FACIAL HAIR. What is it? How? Why? Tonight, We Find Out. AKA VLAST0O0O0O!

[DragonAttack]

Anal once a year or more is worth the daily discomfort of the beard.....

(My apologies...my mind skipped over all of the other responses)

[Podaar]

Anal once a year or more is worth the daily discomfort of the beard.....

I just... uum... I don't know how to feel about this post.

[jingle.boy]

Anal once a year or more is worth the daily discomfort of the beard.....

I just... uum... I don't know how to feel about this post.

Butthurt?

[TAC]

You guys are weird.

[King Postwhore]

I'm like Vemon. Infecting everyone's grammar.

[The Walrus]

The beard butter is my new favorite thing. Wash, a little oil, finish with a little butter, you got a ridiculously soft, wonderfully scented beard.

[TAC]

I'm like Vemon. Infecting everyone's grammar.

You don't say...

[Indiscipline]

Liberation from shaving may be one of the few enjoyable outcomes about this work stoppage for me, but I'm a bit baffled by this beard care products thing.

Not judging anyone, but isn't not having to care for your face the whole point of letting a beard grow? 

[Podaar]

Not judging anyone, but isn't not having to care for your face the whole point of letting a beard grow? 

Nope. The whole point is having your beard smell like a pine forest dipped in patchouli.

[T-ski]

I haven't shaved my face since my last day of work, which was March 18th.

It has now been established that I cannot grow a manly beard. 

[The Walrus]

Not judging anyone, but isn't not having to care for your face the whole point of letting a beard grow? 

I get the joke, but I can't help myself: your beard feels better, it won't itch, it smells better, whoever you're kissing won't feel like they're macking on steel wool, and it even looks better. I work in a super dusty environment, though. Until I started taking actual care of my beard, it would get so itchy, and the difference has been like night and day.

At least, for me. My beard hairs are longer than the hair on the heads of most men. No EB level beard, certainly no Leland Sklar, but on its way. Goals, baby.

[Indiscipline]

Fair enough. I'm very uncivilised at heart 

[MirrorMask]

I haven't shaved my face since my last day of work, which was March 18th.

It has now been established that I cannot grow a manly beard.

I shaved mine 2 weeks and a day ago, it was the first time in 5 years. It's grown by now, but it's all messy and it's not thick at all. I have a lot of hair (not in length, but in volume), and my beard is so scarce - but I'm pretty sure many men at 40 who are in my inverted position (bald with a big beard) would gladly make the chance (or maybe not, who knows). I'm more than happy to completely have all of my hair now that I'm 40, without even the slightest hint of a thinning, but it sucks a bit that my beard is so scarce. Actually the goatee area is just fine, it's on the jaws and the on the cheeks that it grows way more scarcely, and it's also white-ish - the goatee and most of my hair are still dark, sure you can spot the grey here and there but I'm most definitively a dark haired man, you just can't call me gray.

I'll let it grow out for the third week at least, then I'll consider trimming it maybe.

I'd post pics clean shaven / with a full beard two weeks apart but the growth doesn't really look clear on pictures. Or maybe I can't take selfies and I'm not bothered enough to put the effort into making a decent pic of me anyway 

Feels good however to start out completely and totally shaven, and day by day feeling it grow longer.

[wolfking]

Not judging anyone, but isn't not having to care for your face the whole point of letting a beard grow? 

I thought that for a long time, but when I started taking care of it and grooming it and adding all the products, it just looks 100 times better, and more professional.  If you are serious about your beard, it's actually more work caring for it then shaving IMO.  Becuase you still need to trim it also every week. 

[jingle.boy]

Not judging anyone, but isn't not having to care for your face the whole point of letting a beard grow? 

I thought that for a long time, but when I started taking care of it and grooming it and adding all the products, it just looks 100 times better, and more professional.  If you are serious about your beard, it's actually more work caring for it then shaving IMO.  Becuase you still need to trim it also every week.

Not Katt.

[The Walrus]

I occasionally trim the very ends of mine but yeah mostly I just let it do its thing.  although, honestly, even that is way more enjoyable than shaving.

[wolfking]

I occasionally trim the very ends of mine but yeah mostly I just let it do its thing.  although, honestly, even that is way more enjoyable than shaving.

That's all I mean.  Any wild whispy hairs just take them back and make it all look tidy.

[JayOctavarium]

I've got the full beard going. Had a short one for a few months before all this, but now I've gone full blown "fuck it". Not going to trim it until either I go back to working, or my other half starts complaining about it

[T-ski]

Anyone else brave enough to post a pic? Five weeks with no shaving....

[King Postwhore]

I'm hoping in a few weeks my handlebar moustache will be ready to debut.

[JayOctavarium]

Not an amazing photo lol

Last time I trimmed (pretty damn short) was a few days before I was laid off for the first time on March 20th.

