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all other facial hair is awful on teenagers.

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Originally posted by cheiros do ender:
I want to be unique, without looking ridiculous

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That's pretty hard to carry off. Unique facial hair styles tend to look ridiculous.
 

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Posted by Xan (Member # 9015) on :
 
""all other facial hair is awful on teenagers.""

Bold statment hehe

I, personally, am 18 but look like i'm in my early twenties, so if i actually had enough hair i could pull it off.
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
I take that back, I have one male friend who is 19 and carries facial hair off fairly well, if I don't say that, he may hurt me
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
I rock the chinstrap with a line about half an inch wide going up the center of my chin to the bottom of my lower lip.

Upsides: I look older, I feel. And certain friends call me highly amusing names like "Wild Amish Warrior."

Downside: have to keep it very neat and trimmed, otherwise a nice chinstrap will turn into a chinstrap.

Otherwise, I always tell people to go for the muttonchops.
So few listen.

Edited for spelling.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I've had a goatee since I was 18. I shaved it off once and horrified most of my friends who insisted that I grow it back and never shave it off again. I haven't since.

I've had mixed responses, from girls who tell me they hate it and find it a turn off, to one girl who says it's highly attractive and manly. Either way, as my best friend says "it's part of my personality" and I'll probably keep it for the forseeable future.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
I grew a beard as soon as I graduated from high school (17). I don't think it was awful. It was a full beard, and it grew within two weeks of my stopping shaving. That's about how long it takes me now.

And I've had unique facial hair styles without, I think, looking ridiculous.
Case in point. (And I had the pointy sideburns & goatee well before that look came into style.)
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Oh, and at the current moment (since about January 1), I am cleanshaven. o_O We'll see how long that lasts.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Icky, that's a HUGE rosary. But you are a cutie, you hairy man, you!
 

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Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
 
The name of that nifty fluff of hair you're planning reminds me of Dahl's The Twits.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
My grandmother was very devout.
 

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Posted by Xan (Member # 9015) on :
 
*sigh*

I can grow a mustache but no way in hell am i going to do that without making it a full on gotee.
Its UNDER my lip i have trouble growing hair.
 

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Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 

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I take that back, I have one male friend who is 19 and carries facial hair off fairly well, if I don't say that, he may hurt me

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If its me you're talking about there breyerchic there's no need to take it back, as you should well know I've never cared about how I look If its someone else, then ignore this.

I've had facial hair since... well since it started growing pretty much. I've never liked shaving and never did it on a very regular basis. So I kinda went from peach fuzz to full beard with out ever being clean shaven much inbetween. I did try a goatee for a while there, but again with the requiring I do at least some shaving, so now I just stick with my lazy full beard. I shave it about once every few months to keep it from getting too scraggly. It works well enough for me, me being one who's never cared how he looks.

I'd say just pick something you like and go for it. Forget what anyone else says.
 

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Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
 
I've always wanted facial hair, but since I'm a girl I find it's a little hard. Plus, I think I would get some rather strange looks.
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
I'd love to be able to grow a beard, if only because I'm too lazy to shave and I'd like my laziness to pay off. Sadly, all my facial hair manages to do for me is that, "have you bathed in the last week?" look. Thin, patchy, dark hair. I haven't found any chicks that dig it out, but I still have hope.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I shave every other day or so. And day in between I have the scruffy pirate look.
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
I looked at the picture, and in America the "flava saver" is typically called a "soul patch."

At some point or another I have had pretty much every common facial hair arrangement and a few very, very uncommon ones. I think you should post a picture, so we can decide what would look best on you. And not at all so we can draw moustaches on it in photoshop, nope.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Chreese Sroup (Member # 8248) on :
 
I stopped shaving in the beginning of december; I don't plan on shaving for at least 6 months.

Anyone know any good trimming utilities? I can leave it all scraggly like it is, although I'd like to make it look a little nicer.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
At Wal-Mart, you can get a Wahl home grooming kit for about $13, which will serve for trims, shaving it off altogether, and haircuts. Look in the same aisle as the curling irons.
 

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Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
 
I have a student that just has a tuft on the lower lip. That's pretty unusual.
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 

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I looked at the picture, and in America the "flava saver" is typically called a "soul patch."

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I've heard both these terms used equally often in America. I've also heard it referred to sparingly as the beatnik's badge, the triangular chin worm, and the eeeeeeevil twin.
 

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Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
 
I hate growing facial hair. Almost as much as I hate shaving. The two hates usually fight each other, and there is no guessing what I'll look like on a particular day.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Juxtapose, the only one of those I have ever heard is "soul patch."

I guess it's a regional thing?
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
Alcon, I didn't really mean you, but it applies to you, you look older than twelve with facial hair .
 

