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Beauty & the Beard

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10:10 / 26.08.02

Having enjoyed my usual 'once every five years' stint of clean-shavenness, I've again decided that God intended my face to be hairy. I miss my goatee, my face has never stopped feeling naked without it, shaving takes longer, ZoCher feels disturbing like he's shagging a twelve-year old... the list of reasons is endless. I need my beard and I'm growing it back.

Thing is, my hair's fair enough that it takes me a good week to grow anything even vaguely recognisable as a beard. I'm on Day Four and it's doing that whole 'faintly unprofessional scruffy stubble' thing. I keep wanting to shave the damn thing off again, but I'm staying strong...

Assembled Barbeloids, male or female, what's your relationship with facial hair - on yourself and/or others?

11:16 / 26.08.02

As will be well known to some of yous, I have one of the least hirsute faces ever, and couldn't grow a beard if I wanted to. No great loss, IMHO.

11:22 / 26.08.02

I have no facial hair whatsoever. I mean, I have this thing that tries to pass as a thin moustache, but if washes off with water and soap. It keeps trying to grow, so I'm constantly trimming it in order to keep that "12-year look".
I have some stray whiskers right above my neck, too, they're kind of funny.

11:31 / 26.08.02

As some people know, I had a goatee for about five years, but shaved it off recently in a fit of boredom and haven't missed it at all. To be honest, it was actually far more work keeping it in order than being clean-shaven - after all, you still have to shave, just be a lot more selective.

I suggest growing an enormous Brian Blessed in which you can store food. You may need to dye it. A dye-job Brian Blessed, lovely.

I'm pretty neutral about all facial hair except nu-metal chin-only beards for which I have zero tolerance. Particularly when combined with a shaved head.

I had a girlfriend who had something of a problem with unwanted (facial and other) hair but I can't say I really cared that much. If you'd asked me beforehand, I'd have thought that I would have, but in practice it didn't seem to make much difference.

The Apple-Picker

12:21 / 26.08.02

Hm. I used to absolutely despise facial hair because I like to see face. But now I do think it looks good sometimes. As far as how it feels, I have the typical complaint--for me, it's not so fun for kissing and scratches all my skin.

But I couldn't imagine my French professor at DePauw without his lovely white beard. And he was one of the most attractive men that I've known.

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:22 / 26.08.02

I can't carry it off unless I'm fairly thin through the face. I haven't had a beard for a couple of years now - but I know there is photographic evidence of it. I just think it's not online.

I think.

I hope.

13:45 / 26.08.02

I'm gently prodding my darling one to grow some manner of facial hair. Mostly because at the end of the day, his scruff is like most people's Day Four. And I rather like the skin of my charming face where it is.

14:31 / 26.08.02

It comes and goes. I like the feel more than the look.

I'm hairy again too.

Could autumn be too far behind?

16:10 / 26.08.02

Y'know, someone's gonna have to link one's respective hirsuteness with Piratical or Ninjoid status. No pirate worth hir sea salt ever shaved, and conversely, for a ninja to sport facial hair was not only impractical (for it reduces the overall aerodynamics of the human form) but also to invite great dishonour.

16:21 / 26.08.02

I've definitely cemented my ninja allegiances, then, since not only have I just shaved my face, I just shaved my head as well.

16:26 / 26.08.02

I think goatee's look good.

On everyone.

17:02 / 26.08.02

Persevere baby elephant, "hairy" is the sexiest word in the English language. *licking lips right now*

17:46 / 26.08.02

..sort of developed a goatee and mustache over time and the coloring is a bit weird but it works. Light from the stache and it blends to a brown towards the bottom of the chin. The woman was wary at first but as soon as she did the cat marking routine with her cheek, she got hooked.

I feel bad for my uncle, his facial hair is all spotted with light and dark in bad places. However after a 6 month period of growing in he sported it quite well.

17:53 / 26.08.02

Problem I have with goatees is that, if you don't have much hair anyway, you end up with a very "Grand Vizier" look. Now, if you want to look like the bad guy from a Sinbad film, that's great, and I'm sure there are people what go for that. It's just not quite the image I like to present...

Matthew Fluxington

18:35 / 26.08.02

I tend to go clean-shaven, I don't grow beards, goatees, et al. I had a brief 'beard period' back in my first year of college, but that was mostly cos it was the first time in my life that I could grow one and so I did.

Lately, since I'm unemployed and don't get out much, I sometimes go for three or four days without shaving, giving me a bit of a stubble beard. But that's just out of laziness...

You know what I hate? I hate those thin, highly sculpted beard-lines that some chubby/fat guys grow to simulate a jawline - ugh. terrible. it's the chin equivalent of a combover...

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

18:48 / 26.08.02

I am currently sporting a goatee, mainly to keep myself from looking too androgynous.

19:16 / 26.08.02

I doubt could ever cope with the constant fear that it's a bit skew-whiff, infact how do you guys who do, deal with that?

19:20 / 26.08.02

'Edge' it really carefully, with a beard-trimmer - and then stop worrying about it for the rest of the day.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

19:27 / 26.08.02

I just shape it carefully with a razor. It's a pretty basic shape. Not as hard as balancing sideburns, even.

