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How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Classic Stache

The classic-looking mustache is iconic and takes careful precision to pull off properly. Here are the steps to grow your own stache.

1. Grow The Stache

To get the classic stache look, you’ll need some facial hair on your upper lip. The choice for size is up to you, as some people like Brad Pitt might have a quarter to half-inch mustache, while Steve Harvey’s can be up to one inch long. You can both moisturize and nurture your new mustache with a beard oil blend as it grows out.

2. Trim And Groom

The next step is to trim and groom the mustache and other areas of your face. We recommend getting a complete grooming kit with everything you need to style your facial hair. You can use the brush and comb to get the hair going in the direction you want. The comb and scissors are good for keeping your mustache trimmed at an optimal length. A good beard-shaping tool also comes in handy because you can use the hard lines to trim and define your mustache shape.

3. Add A Beard Or Soul Patch

The final thing you will want to consider is whether you decide to grow a beard around your mustache or opt for a soul patch. You can grow a short or stubbly beard that can look pretty stylish with the right mustache. Remember that if the beard gets too long, you’ll lose the appeal of the mustache.

A soul patch is a small kept piece of facial hair in the dimple of your mouth, just above your chin and below your bottom lip. These range from a half inch to two inches in length or more. You just use a trimmer or razor to shave the area around the patch, leaving just the mustache and soul patch. 

Here are some of our favorite product recommendations to help you get the perfect classic stache:

• Hemp Beard Elixir - Wild Vanilla Spice: Packed with vitamins, nutrients, and minerals to keep your skin and facial hair at peak performance.
• The Expert Grooming Kit: Contains everything you need to groom, trim, and style your classic mustache.
• The Edge Beard Shaping Tool: Helps you to define smooth, clean, or straight lines for any beard type you’d like.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Thin Beard Shape

Growing a thin beard is relatively easy because it’s whether you have thin facial hair. However, if you do, there are some things to keep in mind when growing your beard.

1. Nurture And Grow Your Beard

Having thin hair for a beard can be difficult to work with, so it’s vital that you give your facial hair the best chance that it has. This means taking supplements and using all-natural products like serums to promote beard growth and thicken your facial hair. These products are packed with vitamins, nutrients, and minerals that are aimed to help fill in those empty gaps.

2. Style and Groom The Beard

You may find that your options are limited if your beard is thin and patchy. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t style it to look your best. Keeping your hair trimmed with a grooming kit that includes combs and scissors will help your hair grow more. You can also use a beard-shaping tool to cut clean lines around your cheeks and neck. Hold the tool up to your face and shave around the contours of the tool. You will want to do this at least once a week, or more so your thin beard doesn’t get out of control.

3. Promote Healthy Facial Hair 

Finally, ensure that you continue promoting a healthy beard by using shampoo and conditioner. These also include what your facial hair needs to grow and feel soft. You can also consider using beard oil or butter that will keep your beard hydrated throughout the day and looking sharp.

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

• Beard Growth Kit: This kit contains both supplements and a beard serum to promote a thick, full beard.
• The Expert Grooming Kit: Has everything you need to keep your beard looking sharp, including a comb, brush, scissors, shaping tool, and more.
• Willie’s Essential Kit - Holiday Edition: Comes with a beard brush, butter, and oil to keep your beard fresh and moisturized all day long.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Balbo Beard Shape

The Balbo beard takes sophistication and practice to make it look good. Here are the steps to grow your own.

1. Grow Out The Facial Hair

The first step you want to take when growing a Balbo beard is to decide how you want it to look. Balbo beards have a mustache that is either disconnected or slightly connected to the rest of the beard. A soul patch is required, but the chin hair can be short or extend all the way up the jawline. Map out how you want your facial hair to look and begin growing it out. Beard serum will aid in growing your beard and thickening it up.

2. Trim And Style The Mustache

The next step you want to take is to work on your mustache. It is one of the defining features of a Balbo beard, so getting this right early will help shape the rest of the look. We recommend picking up a grooming kit with everything you need, such as scissors for cutting the hair, a comb for shaping the hair, and a razor for shaving unwanted hair around your mustache. 

Trim your hair with scissors and cut a line across your upper lip. Then trim around your mustache to get the shape you want. You can use the comb to cut just the right amount of hair you’d like. When you’re finished, brush your mustache hairs, so they all lay in a similar direction.

3. Trim And Style The Soul Patch

After you have your mustache the way you want, you need to work on the soul patch. This is a little patch of hair under your lower lip and is usually disconnected from the rest of the facial hair for a Balbo beard style. 

Use the scissors to trim down the soul patch hairs. Then use a beard trimmer or razor to cut around the soul patch hairs, leaving it an island on the middle of your upper chin. Your soul patch can be small, or it can be big and wide. This is why it’s important to think about how you want it to look before cutting.

4. Clean Up The Cheek and Neck Lines

Finally, you will want to clean up the lines around your cheek and neck. Most Balbo beards are cut into a goatee and have no hair on the jawline. Others prefer to keep a beard shape by letting the jawline hairs go up into the sideburns. Either way, use clippers or scissors to keep it uniform with the rest of the beard you’ve made so far. You can use a beard-shaping tool to get nice clean lines. Just place the tool on your cheek or neck and shave around the tool's edges.