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Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
 
Icarus, I don't need to be groomed, I'm a man! Well, almost... I can grow facial hair, what more could you possibly need to be qualified as a man? And I mean as opposed to a boy, not a woman, so don't even go there.

Enigmatic, I have one photo of myself from when I was like two years younger, so that's not really relevant, even though I think I've got the same facial shape in that picture as I do now. I'm putting off taking another until I get my next haircut (nothing to do with the fact I don't actually own a camera) 'cause, accoring to my "woman", (political correctness?) I'm going to be getting the most expensive haircut of my life this weekend. After that's done, I'm convinced some magical fairy will appear to me in the middle of the night and give me a camera.
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Flava saver, soul patch, whatever you want to call it.... WHY? {ick shudder} If you're going to wear facial hair, then WEAR facial hair! To me that looks like you missed.
 

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Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
 
Ugh. Don't like that picture. The wikipedia one.
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
Gee... I wonder why it's called a "flavor saver?"

Hmmm...
 

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Ugh. Don't like that picture. The wikipedia one.

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Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
 
As a teenager, I could probably grow a better beard than some adults can, but then again I had been shaving once a day since the beginning of 9th grade. As a side note, as a teenager, I never grew out any facial hair. I was always clean shaven.

At the moment (and at other times in the last year or so), I have a goatee. I get positive feedback from most of my female friends, saying it makes me look better and older. It's also multicolored (naturally, not artificially), so it's cool.
 

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Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
Multicolored. So is hubby's, but I don't think in the same way that you mean!

And may I say, welcome back, pfresh!
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Flava Saver?
 

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Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
 
I look much better with a well-groomed jaw-line beard than without one. To me, that is. Everyone I know hates it.

I'm curious to know when and why people stopped liking each other's hair. I mean, when did it become socially unacceptable for people not to shave? How does it possibly benefit a woman for her to shave her legs? Why in the world is it that men grow beards and chest hair and women don't (at least, uh, usually)? Is there really some sort of evolutionary advantage to a hairy back? Does it trap heat or something?

What causes one person to be attracted to a dude with facial hair and another to be totally repelled by it on the same guy? I mean, what we're basically saying is that we won't find each other attractive unless we spend time on pretty dang useless rituals to change our natural appearance.

I don't get women who don't like beards and I don't get men who are creeped out by unshaven pits. I do admit to having a fear of a womanly mustache, but I think that's just lingering social conditioning.

By the way, I'm, uh, not usually this obsessed with the morality of hair. This thread just sparked my curiousity about why humans are so weird.

[ January 12, 2006, 06:58 AM: Message edited by: Zotto! ]
 

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Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
 

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Multicolored. So is hubby's, but I don't think in the same way that you mean!

And may I say, welcome back, pfresh!

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Yeah, not the same way. My facial hair has like 4 colors: dark brown, light brown, blond, and red. So when I have a goatee, it's multicolored. From a distance, it looks probably like a light brown. Up close though, you can see all sorts of colors. I think one girl described it as partially strawberry blond. *shrugs* Heck if I know though.

Thanks for the welcome back.
 

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Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
 
pfresh: I have you beat. I have the same 4 colors AND (now) white.

I'm old.

And after having a goatee for 8 years, I'm now sporting a closely-trimmed full beard.
 

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Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
 
Some of my blond hairs get close to white, but I don't think they are white. Of course, I am 20. If I saw a lot of white hair, I'd probably freak out. It wouldn't be unexpected though, as I am a cynical old man in a 20 year old body.
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
I had a white eyebrow hair, I'm a 20 year old, brunette, girl, I totally freaked out, I think it was blonde though, I hope.
 

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Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
Hah. My mother found my first white hair, when she was brushing it. I think I was about 12.

*sigh*
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
My mother started going gray at 19.
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Zotto!, to answer your question about facial hair:

I don't have a thing against facial hair in general. I do dislike certain patterns of growth, largely because of social conditioning, but I don't think I'm flat out repelled by them. "That guy looks like a 'hood" sort of responses. As for my comment about the patch, it reminds me so very much of my ex who always managed to miss the fold between his lower lip and where his chin started to jut out, and so I've been conditioned to think that it looks like the wearer is a sloppy shaver.

I like chest hair on my guys. Back hair, however, completely icks me out. {shudder}


And Jenna, my almost 9 year old has white hairs! Most of her hair is varying shades of dark brown, with bits of light brown, red, a couple blonde shades, and some pure white. So many times women have come up to me and commented that they wished they could get her hair color in a bottle...
 

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Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
 
A section of my eyebrow has been white since puberty -- it extend over into part of my sideburns as well.

I either tell people that I'm 1/76th albino or that I didn't reincarnate the whole way and as such part of me is still the very cranky 93-year-old man that I was in my previous life.

Of course, i'm starting to reach the point where it's hard to tell which is albino and which is simply age.
 

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