Trimming the burns..

[vmank1q]

How do you guys trim/tidy your sideburns with a straight? I've always had trouble doing it with a razor, be it a DC/DE and now a straight.

I don't know what I done the other day, but now I have one sideburn longer than the other

And I'm sure they grow longer than my hair. I get my hair cut and then within a week I got bushy burns going on.

I don't want to shave them completely off as I think it would make my forehead look bigger.

Thanks.

 

[Luc]

I pretty much have them down to my jawline and use the jawline as a mark.

 

[dpmtherrien]

After whoever cuts your hair they should be even. Then I just hit the very bottom of the burns, and they stay pretty even.

 

[shavewithbigelow]

I think it's easier to do with a straight because you can see the cutting edge and get it precise. I do a WTG pass starting just barely on the side burn hairs. I mean like less then a 16th of a inch. This keeps them even and also keeps them from getting longer. With a DE I had to kind of guess where the edge of the blade was.

 

[ampersand2006]

The way to do it is lay the razor flat across a comb. Use the distance from the tips of the teeth on the comb to control the lenghth you are cutting to. Then, comb through the burns. This is how barbers used to do it before motorized clippers.

 

[ampersand2006]

As for how far down they come on your face, that is something that I usually use my ear contours to judge by. I don't look at across the face, but where, according to the ear they fall. Because faces aren't precisely symetrical, they might not be perfectly the same length, but they will look like they are because of the proximity of each ear to its corresponding mutton chop.

 

[Defend Tacoma]

As for how far down they come on your face, that is something that I usually use my ear contours to judge by. I don't look at across the face, but where, according to the ear they fall. Because faces aren't precisely symetrical, they might not be perfectly the same length, but they will look like they are because of the proximity of each ear to its corresponding mutton chop.

+1. I use me ears as a guide.

 

[Thebigspendur]

Back in the old days barbers would cut a notch in the sideburn with a sissor and then use a straight to trim them and use the notch as a guide.

Also barbers used different razors to do hair trimming as opposed to shaving since alot of hair trimming can dull a straight pretty fast but of course that's a barber who trims sideburns all day.

 

[Woodash]

Very effective and clean with a straight, but keeping 'em level is the trick...

 

[Dharion]

I think it's easier to do with a straight because you can see the cutting edge and get it precise....

For me it is. With a DE I can't see the darn edge but with a straight razor I can cut precisely where I want to.

 

[vmank1q]

I always seem to butcher my sideburns. I don't know why I can't keep them straight and tidy. It's always been the same with whatever razor I use. Just need more practice maybe Anyway thanks.