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

• Beard Boost Serum: Helps you grow a thicker beard faster with all-natural ingredients.
• The Expert Grooming Kit: This kit has everything you need to shape and style your Balbo beard, including a comb, brush, scissors, razor, and razor blades.
• The Edge Beard Shaping Tool: The beard-shaping tool makes it really easy to shave perfect lines around your cheek, jaw, and neck.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Soul Patch Beard Shape

The soul patch might be the easiest type of facial hair to maintain. Follow these super easy steps to get the look.

1. If you have a beard, shave most of it off.

If you already have some facial hair, you’ll want to shave off everything except a small patch between your lower lip and your chin. We recommend starting with a clean-shaven look like Howie Mandel’s. Use a safety razor and shave lube to achieve a smooth, clean shave.

2. Leave the right amount of hair.

If you have dark, coarse hair, you can get away with leaving just a small amount of hair. If your hair is fine or lightly colored, you’ll need a larger or longer patch to make it more obvious. If you choose to jazz it up a bit, you can leave a chin strap like Fred Durst. Other options include leaving a little bit of stubble between shaves or leaving a small amount of hair right on your chin, too. If you need help shaping the chin strap, use a shaping tool.

3. Moisturize your face.

A clean-shaven face will show dry skin more easily, so be sure to keep your skin moisturized. We recommend a moisturizer with SPF to protect from sun damage.

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

• Wild Willies Shave Lube: use with a safety razor to get a clean shave.
• The Edge Shaping Tool: to get a defined chin strap, if you choose.
• Wild Willies Smooth With SPF: to moisturize your face and protect from sun damage.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Defined Beard

Growing a defined beard is all about clean lines, precision, and maintenance. Follow these steps to get the look. 

1. Grow out your facial hair.

A defined beard should be on the shorter side (no longer than 1.5-2” in length) and uniform throughout. If you’re starting from a clean-shaven face, you’ll probably need anywhere between 1-2 months to get a full, uniform beard. If you struggle with patchiness or have trouble growing out your facial hair, try this beard growth kit that contains growth supplements as well as a growth serum.

2. Keep it trimmed.

Even as you’re growing out your beard, you’ll want to keep it trimmed and maintained. A shaping tool will be your best friend for this style. It’s all about clean lines and edges. Use the shaping tool along with a trimmer or razor to get an angled or curved line along your cheeks, as well as to remove the hair along your neckline. If you have a mustache, use trimming scissors to make sure it stays right at the lipline.

3. Moisturize and hydrate. 

A defined beard should be the exact opposite of scraggly. This means you’ll need to moisturize your face and hair to prevent dry, brittle hair or beard dandruff. This set contains everything you need to maintain a defined beard: a shaping tool, beard oil, and beard balm to smooth and hydrate your beard. 

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

• Wild Willies Beard Growth Kit: to promote full, healthy growth.
• The Edge Shaping Tool: to get clean lines along your cheeks and neck line.
• Men’s Gift Set: contains a shaping tool, beard oil, and beard balm for smooth, hydrated hair.

How to Grow and Maintain the Perfect Trimmed Beard Shape

Growing a trimmed beard will take time and proper care to ensure it’s groomed properly. Here are the steps to grow one yourself.

1. Grow A Full Beard

To get the best-looking trimmed beard you can, you will first need to grow a decently sized beard around one to three inches in length. You need to ensure that you have good coverage so that it won’t look patchy when you trim it. That means you should grow your beard out maybe an inch or so past the size you are actually aiming for. Daily beard supplements can help you grow your beard if you’re having trouble.

2. Trim The Facial Hair

Once you have passed the desired length that you want for your beard, it’s time to trim it back. This will make sure that all of the hairs are of a uniform size. Trimming can also help promote healthy growth in your beard, so to keep it maintained, you may find yourself trimming every one to two weeks. 

Use a good beard clipper, or get a grooming set with a comb and scissors to trim those hairs. The comb guides by letting in the hairs you want to trim. Then use clippers or scissors to cut off the unwanted hair. Do this for your whole beard, and make sure you are pulling through the same size length in the comb each time.

3. Shave Clean Lines

After you have trimmed down your beard, it is time to clean up your lines. That means shaving around the cheek and neck area, so give it a sharp look. Place a beard-shaping tool against your cheek or neckline and use the tool's edges to shave around. This flat area of the tool will give you a straight line, and the curved edges will help get a nice shape around your cheek and sideburns. We recommend a good shave lube, so your face doesn’t become irritated.

4. Wash And Repeat

Finally, you should wash your beard off of any cut hair. You can use a beard wash to clean it and then use a nice butter afterwards to soften it and make it smell fresh. Then take a beard brush and brush down those facial hairs uniformly. Your new trimmed beard looks great, and all you have to do now is maintain it weekly by trimming, shaving, and keeping it clean.

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

• Beard Growth Supplements: All-natural ingredients promote a healthy and thick beard.
• The Expert Grooming Set: This kit has everything you need to style your beard, including scissors, a razor, a comb, a beard brush, and a beard-shaping tool.
• Beard Butter - Cool Mint: This helps style your beard while keeping it moisturized so that it doesn’t become brittle.