Beards: Good Thing or Bad Thing?

[DMcNay]

Two words to say about beards.

Jeremy

Beadle





James H

Ah, but another two words easily redress the balance:

Brian Blessed.

I win. Actually, in the style of Brian, that should have been:

BRIAN BLESSED!

[DVF]

Beards are the business. I have recently changed my style from the ordinary goateeeeee, to a more inteligent looking single line about 1cm wide running down the centre of my chin, surrounded by a very designer stubble ordinary goateee. This has took roughly a month to get into shape. It either makes me look like a well 'ard South Central hispanic gangsta , or a hairdresser . I still can't decide. Could be that the beard itself can't decide what colour it is. Currently there's black, brown, ginger, grey and white all fighting for dominance. I don't want to dye it. I know if I do I'll end up doing it bright red or something like that!

[Fossil]

Beards are the business. It either makes me look like a well 'ard South Central hispanic gangsta

Cool, I'm going down the Mexican Bandit look

"I keel you all you stinking pigs"


El Fossil

[mrlipring]

Beards make you look cool.

That's all there is to it. Some people shouldn't have 'em, but if you suit it, you're the daddy.

[KonstantinL]

When the Royal Bank of Scotland fired me (they are evil, evil people, please change your account if you bank with them) I grew a beard. Nearly a year later I still have it. It's had a mixed reaction. Some people like it, some people don't. I'm not sure myself, but I'll tell you something once you've grown a full beard it's a damn hard thing to shave it off. It's like cutting off a testicle! My masculinity is at stake here!

Recently I accepted it had gotten a little bit too large, so l lately I've been using it as a sort of grow-on-your-face Bonsai tree. I often spend an evening by snipping and sculpting away with mini shears. It's a calming, soothing, pursuit!

[Sharon]

Ok guys, its time we saw a few of these beards on here!! How else are we supposed to judge???

[DMcNay]

I'm more at the stage of "excessively stubbly". And I'll probably shave tonight, seeing as how I'm back at work properly tomorrow (there's only four of us here today).

But I'll post a pic or two tonight.

I could post a pic of Fossy's Mexican Bandit look but the paranoid fool will just blank his face out....

[Fossil]

.....It's like cutting off a testicle!
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my eyes are watering.......

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I could post a pic of Fossy's Mexican Bandit look but the paranoid fool will just blank his face out....

Fossil

[paladin]

What's the point in trying to grow hair on your face, when it grows wild on your arse.
Never trust a man with a beard.

Just two of the things people say/think about beards.

[Fossil]

The Tash God


Fossil

[PlasticDel]

But I kept the moustach bit! MAN!!! Did I look liek some sorta serial killing sex case from the 1970s off of America's Most Wanted?

The answer is "YES!"

Beards aren't bad. Moustaches are better.

Currently sporting this job again, thanks to a fag burn(!) on my face! Still at the sorta "I feel likea giggilo" stage. Most concerning. Which will progress to the stage described above. But as soon as I'm healed... It's gone!!! Rest assured.

[Field Marshall Shug]

British soldiers in Afghanistan are bing encouraged to grow beards in order to get 'nuff respect' from the locals.

[Chris H]

I have sported beards in varying guises and lengths since I was 17 ish (facial hair seemed to grow faster then as well), I am currently at the scruffy stubble stage with an inbalance leanign towards goatee area grows quickly, the rest doesn't.

With no beard I look daft like a wee boy, all the girls prefer me with stubble/beard opposed to clean shaven.

To keep it tidy folks go to argos etc but a set of hairdresser shear thingies and trim it with that, you can't shave it until its stubble, scissors take ages to get to stubble and the risk of losing a nostril or eyes too much.

A number 3's a good length to keep a beard at and use no attachment to thin it down for shaving off.

Also get her to do it cos if she buggers it up you have someone to blame.

Tomorrows tip, how to get your other half to do everything for you, stay tuned

[Vladimir]

I had a moustache, but on the advice of just about everybody I talked to, I decided to get rid of it. Like you say though, clean shaven is no good.

Im just waiting until I can afford a shaver that keeps things at stubble level...

[Chris H]

this is what I have

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 2Bcare.htm

She bought it, also if your mrs says she can cut hair great be wary. I was told that let her have a go and well frankly it ended badly and my hair was very short in order to rectify it.