How to Shave Your Neck when Growing a Beard
Step 1
Visualize a line from one ear to the other. Imagine a line that loops from the back edge of each ear down and around the top of your neck. Envision the lines meeting in the center of your neck (below your jaw).
Step 2
Visualize two lines extending down from your sideburns. Find the rear edges of your sideburns. Imagine a straight line extending down from each. If you don’t have any sideburns, allow them to grow in a bit so you can better identify where the rear edges of your sideburns are.
Step 3
Identify the intersection of the two lines. Everything above the first line you visualized and in front of the second line you visualized should be allowed to grow in. Anything below or otherwise outside those lines should be shaved.
Step 4
Give yourself a clean neck. If you want a “hard stop” between your beard and your neck, simply shave away everything outside the neck line you’ve identified. Use short quick strokes to remove all the stubble or beard growth that is not inside the neck line.
Step 5
Give yourself a faded neck line. Instead of having a “hard stop” on your beard, you could have a neck line that gradually tapers down in beard thickness to smooth skin. To shave your neck into a fade while growing a beard, set your clippers at half the length of your regular setting. Using the clippers, trim the base of your neck line in a perimeter of about one inch (two centimeters) out from your neck line.
Shave everything outside this perimeter bare.
Step 6
Add more gradation to the faded neck line. If you wish, you could create even more gradation within the fade by shaving the outer half inch (one centimeter) of the perimeter you’ve already shaved using an even shorter setting for your clippers. For instance, you could set the clippers to one-quarter of the standard length you use, then shave the outer portion of your one-inch fade.
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