Beards!
Nuisance,
Godsend
or
Meh?
The picture above speaks 1000 words about how I feel about a full face of hairy goodness, but many of you don’t have the benefit of photography to express your beard feelings. Are you pro-beard? Anti-beard? Completely neutral like Switzerland on the subject of beards? Have you ever been mocked for having a beard? (I have.) Have you ever been mocked for NOT having a beard? (I have.) Do you resent having to shave, but do it anyway? Do you prefer how you look clean-shaven, but are just too lazy to make it a part of your daily routine? There are so many great beard questions! I should make this a weekly series*!
*Don’t worry, I won’t.
I love my husband’s beard! He keeps it very short and, most importantly, his skin is a lot happier that he isn’t running a razor across his face every day.
I’m growing the mo for movember along with my goatee and damn it’s bloody annoying n itchy!
My daughters seem more comfortable around other bearded guys even as tweens/teens. Growing up with Dad and most uncles with beards/goatees/mustaches made that a mark of an approachable guy…..We got to avoid the santa fear too.
Last shaved off my beard 3 days before my 18th B’day….’bout 35 years ago. If I did I doubt my wife or kids would recognize me……
I was popped in the mouth with a cue ball and covered the scar with that 80s pornstar stache into the 21st century-” What are you a poor man’s Matt Houston” Came home from work clean shaven one and my son, in his hi-chair freaked…, some of the best parenting I ever did was covering my mouth with my hand and talking to him…
Like anything else, it looks good on some people and not so good on others.
I used to work at a place where men had to be either clean-shaven or with a beard or goatee. Having stubble was unacceptable. That still seems like a totally asinine policy to me. Why is a full beard acceptable but stubble is not?
I am oftentimes the beard in platonic relationships. But if I had the choice of how all men wear their facial fuzz, I would say the sexiest thing is always the 5 o’clock shadow. It means he’s rugged but he takes the time to shave. I won’t find any surprise food in his “shadow.” If he complains about my hairy region, I can point to his shadow and then shrug and raise my eyebrow and he has lost the argument/validity of his original complaint. Depending on my mood, I can either praise the shadow or I can deflect my anger… Read more »
I am unashamedly pro-beard. Here’s to Movember all year round!
Been with my company 9 years and finally was able to grow my van dyke back in at this last Burning Man (2 weeks of no shaving, sigh). I enjoy it. My boss said it makes me look more responsible but he’s an old hippie and I think he was fighting a strong attraction to my sexiness. Nothing beats stroking your whiskers in public
With the onset of my sons shaving & the little bastards stealing my shave cream I’ve been sporting a beard almost continuously for the past 3 years…
The problem being they not only worked their faces but their bodies too- I entered puberty worried that I wouldn’t have a hairy chest, they seem to have worried about having one- that uses up a lot of shaving cream and razor cartridges…
If I could get away with it I would have my head and face shaved at the barber every week or 2…
Goatee all the way! It takes work to keep it looking neat and trim, but people think you’re very cosmopolitan. Or a poet. Or an evil genius. I’m all of those things (except for the poet). Also, I get a lot of ingrown hairs around my lips when I shave that area regularly, so this is a good compromise.