View Poll Results: How's your facial hair?
Clean shaven
55
45.45%
Clark Gable moustache
3
2.48%
Full, trimmed
35
28.93%
Duck Dyanasty
4
3.31%
Handle Bar
0
0%
Melded Side burn
1
0.83%
Fu Manchu
1
0.83%
Goatee
20
16.53%
Zappa Patch
0
0%
Amish (full beard or goatee-no 'stache)
2
1.65%
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How's your facial hair?
07-11-13, 05:17 PM
#27
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My facial hair is just fine, thank you very much.
07-11-13, 05:31 PM
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Once we enter what passes for our cold season, I go with a full beard. As the tree pollen comes on the facial hair comes off.
07-11-13, 05:42 PM
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Up until March I had a neatly trimmed full beard an long hair. I usually wore it in a pony tail that went halfway down my back. Hair and beard were completely grey befitting a 60 year old.
Now the hair is short and the beard is gone.
Now the hair is short and the beard is gone.
07-11-13, 05:45 PM
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Well mine hasn't changed since the last time we did one of these threads 
Had it since 1978. My grown kids and late wife have never seen me without a full beard....but I do trim it.
I keep telling the young punks I cycle with, that it is a training beard. One day it will come off and I'll gain at least 2 MPH
They just mumble something about a crazy old fart....
Richard
Had it since 1978. My grown kids and late wife have never seen me without a full beard....but I do trim it.
I keep telling the young punks I cycle with, that it is a training beard. One day it will come off and I'll gain at least 2 MPH
They just mumble something about a crazy old fart....Richard
07-11-13, 07:03 PM
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I can't fill it in beyond looking scraggly and stupid. Checked it out again recently just to see how much was white. Almost all of it. But it never gets beyond thin and dumb looking. The head hair is thick and full however and I plan to go full white dreadlocks when I retire. So there.
(Apologies)
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07-11-13, 07:40 PM
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07-11-13, 09:31 PM
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The mustache.
The full beard.
I'm second on the left. Sadly, my mom and dad are gone as well as my youngest brother and only sister, (the two on the right). No facial hair anymore. Makes me look older, or that is what everybody says.
The full beard.
I'm second on the left. Sadly, my mom and dad are gone as well as my youngest brother and only sister, (the two on the right). No facial hair anymore. Makes me look older, or that is what everybody says.
07-12-13, 01:00 AM
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My normal status over the last 20 years or so, has been clean shaven, had a 'stashe before that. I have let it grow a couple of times, but last time it grew in mostly white, so I decided to take it off again.
07-12-13, 06:20 AM
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First time I shaved was at 17 when the drill instructor stood behind me in the mirror and made me shave something that wasn't there. Shaved every day afterwards for 20yrs, 25days and 12 hrs- haven't shaved since and never will.
07-12-13, 06:31 AM
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Fu Manchu (more or less) in college, but after that it's been a full trimmed beard for me. Pretty short though, never more than about 3/8" if I can manage it. Trouble is, it's turning grey (ahem, *white*) faster than the hair on top. My wife says the beard was what initially attracted her to me, so who am I to shave it? I've come close a few times, but those were "oops, that side's shorter than the other so let me trim it again... dang it, now I have to trim the other side again... dang it, now I have to trim that side again..." moments. 
Somehow I managed to even things up before it was totally gone. 
I'll stick with it, since it's quicker to shave around the beard than do a full job each morning. I just learned NOT to use my Norelco tripleheader trimmer for the beard... Just one time of having the rotary heads dig into the beard hair and I learned!!
Now I trim it with the same Wahl barber's clippers my dad used to cut my hair when I was a kid.
Somehow I managed to even things up before it was totally gone. I'll stick with it, since it's quicker to shave around the beard than do a full job each morning. I just learned NOT to use my Norelco tripleheader trimmer for the beard... Just one time of having the rotary heads dig into the beard hair and I learned!!
Now I trim it with the same Wahl barber's clippers my dad used to cut my hair when I was a kid.
07-12-13, 07:50 AM
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aka: Mike J.
Currently I'm wearing what is more of a Fat Manchu than a Fu Manchu. Otherwise usually something between a Tom Selleck and a Duck Brothers, and sometimes wear a bushy goatee transition phase between full bush and caterpillar lip during seasonal changes (or job changes/searches).
Didn't vote because there wasn't an "other" option....
Didn't vote because there wasn't an "other" option....
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07-12-13, 08:03 AM
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In early June I shaved the mustache I had for 41 years (been married for 34, so my wife and kids had never seen me without it.) At times I would grow a beard or van **** to supplement the stache.
Not sure if I will grow it back or not.. time will tell.
Not sure if I will grow it back or not.. time will tell.
07-12-13, 08:05 AM
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I envy guys with facial hair - they have it in their power to knock ten years off their appearance any time they want.
07-12-13, 08:12 AM
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After I shaved my mustache I heard from many women how I looked younger, and, from several that said how much they prefer a clean shaven man
07-12-13, 08:19 AM
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The Army taught me to shoot well, to stretch before and after exercize, and to loath any razor.
07-12-13, 08:55 AM
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I was actually expecting more goats, since what prompted all this was me noticing how many old farts where I live looked just like me. I guess Since I started this, I'm obliged to put up a picture.
Started going gray at 18. Thankful it wasn't baldness, and have embraced it. For many years the beard had that bride of Frankenstein thing going on.
Started going gray at 18. Thankful it wasn't baldness, and have embraced it. For many years the beard had that bride of Frankenstein thing going on.
07-12-13, 09:30 AM
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By shaving? That's a bullet you can use only once until you wait a long time.
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07-12-13, 09:38 AM
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I had a full beard, trimmed very close, for 20+ years. Shaved it off about 5 years ago or so when it turned too white
I only shave twice a week, whether I need it or not. I remember why I grew the beard
I only shave twice a week, whether I need it or not. I remember why I grew the beard
07-12-13, 09:42 AM
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07-12-13, 09:46 AM
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07-12-13, 09:52 AM
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I voted full, trimmed though I really need a trim badly, as some co-workers have noted as well. I've been so busy though, that I haven't even been able to train for the upcoming Fifty-Plus Annual Ride here in Boston in two weeks.
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07-12-13, 08:50 PM
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I wore a full beard almost constantly from my peach fuzz high school days until radiation treatments for throat cancer wiped out the whiskers toward the back of my face and below the jaw line. Now it's just a goatee and 'stache. The good part is that it takes me less than a minute to shave each day. I haven't had to shave my neck and under my chin in five years. My beard was never very thick, so I usually kept it trimmed fairly short as I do now.