[TheSilentHam]

Never thought about the moral situations created by facial hair or the lack thereof.  Now that I think about it, I might consider a trial separation if my wife grows a beard.  It took me long enough to get used to the mustache.  (j.k.. somewhat)

[MirrorMask]

So, just for comparison.... me with a clean face for the first time in 5 years, versus me with 16 days of completely untamed and unkept beard growth

 

I hope you'll agree with me that with the bard it's slightly less horrible 

I was planning to refine it a bit after 2 weeks, but now I'm kinda curious to see how far it's going, since as you can see it's not exactly thick on the cheeks...

[Northern Lion]

I have been wearing a beard for about 7-9 years now.  7 without shaving.  I absolutely love it.  I think I look better and I can grow a pretty darn good one, so that helps me want to keep it.  Also, I wear it on the longer side most of the time.

On the subject of beard products, I've tried oil, balm and wax, I only kept using oil, although I do buy balm every once in a while.  I don't really care about the rest and wax too easily pulls my mustache hairs out.

I've been making my own beard oil for the past 4 years.  It saves me a ton of money.

For those of you who wonder about the utility of beard products, here is my story.  In my first few bearding years, my wife nicknamed me "Mr. Broom" because of my mustache.  I began to learn about beard oil and its benefits, and thought I'd give it a try.  After about a week after using it my wife stopped calling me Mr. Broom.  I am a believer in beard oil.

Over the last 2 years I've kept my sides shorter and my goatee long.  But since everything is locked down now, I thought I'd grow it all out again, so that's what I'm in the middle of doing.  I think I might go full on epic this time around.

I'll post a picture as soon as I get a chance.

[wolfking]

I have been wearing a beard for about 7-9 years now.  7 without shaving.  I absolutely love it.  I think I look better and I can grow a pretty darn good one, so that helps me want to keep it.  Also, I wear it on the longer side most of the time.

On the subject of beard products, I've tried oil, balm and wax, I only kept using oil, although I do buy balm every once in a while.  I don't really care about the rest and wax too easily pulls my mustache hairs out.

I've been making my own beard oil for the past 4 years.  It saves me a ton of money.

For those of you who wonder about the utility of beard products, here is my story.  In my first few bearding years, my wife nicknamed me "Mr. Broom" because of my mustache.  I began to learn about beard oil and its benefits, and thought I'd give it a try.  After about a week after using it my wife stopped calling me Mr. Broom.  I am a believer in beard oil.

Over the last 2 years I've kept my sides shorter and my goatee long.  But since everything is locked down now, I thought I'd grow it all out again, so that's what I'm in the middle of doing.  I think I might go full on epic this time around.

I'll post a picture as soon as I get a chance.

So....you are an actual lion then?

[Northern Lion]

I have been wearing a beard for about 7-9 years now.  7 without shaving.  I absolutely love it.  I think I look better and I can grow a pretty darn good one, so that helps me want to keep it.  Also, I wear it on the longer side most of the time.

On the subject of beard products, I've tried oil, balm and wax, I only kept using oil, although I do buy balm every once in a while.  I don't really care about the rest and wax too easily pulls my mustache hairs out.

I've been making my own beard oil for the past 4 years.  It saves me a ton of money.

For those of you who wonder about the utility of beard products, here is my story.  In my first few bearding years, my wife nicknamed me "Mr. Broom" because of my mustache.  I began to learn about beard oil and its benefits, and thought I'd give it a try.  After about a week after using it my wife stopped calling me Mr. Broom.  I am a believer in beard oil.

Over the last 2 years I've kept my sides shorter and my goatee long.  But since everything is locked down now, I thought I'd grow it all out again, so that's what I'm in the middle of doing.  I think I might go full on epic this time around.

I'll post a picture as soon as I get a chance.

So....you are an actual lion then?

, I look like one, that's for sure.

[wolfking]

 

[Northern Lion]

Alright, sorry it took me so long, here you go.



The sides are still a little bit on the short side and that's how I've worn it the past 2 years.  But I need a change and am going full epic again 

I want to shave my head as well, but my wife won't let me, for some reason she really likes the little hair I have left.

[wolfking]

Yeah, that's a nice looking beard mate.  When I grow mine, I also try and keep the sides shorter.  I just don't like the 'boofiness' when the sides are too long, it looks silly IMO.  Yours has great shape and makes a long beard look tamed and looked after.

[TAC]

What is that wire coming out of it? Does it light up?

[Northern Lion]

What is that wire coming out of it? Does it light up?

 , no that's my headphones wire.  I took this picture right before I was going to go into my workshop and build something.

[King Postwhore]

What is that wire coming out of it? Does it light up?

Only at Christmas Tim.  NL is one of those guys that leaves the lights up yearly. 

[Northern Lion]

What is that wire coming out of it? Does it light up?

Only at Christmas Tim.  NL is one of those guys that leaves the lights up yearly. 

 

[TAC]

From Northern Lion's Christmas card last year:

[The Walrus]

 

Here's a twofer, one of my face masks feat. kattbeard. I know I need to clean the sides up and trim the bottom, I'm just really fucking lazy, don't @ me.