19:35 / 26.08.02

It taught me how to judge symmetry with my fingertips. I'd shave it either side in the shower, and then check it in the mirror, but after a while it hardly ever needed correcting. When it's wrong, though, it looks bloody stupid.

Murray Hamhandler

19:52 / 26.08.02

My hair on top is receding into something very closely resembling a toilet seat and therefore looks like crap if I grow it out, and shaving really irritates my face. So I kill two birds w/one stone by using clippers on my entire head, taking it all down to the finest of stubble. I usually do it every week or so, but you can tell how lazy I've been at any given time by the length of my hair (my beardy-area tends to grow out twice as quickly, strangely enough). I don't really have an opinion about facial hair in general, although I do shave my face completely every once in a while to achieve the 15-year-old look (as I've been told that I look up to ten years younger when I shave...which doesn't exactly jibe w/the male-pattern baldness, but oh well). Which, if w/in ten years time I still maintain the ability to look ten years younger when clean-shaven, will become quite a desirable trait, I'm sure.

20:36 / 26.08.02

Beard is Best!

I'm weak & shave it off from time to time, but I love hair on any part of the body in a big way. Russle Crowe in Gladiator... Mmmmmmm

20:39 / 26.08.02

Every man is made more shaggable by the growing of a goatee.

Full beards are tricky to pull off but, when done well, make me go weak at the knees.

mmmm...hairy......

21:02 / 26.08.02

Johnny's right about the problem with sideburns (and thank god someone who says it right, have to put up with people referring to them as side-boards, I mean, honestly, but I digress). Mine reach down to my jawline in a smooth column, but for some reason the left one is always wider than the right.

Which is a thought, I'm right handed (apart from when I use two hands in which case I'm left handed) and find it easier to shave the left hand side of my face. Now I imagine left handed people are the mirror image of me. Am I wrong?

Had a goatee for the past seven years, off and on. Adds a refined edge to my image when the hair is shaved down to a grade one. Plus can do "strokey-beard" gestures in response to friend's wild (and made up) stories without them realising I am taking the piss.

Have found over the years that each time I've whipped the beard off (sorry got images of a Dennis the Menace [the Beano version for our colonial cousins] pulling Dad's beard off) that when it grows back the lines between top lip and chin grow stronger and darker. When I started it was a poor show with flesh gaps either side of my lips. Now, when I can be bothered to get rid of the stuff on my cheecks, it's a fairly respectable connection.

One last thing - isn't skin really sensitive when you remove hair off it. Realised this last time I got rid of the goatee and my chin felt ever slight breath of wind or what have you for the next few hours.

21:25 / 26.08.02

i went a month without shaving last november during my 'dark period'. it was itchy as hell and when i decided to shave it it took over an hour and if the blade even touched my face it would become clogged. i usually sport the 1 to 2 day without shaving look, girls seem to like it most times.

21:34 / 26.08.02

Every man is made more shaggable by the growing of a goatee.

I'll second that. It why I grew one meself. Facial hair be a fine, fine thing.

21:34 / 26.08.02

I grew a goatee for hallowe'en four years ago (I was Macbeth) and had it until last summer when I worked in a salmon cannery (and had to shave due to health regulations. I'm glad it's gone now, and think I look better without it, but I will have a very large beard when I get a bit older.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:47 / 27.08.02

Warewulf: "Full beards are tricky to pull off..."

You're just not pulling hard enough.

I tend to prefer the "no-beard" look. Unfortunately, I'm very lazy, so I get the "crap beard" look instead.

10:06 / 27.08.02

I had red hair when I was young. Its mostly all light brown with redish highlights now but my sideburns (which Ive let grow into a beard) still come on red as all hell.

10:28 / 27.08.02

I worked in a salmon cannery (and had to shave due to health regulations

Couldn't you have had some sort of "beard-net"?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:04 / 27.08.02

I don't have a beard, largely because physical contact on the face is a very important emotional touchstone for me. If I can't feel my lover's skin with my face, I can't get close to them and I get grumpy and frustrated.

Go figure.

pointless and uncalled for

20:26 / 27.08.02

No good with my own facial hair. I've tried a couple of times to grow a goatee or even something like a Beecher variant but can't bring myself to live through the Fergal Sharkey stretch.

Mostly I find facial hair is boring unless the person is willing to go entirely Sam Jackson on it and give it some character beyond the plain folicle event.

Facial hair on women is very much a no thing for me. My apologies for the chronic objectification but I just can't get past it. The only exception to this would be the natural asian sideburny things. So very, very cute.

21:35 / 27.08.02

Ginger Beard?! /me runs to find his shagging pants...

21:46 / 27.08.02

had red hair when I was young. Its mostly all light brown with redish highlights now but my sideburns (which Ive let grow into a beard) still come on red as all hell.

Mines gone sort of opposite. Dark hair on top with ginger beard... Maybe its something to do with the scots or irish in me family tree...

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:56 / 27.08.02

Just quickly, I do think those "hey, who stole my moustache?" beards a-la Thomas Keneally should be banned. They're just creepy.

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