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How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Salt And Pepper Beard Shape

To grow a salt and pepper beard, you must be old enough for white hair to come in. Here are some steps to make it look good and maintain it.

1. Grow Out Your Peppered Beard

To begin, you will need to get some facial hair going. Start by letting your wisdom whiskers grow to a point where you’d like. It can be short and stubbly or long and bushy. Either way, you will need to be ok with the white hairs changing up your beard color. Some people find this even more attractive than a solid-colored beard.

2. Style The Beard And Mustache

Once your beard has grown, you will need to trim and style it. We recommend grabbing The Expert Grooming Kit, which has everything you need to cut, style, and shave your beard. Use the included razor and beard-shaping tool, along with a nice shave lube, to get clean lines. Hold the tool up to your cheeks, jawline, or neckline, and use the tool's edges to cut around. This will ensure you have straight lines or perfectly curved lines for your face.

3. Nurture And Maintain Your Beard

Finally, make sure that you are taking good care of your beard. That means using healthy beard products like shampoos, beard washes, and beard oils to promote hair that is soft, clean, and marvelous. You will want to wash your beard daily, and you can use the oil once or twice a day, depending on how you like. Continue to trim, cut, shave, and style your new salt and peppered beard, and have a fun night out on the town.

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect salt and peppered beard:

• The Expert Grooming Kit: Comes with a razor, beard-shaping tool, scissors, comb, brush, and more to get your beard looking its best.
• Shave Lube: When shaving, you want a beard product designed to give you the smoothest shave around. This product does just that.
• Beard Oil - Original: Beard oil keeps your beard feeling soft and moisturized so that it doesn’t become hard and brittle to the touch.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Two-Color Beard Shape

You can grow a two-color beard with just about any beard style. We’ll explain how to do it with hair dye.

1. Grow out your beard.

You’ll need to grow your beard long enough for the color to be obvious. Aim for at least 2-3 inches of growth. Beard growth supplements will help promote healthy facial hair while helping you grow a full beard at the same time. 

2. Shape your beard.

A beard-shaping tool can help you style your beard with predefined curves around your cheeks. Hold the tool up to against the side of your face and shave or trim along the contours of the tool. 

3. Prep your skin and apply the dye.

Use petroleum jelly and make a barrier around the parts of your face where you don’t want dye to show up. Then, apply the dye with a small brush, which is usually included in the dye kit. Follow the instructions on the package for how long to let it sit, then rinse thoroughly.

4. Keep your beard hair moisturized after dying it.

If you used a permanent dye, you can wash and condition your beard normally, using products specifically designed for beard hair, like a beard wash and beard conditioner. Follow up with beard butter to keep your hair moisturized. When you’re tired of the color, simply shave it off!

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect two-color beard:

• Beard Growth Supplements: Grow a nice, thick beard with natural ingredients.
• The Edge Beard Shaping Tool: Style the beard you want with a shaping tool that makes it easy to use.
• Wild Willies Beard Wash and Beard Soft: to cleanse and condition your beard.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Preppy Style Beard Shape

If you want to have that sharp preppy style beard look, then you need to follow these steps.

1. Grow A Low To Medium Size Beard

The first thing you need to do is start by growing a decent-sized beard. These beards are usually no more than a couple of inches in length because the short hairs give them that cleaner look. We recommend growing your beard hair a half inch to an inch more than the final length. This will ensure your facial hair can be trimmed uniformly. 

2. Trim The Beard Hair

Next, use a decent beard trimmer or a comb and scissors to trim the hair. Growing it a half inch to an inch more means you have enough hair to work with when cutting it. Set the beard trimmer to the desired size and trim your entire beard. If you are using scissors, then comb your hair to the length you want it to be and use the scissors to cut off the excess hair that is sticking through. You can pick up a good grooming kit containing everything you need to do this.

3. Shave And Style The Lines

After trimming your beard hair to the length you want, you need to shave and clean up the lines. The preppy beard style is a very clean look, so it’s important to have nice even lines. You can use a beard-shaping tool by placing it against your cheeks or neckline and then shaving around the contours of the tool. Make sure you use a professional razor and shave lube to get a nice clean shave. Rinse your face off any leftover hair and pat it dry.

4. Keep Your Beard Moisturized

Finally, you will want to maintain that great-looking beard by brushing it and keeping it hydrated. A nice beard brush will go a long way in keeping those hairs in an even direction. We like to use beard oil by rubbing it into your beard. This will keep it from becoming hard and brittle. Then brush the hair. You can do this two to three times a day and will immediately begin to notice a difference in how soft and great your beard looks.

