This thread got me thinking about how ladies feel about a man’s facial hair. I have some of my own notions about facial hair based on my opinions and those of friends and acquaintances, but I want a wider sampling, with preferences and ages just to see how it correlates.
Thanks ladies!
I am 24 and picked clean shaven. Actually I prefer a bit of overall stubble to freshly shaved, and don’t mind a full beard too much.
I hate patches of hair. This covers mustaches, goatees, soul patches, and mutton chops.
A little stubble can be okay visually, but if you’re gonna be touching me at all, clean shaven please. I don’t like the feel of facial hair, and stubble can be downright painful.
I don’t really have blanket likes or dislikes when it comes to facial hair–it depends on the guy.
I checked other, baby boomer, though I am on the young edge of the boom.
Oh my god, this is my ultimate turn on we are talking about, now! Full beard!
But! It has to be rough and…fluffy, I guess. Not short and squat. Very important.
So, it should look like this. Not this.
Geezus Krist, a great beard does it for me everytime. Sexy with dread locks, equally sexy with a bald head. Mmm!
ETA: I am 35, and I didn’t start liking beards until I was about 25.
Must be clean and well groomed, but I love me some beard.
It’s multiple choice… pick all that you like!
Personally, I like either clean shaven or a goatee. A mustache only creeps me out (too much like my dad!) and I’ve never really been a huge fan of the full beard.
My fiance seems to like the scruffy look… not that he thinks it looks good, but that he doesn’t like to shave.
ETA: Thisis the thread I meant to link to in the OP.
I put a bunch of them, (Generation Y), but like other said it depends on the guy.
I don’t like beards, though.
Me, too. It all depends upon what the guy looks like. I don’t really care if he’s got facial hair or not.
I will note that all three of my husbands wore mustaches, and two had/have full beards.
Nzinga, I saw a dude looking like your first link yesterday, driving a red antique Mercedes two-seater convertible. He was so cute!
Yeah, I’ll take clean shaven on the right guy, but my heart belongs to those with goatees. And even on particular chaps (like Duff Goldman), I like soul patches. Just depends.
Gen Xer.
When is the cutoff between generations X and Y? I was born in 1978 and I don’t know where I fit, so I voted with both.
All body and/or facial hair grosses me out (including my own). I’m just weird that way.
Beards squick me the fuck out. I don’t know why - maybe it’s because my dad never had one?
Mustaches only just look silly to me. Maybe when I’m older I’ll dig it, but I think it’s never been “in” for my generation (I’m 30).
I used to be all anti-facial hair, but I’ve come to find out that it’s just as hard for boys to be truly clean shaven as it is for me to keep my legs silky smooth. And I’ve also found out that lots of making out with a guy who has just the tiniest bit of stubble is too rough on my dainty facial skin.
So, I’m cool with goatees, soul patches, that “I just haven’t shaved in a week” look. As long as it’s not a full beard or a single mustache, and as long as it keeps you from scratching me all up, let’s do it!
Beards can be smelly, but other than that I don’t care if a guy has them or not really. My husband looks really cute clean-shaven, but he also looks really handsome with a beard (which takes him about three days to grow 
). I don’t care much for overly-groomed facial hair - it looks too fussy (and soul patches just look douchey).
Either clean shaven or actual facial hair…either is fine by me. Mustaches and goatees are possibly okay depending on the individual; please have more than a skinny line of hair involved. Soul patches and the like are silly. Grow facial hair, or don’t. If you are an almost too-pretty actor type, for the love of Og, just shave. Fake stubble is stupid.
Stubble is only acceptable to me if it is the real thing – such as the wildland firefighter I will never forget from a couple of years ago, who was super nice and showed me and a few other people pictures of his wife and kids and told us about what his job involved…but he had been on the firelines for a few days and hadn’t shaved and OMG! I wanted to drag him home and clean him up and do all sorts of things to him. Yowza. Of course seeing as he had a family and I have ethics and he obviously did too it was never going to happen, but honest to Og scruff can be sexy as all hell. It didn’t hurt that he and his colleagues more or less, with a bit of luck on top of their awesomeness, saved my town from being burned. But still…yow!
Totally depends on the guy. My husband looks good with a beard, and he grows it out in the winter. I like the variety.
I know guys who look terrible without facial hair, or who should never have any. I cannot approve of soul patches on anyone.
Oh yeah, I’m solid Gen X; age 36.
pre 82 is Gen X; 82 and after is Gen Y
Depends on the guy. I won’t let Mr. S shave off his beard (but see the other thread), and fortunately he prefers to keep the beard anyway. It balances his face (he has a weakish chin) and he hates shaving (except as needed to keep things neat).
Some guys look better with facial hair, some without. I’m not generally fond of goatees/soul patches, though. Ditto just mustache. And the Billy Mays “carpeted face” look just squicks me right out. A beard should not encroach on the eyes!
Why didn’t you just do age ranges instead of “Gen X” or “Baby Boomer”? I have no idea which of these generation things I’m supposed to be in. I’ve heard the end of “baby boomer” defined as both 1960 and 1965, and gen X is according to you post 82, so what about all those folks in between?
I’m in my mid 40’s and usually like facial hair, particularly full beards, but they have to be kept groomed and clean, just like scalp hair or any other body part, really.
I loathe “soul patches”, however. C’mon, either grown a frickin’ beard, and if you can’t manage, then shave it off already! Ditto for the “three day stubble” look which is only acceptable if you’re in the process of growing a beard, not as something you maintain long term.
Some men, however, look best clean shaven. Some men look best with the beard.
Gotdamn! An antique Mercedes, too?! I wish you would have taken a picture!
