Thread: Thinning the sideburns. Old school?

Hi all

I have now been straight shaving for a month, but I still thin my sideburns with an electric trimmer. Ia there a more classic way to do it SAFELY?

How do you guys do?

I use scissors and a pocket comb--just hold the comb flat against my face and run the comb under the sideburn, then use the scissors to trim what sticks out. Then comb the sideburns back, hold 'em down a bit, and scissor a more-or-less clean line in front of the ear. Crude but more or less effective, for my purposes.

Rich

A fine small comb and sharp hairdresser's scissors. (Never use those scissors to cut anything else than hair)
That's what I use for my moustache anyway.

Have fun,
Bart.

personally I use an electric trimmer but the classic way would be the way barbers did it may years ago and that would be with a straight razor. I remember as a kid in the 1950s going to the local barber shop and the barber would dispense some shaving cream from his lather king put it on my sideburns and strop his razor and trim with it. I imagine it was not the same as the straights he used for giving shaves only because actual hair trimming can be rougher on a straight than normal shaving.