Can you grow a decent beard?

[raleighnut]

Currently going through the annual row about growing it a bit longer for the winter.

 

[PaulSB]

I wore a beard for most of my adult life till my early 40s when I decided it made me look older and shaved. It reappeared from time to time but in my 60s now and clean shaven. A couple of days stubble doesn't look very cool now the skin sags in places!!!

 

[Dirk]

Yes.
Ive had the one I'm currently sporting since 1985.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

 

[KnackeredBike]

Because I am bald on top (by choice) it doesn't look right clean shaved.

I used to have a beard but now trying to "designer stubble" look. I am after a Danny Murphy look but I think it just looks a bit unshaved at the moment. Hopefully it will develop.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I start one each year on my birthday, & shave it off roughly 6 months later, on daughters birthday

Length/shape varies ('goatee' is normally the later derivation)

Not sure of date, early 2017



February 2013



March 2014

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I can, but I don't. I had one for 6 months a few years ago and the amount of white in it was frightening.

Actually why is it that almost all younger men have beards now, either full on grizzly or the cultivated "I want to look like I've not shaved for precisely one week" look? It does seem like the clean shaven look has become an exception.

 

[numbnuts]

WYSIWYG

 

[KnackeredBike]

Actually why is it that almost all younger men have beards now, either full on grizzly or the cultivated "I want to look like I've not shaved for precisely one week" look? It does seem like the clean shaven look has become an exception.

Brexit, us kidz have the choice between eating or buying Bic razors.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

My beard is a permanent fixture. Possibly from birth. In my thirties, it developed two white stripes from the corner of the lips down. 'Very distinguished.' Thought me as I admired myself in the mirror. However, it earned me the nickname 'Badger' by a few select friends. Hummpphh.

 

[Drago]

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Ah, a nice nutritious bowl of wallpaper paste.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I did grow one once, but it didn't look good. It looked pretty straggly to start, like the commander's of the U-boat in Das Boot. My moustache hair are mostly white. The hair about my chin is mostly white. The hair on my cheeks is either red or brown. I am not keen on the badger effect it produces. It was several inches long before I shaved it off, but no one ever said, 'What a great beard!' I was a guinea pig for some of Gillette's product development tests when they counted the bristles on a patch of my face, which was very tedious.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Ah, a nice nutritious bowl of wallpaper paste.

A very nice bowl of apple pie and custard.

 

[subaqua]

Yes . Am currently sporting the winter fur . But it's coming off later as weather is too warm .

They don't stink if you wash them properly . If they stink then your personal hygiene is questionable .

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I can sort of grow an indecent beard.

The nearest representation I can find for how I look if I try is...