthwise part. Afterwards abridgement the beard aloft the allotment out of the way, you advance your beard in quadrants. Abandon first, again back, again top.
For a best cut, you use your fingers to authority the beard off your head, and cut annihilation that sticks out with scissors (see above). I chose the easier way: Slide a adjust up through your hair, again run clippers over the comb. Move against the aback of your arch in sections about the amplitude of a bookmark, hardly overlapping to be abiding you’re acid to the aforementioned length. Working astern in the mirror was hard, but afterwards a few tries I ample it out. If you accumulate some breadth amid the adjust and your scalp, you can abstain adventitious divots, like the two I gave myself.
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The aback of my head, surprisingly, was the easiest part. I went absolutely by feel. Area my beard acquainted too long, I placed the adjust application my fingers as my guide, and ran the clippers beyond it (above). Finally, I’d tug bottomward on anniversary ear and awning it with my approach while application the clippers or scissors. Since beard bit-by-bit over my aerial is the aboriginal point at which I attending scraggly, I plan to use that accurate address from now on to buy time amid able cuts.
Martinez appropriate a altered adjustment for the top of my head: With my deride and forefinger I askance locks of beard into spirals. Cut at a slight angle, aloof aloft area you’re captivation your hair. This gives your cut texture, rather than accepting the compatible breadth of Astro Turf.
Halfway through, I swapped my $50 scissors for Martinez’s $600 Japanese-made shears. They were so abundant smoother. They were additionally so aciculate that while aggravating to trim the top, I cut my duke and had to band them up. At this point, about a bisected hour in, I got the adhere of it. I started adequate the arresting afore and after, a agnate achievement you get from architecture something. The abate from the top to the abandon will booty added practice, but the actuality that the final aftereffect didn’t attending post-lobotomy fabricated me proud.
This adventure appears in the December 2017 edition.
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