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Last Updated: March 17, 2025

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  • Thinning Your Beard
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  • Creating the Fade Effect
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  • Caring for Your Beard
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  • Things You'll Need
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This article was co-authored by Juan Sabino. Juan Sabino is a Professional Barber and the Owner of Juan's Barber Shop, a barbershop based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Juan has over 20 years of male grooming experience and over eight years of professional barber experience. He specializes in combovers, barber fades, and tapers and is focused on improving men's overall wellness. This article has been viewed 78,393 times.

A faded beard is an attractive, put-together look that works for almost any face type. To fade your beard, you gradually trim the beard so it fades naturally into your other hair. This takes a little precision and you need to change the settings of your trimmers a few times during the process. With a little diligence, however, you'll be left with an attractive faded beard to enjoy.

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Thinning Your Beard

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  1. Step 1 Trim your beard... 1 Trim your beard to your desired length. To start, simply do a routine trimming. Take your shears and trim your beard like you normally would, snipping the ends so the beard is the rough length you want.
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 2 Set your trimmer to a lower setting and trim the bottom beard. You should target your beard just below the Adam's apple first. This is where you'll start to fade out the ends of your beard hair. Switch your trimmer to a lower setting than normal, like two or three, and trim the hair from your Adam's apple to neckline.[1] Advertisement
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 3 Finish off the beard on a two or one setting. Reduce the trimmer's setting to one of the lowest settings possible. Trim any remaining bits of beard below the Adam's apple and neckline. This will help finish off the gradient effect. You should also target any thinner areas around your cheeks.
  4. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 4 Tidy up your cheeks. Some scraggly hairs are usually left on the cheeks after you trim your beard. Remove the guard from your razor. Use it to remove any loose hairs that fall outside of your beard. You don't need to form a straight line with your razor if you're fading your beard. You just need to remove any hairs that fall far outside your natural beard.
  5. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 5 Trim your mustache. Keep your trimmer at the two or one setting. Use it to remove any bits of mustache falling over your lip.
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Creating the Fade Effect

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  1. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 1 Trim the longest section of your beard on the jawline. Look at how your beard runs along your jawline. Find the section where the hair is the longest. Set your trimmer to one of the lower settings (i.e., two or three) and start trimming on the longest section.
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 2 Move up an inch (2.5 centimeters) and shorten the trimmers. Focus on one side of your face at first. Move upward about an inch from the section where the hair is longest. Then, shorten the trimmer by one or two levels.
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 3 Move up another inch (2.5 centimeters) and shorten the trimmer. Continue to move up your beard. After moving up another inch, shorten the trimmer again.
  4. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 4 Continue until you reach your hair. Continue the pattern of shortening your trimmer and moving up an inch on your beard. Keep going until your beard meets the hair on your head. This should create a nice, faded effect.
  5. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 5 Repeat on the other side. Once one side of your beard is faded, repeat the exact process on the other side. Start on the area where your hair is longest on your jawline. Move the trimmer up an inch, shorten them, and then repeat this pattern until you reach your hair.
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Caring for Your Beard

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  1. Step 1 Trim your beard once a week. 1 Trim your beard once a week. Once your beard is where you want it length-wise, weekly trimming is necessary. This will maintain the faded look and prevent your beard from growing longer than you want.
  2. Step 2 Experiment with products until you find one that works for you. 2 Experiment with products until you find one that works for you. You should always apply a shaving cream or gel during the shaving process. However, it can take some experimentation to find a gel that works for you and keeps your skin moisturized. Experiment with a variety of products from a local drugstore until you find one that works for you.
    • You can buy travel sized products so you don't end up with too much of a product you dislike.
    • For sensitive skin, gels tend to work better than foams.
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Fade a Beard 3 Apply products to wet skin only. Before applying any product, such as moisturizer or gel, wet your skin. This helps raise your hairs slightly, which results in a smoother, cleaner shave.
  4. Step 4 Moisturize after shaving. 4 Moisturize after shaving. Shaving can leave skin under your beard dried out.[2] After a shave, apply a facial moisturizer to your face, targeting the skin under the beard especially.
    • It will take some experimentation to find the right moisturizer for you. Try buying a variety of travel-sized moisturizers so you try a small sample of a variety of moisturizers.
    • Gel-based moisturizers tend to work best for very oily skin.
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Things You'll Need

  • Beard trimmer
  • Moisturizer
  • Shaving cream

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.birchbox.com/magazine/article/how-to-trim-and-fade-your-beard-neckline
  2. ↑ Juan Sabino. Professional Barber. Expert Interview

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Juan Sabino Co-authored by: Juan Sabino Professional Barber This article was co-authored by Juan Sabino. Juan Sabino is a Professional Barber and the Owner of Juan's Barber Shop, a barbershop based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Juan has over 20 years of male grooming experience and over eight years of professional barber experience. He specializes in combovers, barber fades, and tapers and is focused on improving men's overall wellness. This article has been viewed 78,393 times. 8 votes - 28% Co-authors: 5 Updated: March 17, 2025 Views: 78,393 Categories: Beards Article SummaryX

To fade your beard, start by using scissors to trim the hair on your chin to your desired length. Next, grab your trimmer, using the lowest setting to trim below your Adam’s apple and to clean up any stray hairs on your cheeks. Switch to a 2 or a 3 to trim the area between your Adam’s apple and neckline, and to trim the longest hairs along your jawline. Then, switch to a 1 or a 2 to clean up any mustache hairs that fall over your lip. To learn how to touch up and care for your beard, keep reading! Did this summary help you?YesNo

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