Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm full of polls today.

You should start a specialist website. There are all kind of fetishists around nowadays.

Stubble, as I hate shaving and do it as infrequently as I can get away with - but won't grow a beard as they make you look like paedofiddlers.

Non-designer stubble.

Can we go for "unshaven" as well as designer stubble, as there is no design to my face fungus - I just rarely if ever clean shave preferring to trim down to about a number 1 about once a week or less.

I've been wanting to do these polls for ages, never bothered, couldn't decide which to do, decided to do both.

NEW TOPIC FRENZY.

Much as I would love a Captain Price out of CoD4 giant tache... it would take forever to grow and itch like hell while it did... and the missus complains of the 'face grater' effect.

What about the option "I couldn't really care less, sometimes I shave and other times I let it grow out.".

I keep trying for a full-on Drummer From Thousandswilldie type beard, but it's too ginger and I get embarrassed.

A ginger beard is a sign of extreme manliness.

"Never trust a man, be he friend or brother, whose hair is one colour and his beard another".

Wise, wise words.

Hahaha - is that a real quote?

My beard needs trimming, but its manliness pleases me greatly.

[Edited for misuse of apostrophe. Bad Kern]

Yes. It's in quotation marks and everything.

I have grey hairs in my beard, but none in my head hair.

I also have some ginger, especially in my 'tache, and none on my head.

Oh, no, I am one of them gingers, now I've stopped being a goff and dying it. Unfortunately my hair has reacted by pretty much leaping from my scalp in tufts; I'll have a Devin Townsend skullet by winter.

I don't like men with facial hair because I have sensitive skin. Craig's brother's friend once gave me a 'hello, nice to meet you' kiss on the cheek and it felt like he had taken half of my skin off. If I wanted to feel that every time someone gave me a kiss I'd just go and smooch a doormat.

Also, I specifically don't like goatee beards. They look particularly silly on most larger men - it's like they are trying to give the impression of a chin/jawline when their natural one has been consumed by the fat around their necks.

See here:



One step further and they'll be colouring their neck/chin line black a-la Boy George to try and give the impression of a jawline:

Boy George really shouldn't have hired the painter and decorator to install his shower.

Maria likes me when I have a bit of stubble for appearance... but I have incredibly abrasive facial hair, so it's not good for anything else.

72 bananas

I'm currently sporting the full doss, but I basically have the appearance of a tall infant (ok, foetus), and you can still see wee bits of skin through the beard around the cheeks, so I don't quite look like I've quaffed the blood of several Christians at Lindisfarne yet.

I must still be An Boy.

PEDANT MODE. The top picture is a Van Dyke. So, Beard and Tache = Van Dyke. Just beard = Goatee.

I can't go without shaving for more than 48 hours - IT BURNS! IT BURNS!

I have a Claypole beard.

What about where the beard doesn't meet up with the 'tache?

I went for designer stubble, since it's the closest option for me. In actual fact, my facial fur is simply locked into a permanent 5 o' clock shadow that simply will not fuck off no matter how regularly I shave (usually every day or every other day, depending on stubble severity).

You are Ryan Giggs AICMFP.

I'm in this situation where it takes me 2-3 days to build up a half decent stubble, so if I know I'm going out Friday night, I'll shave Wednesday night etc. I think it might be worth investing in an electric razor. In fact, can anyone recommend a good one which cuts at different lengths? £50 max?

I shave (my face) every day without fail. I dislike facial hair on myself. I wish it would go away and stop bothering me by growing and causing such a nuisance.

The burning is to weed out the men from the boys. It must be endured to achieve manliness.

Malc

What burning?

Seriously, if your face itches with a beard, your face is somehow broken and you should seek help. Shaving is far more irritating.

Fresh young beards can be itchy at first.

No. They're fucking annoying. Besides, if I have a beard, then I'll look like a thin Comic Book Guy. And that would be the Worst. Thing. Ever.

I was 20 when I first started mine. Lies and slander!

Or possibly I was just lucky. But my point still stands. Because I said so.

I voted designer stubble

designer stubble = can only be bothered to run a beard trimmer over my face once every 3 days.

Also if anyone leaves it too long how do you feel about the tash hairs that basically curl into your mouth, and eating any semi viscous food while this is happening?

They don't do that, because they'll have been trimmed or just bitten off by then anyway.

My is kind of in limbo... my facial hair goes from ear to ear, so it's too big to be a goatee, but it isn't thick enough for me to really vote for the "full manly beard" option... although I guess it is a "proper" beard. I have a lot of 'designer' stubble to go with it too, although it usually creeps into the realm of messy non-designer stubble for a while before I get around to shaving it and starting over again.

So I'm not voting yet.

Ange hates it when I shave my beard off because my face is weird-looking.

Doesn't your hair cover it anyway?

Exactly this.

And on the rare occasions that i'm completely clean shaven i look about 14 years old and become a laughing stock.

Bears are excellent. Down with non-beards.

I'll give you £10 if you walk right up to a Kodiak and compliment him on his facial fuzz.

(I'll bring my camera for the Kodiak moment joke here)

I have a luxury 9 inch long beard with side attachment flanges and interesting crop circles.

You believe? You mean you don't know for sure?

Well, you know what middle-aged men are like with women.




Ha! I hadn't thought of calling them that before. My crazy forein ex used to call them 'meadows'. The crazy foreign.