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Well considering Jez made a thread on make up.
Here is me wondering about everyone's opinion on facial hair.
Males: How you keep yours
Females: Any preferences?
biased
10-04-2007, 10:59 PM
Trimmed and following my jaw line up to my chin and a non-connecting moustache
Here's a visual (note: this is not me)
that's a bit bigger than I was expecting, if someone could inform me how to resize w/o uploading to my server. that'd be great ;Dshrunk the picture
I have a beard that I keep trimmed very short. Shaving is too much effort because I must do it a couple times a day. Besides, I break out. 1/8th of an inch in length, trimmed once a week, and my hair is short, too.
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I hate shaving and I think it's a waste of time and money. I enjoy growing out stupid facial hair and then giving them names. Recently I think that I've run out of facial hair arrangements and don't enjoy it as much as I used to. When I say facial hair arrangements I don't mean shave stupid designs in it. I just mean sideburns, beard, mustache, curly mustache, hobo beard, civil war size sideburns, goatee, goatee with non-connecting mustache, and so on.
Tarrick
10-05-2007, 12:11 AM
I dislike a scratchy face, but I also sometimes just skip shaving....
So I sometimes sport stubble for a few days. I have contemplated growing a goatee or something, but meh. Too much work to maintain.
Jezebel
10-05-2007, 12:15 AM
It depends on what the guy looks like. Some guys look good with facial hair and others don't. I'd say "no preference", but every guy I've dated for any length of time had facial hair the majority of the time I was with him.
rwyatt365
10-05-2007, 06:54 AM
Trimmed along the jaw w/ connected moustache.
Max T
10-05-2007, 07:06 AM
Clean shaven every day since c. 18 yrs old.
= 12 yrs x 365 = 4380 shavings x 1 min (fast) = 73 hours or 3 days. :scared:
I forgot, I do shave once or twice a week around the bottom edge of my beard so I don't look like I live under a bridge.
I hate shaving and I think it's a waste of time and money. I enjoy growing out stupid facial hair and then giving them names. Recently I think that I've run out of facial hair arrangements and don't enjoy it as much as I used to. When I say facial hair arrangements I don't mean shave stupid designs in it. I just mean sideburns, beard, mustache, curly mustache, hobo beard, civil war size sideburns, goatee, goatee with non-connecting mustache, and so on.
I don't now about the names bit, but...I hate shaving too! I usually need to show ID for buying ciggs, or beer after I shave..
phoenix
10-05-2007, 08:37 AM
Facial hair...ew!
OneBadMother
10-05-2007, 08:47 AM
At most I like a goatee. Not so big on full-on beards.
A properly-waxed mustache, while not attractive per se, is the epitome of dapper. :D
I have a beard that I keep trimmed very short. Shaving is too much effort because I must do it a couple times a day. Besides, I break out. 1/8th of an inch in length, trimmed once a week, and my hair is short, too.
Growing back too quickly/breakouts... I thought that's what aftershave was for.
I generally like people clean shaven, stubble is so... messy. Maybe it's because dad was ALWAYS clean shaven. When he was younger, he'd shave just to take the garbage out, even on his off days.
I'm okay with facial hair only if it's really meticulously neat and only on the chin/jaw area, and no side burns... unless the person can really pull it off :thumbsup:
I have a beard that I keep trimmed very short. Shaving is too much effort because I must do it a couple times a day. Besides, I break out. 1/8th of an inch in length, trimmed once a week, and my hair is short, too.
Growing back too quickly/breakouts... I thought that's what aftershave was for.
It makes breakouts and ingrown hairs worse. Nothing decreases the growth of my facial hair. My beard grows very quickly...
I generally like people clean shaven, stubble is so... messy. Maybe it's because dad was ALWAYS clean shaven. When he was younger, he'd shave just to take the garbage out, even on his off days.
I'm okay with facial hair only if it's really meticulously neat and only on the chin/jaw area, and no side burns... unless the person can really pull it off :thumbsup:
Mine is not stubbly, and I apparently pull it off so well that when I shave it off people don't even realize I shaved it off for weeks on end. One time I went nearly two months shaving it off and finally my mom noticed and asks me when I decided to shave my beard. It was pretty funny, then she went on about liking my beard and I grew it back. I've had it more-or-less constantly for over 3 years now.
rwyatt365
10-05-2007, 09:59 AM
I have a beard that I keep trimmed very short. *Shaving is too much effort because I must do it a couple times a day. *Besides, I break out. *1/8th of an inch in length, trimmed once a week, and my hair is short, too.
Growing back too quickly/breakouts... I thought that's what aftershave was for.
