Grooming
Good grooming is not just about your rabbit looking good. It's mainly about keeping your rabbit healthy. Brushing and combing removes dead hair that your rabbit could accidentally lick or swallow. Rabbits are like cats in terms of keeping their coat spotless with consistent self grooming. They are constantly licking their fur or smoothing it with their paws. So make sure that you are brushing your rabbit. However, removing shed fur isn't the only reason to groom your rabbit. Rabbit fur that isn't groomed can form mats, deep tangled lumps in fur, which not only look terrible, but can cause skin irritation, itchiness, and more. If you want to keep your rabbit's fur looking beautiful and soft, than keep it clean. Good grooming also includes keeping your rabbit's nails at a good length. Overgrown nails are not only bad for your carpet, they can be really painful for a rabbit to walk on. Especially if your rabbit catches it on something and it tears. Which is why you should you should trim your rabbit's nails every so often.
When you are brushing your rabbit, you need to be sitting on a flat surface next to him. Gently brush the fur from under his ears to his back. Do this a couple of times and then give your rabbit a treat for good behavior. You should be brushing your rabbit about once a week. This helps keep your rabbit calm and helps him get used to being brushed. Brushing should be relatively simple but trimming your rabbit's nails can be much harder. Make sure that your rabbit is comfortable and set him next to you. Gently lift a nail and squeeze the trimmer. Your rabbit's nails should be trimmed about once a month to keep them at a good length and should not be cut all at once. After you cut the nails on one paw, wait a couple of minutes before you cut the next. Your rabbit could get restless or scared if you do them all at once. You should be cutting the nail on the cut line which is in the middle of the nail between the quick line and the end of the nail. The quick line is the part of a rabbit's nail where live tissue is growing. It is the dark patch of nail at the top that is a little darker than the rest of the nail. Don't cut the nail to short or it may start bleeding. If this happens, take a little bit of cornstarch and stuff it up the nail. The cornstarch should help stop the bleeding.
Grooming Tools
In order to groom your rabbit properly, you need certain tools. For short haired rabbits like the Netherland Dwarf or New Zealand White, you need a small shedding brush for collecting loose hair, a soft brush for smoothing the hair, and a small scissor type clipper. But for Long haired rabbits like the Angora or American Fuzzy Lop, you need a flee comb, which penetrates deep fur, a shedding blade that collects extra fur, a regular dull tooth wire comb, and a guillotine style trimmer.