Posted on 12/16/2018 4:30:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux
I have had a big bushy gray beard for the last 6 months...my women friends like it (or so they say) and the rest of my friends seem to stand in awe.
It is certainly an expression of an inner self...but what is that inner self saying?
I have learned to groom this bush without the help of barber. I did go to a beard barber once, but he never asked me where I was headed re: my beard.
We need a thread here on FR about beards.
Folks who have never had one cannot know the joy...and the pain.
Former Rep Bob Dornan shaved his beard because his wife said she was tired of being kissed by a Viking.
Agree, 100%. Beards need to be neat and trimmed!!! Short of Santa, no one looks good with a shaggy unkempt beard. You want to look like a caveman or crazy recluse or ignorant hick or Islamic terrorist, go for the untrimmed, long beard. Otherwise, be civilized and smart with a trimmed beard. Yes, I've had beards for 40+ years.
More than twenty posts and no one has said that Lenin had a beard, Gabby Hayes had whiskers. This place is slipping.
Beard to keep face warm, stop shaving in November by April, beard too hot, so shave.
Beard maintenance easy.
In awe?
That’s nausea.
...I’ve grown my beard since 1982!
n00b!
Ive had mine since 1978
...not to mention the fact that I’ve listened to ZZTop since they sported goattees
The last time I was clean-shaven was in 1979. Before that, I grew them and shaved them off and I had another one going when a woman I worked with asked me how long that one would last. I said a year. She said, yeah right, and we made a bet on it. If I shaved before a year, I had to take her to dinner. If I didn’t shave, she had to take me. I won.
It works for me. I let it grow longer when I was younger, and there is a photo of me around 1983 in which I resembled President Rutherford B. Hayes. I keep it more closely trimmed now, but I will let it grow a little longer in the winter. Almost no one who currently knows me has ever seen me clean-shaven, and those who have seen me probably don’t remember what I looked like. I wouldn’t recognize myself if I shaved it off, so I guess it’s there for good.
I am 71, and my wife passed away in June and she did not like beards. I had a beard on and off for years before I married her, so I decided to grow it back, 6 months later I look kind of like Santa Claus it’s all white and I get lots of compliments on it. I keep the hair on top of the number to clip so it’s short on top!
I love them on most men-muy macho-unless they don’t have a thick beard-in that case, they are better off clean shaven. Most of the guys out here wear facial hair-at least a mustache-and the full lumberjack beards are common-especially on guys with white hair. My 1st hubby wore a lumberjack beard in Winter, and just a mustache in Summer-my guy has a nice white mustache and beard-shorter trimmed than a lumberjack, but very attractive...
Gross, IMO.
They itch, they scratch, they harbor food other particles...just not my cup of tea.
This was a three months after my dad had died...I had been clean shaven for the funeral, but kind of just Let it go. I suspected it was the last time I might grow a beard, it made me a little crazy fidgeting with it, so I shaved it off in phases and and some fun with it:
It was kind of goofy fun, but I decided that was it for me. LOL, now I have zero hair on top...or the sides!
This woman agrees with you.
Me too. I shaved mine once and when I picked up my wife at the airport after a trip she actually didn't recognize me and practically screamed when I went to hug her. Like you, a new crop of facial hair was started immediately.
The few times I tried to grow out a beard at a younger age, It was pretty uniform and full, but when I was perhaps 24 I was playing dodgeball in a gym, and was the last one in.
I had just thrown myself to the ground to avoid a ball, rolled onto my stomach and looked up, only to see a ball sailing right at my upturned face.
I involuntarily ducked, slamming my chin into the floor, bashing it pretty well. It took a while to heal (no stiches) but when my beard began to grow in after that, it had these spots of white hair I didn’t like, so I didn’t grow one often after that except for an occasional short lived goatee.
For the last four years or so, when I shave, my entire head is covered with shaving cream except for eyes, mouth, and ears, and it all gets shaved off!
I believe that’s true.
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