Thread: Best way to beard line up?

Practice strop with a dull razor shaped object like a butter knife, you will build muscle memory without damaging your strop

Originally Posted by rodb

Practice strop with a dull razor shaped object like a butter knife, you will build muscle memory without damaging your strop

That's a brilliant idea, thanks. Not sure I will have the patience, but I will try :-)

Originally Posted by Xunzi

That's a brilliant idea, thanks. Not sure I will have the patience, but I will try :-)

Anything over 50 laps and I start losing count so I start over at 1 at 50. Just do 20 laps, rest and do 20 more. It's just about reps, not doing sets of 100's, that would make me crazy as well

As I side note, I shaved half my face with shaving gel and the rest with oil only. I got visual advantage with the oil and no real disadvantages with the oil as far as I could tell. Is soap/cream/gel really necessary or is oil in fact a worthy substitute? I recognize that I'm new at this and that my initial impressions are untrustworthy.

Originally Posted by rodb

Anything over 50 laps and I start losing count so I start over at 1 at 50. Just do 20 laps, rest and do 20 more. It's just about reps, not doing sets of 100's, that would make me crazy as well

Cool. At my level, I should probably stop at 10, that's when I start struggling with concentration. It's a good tip, just take a break and resume.

Not sure how much real estate you need to cover but if your using a good oil like Floids to shave everything it could get costly. I do the bulk of the neck with a soap and brush, then a few drops of oil along the beard line when i clean it up. Shave Secret oil works pretty well, i use it for the neck line.. but i prefer Floids when i clean the top of the mustache since the scent is much more pleasant.

Originally Posted by MW76

Not sure how much real estate you need to cover but if your using a good oil like Floids to shave everything it could get costly. I do the bulk of the neck with a soap and brush, then a few drops of oil along the beard line when i clean it up. Shave Secret oil works pretty well, i use it for the neck line.. but i prefer Floids when i clean the top of the mustache since the scent is much more pleasant.

I used pure jojoba oil, same as I use to moisturize the beard. It's not that costly, it'll probably cost more to keep a cream/soap in addition to it.

Gotcha. I keep the jojoba in the den as well. Definitely not as costly as the shaving oils. I use it purely as conditioner.

Hmm.. i'm gonna try it when i trim up the line next shave.