Your Sideburns. Tips, Techniques and Ideas Welcome.

[Anigai]

Ok guys, since I've started using the DE I've started to care more and more about my sideburns whereas before they were simply left short and trimmed with the electric clippers whenever it came time for a hair cut.

My question to you guys is, what do you do for looking after your sideburns?
Do you style them at the same time whenever you shave or do you leave them for a period of time before coming back to them?

 

[BSAGuy]

I keep them short, but whatever length, just shave along with everything else.

 

[StuMcB]

Medium, pointed towards the mouth, bit like Midge Ure from the 80's but not so long. Done daily while shaving.

 

[Anigai]

I've been thinking of going Mungo Jerry on and off for a month or so with the sideburns but I'm not 100% settled on it yet.

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I remember this music video as a kid and I wanted to grow them since I thought they were cool when I was little

I certainly don't want the hairstyle, way too much work to have an afro i think.

 

[Purplemonkey]

I maintain on my regular shaves just with me DE, but once a week I'll freshen up the lines with a shavette.

 

[August West]

I picked up this vintage chalk line plumb to keep them even.














I just trim around them with whatever razor I am using.

 

[Adam B]

I use the DE to keep the line sharp and straight as needed, but since I have a hard part I get my hair trimmed up every week and my stylist keeps everything straight and orderly. (She's also my S.O. and has put up with me for the past seven years.)

 

[mikeal]

I try to do them while shaving, but often need to trim them up later

 

[KnurledNut]

My burns extend down to lower lobe of my ears. I'm careful so that the lather doesn't cover them completely when shaving.

 

[Anigai]

I picked up this vintage chalk line plumb to keep them even.

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I just trim around them with whatever razor I am using.

That's an interesting bit of equipment you got there. I'm wondering exactly how you could use the wooden piece though, those yellow things look like cardboard of some type.

@Purplemonkey The shavette idea is a good one. Here's hoping I get my hands on one soon. The constant care of a straight would probably annoy me eventually into just using it every now and again.

 

[Purplemonkey]

I grabbed a cheap Parker for a dollar when I was last in India

 

[Yaser]

I picked up this vintage chalk line plumb to keep them even.

I just trim around them with whatever razor I am using.

hmm, maybe we should start a vintage chalk line sub-forum, one more itsy bitsy AD couldn't hurt, could it?

I've been thinking of going Mungo Jerry on and off for a month or so with the sideburns but I'm not 100% settled on it yet.

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I remember this music video as a kid and I wanted to grow them since I thought they were cool when I was little

I certainly don't want the hairstyle, way too much work to have an afro i think.

Go for it! 'fro and all!

 

[AvariCe]

I've been thinking of going Mungo Jerry on and off for a month or so with the sideburns but I'm not 100% settled on it yet.

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I remember this music video as a kid and I wanted to grow them since I thought they were cool when I was little

I certainly don't want the hairstyle, way too much work to have an afro i think.

That's my how my father looked during the 70's, give or take a decade. I agree with Yaser, those sideburns need the afro.
As for your answer, I cut them down with the de.

 

[Yaser]

That's an interesting bit of equipment you got there. I'm wondering exactly how you could use the wooden piece though, those yellow things look like cardboard of some type.

chalk line is used as a marker

 

[Anigai]

chalk line is used as a marker

Seems very handy a tool to have. Maybe a micro version would be good for sideburns

 

[morso484]

mutton chops are low maintenance.

 

[mswofford]

I pick a spot on my ears and use that as a guide when shaving.

 

[Cash_Stronomer]

With my glasses on, I line up the razor head flat with the frame, then just roll it downward until the blade wants to cut.

 

[Anigai]

With my glasses on, I line up the razor head flat with the frame, then just roll it downward until the blade wants to cut.

Interesting idea but I'd have nothing left with that idea

 

[Fenris]

This is one of the few situations where a cart is actually pretty handy. Well, the Fusion carts anyways. That single "precision trimmer" blade on the back is awesome for sideburns. Only one blade and because of how small it is and where it's situated within the cartridge, there's nothing to get in the way of your life of sight.

I actually have a few fusion carts left I may pull out for this purpose, I kinda forgot about it until this thread.

How I usually do it though, with a DE or otherwise, is pick a line, roughly at the bottom of my earlobe, and angle it about 30° down towards my chin. The problem is that my sideburns actually start coming it different points on either side. So if I line up the bottoms, one is actually longer than the other. But if I keep them the same length, they stop at different points down my face.

When I'm trying to keep the bushiness under control (and they are bushy) I just use electric clippers. However, I tend to keep them bushy to draw attention away from the previously mentioned height disparity