Posted on 12/16/2018 4:30:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Me, too. I’m a seasonal beard grower.
That first day in the Spring with no beard sure is COLD.
1-2 cm. here.
My beard claims dominence.
While not genetically gifted like some Scot, I make what I have work the best it can.
Made many mistakes, but after three years they have grown out for most part.
First rule: Be patient. Let the thing grow.
If you never had beard before, yours is your own. People have bald spots, hairs growing every which way.
You beard has to be cut or trimmed in it own particular way. Most faces are not symetrical. It is up to your beard to make it so. There are all kinds of youtube vids. telling you how to cut a beard, but different beards require different techniques. Do the wrong one and it will look like crap.
Got a profile like a cue tip? Grow a beard for that classic jaw.
For christs sake don’t cut a chin strap. You’ll look like an asshole.
BTW, women come up to my consistently and compliment the beard.
I have a handsome face and would never cover it up with a beard.
A while back I grew a mustache for movember and the women at work were giving me grief.
Scruffy is the way to go.... I went that way after I got out of the army fifty years ago...
I grew a Stache and goatee in my late forties to hide a double chin. It is now a beautiful silver/white. I keep it neatly trimmed. The women I know, outside of my sisters, love it, and in fact all the men in the family, but one have followed my lead.
Big bush gray beards look good if they are kept neat.
For the love of mike, use a conditioner.
And you have to have the body type. If you are husky you look like Santa. Skinny guys can not carry the look off very well.
I am very glad your cancer is gone.
I, too, was diagnosed with a lymphoma this year. Mine, also, appears to be gone.
I grew a beard and started to look like an 19th century Civil War general.
That sure beats any suggestive thing I was gonna do...
Yep. Need something like ground hog day or farmers almanac for beards. Too soon and you freeze or wait and sweat unnecessarily.
I’ve had this beard for a very long, long time.
I grew it, originally, in 1978. My son was born in September, 1978. I shaved it off in the spring of 1980. When I came out of the bathroom, after the ‘deed’, he screamed like I had two heads.
Grew it back, and I’ve had it ever since.
I keep it trimmed neatly, with neck and upper portions of the cheeks shaved. I fancy it’s a bit of Kenny Rogers meets Pierce Brosnan.
Not likely to get rid of it, though. Son is too old to start screaming like a little girl...
Shave it off only if it is white, because it will make you look older. That is my reason for going through the daily hassle of shaving. If the beard has color, keep it but trim it and groom it so you do not look like a mountain man.
My husband has had a beard for the 35+ years I’ve known him..but it’s very neatly trimmed, and now white. Not a fan of bushy beards.
I got Colonel Sanders.
Back in the ‘80s I sported a mullet.
I burned all the photographic evidence.
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