Should i keep sideburns

All Grooming Lounge brand products are developed, tested and used daily in our luxury barbershops and spas. We guarantee you'll love 'em or your money back. Over the years, sideburns have wavered from crucial to wild to nearly non-existent and back again. Read on…. Sideburns usually look best when resting mid-ear. If your hair is short, it should be short everywhere. The length of sideburns can balance the other lines on your face.

Just like square-shaped sunglasses look better on guys with a round face, there are do's and don'ts with sideburns. As a general rule, they shouldn't extend much further than the midpoint of your ear.

Longer sideburns—that extend to the bottom of the ear—can help offset a long face or chin and they'll also help a round face look less so. Shorter sideburns that hit mid-ear look good if you have a weak chin or an oval face. For that reason, we classify short sideburns at the middle of the ear , long sideburns at the bottom of the ear , and medium sideburns between the two.

If figuring out your face shape will take too much time, there is an alternative. First, you will need to find the tragus. The tragus is the small pointy piece of cartilage that sticks out at the entrance to the ear canal see picture below. For the universal length, shave to the bottom of the tragus.

This is basically a medium length sideburn. There should not be an inverse relationship between sides and sideburns. In other words, long, bushy sideburns should not be paired with short, clean sides and vice versa. Rather, sideburns should blend nicely up into the sides. With most modern haircuts, sideburns will generally be tight to the face anyway. Never make the sideburn skinnier. Ears are often not symmetrical on the face, and one can be higher or lower than the other. Once you decide where you are going to trim one sideburn, trim it and place an index finger there.

Then, imagine a horizontal line running from the top of the finger, across the face to the other side. Natural is always the way. Even if throughout your whole life you never thought you had enough hair to fill in a sideburn, let whatever hair is there grow. Trust me, I can. Grow two hairs and I can form a sideburn. Teach others that having sideburns is crucial to life…for me it goes water, food, sideburns. You need to have sideburns. Posted at h in News by Erica Fleischman.