A thread about facial hair

aderack · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY

How many people here can actually grow it without looking ridiculous?

For my part, I'm kind of impressed that, suddenly, the hairs are starting to appear close enough together to pass as a semblance of a beard and mustache. What gaps there are -- those being mostly on the lower lip -- are pleasing enough as to almost look sculpted.

It's a minor revelation!

Felix · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:59 pm

i can do a reasonable respectable beard and stache, although i can't connect the two if you get what i mean, in order to compensate for which i have to keep the stache very nice and narrow or else it begins to look like i can't grow the proper facial hair.

stotelheim · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:03 pm

I've got a pretty good goatee going on, but I doubt I could rock the 'stache. Though maybe I'd like to someday, just to be a dick.
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Martial Loh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Location: London, UK

I could probably grow a good Clark Gable moustache.
The hairs on my chinny chin chin don't work at all though.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:21 pm

I am rocking the full beard and stache right now myself. I don't mind it. My stache has the problem of having what i call the "power alley", that being the thing in the middle of it under my nose where no hair grows. This is also know as the broken ring of power.

Cryo · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Columbia, MD

I'm rockin the 'stache, at least as much as I can while conforming with grooming regulations.
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another god · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

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I guess if I tried hard enough I could, but it'd have to be wacky because it sure ain't gonna look nice.
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Martial Loh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Location: London, UK

Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

I might as well be asian given how terrible my facial hair looks. Really spread out and thick black on the chin and upper lip. I look pretty disgusting when I can't shave for a week due to inconvenient acne.

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I'm fifteen so the only facial hair I am capable of cultivating is a wispy little smear of shit on my upper lip. I wish I weren't so lazy so that I could just get rid of the damned thing. I worked up the motivation once but ended up just cutting my face up because no one ever taught me how to shave correctly.

Predator Goose · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Location: Oversensitive Pedantic Ninny

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I'd too-often be mistaken for a girl if I didn't have facial hair.

Also, yeah, Patsy, I'd kinda recommend just going lolismooth until you can grow enough for it to matter. And ya might as well learn the shaving thing now rather than later.
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Legal Step · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:31 pm

I can grow a beard and I did. I hate shaving.
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Agent Orange · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

After YEARS with quite a crazy goatee, two girls convinced me to trim it back. I did but since my neck is quite meaty, I needed something to accentuate my chin-line. So while I was messin' with it anyways, I grew a short but full beard. Got nothing but compliments so far but unfortunately it doesn't seem to improve my actual mating chances.

New Beard - Old beard

stotelheim · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:51 pm

shrugtheironteacup · *man of tomorrow* Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: a meat

I sort of have an infant head. Growing a full beard out of pure laziness gave it something sort of like a chin and now I will never go back.
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Mikey · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: endless backlog

I'm Italian so my facial hair can get out of control pretty quickly, in fact:

This is the most facial hair I've ever let myself grow, because it starts to get itchy past this point. Also:

I've seen people criticize this character design by saying "Dude, it is totally impossible to grow hair on your cheekbones like that." I am here to tell you that this is not true. Unless I pass a razor of that part of my face once a day, I slowly start to grow those wicked frontburns you see in the picture above. Only it doesn't look as good. It sort of makes me look like a lycanthrope of some sort.

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

smartblue · Ph. D in Awesome Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I think I look good with a beard. Dunno if the ladies dig it though.

Mr Mustache · Mean Mr. Mustache Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Bushwick

I maintain a short and well-groomed beard.
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Predator Goose · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Location: Oversensitive Pedantic Ninny

another god · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Does anyone here wetshave? I hear it's fantastic in a awesome granddad way. Not like "omg let's be cool" grandpa, but like war vet yet still really fucking nice grandpa. That wetshaves.

Btw, I don't understand how people can cut themselves w/ safety blades or especially electric shavers. Jesus.
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stotelheim · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:13 pm

I've recently started doing the classic wetshave, with, you know, oldschool shaving soap, a safety razor, a brush and what have you.

I'm getting way better at using the classic DE razor, and I think in just a week or so I'll be in a position where I simply cannot go back to a Mach 3 with the newschool gel.

so basically yes i recommend it to each and every one of you fuckers with any kind of stubble or hair growth on your face at all
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potato · Joined: 17 Dec 2006

i use the mach 3 :>

asian, but i'm lucky enough to grow hair on my chin enough to make a beard
nothing on my sides though
and i'm not sure if i can grow a decent mustache or not since i always shave that part immediately
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Renfrew · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:53 pm

I can grow side burns and neckhair, with a very sparse mustache. I usually shave the mustache and the neck hair, but leave the part right under my chin, to make it look like I can grow hair on my chin.
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parkbench · Joined: 12 Dec 2006

I fucking hate all of you who were blessed with the genes to grow a beard. So much.

Check out my barely-goatee <--. It's hard to tell, but if it isn't there, it's more noticeable.
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CubaLibre · the road lawyer Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Balmer

Full beard/stache. I keep it relatively short and well-groomed, though. Workin in an office 'n errythang.

I am lucky. My father once tried to grow a mustache. After three weeks he was eating dinner and his sister leaned across the table, squiting. "Are... are you trying to grow a mustache?" He's shaved daily ever since.
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PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

Yeah I've got a rather thin beard with what I think is a very nice blend of light and dark brown/some red colors in it. I regularly shave though about 2/3 of the time I'm rocking a one or two-day stubble look. I would grow it out but it's not quiiiite at the point where the stache and cheeks are connected and it's pretty sparse in patches so I'm not confident it would look good. Also I would rather do it when I have a couple weeks off to grow it so I don't have to subject people in my life to the shitty stages.
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haircute · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:40 pm

I get to the point where I have facial hair crawling up towards my eye. In fact, I won't shave until this coming Monday just to see how bad it gets.

I had a goatee once but I just really dislike facial hair...
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RecessRapist · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Well I can grow a decent goatee(nothing big , though) and i wouldnt know if i could grow a beard, because if I dont shave for a day or two i start looking scruffy as hell and panic and shave immediately.

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fR0I8sPRw

John Mayer, shaving, circa 1999.
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Takashi · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

At the moment of conception, I was gifted with the amazing gene of the hobo-beard. In less than 72 hours unshaved, I feel and look like I should board a wagon train. I don't even have any "gracious" moment, when the facial hair is somewhat lovingly rugged. It's instantly creepy as hell after 24 hours. Also, it literally destroys a Mach 3 blade in a week if I shave daily.
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CubaLibre · the road lawyer Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Balmer

Yeah, my hair (and eyes) are mud-colored, with a tiny bit of blonderish around some of the edges, from when I was four years old and platinum blonde. My beard, though, is a crazy mix of mostly brown, strong dashes of black, bits of blonde and red lowlights. It sounds nutty but I get compliments on it, so hey.
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GrimmSweeper · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Canada

However slowly my facial grows in, I'll never have anything better than a 'shadow' for the upper lip and chin, which takes about 3 days to grow in and about 3 or 4 to drift towards ugly. Black does not go well with blond.

And irritatingly enough I get little patches of blond hair everywhere else.

yellowoystercult · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I've had a full beard and 'stache for three years now. I used to let it grow out long and all mountain man-like, but the missus put an end to that.

The nice part about my facial hair is its color. My hair is brown, but the beard is a bright red color. Observe:

Recently I've been tossing around the idea of doing the "friendly mutton chops," which involves mutton chops, a mustache, and nothing on the chin. It's what immediately comes to mind when I think of Civil War generals. Thoughts?