Gah! Why the hell did I think you were a girl this whole time? Now I’m gonna be acting like there’s spiders on me for the next ten minutes. Wait, you are saying that you’re a guy right? I need to check people’s profiles once in a while.
Me too. I use no guard for my head and goat. That’s probably the most metrosexual thing I’ve ever done. I gotta say though that a tightly trimmed goatee is pretty damn tight looking.
I think the girls at work are not-so-subtley dropping hints about the shaved head though. I just prefer shaving the head with no guard, it makes it easier to catch missed spots. That and it’s much less suffocating in summer.
Full beard for, what, 27 years now. Earlier on, I didn’t have the moustache - mine’s uncomfortable because it tries to grow up my nose and tickles. This is stupid - ladies, imagine having your mouth and nose located in your scalp. But the C. Everett Koop look generated too many questions about whether I was in some sort of weird religious group or something, so I gave in to fashion.
My reason for growing it is the terrible ingrown-hair acne I get with any method of shaving I’ve tried, including disposable and straight razors, electric shavers, and the depilatory creams they make for black men. I wish there weren’t any fashion statements involved either way.
I’ve had a moustache for probably 25 of the last 30 years, generally the bushy Lech Walesa / Wild West look. I’ve generally had jobs which prohibited beards and tolerated moustaches.
For 3 years I had a huge fuzzy ZZ-Top beard & matching long hair. When I shaved it off (for a job again) my wife was disappointed; she said she liked it since it hid so much more of my face. :rolleyes:
Now I’m clean-shaven and my weekend stubble comes in patchy gray like an old dog’s muzzle, so I’m not sure I’m willing to grow a beard even though the current job allows it. Once I’m old enough to be comfortable with the all-gray look I’ll probably do a neat full-face beard again for the duration.
I think some men look good with 'em and boys definitely do NOT. Yuck.
A quick survey of friends found that girls my age (young women) prefer BF’s to go without extra bodily hair while I’ve noticed women that are around mid twenties to mid-thirties are indifferent or partial to hairy chests while women who are 30+ find Wolfmen are their version of sex-on-a-stick.
I do know a fourteen year old who is about 6 feet tall with thick dark hair on his top lip. He looks like a dork. :rolleyes:
Look, I bathe once a week whether I think I need it or not. Now, you want me to do it even more?
Sheesh! Soap doesn’t grow on trees ya know.
Last week Susan said that she thought I’d look good with a closely-cropped beard (not one of Santa Claus proportions), so I’ve been letting it grow in. I still shave my neck and cheeks, but everything else is growing.
It, too, is increasingly grey. Much more salt than pepper.
<sigh>
Male. No beard. Occasional mustache. Used to also sometimes have a goat-tee (sp)
Once tried to grow a beard, but my facial hair was too sparse and I looked stupid.
I guess I’m the minority here. I dislike facial hair of any kind. I’m not a fan of chest hair either, so I guess it’s no surprise. If my friends or family prefer to grow moustaches/goatees/beards/voluminous chest hair, they’ve got my support. However, I prefer that my SO does not (and luckily for me, he couldn’t grow a beard without a few gallons of Rogaine :)).
I said it once in a similar thread a few years back, and I’ll say it again: I think goatees look like pussies. It makes me giggle to watch someone with a goatee speak, because I think he looks like a talking pussy. Isn’t that great?