It makes breakouts and ingrown hairs worse. *Nothing decreases the growth of my facial hair. *My beard grows very quickly...
I'm african-american so shaving is like the "kiss of death" - razor bumps, ingrown hairs, etc... It's either bumps, or beard. I keep it short and trimmed so it's neat. Otherwise I'd be spending all day scratching like a flea-bitten dog!
to phoenix;
Facial hair...ew!
...to each, her own.
quartertone
10-05-2007, 10:10 AM
Two words: MUTTON CHOPS.
Firelie
10-05-2007, 10:24 AM
Hmm... I can't say I have a huge opinion on facial hair. As long as the style suits the person's face, it's all good. Excepppppt... for those long, scraggly hillbilly beards. Those just look nasty on anyone.
rwyatt365
10-05-2007, 10:29 AM
Hmm... I can't say I have a huge opinion on facial hair. *As long as the style suits the person's face, it's all good. *Excepppppt... for those long, scraggly hillbilly beards. *Those just look nasty on anyone.
Even ZZ Top? ;D
Firelie
10-05-2007, 10:32 AM
Hmm... I can't say I have a huge opinion on facial hair. *As long as the style suits the person's face, it's all good. *Excepppppt... for those long, scraggly hillbilly beards. *Those just look nasty on anyone.
Even ZZ Top? *;D
ZZ Top is frightening.
rwyatt365
10-05-2007, 10:35 AM
Hmm... I can't say I have a huge opinion on facial hair. *As long as the style suits the person's face, it's all good. *Excepppppt... for those long, scraggly hillbilly beards. *Those just look nasty on anyone.
Even ZZ Top? *;D
ZZ Top is frightening.
Yeah, but they do have cool cars 8-)
Mmmmm '32 Deuce Coupe (in my best Homer Simpson voice)
It makes breakouts and ingrown hairs worse. Nothing decreases the growth of my facial hair. My beard grows very quickly...
Really :-?
Anyone else have anything to say about the use of aftershave?
I'm african-american so shaving is like the "kiss of death" - razor bumps, ingrown hairs, etc... It's either bumps, or beard. I keep it short and trimmed so it's neat. Otherwise I'd be spending all day scratching like a flea-bitten dog!
I didn't realize African-Americans have such a problem with shaving. I don't think I've met many who don't shave...
Firelie
10-05-2007, 10:57 AM
I'm african-american so shaving is like the "kiss of death" - razor bumps, ingrown hairs, etc... It's either bumps, or beard. I keep it short and trimmed so it's neat. Otherwise I'd be spending all day scratching like a flea-bitten dog!
I didn't realize African-Americans have such a problem with shaving. *I don't think I've met many who don't shave...
Curly hair gets ingrown pretty easily.
Curly hair gets ingrown pretty easily.
Oh that explains everything...
rwyatt365
10-05-2007, 11:16 AM
Curly hair gets ingrown pretty easily.
Oh that explains everything...
...that, and I'm not sure if it's a "skin-thing" but most black males have a horrible time w/ razor bumps. So much so that there is an industry built around making depillatory (sp?) creams for that population. Most of that stuff stinks to high heaven (my father and uncle used it) and I refuse to smell like a sulpher-soaked skunk every morning!
Facial hair...ew!
That's my thought on women with it...
Twist
10-05-2007, 12:08 PM
I used to have mutton chops that hung down about 3 to 4 inches. Now I'm clean shaven which makes the women in the house happy but makes me look like a kid. Just yesterday I was given the student ticket price at a highschool JV football game. I had to laugh and tell the lady that I hadn't been a highschool student for 13 years now.
Facial hair...ew!
That's my thought on women with it...
I have seen some woman with mustaches and all i can do is try to stiffen a laugh.
I never understood the reason why some one likes to underlining there nose, its like there nose is important or something.
I shave every day. I look bad and i have that bad hair day feeling if i dont shave.
rwyatt365
10-06-2007, 11:24 AM
I never understood the reason why some one likes to underlining there nose, its like there nose is important or something.
I shave every day. I look *bad and i have that bad hair day feeling if i dont shave.
