{"id":156,"date":"2026-07-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/2026\/07\/30\/growing-a-beard-the-first-eight-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:00:00","slug":"growing-a-beard-the-first-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/2026\/07\/30\/growing-a-beard-the-first-eight-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a beard: the awkward first eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"fs-ca7515cc\">Weeks two to eight are where most beards die. The good news: the itch, the patches and the odd angles are all normal, and all temporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Weeks one to four: leave it alone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not trim, do not shape. Let everything grow so you can see what you are working with. Three drops of beard oil a day stops the itch before it starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Weeks four to six: first visit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Come in for a neckline and cheek line only. Setting the edges early makes a patchy beard look intentional while the rest catches up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Weeks six to eight: shape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we can talk shape. Balm keeps the flyaways down, and a beard sculpt every four weeks keeps it looking grown, not abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itchy, patchy and tempted to quit? Every good beard goes through it. Here is how to get to the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft"],"_flatsome_builder_edit_link":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/wp-admin\/index.php?page=flatsome-builder&postType=post&postId=156","_flatsome_builder_post_lock":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/barber\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}