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Marlon Rivas

Facial Hair Specialist

Marlon Rivas is a Barber and Owner of MGX Professional Men's Grooming, a barbershop based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also the founder of Busystyle.com, a service that provides online scheduling services to businesses in the barbering and beauty industry. Marlon has over 15 years of experience in managing and providing barber services.

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Tips on how to grow a full beard, fast?
So if you're really trying to grow a beard, just see what it does on its own for a few weeks. And then if you like how it grows in, maintain it by edging up areas that you don't want it to grow in to give it a uniform shape. One thing to keep in mind is hair grows in various stages. Some hairs grow back immediately after a clean shave, but some take a few more weeks to grow and fill in patchy spots. Give it at least a month to see how your beard grows.

If you're a person with a more rounded face shape, you should wear your beard a little bit tighter in the area where it grows by the ears. In the cheekbone areas, trim it down with a slightly more of a blend so the face doesn't look as round. If you're a person with a slimmer face, you might want to have your beard a little bit fuller in the cheek area so your face fills in a little bit more.

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