hi I'm coach Adam from boot coach comp and in this video I'm going to show you how to trim your mustache properly the inspiration for this video came from a gentleman who sent me an email via the contact link on the website desperately needing tips on how to trim his moustache so this one's for you buddy and hopefully it helps a lot of other people out as well ok so the first thing you need to keep in mind is there's two type of mustache trends we could talk about and I will get to both okay so the first is when you're going to keep some link to your mustache but you need to kind of get up off your lip it gets really annoying when your mustache kind of hangs down over your lip every time you take a sip of a drink it gets little beads above whatever you're drinking and the mustache drips down your shirt it's like Adam a pain so it's a good idea to sort of keep those hairs trimmed up along your lip line and that's really the secret is when you're trimming this thing just kind of follow you the natural contour of your upper lip I like to use a beard trimmer like this one I think it's nice because as these removable heads and this one is a little bit narrower for kind of easier access and control in that mustache area okay so like I said I'm just going to go in and I'm going to just follow the contour of my upper lip with this beard trimmer let's do it all right so now after you make your first pass it's a good idea just kind of brush your moustache a little bit really kind of stroke it down just to make sure you don't have any other hairs hanging down over your lip that you may have missed so take another look so I could do it a pretty good job here maybe touch up a spot and there we go that's really all it takes do you want to keep some link to your mustache you really just have to kind of go in and just just follow the contour of your leg okay so the second type of mustache trim you can have is when you want to shorten the whole thing up the whole thing is too long kind of weighing you down and you want it to be a nice sort of shorter length so when I do that I remove this head from my beard trimmer and replace it with the one that I use for my beard this one because it's kind of easy to control the length of your mustache that way so says nine settings I'm going to set it on setting six this little kind of leave a little bit of length so I'm sort of sacrificing it's nice longer mustache for you guys to teach you this lesson so I want to make it a little easier for it to grow back so hopefully a six will do it okay so kind of a secret to doing this right is is to know where your beard ends and your mustache begins and the way I do that is I just follow the upper line of my beard down trace it down my finger and sort of scoop up the hair up above that okay so anything above that line is mustache anything below that line is beard so you can see my hair is pretty long and I can actually kind of pick them up and sort of fit a mustache trimmer underneath them like that I can do it on the other side as well so that's sort of where I get started I kind of just followed the follow the contour of my beard pick it up get the get the Clippers up in there and then it's really just a matter of kind of running this thing over the whole mustache it does all the work of getting it even for you so let's knock it out you and there you go that's all it takes like I said the chamber does all the work you just have to be careful not to go too low into your beard and trim some of that precious beard hair off another good thing to do after you've got it all down give it give it another brush and take another look and see if anything is hanging over the lip that you don't want I come on and knock some of these little hairs off the corners down because those can kind of actually poke into bottom lip a little bit so it's kind of nice to sort of remove this whole guard and just get it down to the bare blade or you can switch back to your moustache attachment but I'm just going to kind of do this because I'm a pro at it nice oh you got to be careful not to cut your lip when you're doing that it's really just to knock those little hairs off the corner they get annoying someday you'll probably see what I'm talking about so that's it that's that's all there is to trim in a great mustache it's really just a matter of having the right tool I never really scissor trim my mustache because I have this thing I mean you can pick these things up anywhere it makes the job a lot easier so two types of trim one keeps the length one gets rid of it so there you go go get your clippers and get a nice looking mustache and be the best beard ambassador you can be until next time I'm coach Adam and hope to see check out vid coach comm