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When do we start calling each other "The Bearded Gnome"?

Personally I think beards and most styles of facial hair are sexy.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
I got gray on my head, gray in my beard, gray on my chest, gray...let's not go there.

You know you are getting old when…

Right there with you

Better grey than bald. Got a couple friends that are younger than me that already have MPB showing.

It’s a fight: Greying vs. Balding! Whoever wins, we loose.

I’m personally getting quite thin up top, but have managed to retain most of my color. Greying at the temples and other odd places though, so the race is still on.

chaos0xomega wrote:
I have five o'clock shadow even after I just finish shaving, even if I do a 3 step shave with a straight razor.

I feel the pain. I tried using a straight razor once bit it was just too much of a learning curve and I didn't want to slice my face to pieces any more than was necessary (I do that enough with disposables).

I have to do the whole "with, across, against" the grain thing and even then I start getting some shadow back within a couple hours. Plus I wear out razors like nobody's business

And I'm starting to have a pretty impressive bald spot. Had it practically since I was a teenager. .All my head hair moved to my face or something...

I wear it similar to this best of both worlds

I should have grey popping up here and there but it is not at all, so I got that going for me I guess.

Nah screw that, it's all about 'man-scaping'.

I'm going to keep doing the same thing I've always done: trim it down so that it looks like I haven't shaved in a day or so, and keep it at that length. Any shorter and I look like I'm a freakin' teenager again, any longer and it immediately becomes apparent that I have the thinnest facial hair imaginable. And if you can't grow a thick beard, there's no point bothering.

I really don't like the feeling of a beard, so clean shaven it is. Most I let it get is a few days of stubble.

My wife insists on my beard. Personally, I think I look better with a goatee to show off my nicely square jaw, but she makes the rules.

Also, my head hair is brown but my beard is red. This has led to a lot of positive attention and some verrrrrrrry creepy attention.

 Frazzled wrote:
I have slavic genes. We instantly grow beards better then we grow food. Afternoon shadow for us is a beard that would make Moses jealous.

I'm the same way. I can shave baby smooth and if I don't like the look, I'll be fine in 2 or 3 days time. This whole beard trend is annoying and I blame shows like duck dynasty and other popular bearded memes for its popularity. I've worn a beard since I was 16 and could grow one. Since I'm a genuine bearded man, ill just wait it out and continue on my bearded way.



Funny enough I just "shaved" last night for the first time in years. And by shaved I mean an attachment on a shaving kit that left a shortened beard

A Beard also helps hide the double and triple chin, so it has practical applications.

You sayin I'm fat?!?

I'm talking about my beard!

Shut yo mouth!

Sorry, I thought we were doing a Shaft remix...

I can't stand facial hair, so I purge it every morning.

Stubble is pretty much my status quo these days. There was a time I shaved every day for work. Then it became every other day, then every other day-ish. I get a good, even stubble, so it looks okay. And hell, I'm a creative professional...I don't need to be clean-shaven for work like a sales guy or something. I could definitely grow a full beard without any trouble, but then I'd probably want to trim it. Stubble is the state at which I feel the most in tune with my slack.

Keep my face clean shaven (sometimes I let myself go a bit and don't shave for a few days), unfortunately it makes me look 16 when I'm actually 21 but my theory is anyone who is short and young like I am looks a lot younger than they are.

I'm keeping my mutton chops/goatee combo. That's all there is to it.

Hah.

I stay clean-shaven. Girls love it, especially because they don't have prickly, wiry hairs poking them when we make out. They can see my sexy cheek bones and powerful, muscular jaw clench and create shadow along my face. Turns them on like crazy. Combine this with my swarthy Italian good looks and symmetrical facial arrangement, and this is a recipe for ladies to STARE at me. Men too, they be so jelly.

Facial hair has not existed in my family for generations just as tending towards lankish boyish builds has and I wouldn't have it any other way.

A good looking man will look good, regardless of his beard.
An ugly man will look messed up, regardless of his beard.

Until the trend in beards turns really, really hard one way or another to the point where one of "beard" or "no beard" becomes completely unacceptable, it probably doesn't matter what you do with your facial hair. Height, Body Fat %, facial symmetry and your mannerisms are all going to drown it out anyway.

Me every spring:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
I got gray on my head, gray in my beard, gray on my chest, gray...let's not go there.

You know you are getting old when…

Right there with you

Better grey than bald. Got a couple friends that are younger than me that already have MPB showing.

You aren't kidding. Not a grey hair on my head. But I started going bald at thirteen.

That's not a misprint. THIRTEEN.

Words of advice boys: no matter what color it is, just be happy it's there.

 gunslingerpro wrote:

Words of advice boys: no matter what color it is, just be happy it's there.

That's what I tell my wife when she makes fun of it or tells me to cut it. There may be grey and more than you want, but at least it's there and in enough quantity to play with as you tend to do.

She consoles herself with the compromise that I don't have it to my waist anymore. She may not like it shoulder length, but she prefers it to the pony tail.

I am required to stay clean shaven for work... Silly gas masks.

I like the feeling of a few days worth of stubble, but I'm not allowed to. Good order and discipline or something.

Every ninety-six, I lock myself in my room and and grow it out for the sake of it though.

I have to have my beard. As I'm going bald up top I shave my head, without my facial hair my head would look like a giant baked potato.

Just be sure you know the difference....

Goatee


Van Dyke


They are NOT the same thing.

I have a pretty decent beard coming in. I've been working outside a lot in Minnesota and I found the beard was highly useful in preventing sunburns, not getting my face scratched up when I get smacked with a branch for the 37th time, and the ever helpful "not freezing to death".

I've been trying to keep it nice and trimmed though. May start thinking it a bit soon. Its getting super thick.

I get a lot of compliments for it for some reason. Considering my other possible looks are baby faced or punk goattee, I think I'll stick with the beard.

While I despise shaving with a passion due to having the most sensitive skin on the face of the planet I don't think I could make myself grow a beard. While I'm sure it would look pretty awesome it would probably age me by a decade and I plan on staying 20 for quite a long time...