Celebrity Stylist Aalim Hakim Shares Self-Grooming Beard Tips For Men At Home

Dear men everywhere, no matter how cool the lumberjack-esque look is, your beard needs grooming. No matter if you're attempting to grow your beard to flowing lengths or prefer sharp, neat lines at your jawline, getting your beard trimmed and shaved every week or so is a ritual never to break. However with the quarantine having you packed up at home, your usual standing appointment stands cancelled. With help from celebrity stylist Aalim Hakim, you can take matters literally into your own hands. Hairstylist to stars like Virat Kohli and Hrithik Roshan, Aalim shares his expert beard styles and grooming tips with us so that men can trim, style and groom their beards at home.

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Celebrity Beard Styles And Tips For Men From Aalim Hakim

Now is a better time than any to experiment with your beard, try a new look and see what suits your face. Gather your tools; pick up a good razor, comb, scissors, aftershave gel and keep the below tips handy to get the desired style.

1. Anchor Beard

To achieve this look, the soul patch and goatee at the chin will be connected to create an anchor shape. The corner of the anchor will be hugging the jaw line of the face, keeping the length and shape as required. You can keep your moustache in a pencil shape or a pyramid shape disconnected from your anchor beard. Shave with a gentle pressure to give yourself a close shave. After the complete process, wash your face with cold water and apply after shave lotion or balm as it is the best possible way to close your pores, soothe the skin and smell nice.

2. French Beard

Start shaving by moving inwards from the side locks towards the centre, leaving the beard around the mouth and chin area including the moustache. Smile to check the desired line for the French beard. Imagine a line that runs from the sides of your nose down the corner of your lips and shave everything in between that line and your ear, leaving the hair around the chin and moustache. You can experiment by leaving different lengths. Make sure the moustache and chin remain connected creating a square or round shape depending on the face shape.

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3. Handlebar Moustache

Start defining the shape of your handlebar moustache by following your lip line to the corner of your mouth and trimming in a downward direction, create clean edges and tidy up any stray hair around your handlebar moustache. Create a neat parting with rounded edges in the middle of your handlebar moustache. Give yourself a clean shave with your razor over the cheeks, chin and neck, taking extra care around your moustache.

4. Soul Patch

Clean shave the entire face while leaving a small downward facing triangle of hair below your lower lip that extends to a small spot above your chin. Your shaving strokes can be in a downward direction from the sideburns to the chin going through your neck. If you need an extra close shave, you can use strokes in an upward direction against the grain of your hair. Try different lengths with this look; a short soul patch can barely be noticeable while a long one can create an air of mystery

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