I’ve had a beard for 18 years this time around, which is a personal record.
My beard won’t grow more than ¼", if even that much, then it starts to itch. I have to shave at least once a week.
I haven’t shaved my upper lip since 1973.
Sometime between August 1987 and December 2006, my testosterone kicked in. I tried growing a 'stache but it just wasn’t happening. My fiancée saw it, asked what that dirt was all over my upper lip. FINE!:mad:
Then for the hell of it about 2 years ago, I decided to skip shaving over the holidays. And it grew! I’m Mr. Goatee man now.
Tip to reduce itching: shampoo and conditioner for the facial hair, too.
Maybe 5-6 days. I don’t like shaving, but I hate having an itchy, pimply face even worse.
I had a full beard (trimmed) for over 20 years. Since then I’ve always had either a 'stache or a goatee. I haven’t seen my upper lip since 1963.
I went a month without shaving my senior year of college (out of sheer laziness); then, when I realized it had actually gotten long enough to do something with, I shaved it into a goatee just to see what it would look like. By the end of that day I was totally sold on it - both because I liked it and because I had received an insane amount of positive feedback on it from pretty much every friend and acquaintance I ran into that day (the ladies especially, which, of course, sealed the deal).
I shaved it off for Graduation Day, and haven’t shaved again since that day 13 years ago. I’m married now, and my wife has threatened (jokingly, I hope) to leave me if I ever shave it off, based entirely on old photos of me before the goatee.
Never had a full beard, though. I shave the rest of my face once a week (cause my work doesn’t care one way or the other).
I haven’t shaved in at least 15 years.
I’ve had a beard of moustache from the time I was 18 on, with a couple of short exceptions.
About three years. I trim my beard with scissors and keep it about two inches long.
The itching passes after a while. Dandruff shampoo, lotion, and a stiff-bristled brush all help.
3 weeks or so.
Usually I shave every morning, but if I’m having a rough time I skip it. (I lose motivation for non-essential maintenance, I lose momentum in the mornings and I’m so exhausted I use the time to sleep in). So my friends can judge my state of mind by the length of my stubble.
But the 3 weeks was in November. Everyone else was doing it, and I wanted to prove I could outstrip them all. I could, even giving them a week’s head start.
I had a full beard for about two years. It got to be too much of a pain to keep it trimmed, so I shaved it off. The mustache went about three years later.
31 years. 1977.
Wow, your beard and I are the same age.
Just over 36 years and counting (November 1972).
I’d rather just shave, thanks. Funny that I don’t have any itching problem with my mustache.
It’s like dendrochronology of the chin.
I haven’t shaved since Christmas vacation, 1964, so it is just short of 44 years. I had tried the previous summer, but it itched too much when I sweated. In the winter it went much better. I get it trimmed fairly short for summer and otherwise leave it a couple inches long. It gets trimmed when I get a haircut, between two and three months.
Apart from having mine for about 36 years and getting the hairdresser to trim it about every one to two months, I’m the same as Hari.
My husband’s last shave was in 1967. It’s chest length. He hasn’t mastered the ZZ Top look, but he’s got the Kris Kringle thing goin’ on. When we go to the mall this time of year, the children usually think he’s Santa Claus just checkin’ out who’s naughty or nice.
(Happy belated birthday!)