I come home after a really horrible day and discover that my husband has shaved off all his facial hair.
He looks three.
My expression gave me away.
Life isn’t good.
I’m sorry. Friend of mine shaved his beard off a few months ago. I saw him later that day:
“I know, I look I’m twelve.”
“Yup.”
My current guy is adorable, but I think he’d look like a toddler without his beard. Cute little baby cheeks.
I grew a beard in college, and one day late in my senior year, I decided to shave it off. I did so, and though I did keep the moustache, I absolutely could not believe how small my chin looked. I thought I looked like a diffident sheep. But I did get used to it. I imagine js will get used to seeing her husband that way, too. Eventually.
I did grow the beard back around 1993 and have kept it ever since.
My boyfriend once came back from a vacation with his hair bleached white. THAT took some getting used to. But eventually I decided I liked it.
Ooh, I sympathize. My ex-husband suddenly shaved his moustache and goatee, on the night we were going to a concert with my boss and his wife. I was shocked to discover that my ex had the smallest mouth ever. Like, a one-inch mouth on a normal-sized face. I never noticed it with the moustache. And he looked fatter without facial hair. Not a good thing. I doubt that I hid my reaction all that well, but I tried.
My second husband was Italian, olive complexion, and thick dark hair, the kind that grows noticibly right behind the razor. When we met and for 3 years after, he sported a thick, moustache (did I spell that right?)
One day, he called me at work and suggested we go out to dinner, and that if I’d swing by, he’d be waiting outside.
It seems he had inadvertently shaved off his identity.
I cruised right by him twice. He had to step into the street, where I nearly ran him down, before I realized I’d fallen through several parallel universes into the one with this other “him” in it…
Luckily, it was back in a week.
My wife, after seeing me for the first time without facial hair:
“Grow it back! Now!”
Ah, the joys of having Facial air. The best thing about having a goatee is that people know when I’m thinking without me having to say anything. :: Stokes Beard :: Yeah, that’s it.
Mr. S had just grown in his full beard when I first met him 17 years ago. He’s shaved it off exactly twice since then.
The first time was shortly after I met him. We were co-workers at the time, and all us wimmins at work begged him to grow it back right away. Thankfully he did.
The second time was a few years ago when he dressed in drag for a Halloween party. I couldn’t look him in the eye until he had at least a decent layer of stubble to simulate the beard. It was like living with a stranger and creeped me out just a little bit. It was a little better whenever he was talking, so that I could hear his voice and reassure myself that it was really him.
Fortunately he prefers to have the beard – hates shaving and has a slightly weak chin. He looks a little goofy without it, and rather handsome (in his quirky way) with it. He also has a habit of playing with it when he’s thinking that’s utterly charming (at least to me).
(Perhaps it also reminds me of my dear departed grandpa, who used to give me “whisker rubs,” which I loved, even when I was all grown up.)
Dang. I sure wish I could grow my beard back, but I’m working in a building with about 3,000 other guys, and I think about five of them have beards, and two have long hair, so we wouldn’t want to go against the grain of the Corporate Culture, now, would we?
I kinda hate the midwest sometimes.
man, I have such a facial hair fetish. I think there are like two guys in the world who look good without it, and one of them’s Brad Pitt (and he still looks better with it).
when I was dating my most recent ex, he used to playfully threaten to shave his facial hair entirely if I did something displeasing. I would then not-so-playfully threaten to withhold all adult recreation until it came back. needless to say, he never shaved.
I also think I converted FinnAgain. 
Your beard is on fire? Maybe you better stop stoking it. I just grew mine back - it tends to go in half-yearly cycles: I shave it off in summer when it gets warm enough to start itching, then grow it back when it gets cooler.
Count me in the “clean-shaven fan” camp.
I have more hair on my arms than Ivylad has on his entire body. When he doesn’t shave it looks scruffy and moth-eaten. I prefer his nice smooth cheek (and his hair-free chest…mmmmm)
I love it when my husband shaves. Prickles on my skin don’t feel very good to me. He’s handsome no matter what he does, though.
I love his body hair, though, because it’s so nice and soft. It’s like squeezing a teddy bear. Smooosh!
I’ve tried to grow a beard, but I can’t. The hair appears to stop dead in its tracks after about a week, which would be fine if it was long enough to look like a coherent whole. However, it isn’t, and it makes me look like a slob who hasn’t shaved in a week. You beard-growers, you know any tricks?
Yes, my husband, I discover, has a tiny cupid’s bow mouth. He is the Gerber baby, only taller.
MY wife can’t stand me having any facial hair. I can’t say as I blaime her.
See, I have a Summer Beard.
Summer here and summer over here and summer up here
My boyfriend changes his facial hair incredibly often. It drives him absolutely nuts, but I just don’t notice anymore. All the different permutations look ‘normal’, so I can never tell when he has changed something.
One that I didn’t like was the Wolverine sideburns. He tells me that as soon as I move away in September (temporarily, for school), he’s going to regrow them as consolation.
I’ve never known DeHusband without some sort of facial hair. When he was in the military, he had a moustache. Since then, he has had a beard or a goatee. The only time I protested was when he tried to grow a Fu-Manchu. <<shudder>>
Every time he goes out to New Mexico to visit his mother, she tries to get him to shave it all off. That he has such a pretty face that it’s a sin to cover it up. (If he was clean-shaven, it would feel like I was committing adultery. :eek:)
I think that’s so sweet! Hehe “whisker rubs”, gotta tell the SO.
And I like the SO without facial hair when we’re cuddling because being impaled on those razor-like spikes hurt! But once it grows out a bit, he seems more distinguished and he’s sexy in a sophisticated way - think Sean Connery - rowr! I still prefer him without facial hair so we can get as close as we’d like without myself “OW! your face hurts!”