I know, right? It’s like fun cheating–who is this stranger kissing me with all this hair?
I had Boyfriend Phrase (who was separated from me for various reasons for awhile) grow a beard in the meantime. It was incredibly hysterical to see, for one. And kissing was a new adventure.
However, after a few times together, I told him to get rid of it. The beard wasn’t a problem abrasion wise for me (as some posters have alluded to), I just missed his face. (His five oclock shadow is a killer though. “Hello? Did you shave today?”)
Sampiro, except in Javert mode, you are such a hottie!
And Dunaway, I kinda like the beard on you.
I’m in the camp of–if you like it? Keep it. You will find women that it drives crazy.(Or men, whatever.)
If you don’t have a personal preference, try new things
23-year-old female, here, and I’ve gotta say I vastly prefer the full beard. It does good things for your jawline. It does definitely make you look older (I would never have guessed you were 23 from that first picture) but in a good way. Of course, I tend to prefer facial hair on guys in general anyway, so my opinion may be slanted.
Aw, what the heck… how you doin’?
Hm. For some reason I’d always pictured you as Dean Stockwell’s character from Blue Velvet (though I knew his name wasn’t Frank, he just said Frank a lot (and lest you think that’s an insult, Dean Stockwell was “so fuckin’ suave!” in that movie).
This is a watercolor tinting of a b/w photo of one of my Confederate great-great grandfather that dominated my childhood. I used to stop just short of praying to him because he was essentially in what Mekong Delta peasants would regard as an ancestor shrine (and will be again soon) and his family resemblance to Moses and God ** and other biblical figures just seemed to warrant it. I’ve considered doing a similar beard, but 1) it would be really hot and itchy and 2) while he wasn’t a slaveowner and was probably a decent guy, he was a Confederate and that’s a bit too venerated down here. When old enough I’ll do a Brigham Young (my other quasi-divine childhood hero) perhaps.
*Private Marion B. Cotton (1832-1891) of the 51st Alabama Cavalry, (he had a nervous breakdown from PTSD over the mules he’d killed in the war)
**And since a bearded Heston also played Michelangelo & Michelangelo took a famous candid shot of Horny Moses and my gg grandpa was always getting his wife pregnant, that just reinforced all around and added even more authenticity to the divinity of Papa Marion.
This one is rather recent so here is my submission for the Pro Beard vote Here
I am seated on the left with a phone talking to the wife of the guy behind me for whom the picture was taken.
Female here, 35, with a fairly strong opinion on this.
I think facial hair is gross. All I can think about is food or spit getting stuck in it, or what kind of oily nasty skin is festering underneath. Goatees can look ok but they feel horrible when you kiss them and I still 99.999999% of the time think the guy looks better without any facial hair. Full beards, especially bushy ones, make the head look misshapen and wrong.
You look a lot younger without the facial hair, for sure. I think it looks better. There may be like 3 guys in the whole history of the world that I think look better with facial hair–and even those guys I’d want to be clean shaven if I was in a kissing relationship with them.
Plus, possibly TMI, but the idea of a guy with facial hair + oral sex? Grosses me out beyond belief. Yes, I’ve had it happen, but it’s creepy and all I could think about after was “hurry up and go wash your face!!!” I was happy when he shaved it off.
As a bearded guy, I am a full supporter of beards. Mrs. Slug also likes them for the most part.
She tells me she doesn’t like blonde guys with beards. After seeing the photos, I think that you should grown it in a little fuller. But alas its gone now.
No worries, Neptunian Slug, the length I had it at would only take about a month to grow back in, so if I grow it back I’ll probably try cutting it a little longer.
Actually, when people ask how to get theirs to grow this well I say “Soak it in cider” and it usually takes a moment or two before they sound it out as “Soak it inside her”.
