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Tom E wrote:Hey , webwzrd, I think there are a few things at play here. First, when I wear my beard without the braid it takes a MUCH larger bead or band to contain it. For that I use one of the elastic bands I mentioned in my reply to metallic1 above. I simply stretch the band between two fingers on one hand, coax the beard to a point, and whip on the band very near the bottom. Th elastic band does all the work in that case. When I wear the braid the hair is already packed well enough that a bead can fit without damage (at least I hope). That's when I thread it through using the floss as I mentioned. I must say too that your beard looks denser at the bottom than mine (read loads of jealousy here) so you may need a bigger bead than I anyway. The bead you see me wearing in these photos has a 5/16" opening. I simply braid the bottom couple of inches of my beard, pull it through with the floss, and then slide the bead up, place the holder where I want the bead to sit, slide the bead back down, and I'm done. When I braid my full beard it's a different matter entirely as that requires either a very loose, big tie - about 1" in diameter - or that I braid it down to something that can accommodate a bead near the end, the latter of which still needs a pretty big bead compared to what you see in the photo.
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Tom E wrote:Beard ties, at least for me, are something I couldn't do without now. Try picking up a pack of transparent ones at Walmart or some similar store. You get 400 or so (no exaggeration there!) for a couple of bucks!
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