Where to shave and trim mustache | TRIM WITH ME

Mustaches are a very defining point of a beard, but also rocking a mustache on its own

means you have to know exactly where to trim and not to trim. Now you have four areas, the top, the bottom, the sides and the notch

And in this video, we're going to go over all of the tips and tricks for making sure that your mustache looks great, whether or not you're rocking it alongside a hefty or short beard

or you're just doing a mustache on its own. I tried to do the fancy one once, but I couldn't put up with the mustache's hairs in my

mouth all the time so here are all the tricks you need to know the most important line is the

bottom line the line just below or above your lip line now this is where beards can get a little bit

tricky and annoying essentially when i had a shorter beard my lip line was much higher as in you could

see my entire lip you could see my top lip bottom lip and a little bit of skin now i'm not saying

that that was the right thing to do but it was just something that that felt right at the time

And now that I've got a much bigger beard, I feel like a much thicker mustache

much longer, denser mustache is very important. Now, I waited until the top hairs here

were able to reach the entire length of my mustache all the way down

And that's what gives it that nice, big, thick fullness. Now, I went to a barber once

and they trimmed it up with some sort of clippers, and I just didn't like it

So I like a nice big full mustache, and it takes a while because these top hairs

need to grow out until they reach the bottom. But this bottom line is very important

once your hairs are long enough. Now, I use my little trimmer

So a little trimmer head is very important. I don't use my wall trimmers that I use for everywhere else

because I need a short little trimmer distance here because there's lots of angles to get right

Also, my scissors, I use those and a comb, a fine tooth comb

And so first of all, I just start off, brushing the mustache down

Now I've got a mirror just, here so I can show you exactly what I do. But on the bottom line here, all I'm looking for is a continuous sweep

Now, I can do that with my trimmers, so I just make sure that I'm always sort of like

adhering to the top of my top lip. So just taking off the smallest amount possible, because I don't want to completely reshape

my mustache at this time. But one of the most tricky areas are right in the middle

And so what I do is, to get that right, is I put on a little smile

and the little smile just flattens out that curve a little bit, so it's much easy to see where it should join and the curvature

because it's an area where I have a huge amount of difficulty

And I got some in my mouth, but that's all right. It's off, my teeth. Oh, gross. Okay

I think I've got all. So now I've trimmed up this bottom line

The one check that I always do is with my bottom lip, I run my bottom lip over this mustache line and it really sensitive and it like the easiest way to make sure that all of the hairs are where you want them to be trimmed to and you can certainly detect any kind of

hairs that poke out from that line. So I do that with my bottom lip and

overall I think I'm happy with that. I can't feel any sort of like weird lines that are out of place and

the next thing is right in the corners here. Now I try not to go too far because I don't want to cut into this mass or

of hair here, but I do find that if I don't pay particular attention to this area when it's

trimmed up, it's the first area to get annoying. So I will just trim up some of the hairs

just a little bit, just to the corner of my mouth, and I'll do that on both sides. I have this

really weird, see-through, almost sort of like transparent hair here that always gets me

So, I'll always be very careful to make sure that I get that

Once again, check in with the bottom lip to make sure that there's no hairs out of place

And overall, I think I'm happy with that. The last check I do is I actually smile

Because I don't want a super long mustache and I want it to stay out of my mouth, I smile

And I can see that there are no, sort of, I use the contrast between my teeth and my hair

and I can see that there's no hairs that are like obviously longer than the rest

And there we have it. So we're just a small, narrow-headed trimmer and some scissors

We've just tidied up the bottom line, and it already feels much better

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it will be beneficial for you. Go check it out. Beard growing pro. Okay, the sides of the mustache, this bit here. Now, I once wanted a nice big fancy mustache

And one thing I found is that I didn't have the patience to push through it growing into my mouth

before I could wax it to the side. So I've kept it nice and short. Now that's not to say

I can't grow the sides here. So you can see that this is relatively long. But one thing I want

it to do is I want it to sort of flow nicely into my beard. Now, this is one area where I easily

forget to trim, and then what happens is it gets like bulky on the sides. And you can see it a little

bit there when it's just sort of like poking out. It's not part of the beard. And so one thing I like

to do is just sort of like splay it out with a little bit of the beard underneath. And then I just

get the scissors and I just sort of like take off some of those longer bits. And I do that on both

sides and I don't go too crazy but you can see already that it just flows nicely into the

line of the beard without it being sort of like bulky here because here you have a lot of

competing areas of growth Mustache the cheeks and the bit under the jaw here where it just starting to grow it can really get bulky and I want mine to flow nicely Now if you going for a nice fancy mustache you need to put up with that being a bit bulky and then you sort of like can curl it up to the sides

