Some Beards

[thekungfury]

Men with beards can converse here.

[Damien Thorn]

Excellent. Perhaps we could start with a beard roll call? A register, but not like that.

I grew a beard over Christmas, and it's still there.

[Bodhi]

I want to grow a beard, I just don't have the hairiness required.

I'll enjoy your beard exploits though.

[spast1kunt]

I am a beardy man.

[Careless Whisperer]

My beard comes and goes as it pleases. Honestly, it uses my face like a hotel.

Anyway, currently it is on vacation, but it will return!

[CJ+]

I sort of do. It's more that shaving is something that I can't be arsed to do. It's short and not at all hipsterish.

It's also grey as fcuk and getting greyer, especially towards the jaw joint/ear area.

ETA: I have been forbidden from shaving it off by 'er indoors.

Also! My brother-in-law grew a beard after many years of resisting, shaved it off, and then had to grow it back because his small daughters refused to accept him as their father without it. One of them actually cried when he emerged from the bathroom, smooth of face. And it wasn't even as if they'd never seen him clean-shaven; they were 5 and 7 when he grew it.

[DI Burnside]

I sort of do. It's more that shaving is something that I can't be arsed to do. It's short and not at all hipsterish.

It's also grey as fcuk and getting greyer, especially towards the jaw joint/ear area.

ETA: I have been forbidden from shaving it off by 'er indoors.

Snap. This has been me for knocking on 20 years now.

[spast1kunt]

Also! My brother-in-law grew a beard after many years of resisting, shaved it off, and then had to grow it back because his small daughters refused to accept him as their father without it. One of them actually cried when he emerged from the bathroom, smooth of face. And it wasn't even as if they'd never seen him clean-shaven; they were 5 and 7 when he grew it.

My friend's sister did this!

Her Dad came downstairs to breakfast without the moustache he'd had for several years and she promptly burst into tears crying "I want my Daddy back". He didn't grow the moustache back though, he just let her live with the trauma.

[thekungfury]

I don't trust men with beards. What are they hiding?

I'm about 2wks into mine and I'm not fully convinced. Too wiry atm, esp on the tache.

[Il Duce]

Beards.

Corbyn. Sugar. Edmonds. LaBeouf. Gandalf. Beckham. Timberlake.

But.
Garcia, Eastwood, Morrison, Bonham, Pai Mai (kill bill), Norris,

But.
Hipsters.


Verdict: shite

[Damien Thorn]

If you're citing positive/negative beardxamples, I think this makes a strong beard case -

[thekungfury]

That's not the look I'm going for. He looks like he'd smell of bins and desperation.

[thekungfury]

Bonham

I hate her.

[minimoog]

That's not the look I'm going for. He looks like he'd smell of bins and desperation.

Agreed. This is more like it IMO

[Damien Thorn]

Well have to agree to disagree. I like a beard that looks like it's there because there was no stopping it, instead of one that looks like it's been highly cultivated.

e: also, because I suspect I'll end up with a straggly salt & pepper mess like what Jeff Bridges done growed in that picture.

[Disastrous]

This is my sort of default position (taken for a work thing recently):



It's currently shorter because I tend to let it grow out and then run bare clippers over it back to stubble every week. So it's now midweeek and it's between the above and stubble. It's got grey bits at my chin.

[Il Duce]

It accentuates your moon-like forehead.

[Disastrous]

It accentuates your moon-like forehead.

All the best people have big foreheads. It shows power yet humility.

ETA - I've just noticed it makes look as if I have no external ear whatsoever, which is more odd!

[thekungfury]

Well have to agree to disagree. I like a beard that looks like it's there because there was no stopping it, instead of one that looks like it's been highly cultivated.

I don't like cultivated at all but Bridges looks like he lives near a bayou and has scars from a gator. Mine will be somewhere in the middle.

eta forex I'm shaving part of my neck unlike you and Dis.

[Il Duce]

It accentuates your moon-like forehead.

All the best people have big foreheads. It shows power yet humility.

ETA - I've just noticed it makes look as if I have no external ear whatsoever, which is more odd!

It makes you look like Gerry Adams.

[Disastrous]

You're spending too much time looking at me tbh.

Not hatin', just statin'.


Can you all post some pics instead of just typing what your beard might be like, ffs.

[Dirk]

This is my sort of default position (taken for a work thing recently):



It's currently shorter because I tend to let it grow out and then run bare clippers over it back to stubble every week. So it's now midweeek and it's between the above and stubble. It's got grey bits at my chin.

If my hair was receding that much, I'd probably grow a beard too

[Disastrous]

This is my sort of default position (taken for a work thing recently):



It's currently shorter because I tend to let it grow out and then run bare clippers over it back to stubble every week. So it's now midweeek and it's between the above and stubble. It's got grey bits at my chin.

If my hair was receding that much, I'd probably grow a beard too

Been like that forever, I'm afraid. No signs of recession though I keep a close watch.

What's your hair like Dirk?

[thekungfury]

Can you all post some pics instead of just typing what your beard might be like, ffs.

Can't for opspec reasons. Certainly not publically.

We (new beard people) welcome advice you may have.

[DI Burnside]

No way are you lot getting a full facial from me !

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[thekungfury]

[Disastrous]

Can you all post some pics instead of just typing what your beard might be like, ffs.

Can't for opspec reasons. Certainly not publically.

We (new beard people) welcome advice you may have.

Honestly, I don't really do anything with mine.

I think it becomes weathered and powerful all on it's own. You know how women need to wear makeup and moisturise and stuff because their faces are basically shit, and yet men don't because they aren't? It's the same. If you pamper your beard it will turn into a woman's face and you'll need to keep pampering it.

Leave it alone and it will become forged of iron and be healthy and lustrous and all that stuff without intervention. I just wash it normally as part of my face and don't moisturise or a-thing.

[Joesnow]

Before beards were the thing, I noticed that as a beard wearer, you'd sometimes meet eyes or even have an indistinct nod from other men with beards. Now the world has caught up, this has changed. They're everywhere.
Winter wear for me (although its 10degC where we are)

[DI Burnside]

Can you all post some pics instead of just typing what your beard might be like, ffs.

Can't for opspec reasons. Certainly not publically.

We (new beard people) welcome advice you may have.

Honestly, I don't really do anything with mine.

I think it becomes weathered and powerful all on it's own. You know how women need to wear makeup and moisturise and stuff because their faces are basically shit, and yet men don't because they aren't? It's the same. If you pamper your beard it will turn into a woman's face and you'll need to keep pampering it.

Leave it alone and it will become forged of iron and be healthy and lustrous and all that stuff without intervention. I just wash it normally as part of my face and don't moisturise or a-thing.

Same. Pretty sure mine is actually bulletproof now. A bit superfluous maybe as obv my jaw is anyway but that's just me, and other proper beardos.

[Käsemeister]

I've never creamed my beard in 20 years.