It's a matter of (in)convenience, not of accentuation for me;
- avoiding the inconvenience of itchy stubble
- having the convenience of not having to shave every day
It's a matter of (in)convenience, not of accentuation for me;
- avoiding the inconvenience of itchy stubble
- having the convenience of not having to shave every day
So i take it you like the barbarian look ;) . To each there own, if it suits your taste and needs there is no point in changing that. It's all about what you decided to look like in the end and no matter the person who says other wise, it changes nothing. I dont like it when someone changes them self due to the over media hype out there. Its ridicules it the shortest amounts of words i could use. If you like dont change it :)
On me a bread would make me look like a 13 year old with a hair growth problem. I have such a baby face most people still assume i am in high school.
rwyatt365
10-06-2007, 04:11 PM
So i take it you like the barbarian look ;) . To each there own, if it suits your taste and needs there is no point in changing that. It's all about what you decided to look like in the end and no matter the person who says other wise, it changes nothing. I dont like it when someone changes them self due to the over media hype out there. Its ridicules it the shortest amounts of words i could use. If you like dont change it :)
On me a bread would make me look like a 13 year old with a hair growth problem. I have such a baby face most people still assume i am in high school.
yeah, I have had the same "look" for most of my adult life. I've tried going clean-shaven, but never for long. I've had several females earlier in my life tell me that they don't like men with facial hair. My respose has always been, "Well you don't know what you're missing!" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?) 8-)
bikerscars
10-06-2007, 04:18 PM
i shave once a week 'cause the stubble starts getting itchy and scraggy
shaving seems like wasted time
once a week is enough...
unless i need to go to a special occasion/meeting
Firebert
10-08-2007, 12:24 AM
I like my beard. It's trimmed along the chin line with a connected mustache. I keep it fairly clean, but I like looking fairly unkempt too. I have long shaggy hair, so with stubble and a beard I surprise people when they find out I'm intelligent. I just like keeping everyone on their toes.
Slumberjack
05-05-2008, 10:13 PM
I hate shaving and I think it's a waste of time and money. I enjoy growing out stupid facial hair and then giving them names. Recently I think that I've run out of facial hair arrangements and don't enjoy it as much as I used to. When I say facial hair arrangements I don't mean shave stupid designs in it. I just mean sideburns, beard, mustache, curly mustache, hobo beard, civil war size sideburns, goatee, goatee with non-connecting mustache, and so on.
I am completely with you on that one. Shaving is definitely a painful waste of time. Why do so many people see it as 'normal' to do a clean shave every day? I think there's a reason that hair grows out of our faces, and we should wear it and groom it proudly.
I have always had a goatee since I could grow one and I always looked forward to growing one as a little kid. Currently I sport the jawline chinstrap w/ a goatee. Since I am blonde/dk. brown, my facial hair grows quite slowly, so I generally trim the ole' face about every week or two, or until it starts to get itchy. Additionally, I go through beard-cycles, where I will shave down to a goatee, then grow a beard till it gets itchy, then shave again and so on (I trim here and there so I don't look like a hobo).;D (I wish there was a bearded smiley)
TheLastMohican
05-05-2008, 10:22 PM
;D (I wish there was a bearded smiley)
:beatnik: :pimp:
Just goatees, though...
WalkingTruth
05-05-2008, 11:06 PM
I enjoy facial hair on guys. Especially the soul patch, when properly done that is :thumbsup:
Genuine
05-05-2008, 11:42 PM
It looks okay on some, but a bearded lady isn't something that looks attractive.
quiet1
05-06-2008, 03:53 AM
I have facial hair.
Antares
05-06-2008, 04:19 AM
I don't like facial hair on my peers, but of course, they're all teenagers. I like facial hair on very limited amount of men.
DrEast
05-06-2008, 06:17 AM
On me a bread would make me look like a 13 year old with a hair growth problem. I have such a baby face most people still assume i am in high school.
I've got the opposite problem... without my beard I look a whole lot younger, which isn't really a look I want, what with the slightly receding hairline and all (although I'm liking what it does to my temples).
Plus, my head's too round... the beard helps break that up and make my jaw look a little squarer.
BloozeGit
05-06-2008, 06:58 AM
I don't have much but what I do have makes for a decent moustache and goatee that doesn't look like a pre-pubescent attempt. Grew it out after finishing my conscripted time, I was so sick of having anal-retentive sergeant-majors wit microscopic vision single me out for having nanometres of stubble on a chin and neck that I'd just shaved the day before. Facial hair was a means of expressing my new-found freedom I guess...
Kept it all through the undergrad years, where I got equal amounts of curious, complimentary and derogatory comments since most males of my ethnicity don't have much facial hair, making me rather....outstanding, for both good and bad reasons. I've had some women rule out romantic possibilities with me due to it, but I did get other dates. In a way, I guess it sort of acts as a self-regulating filter for the kind of women I should date :p
ElstonGunn
05-06-2008, 09:44 AM
I've had a goatee and sideburns almost continuously since the end high high school. I only shaved my chin once or twice since then. I had a full beard for a while too, about two years ago. It made a pretty nice jaw-hat in the winter, but sometimes snow and ice would freeze to it.
bucolic_
05-06-2008, 10:35 AM
I shave about 3 times a week, so depending on the day, I often have stubble. My facial hair is fairly full, but not full enough to grow the type of beard I'd like yet.
