Beard.
For the last year and a half, I have had a beard. In the colder months I would let it grow, only trimming when it got unwieldy, and in the summer I would keep it short and trimmed it regularly. I had to shave it off for work yesterday and I have made 3 observations.
First: If you have had a face full of fur for as long as some people have known you, there is a good chance that those people will not recognize you when they first see you clean shaven.
Second: If you have young relatives (read: less than 13 years of age), they will freak the eff out when they see you sans beard. Also some of your other relatives and friends may do so as well.
Third: My face is cold...
From these three observations I can now begin forming a conjecture for what I'd like to call the Evans Hypothesis of Facial Hair. You may expect a full dissertation complete with original research, conjecture and proof by November.
First: If you have had a face full of fur for as long as some people have known you, there is a good chance that those people will not recognize you when they first see you clean shaven.
Second: If you have young relatives (read: less than 13 years of age), they will freak the eff out when they see you sans beard. Also some of your other relatives and friends may do so as well.
Third: My face is cold...
From these three observations I can now begin forming a conjecture for what I'd like to call the Evans Hypothesis of Facial Hair. You may expect a full dissertation complete with original research, conjecture and proof by November.
Excellent. I expect this will be very informative for those of us who hopefully will never have beards.
I will admit I am curious as to what your conjecture will be and more importantly, how you will prove it. In the event that you require the use of statistics, keep in mind that you'll probably have a lot of variables to control.
-Albatross
I will admit I am curious as to what your conjecture will be and more importantly, how you will prove it. In the event that you require the use of statistics, keep in mind that you'll probably have a lot of variables to control.
-Albatross
Wear your beard like a lion wears his mane. Roar! Om nom nom nom refrigerated preprocessed foods!
I've never had a beard but I think it would be cool. It'd be awkward to get past that scuffy period when you have the beginnings of a beard and everyone will keep asking you "hey are you trying to grow a beard?" Whenever I go on holiday next (which will probably be ages...) I may use it to get a head start on beard growth.
You're better off. Facial hair (and body hair in general) is gross, dirty, and ugly.
99% of men (and I guess 100% of women) look better clean shaven than with facial hair.
Now if only shaving didn't suck so bad. I wish I could control whether or not specific hair could grow.
99% of men (and I guess 100% of women) look better clean shaven than with facial hair.
Now if only shaving didn't suck so bad. I wish I could control whether or not specific hair could grow.
I have a beard to, I would like to shave it but as xander337 pointed out kids freak out and my little one is in that catagory. It does bother me, after all hair is technically a waste product right?
If you have a beard, you can channel the spirit of Julius Belmont and do awesome martial arts! It's true!
I personally believe that only Unix programmers should be allowed to wear beards so that we can spot them easily.
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I think that's what you meant to say...
Hey, what do you against the hippies? Most of them are against hurting others and most of them don't even remember what they were against xD
I would presume beard are the hair that grows around your cheeks and chin? How about moustache? For some peculiar reason, some races have tendency to grow hair on certain facial area. I for one if left unshaved, the moustache will out-grow the beard. So strange!
Shaving isn't a bed of roses. Heard of razor-burn? Either I use wrong technique or my blade is of inferior quality :P
Shaving isn't a bed of roses. Heard of razor-burn? Either I use wrong technique or my blade is of inferior quality :P
| Hey, what do you against the hippies? |
Nothing. They're just dirty =P
| Shaving isn't a bed of roses. Heard of razor-burn? Either I use wrong technique or my blade is of inferior quality :P |
You and me both. I even splurge on expensive razors and replace them frequently. Still get razor burn. Nearly every damn time.
Fortunately at my current job I can get away with only shaving M/W/F. At my last time I had to shave 5 times a week. Ouch.
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Struggling to see the difference...
(note: I've done time as a Unix programmer... (note: Still not entirely clean shaven...))
| You and me both. I even splurge on expensive razors and replace them frequently. Still get razor burn. Nearly every damn time. |
The cheap brand is worst I have to slide a few times and the hair still there!!!! In the end I splurge a bit more on Gilette and it works wonder. Razor-burn get lesser but then later I found out Gilette shaver brand itself is split further into different models of different pricing. What single,two,three blade etc. Still I get razor-burn even if I apply a bit of soap water to reduce it.
Then I discover something. If I leave it for 2 days and then I shave, the cut is perfect and no razor-burn. So this lead me to conclude if your hair length is too short, the blade has a hard time finding a good grip to trim off I guess.
But one thing I have to admit, Gilette seems to stand well against all other inferior competitors. I guess their company splurge a lot of money doing R&D on how blade trim off hair to the most complete-ness.
| Then I discover something. If I leave it for 2 days and then I shave, the cut is perfect and no razor-burn. So this lead me to conclude if your hair length is too short, the blade has a hard time finding a good grip to trim off I guess. |
Not only that, but your skin has time to recover from the previous shave. Shaving is hard on the skin.
Having pale skin and dark hair like I do doesn't help. It makes it look like I always have a kind of 5 o'clock shadow. Although I hear that's a good combination for laser hair removal, which I've considered once or twice in the past, but never wanted to really look into it.
If it works that'd be awesome. Imagine not having to shave anymore.... mmmmmmm
I had a beard since I was like 16, everyone thought I was odd cause I had facial hair while everyone else my age were just starting to get facial hair. I didn't start shaving it til a year ago at my wife's request. She wanted to see what I looked like without it. Have kept it shaved or in a goatee since then.
Now since we men has a hard time struggling with our facial hair, I would presume ladies also face the same problem too. So what are their solutions? Waxing? Laser? All such stuff doesn't remove permanently correct?
I guess it is nature's call that homo sapiens like us are meant to have hair. We should live with it :)
I guess it is nature's call that homo sapiens like us are meant to have hair. We should live with it :)
Before I started to grow out the beard I started using a straight razor. First few weeks was pretty hellish. My face was positively butchered. Though after a while when I got the technique down it was the smoothest, most comfortable shave I've ever have.
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| ]Now since we men has a hard time struggling with our facial hair, I would presume ladies also face the same problem too. |
To a lesser extent. Facial hair grows faster and thicker than other body hair that women typically remove. Women don't need to shave every day like men do.
They do have to shave a larger surface area though, which sucks for them.
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| All such stuff doesn't remove permanently correct? |
I thought laser could be permanent, or at least was "very long lasting". I think the length it lasts depends on a number of factors.
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| I guess it is nature's call that homo sapiens like us are meant to have hair. We should live with it :) |
Screw that. It's an evolutionary left-over that we didn't grow out of yet. It serves no function in the modern world and serves only to make us less sanitary.
The way I see it... head hair, internal body hair (ears, nose), eyebrows, eyelashes, and anything else that actually has a functional purpose = good. Everything else... get rid of it.
Besides... smooth skin is sexy and attractive. Burly hair isn't.