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Ways To Groom Your Goatee

By Manash Kashyap

A stubble is fine but a goatee looks sophisticated! Many men prefer a goatee because it helps them stand out. However, how to groom your goatee is altogether another matter. As good as it looks, nurturing a goatee is not as easy as it may seem. While clean shaving is much easier, trimming your goatee needs a lot of care and time and hence, it may not be every man’s cup of tea.

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A goatee may typically mean only the facial hair on a man’s chin or it may also mean a combination of a short moustache with itself. The latter is sometimes also known as a Van Dyke, popularised by the famous 17th century painter. Whatever way a goatee is designed, you need to know ways on how to groom your goatee or it may end up as a disaster or you may accidentally shave off parts of it while trimming your goatee!

Here are few suggestions on how to groom your goatee. This article also contains tips on trimming your goatee :

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Know your facial hair pattern: How to groom your goatee depends on your facial growth. It means you need to first grow a full beard. Depending on your hormones, this can take a few days or weeks before embarking on trimming your goatee.

Plan your goatee layout: Observing famous goatee styles may help you plan out yours. We suggest choose a goatee layout that best suits your facial growth. Getting the help of an expert on how to groom your goatee does help in planning out!

Perfect borderline: Once you have a full facial hair growth, it is time for defining your goatee borderline. Using a manual razor is always better in carefully creating your goatee. We would again suggest you may seek professional help here.

Proper trimming: This is easier done with an electric razor. You need to exercise caution while trimming your goatee. Since the hair growth at your chin may be in all directions, your electric razor movement need to imitate the growth pattern.

Matching the moustache: You should be more careful if your goatee is a la-Van Dyke style. Here again you need to know how to groom your goatee as your moustache should match your goatee both in symmetry and hair growth.

Neat goatee: We need not stress enough on the requirement of keeping your piece of prestige and sophistication neat and clean. Applying good shampoo or soap regularly helps keep your goatee neat and presentable.

Regular shaving: Now that you have a goatee, you need to maintain it as it was on the first day. This is an important way on how to groom your goatee. Shave your facial hair regularly other than that which is part of your goatee.

Story first published: Monday, May 26, 2014, 16:56 [IST]
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