Wahl 9947-801 Instruction Manual page 11

TRIMMING YOUR BEARD
WASH UP
1.Make sure your hands and fingernails are scrubbed clean as possible
before touching your face. Irritated skin is easily infected by germs.
2.Wash and dry your face thoroughly to unclog pores and whisker follicles.
Use a rough towel to help remove dead skin. Also consider using an
antiseptic lotion
BRUSH UP
3.Brush your beard thoroughly every day with a good scrubbing action.
This is important because it frees ingrown whiskers and moves the rest
around so they do not take hold and start growing in. Use the special
pre-shave brush provided or any other small, stiff-bristle brush that can
be sanitized (a toothbrush is fine). Keep the brush clean.
4.Brush your face as often as possible to start training your beard to grow
in one direction. This goes along way to ensuring a clean, close shave
without skin irritation (you may even want to stop shaving all together
long enough to establish a brushing pattern). Most people can expect
good results following these brushing strokes:
• Brush down from each ear, across the cheek
and along the jawbone towards the chin.
• Brush away from the point of the chin, on each
side, back along the lines just under the jawbone.
• Brush up from the lower hairline, all around the
neck, up to the lines of the previous stroke.
• Brush from the lower lip down towards the chin.
• Brush down from the nose to the upper lip.
5.Shave with WHAT A SHAVER following the SAME STROKES and going
in the SAME DIRECTION you brushed. Stretch a selection of skin with
the fingers of one hand, while holding the shaver blade flat against
the face with the other hand. Push it forward with slight pressure in a
stroking action across the skin. You may want to go over the same area
several times. Just be sure you always shave in the same direction each
time.
Battery/Rechargeable Trimmer
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