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect preppy style beard:

• The Expert Grooming Kit: This kit has everything you need to trim, style, and nurture your beard, including a razor, scissors, brush, comb, and beard-shaping tool.
• Shave Lube: A quality shave lube with natural ingredients to help promote healthy skin and facial hair.
• Beard Oil - Cool Mint: Refreshing, cool mint beard oil applied daily into your hair means it’ll not become hard, flaky, or brittle.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect A La Souvarov Beard

The A La Souvarov Beard differs from mutton chops by connecting the mustache in a way that gives it curved lines up into the sideburns. Traditionally it consists of thin lines, although you can make the sideburns a bit thicker if you prefer.

1. Grow out a full beard of at least half an inch.

Start by growing out a full beard of at least half an inch. This will give you a good base to work with. To get healthy, thick and soft facial hair, use a product that stimulates growth, such as a beard elixir. This will give you thicker, stronger, and healthier feeling skin and well-nourished facial hair.

2. Use a shaping tool to curve your mustache into your sideburns.

You’re going to want to use a shaping tool to help you achieve the curves that define this look. Hold the shaping tool against your cheek and shave along the curved edge, making sure to connect the sideburns to the mustache. This will give you the “top” portion of the beard.

3. Remove the hair below your sideburns. 

Unlike mutton chops, your sideburns won’t go all the way down. You want your sideburns to be about the same width as your mustache, and to curve slightly up towards your ears. Bring the shaping tool down your face and use the curved edge to achieve the “bottom” portion of the beard. Then, remove all the hair below the sideburns with a razor and shave lube.

4. Use a beard butter to maintain healthy facial hair.

After you shower and wash your face, use a beard butter to get rid of coarse texture and improve the appearance of your facial hair.

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect A La Souvarov Beard:

• The Edge Beard Shaping Tool: to get curved sideburns that blend into your mustache.
• Wild Willies Shave Lube: to get a clean, close shave.
• Wild Willies Beard Butter - Cool Mint: to soften your beard hair.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Heavy Stubble Beard

Achieving the heavy stubble beard look is probably the easiest beard style to achieve and maintain. Follow these simple steps to get healthy stubble.

1. If you are starting from a clean-shaven face, let your beard hair grow for about a week.

Heavy stubble is somewhere in the 0.25-0.5 inch range, which should take about a week to achieve for most men. If you already have a beard, simply use your trimmer with a #2 or #3 guard to trim it up.

2. Maintain your stubble by keeping it trimmed up.

There’s a fine line between an intentional 5 o’clock shadow and looking like you just forgot to shave for a while. Keep your stubble in check by using your trimmer with one of the lowest guards (usually a 0 or 1) every 2-3 days.

3. Keep your hair and skin healthy with a good skincare routine.

Make sure to cleanse your face daily with a facial cleanser and use a moisturizer to prevent itchy, dry skin. Follow up with this beard scruff tamer to keep your stubble feeling soft.

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect [TYPE]:

• Wild Willies True Cleanse: to keep your face clean and free from pore-clogging bacteria.
• Wild Willies Beard Scruff Tamer: to moisturize skin and prevent itchiness.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Sparrow Beard

Going as Jack Sparrow for Halloween? Or maybe you just really love pirates? Follow these steps and you, too, can look as cool as Johnny Depp!

1. Start growing out your beard hair.

You’ll need at least 5-6 inches of hair before you can start braiding the ends, so this look will take a while to fully achieve. To speed up the growth process and ensure healthy facial hair, add some growth supplements to your daily vitamin routine.

2. Shape your beard.

Once you have a few inches of growth, you can begin to shape your beard. Use your trimmer or a razor to shave your cheeks and sideburns down to your jawline. You should also remove most of the hair on your neck. Leave the mustache, allowing the ends to point downward on either side of your mouth. If you’re using a safety razor, be sure to use a shave lube to get a close shave that is free from cuts.

3. Trim out the soul patch. 

Use a thin attachment on your trimmer to create the soul patch. To do this, remove the hair just below your lip, but only on the sides, leaving about an inch in the middle.

4. Braid your chin hair.

Once you have enough length on your chin, split the hair into two sections and braid each section. Run some beard butter through your facial hair first, and then split the first section into three smaller sections, wrapping one section over the other all the way down. Finish off with a decorative bead if you’d like. Then do the same thing with the second section. 

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect Sparrow beard:

• Wild Willies Beard Growth Gummies: to speed up the growth process.
• Shave Lube: for a close shave and to prevent cuts.
• Wild Willies Beard Butter - Original: to aid in styling and braiding your beard.