Goatees are pretty bad in my opinion, unless paired with a mustache, and soul patches are even worse.
...that, and I'm not sure if it's a "skin-thing" but most black males have a horrible time w/ razor bumps. So much so that there is an industry built around making depillatory (sp?) creams for that population. Most of that stuff stinks to high heaven (my father and uncle used it) and I refuse to smell like a sulpher-soaked skunk every morning!
It is a skin thing, the darker your skin, the easier it is to get 'keloid' scars. I couldn't find the article, but I remember hearing about a black man who was fired from some law firm, because they had a strict rule against beards, and he refused to, because he would have pretty extreme scarring otherwise. I believe he won.
bucolic_ added to this post, 4 minutes and 29 seconds later...
Really :-?
Anyone else have anything to say about the use of aftershave?
Yeah, it does nothing to prevent the growth of hair, it might have a slight effect on breakouts, depending on what the formula is.
Conversely, and much to the chagrin of teenage boys everywhere, there is nothing on the market that can make your beard grow or fill in any faster.
notoppings
05-06-2008, 12:07 PM
I hate shaving! Thankfully I'm half Native American (I'd say Indian but I bow to Fej's wishes) so shaving for me is at most twice a week I don't even get a 5 "o"clock shadow until the third day. If I shave really well and not quickly I don't get the shadow for five days or so. Had a mustache once to much work to keep it trimmed gave it up.
PortInStorm
05-06-2008, 05:01 PM
I love the look of dark hair, dark eyes, and sexy-morning-after- lookin' stubble. Or a closely trimmed full beard (no fluffy ones or scraggly and long).
Don't like mutts or mustache alone, personally.
Clean shaven. I do it once a week and it looks horrible after 4 days. I am often tempted to do it on the third.
Wapiti
05-06-2008, 07:56 PM
Can't stand to shave. Have a full beard I keep trimmed somewhat. I prefer my beard short but in the winter I may let it grow out to an inch or so. I shave my neck once or twice a week and just thinking about it now, my neck is starting to itch.
slut poacher
05-07-2008, 03:55 PM
bald head with blond eyebrows, makes my head looks like a giant boiled egg if i'm not rockin the goatee.
Enkidu
05-12-2008, 03:24 AM
I like my beard. It's trimmed along the chin line with a connected mustache. I keep it fairly clean, but I like looking fairly unkempt too. I have long shaggy hair, so with stubble and a beard I surprise people when they find out I'm intelligent. I just like keeping everyone on their toes.
I know the feeling, have a goatee connected to sideburns. Tend to keep it short but when its mixed with dreads I tend to surprise people too.
PortInStorm
05-12-2008, 04:52 PM
bald head with blond eyebrows, makes my head looks like a giant boiled egg if i'm not rockin the goatee.
not a giant poached egg? *groan*
Double Victory
05-12-2008, 06:04 PM
Facial hair...ew!
I second this.
curiousjane
05-12-2008, 06:45 PM
- well-groomed goatees are hot!
- handlebar mustaches are not!
Beards? On older men, fine. I've not really met that many young guys that can pull one off.
None of the men in my immediate family can keep up a beard. My father and brothers have all tried--unsuccessfully. So I'm not used to it.
Wapiti
05-12-2008, 09:49 PM
Beards? On older men, fine.
Please define "older me", what is the age cutoff? We talking Santa Claus old here?
niffer
05-12-2008, 11:29 PM
Hmm...I'll admit a *hint* of a five o'clock shadow is very attractive to me. More than totally smooth, but that's good too. Small stuff like goatees are okay too, nothing prominent or thick though. Wolf's style is hawt.~
Nameless
05-13-2008, 02:45 PM
I hate all forms of facial hair, so I try to shave mine as good as possible. I once tried waxing it off, and I don't mind the pain, but even THAT didn't work. Why can't I be hairless?
curiousjane
05-13-2008, 02:47 PM
Please define "older me", what is the age cutoff? We talking Santa Claus old here?
Oh, that's a risky question! I'm going to get chewed out if my "older" range is close to somebody else's "younger" range.
Ah, well, I suppose "older" is about 20 years older than I am? So, late forties, early fifties?
(not that either forty or fifty is "old" ... just ... older.)
Wapiti
05-13-2008, 09:45 PM
Ahh, I was just trying to see where I fell, either the "young guy that can't pull it off" or "the older man" category, not that it matters.
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