Facial Hair: Yea or Nay

I’m getting a little bored with my look, so I’m thinking of growing a beard (full beard - not a goatee). I have salt and pepper colored hair (getting saltier by the day) and my beard will probably be a mix as well. I’ll continue to shave the cheeks since they grow in a little spotty, and the neck up to the jaw line.

So, ladies, what’s the general feeling out there? Is facial hair a plus or minus?

At the rate my beard grows, I should be able to complete this project by the end of the week, so there’s no big deal if it doesn’t work out.

Depends on the guy. I just looked at your pic on the People Pages again, and ye gods! I think you would probably look sexy as hell with a beard.

I am too lazy to go look at your picture on the People Pages. Grow the facial hair. See how you like it. Wear it around for a little while. See how others like it.

Seriously, it’s your face. Why are you asking a bunch of people who can’t see you? :stuck_out_tongue: I have no general opinion on men’s facial hair. Some people look great with it, some people look like Teen Wolf. It makes kissing all interesting and stuff.

It looks good, but my Dad has a full beard and I can’t date guys with facial hair…it freaks me out.

Hey, I just went to the People Pages and I’ll take you right now AS IS!!!

Although not a lady, I am recently embearded. I love them, they’re fun to play with, keep you warm, and require little maintenance (I trim my cheeks and only shave my neck to my collar line).

The only downside is they make eating soup an interesting experience. :wink:

I love beards. And yeah, my dad has one, but it doesn’t freak me out.

Go for it!

How about a satan goatee for me? :wink:

Totally, Maeglin. I can see it. Go for it! Please?

I echo the “Go for it” for plnnr too. It’s your face, if you don’t like it, shave it!

There’s <ahem> another downside. :wink:

Put me in the “It depends – try it” camp. Mr. S has a beard. He looks goofy without it (slightly weak chin) and sexy as all get-out with it. It feels wonderful (read into that what you will) and makes him look distinguished with those little gray scatterings here and there.

Grooming is a must, however. Keep it trimmed and clean, please. I once worked with a guy who was known behind his back as “Cup-o-Soup” because, as the legend went, you could dunk his beard in a cup of hot water for three minutes and get, well, soup. Ewwwwwwww.

I am, in general, opposed to full beards and lone mustaches, but in favor of goatees and Hetfields (“The Hetfield” being a term I have coined for having a somewhat lengthy mini-beard, only as wide as your actual chin - like the bottom part of a goatee - but longer, and unaccompanied by mustache. So called because James Hetfield of Metallica had one for quite some time). Most of the guys I know look real bad when they grow full beards. However, I know some guys who can pull it off well. So really, I’d have to join in the chorus and say try it and see.

I’ve had facial hair for eight years. I don’t have the whiskers for a full beard. For seven years I had a Van Dyke, but last year I shaved off the connecting parts at the corners of my mouth and just had a Mustache and a Goatee.

A few months ago I shaved off the mustache too and now just have a goatee.

Now, you may wonder what relevance this story has to your musings. One word will explain it all.

“Pussy-tickler.”

I’ve had a beard for about 18 months. It’s great and it makes me look like an adult. And as noted, it’s easy to fix if it doesn’t work out.

–Cliffy

Thanks for the input (and to the two lovelys who paid such nice compliments - extra thanks. I wasn’t hunting for an ego stroke, but they’re great to get none-the-less).

I wasn’t so much interested in how I’d look personally, but rather what the general impressions were about facial hair. My dear mother, for instance, hates it in any shape or form (“It makes your face look dirty.” Hmmmm…ok).

We’ll see in a few days.

don’t be surprised if the color is different. When I was little, my dad grew a beard. Salt and pepper hair, the beard came in full, luxuriant - and snow white… (he kept it a while anyway)

You mean, like Uncle Sam’s beard?

Most of the guy’s I’ve known with beards grew them to conceal a small chin. I’ve been growing beards and shaving them off since I was 16, and everybody’s surprised, the first time they see me without one, to find out that I’ve got a chin.