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I can't grow a beard because I can't stand the itching. The longest I've been able to go without shaving is, I think, about two weeks.
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Yeah, actually, I also had problems with too much sweat, causing my face to itch. That's another reason why I'm not going for a full beard anymore. Neither the goatee nor the chinstrap have caused me any problems though.
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I used to have a killer beard. Literally, it killed somebody. No, ok, no it didn't. But it was pretty kickin. About down to my belly button, and I'm over 6', so it was pretty long. I had hair down to the middle of my back too. Man, I used to be hot. Now I'm a huge square with a sidepart and no facial hair. One day I will rejoin the mountainman look. It was a goody. Started growing it at about freshman year of highschool, but it didn't get full until sophmore year or so.
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Take comfort, young fellows: it's common for beards to keep filling in. Technically I think they never stop filling in some, but if you can't grow one by 25, give up.
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My boyfriend's stubble (since he is not allowed to grow a beard *cracks whip*) is more than one color. I think that's pretty common. It's part light brown and part blonde. He doesn't grow hair in these two little parts just under the corners of his lips. It's cute.
He also can only go a day without shaving before I tell him he's like a cactus.
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It's been years since I've kissed a girl while I didn't have a beard. Never really gotten any feedback on whether they liked or disliked the beard.
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quote:Shaving costs so much freaking money. 4 Mach 3 blades are like 8 bucks! I bought an electric, but they don't work as well, and you eventually have to replace the blades for another 20 bucks after a year.
Now, if you were an old fart like me, who watched the original and live airings of the first SNLs, you wouldn't be buying those.
Making sure my memory was correct on this point, I found the following blog entry:
quote: Back in 1975, the very first show of NBC’s Saturday Night Live ran a commercial poking fun at the two-blade razors that were then being hyped. The Triple Track razor had three blades–one blade to cut the whisker, a second to grab what was left before it could snap back into your face, and a third blade to slice it off. As parody it was brilliant, and so was the slogan: The Triple Track Razor, because you’ll believe anything!
I have a serious suspicion that this SNL spoof was a big factor explaining why it took decades to try to con the public with this one. Hoping the old farts would forget and the younger folks might never have seen the SNL parody.
Be kinda good if they decided to re-air it now. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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My facial hair only evolves slowly. At 25, I can still go two days without shaving before anything is noticable. The fact that my hair is blonde helps in this regard. It's there, but you can't see it. I have never worn a full grown beard. But intermittedly I do go around sporting a goatee, usually without a moustache.
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I won't be satisfied until there's a 10-blade razor so I can shave my entire face in one quick smooth motion.
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That's not quite possible, you know Lyrhawn. Because shaving your entire face in one motion, would entail going round to the other cheeck in that one motion, where the direction of hair growth is the other way around. Don't you think that'd give a strange result, even if you had ten blades? Correct me if I'm wrong though... Posts: 993 | Registered: Jul 2006
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No problem growing a full beard, Hell I can grow a nice crop of hair just about anywhere but the top of my head. Just love shaving the ears, and back.
My theory is that your hair doesn’t fall out it just burrows in and pops out somewhere else.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: I have no experience in kissing someone with an actual beard. What does it feel like?
My husband has a beard and I like it. With a beard, it's soft hair that occasionally needs to be trimmed so it doesn't tickle. Stubble is never, ever comfortable, and he'd have to shave twice a day not to have that, especially back when we were dating and making out at any opportunity Posts: 22 | Registered: Sep 2006
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Beard since age 20 (the first time I had a job that allowed it), mustache since it grew in around 16 or so.
Tried shaving it off once, during a vacation a few years back, just for the heck of it, and vowed to never do it again; since the last time I saw my chin it had gone from a sharply jutting angle of masculinity into a soft and puffy, pastry-like mass between my head and my neck. I let the beard grow back just to make sure where my jaw actually was.
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I always chicken out after 4 days at the most. My wife insists she likes it scruffy but not hairy. I do not know why but at the very center of my chin for about a half inch in either direction its NO HAIRS land.
I could grow a killer set of mutton chops, but those do not seem to be in style. My wife wants me to tryout a mustache but I just do not think I have the thickness to pull one off, maybe one day Ill just stop shaving and see what my facial hair does, I suppose its always a good thing to know.
Now if only I could halt the slow progression of my baldness. Can't I just wake up with it gone? Why do I have to watch it disappear hair by hair?
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: It's been years since I've kissed a girl while I didn't have a beard. Never really gotten any feedback on whether they liked or disliked the beard.
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I've had a beard since freshman year of college. It was too much trouble to shave back then. Now...meh, it's like part of the whole biker mystique. And without it I look like a Muppet Baby.
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blackblade, you could arrange for someone to shave the hair off your head as you sleep. Then you will wake up with it all gone. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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I probably can, sadly. Yeah, hairy women's faces run in my family. Thank you, Finnish ancestry. Thank you SO much. I have to wax my face every few weeks. It sucks so much. I can't wait until I'm a rich wedding photographer so I can just get laser hair removal and be done with it.
Anyway. I am opposed to Katharina's idea that stubble burn is no fun. I enjoy it quite a lot. I married an Italian, so I'm pretty much used to it anyway. He doesn't get five o'clock shadow; he gets five-minute shadow. The man is a facial hair factory. <3<3<3<3
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Libbie, be careful with the laser hair removal. I have a friend who had it done on his face, and he said until the treatments are done, which can be like six months, you have nasty red bumps all over your face.
I'm a hairy person too. I actually never really cared (I'm a mix of all the hairiest ethnicities you could think of)... but the other day I saw a Ten Years Younger on TLC. While doing this lady's makeup, the guy said, We HAVE to wax that lip. Nobody likes a woman with a moustache. That's just awful.
Me: O_O
Never knew that people cared so much about hairy females. Kinda made me angry!
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It usually lasts about a month, tops, before the itchiness forces me to shave it.
I am also the king of stubble, and not because I like the way it looks or feels but because I'm lazy.
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quote:Originally posted by mackillian: blackblade, you could arrange for someone to shave the hair off your head as you sleep. Then you will wake up with it all gone.
Shaved my head a year ago, it all grew back. I am bald enough that you know its disappearing, but not enough that I dont "Still have my hair"
Its a precarious stage to be in, as I am not sure if my hair is going to continue dropping out or if it is going to halt where it is. GAH! Why can't I just know!? I should be fully bald now, my father was and so were both my grandfathers! What is my scalp DOING?
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I have a beard. Occasionally it becomes a goatee, but may not do it again. Of course I can't grow nearly the beard I want because my wife has a limit to what she'll accept. Until it turns white, then I can go all Santa Claus. I'm almost 30 and still have a patch on each cheek that is sparse and blonde so it looks like there's a hole in my beard when it's not grown out fairly well.
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That's me at Universal Studios with my new half brother. See the amount of facial hair? That's 9 months worth of not shaving. I know I don't look like it but I'm 23 years old. Think there is any chance I'll be able to grow a full beard and sideburns?
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