You can now buy professional clippers to use at home for great prices and more gents are trimming their beards at home, because if you need a beard trim every week it could be getting quite expensive visiting your barber. To create a smooth fade from your hair to your beard, you simply need to start with the number on the clippers that matches your hair. So if you have a number 2 on the sides, go for the number 2 on the clippers and just start high up where the hair meets the beard. Then you need to go a little lower with a number 3, and a little lower after that with a number 4. If your beard is very long at the bottom and you like it that way—many guys do right now— then you can trim the bottom part with scissors. The fade is easy to do at home, but it does require a calm hand as well as patience.