Trimming 101

The key to great facial hair: know the basics. These tips should be a foundation for how you prep, trim and manage your preferred style. Learn them. Apply them. Look your best, with help from Wahl trimmers .

How to use a taper lever on a Wahl hair clipper.

Style Selector

Test drive hair and facial hair styles with the Wahl Style Selector

A man with a beard.

How to Trim Your Beard

Trim your beard with your trimmer and guide combs. For detailing and cleaning up stray hairs, use your trimmer without a guide comb.

A man fading his beard with a Wahl trimmer.

How to Fade Your Beard

Use different guide comb lengths to achieve a faded beard look. Fading your beard keeps your beard hair in line and consistent.

A man lining his beard with a Wahl trimmer.

Lining Your Beard

To start lining your beard, begin trimming just above the Adam’s apple. This helps shape your beard.

A man with a long groomed curly beard

How to Trim (and Tame) a Curly Beard

Whether you embrace your curls or struggle to control them, a curly beard provides a certain fullness that many guys without curls would love to have.