I've got a little bit of a long hair here. So I'm just going to trim it off to make sure that I don't have any sort of like weird long hairs and

always looking for symmetry, so always checking both sides at the same time. Overall, I don't do too much to the

sides, but there we are, it's flowing nicely into my beard. And if you have a shorter beard

actually, having a longer hair here looks really kind of cool, I think. You end up with this kind of

like bulky mustache that goes into stubble, and I think that fade does look kind of cool

you know, growing a beard stash, I think it's called. But yes, having a nice big bulky mustache

if you don't want the bulk here, you can still have a nice big, beefy mustache, and the way that

flows into your stubble or your beard underneath is completely up to you. But make sure that you do

get rid of that bulk so it flows nicely. All right, the top line of the mustache. This is a place where a

lot of people just ignore. And unfortunately, it is one of the most defining points of a mustache. Now

some people like to trim it relatively low. And I'm not to say that that's good, bad, it's just not

my style. So I like a nice full mustache, but I still have some issues because I have hairs that

kind of like escapes the top line. And you can see maybe up here that there's

a little bit of like asymmetry going on because I've got hairs that stick up here

Once again, very simple. I just use my scissors. So first of all, I want to make sure that

where my hair's growing, it's growing symmetrically. So I've got some hairs up here, always checking

Okay, we just got rid of those and I think that's much better. So now I got rid of this kind

of bulk that was up here. Looking at my nose hairs, now my nose hairs. Oh, as I'm, as I, as

I'm getting older, they are getting longer, they are getting wiry, they're getting crazy, but luckily

today there's none sticking out and I do like to have a definite distinction between my nose and my

mustache because, you know, I've seen those mustaches where the nose hairs kind of like flow into the

mustache and I'm not a huge fan of that. So I'd usually like to see a light little bit of skin, even a

small slither between my nose and my mustache and it's there, no issues. If I see any nose

hair throughout the week, boom, they're instantly gone, trimmed off, done. The last little thing

I do is with my single blade safety razor is I do just make sure that there's no stray hairs

There are one or two hairs on my face that grow above the line. Now I have to be so careful

because I don't want to cut into the mustache with this. This is why a single blade safety razor

is so much better than a cartridge multi-blade thing. So I just cut away very slowly until

until I get rid of those one or two hairs that sit above the line. And that it I got it Now the thing is about these single blade safety razors is that because they a single blade I can actually feel them cut They feel like a little bit of resistance and as long as I feel like those little nicks I all good to go

And on this side I don't have too many other than one that's quite higher up

And then just one or two that sit a little bit above that line. But overall, this is my problem side with the bulkiness up here and the little bit of

one or two hairs that escaped the top line, but overall, looking at symmetry, happy with that

and no nose hairs in mustache. All right, we're ready to go. The last little place is the

mustache notch. Now, I have full growth in the middle here, so I leave it alone, but there are

some people that like to cut a little notch into their mustache. Now, I'm not to say that's good

bad, or anything other than what it is, which is a mustache notch. Now, if you don't have much

growth here, feel free to sort of like kind of thin it out with some scissors just to make sure

that you have kind of a defined start to your beard. For me, this is nice and full in the middle

I leave it well alone. Sometimes I will, because you've got that kind of cleft in the middle

I will put two little notches either side just to follow that top lip line. Tiny, tiny, tiny

amount, not much. And then in the middle, I like to get rid of that bulk a little bit because

with that cleft kind of brings hairs together and so it can get a little bit bulkier than the rest

But overall, I leave it well alone, get rid of some of the bulk, maybe follow the two little notches

but try not to overdo it. I've overdone it in the past and it just looks a little bit awkward

But overall, final checks of the mustache after doing everything is that it's nice and symmetrical

looking in the mirror, nice, nice, nice. Bottom line is good. It's not tickling my bottom lip and the lip tells me

me that it's even, there's no weird bits sticking out. Teeth check

Oh, what's that? I got something in my teeth, you didn't tell me. Alright, we're all good, so there's no hairs sticking out that I can see

which means that when I smile for photos, there isn't that kind of fuzziness over my teeth

and sides nice and flush with the beard. A bit of wax wouldn't go amiss at this point, but overall, symmetry's good

lines are nice and tidy, haven't got any. any weird sort of like hairs that are escaping

Maybe I could take off this little bit, but I've decided to leave that just a little bit

oh yeah, because I risk cutting into my mustache this side a little bit more

Overall, there is what I do every fortnight. I hope it's helped

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