Now, here’s the most optimal advice for navigating specific body parts: How to Manage Chest Hairġ. As you trim slowly, you should have more control over the end result. This gets trickier with shorter hair, but there’s one good way to cheat: Use a fine-toothed comb as your guard, and comb against the grain to get the hairs to stand up-at the nipple, under the pecs, around the abs.

Again, don’t rush it-the slightest slip of the wrist could lead to the opposite problem (like a totally bare patch). Your body grooming device should come with a smaller detailing head too-even the nose-hair trimmer works well for this.

This is where you have to “eyeball” it, and go in without a guard to trim away the hairs that escaped the trimmer. It’s hard to get a uniform trim across the contours of the chest (especially since you might apply pressure differently). After the initial pass on the chest-and once you’ve settled on that desired length-you may notice a few patches.