# Ladies, what do you think of facial hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805 "2002-08-07T17:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Scratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Chicken\_Scratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Scratch)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/21 "2002-08-08T18:40:14Z")
I adore smooth-shaven baby faces as well. I find facial hair unpleasant for all the reasons previously mentioned, but I have one to add. In regards to goatees: they look like women’s genitalia. When a goateed man talks to me, I can’t help but giggle at the image I have of him as a talking pussy. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/22 "2002-08-08T18:43:03Z")
I really don’t care. But if you’re going to shave, **SHAVE!** None of that day’s growth crap - it HURTS! ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/23 "2002-08-08T19:27:35Z")
I hate (and I mean HATE) moustaches. I abhor moustaches. I don’t think they look good on anyone, save Tom Selleck and I even dislike his. Beards, eh. Too Grizzly Adams. Plus I think they add weight, so unless a guy has a really skinny face he’s going to look beefier than he is. Goatees are okay and even look damn sexy on the right person, but they have to be well trimmed. Mostly, I prefer a clean-shaven face. While my husband and I were in St Martin recently he stopped shaving. His reasoning was that he wanted to use the same clipper setting for his entire head. After about 10 days he asked me my opinion. Let’s just say that I avoided answering the question, instead opting for “Oh, you’re just going to shave it when you go back to work anyway.” Thanks gods I was right. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/24 "2002-08-09T04:40:34Z")
I must admit, I’m a facial hair lovin’ girl (\*nudges **peasea** ), but it’s the overly important. I find a beard or goatee (but not sideburns, chops, or bushy beards) very attractive, but it’s the face that counts. If it doesn’t go with the face, then fine. If it does, well, my preference is a couple day old beard, but it all depends on how the person wants to wear it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trancey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Trancey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/25 "2002-08-09T07:52:01Z")
i like sideburns, mmm, some goatees, depending on the guys face, beards are just disgusting, same with _just_ a mustache, sick…hehe…what i dont sometimes understands is, if guys hate shave stubble on their face, why dont they wax? girls go through plain torture sometimes to keep hair off, so why cant guys? yah, its thicker and corser hair, but like, hehe do it 😛 no pain no gain is what i say ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/26 "2002-08-10T08:16:45Z")
None of the ladies _I_ know have ever considered growing it! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/27 "2002-08-10T10:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by medstar \* > \*\*As long as the facial hair is well groomed, and not a “flavor saver”, I don’t really have a preference. \*\* 😛 My boyfriend has a beard/goatee (it varies) and says he likes to boil water and dip his goatee in it and make soup. He joking of course… ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/28 "2002-08-10T18:56:06Z")
Mmmmm…Depends on the man. About half the men I’ve dated have been clean-shaven, half not. These days, I have (as I’ve posted in other, current threads) a thing for big men with shaved heads & goatees who are NOT **green bean** ’s husband. 😉 That doesn’t mean, however, that no clean-shaven men need apply. In the area of facial hair, well-kempt mustaches & goatees are favored. I could deal with a soul patch, depending on how it made the man look. Not so into van dykes & beards, though, especially on men my age. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/29 "2002-08-10T18:57:45Z")
I take that back - I could go for a very closely cropped beard, depending on the man. Van dykes, though, aren’t my thing. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/30 "2002-08-10T19:59:00Z")
I love sideburns. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/31 "2002-08-11T01:37:18Z")
I definitely go for facial hair. And I LOVE stubble. As far as I’m concerned, men’s faces _should_ feel prickly. I also have a pretty strong preference for men with chest hair, too. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805/32 "2002-08-11T01:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I also have a pretty strong preference for men with chest hair, too Not to mention a proclivity or tendency towards repetition and redundancy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-do-you-think-of-facial-hair/122805.md?page=1)