Facial Hair

[Ex-User (5841)]

Anyone else out there attempting to make their laziness into something... dare I say fashionable? (I find shaving annoying).

My facial hair in general is patchy and looks like someone glued an old brillo pad to each cheek, and I've managed to grow the moustache long enough to chew on. I look like the progeny of a young Charles Darwin crossed with the Lorax.

Any others out there?

 

[BitRogue]

Hate facial hair. I bought an electric shaver. It takes 30 seconds every day or two. Of course I also have to look professional for work, but thats mostly besides the point, I guess.

 

[kantor1003]

I hate to shave as well, but I found that I preferred my looks with facial hair, but I didn't like how messy it could look, so now I have a goatee. Usually I shave once a week, or something like that, and take an electric razor to trim the goatee.
(Goatee - I don't like that word.)

 

[Melkor]

Well, I find facial hair pretty disgusting most of the time. I only ever really appreciate it in wise old University lecturers, Jedi knights or hermits.

I seem to have abnormally low levels of hair growth on my face , I'm not sure why... possibly just too young?

At any rate, I only shave twice a week, sometimes less. But I expect that to get more frequent in the next few years, and i'm dreading having to make that extra effort to not look homeless. :{

 

[lucky12]

Trim once a week, my stubble grows in so evenly it looks groomed.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

hermits.

If you appreciate it in hobos, high five. (Hobos being defined as willing to work, as opposed to bums).

 

[Cognisant]

The term "goatee" is thrown around a lot, sometimes it means with a moustache, sometimes it just means hair around the chin region, sometimes just a patch on the chin (a soul patch being just under the lip).

I have a full between the jowls goatee, or “mini-beard” if you prefer; sometimes I shave it all off just to remind myself what my chin looks like, then I anxiously wait for it to grow back as I remember I don't like my chin.

 

[Cogwulf]

I have a goatee consisting of a soul patch and a chinny thing. I'm hoping one day to braid it, but it just doesn't seem to grow very fast.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

I can see some form of "goatee" in my future. Right now I've got something like this

Spoiler

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dH3Lwg9Gc1Y/SkA6JKy8yeI/AAAAAAAAAac/KMjT2RkoNuw/s400/beard02.jpg

going on, only the gap between the mutton chops and "goatee" exists simply because nothing grows there (dammitall) and the whole mess is about 3 inches long.

My chin is the only thing with something that doesn't look like pubes.

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

Well it's not facial hair, but I have dreads....and for a girl, it's considered rather "radical" still....

I'm black, so having dreads isn't that odd, but the fact that I'm of Jamaican descent and my mother HATES them is rather ironic.

I get very mixed reactions about my hair, but I really chose to sport them mostly because I too am lazy and am in no disposition to make beauty salon appointments and stress over whether my roots are showing or I need my hair straightened to fit in.

To make things "worse", these days I prefer to date outside my race which means a man REALLY has to see past my hairstyle (which can be very hard for some who don't understand dreads or their purpose/ history) to really get to know me and not feel weirded out that they can't run their fingers through my hair.

I think, as a matter of fact I might start a facetious thread named "Dread thread" and answer any and all dumb questions related to dreads....

 

[Cognisant]

Technically there are no races, unless you want to start sorting "whites" by their hair and eye colours and "blacks" by region; aboriginal Australians and Africans look pretty damn different.

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

Technically there are no races, unless you want to start sorting "whites" by their hair and eye colours and "blacks" by region; aboriginal Australians and Africans look pretty damn different.

Well since living in Florida, I don't think running into an aboriginal Australian is very likely, I will simplify by stating I tend to date outside of my cultural congruency. Is that better?

 

[Cognisant]

Yep.

*gives internet points for political correctness*

 

[ObliviousGenius]

I'm 20 and I'm just now starting to grow some strings on my chin which are barely noticeable. I have very little hair, even on my arms and legs so shaving hasn't been an issue for me yet. I'm trying to make my hair grow so I can actually look my age and people will stop thinking I'm 15.

@MsAnthrophy, I don't mind your "open-mindedness" but I'm curious as to why you're dating outside your "cultural congruency". (If you don't mind answering). Btw I'm black, I mean uh "African-American".

 

[EditorOne]

"I will simplify by stating I tend to date outside of my cultural congruency."

I like it, because it covers a lot of ground.

My beard, meanwhile, is jointly sponsored by my laziness and by my need at this time to be taken seriously again. The beard apparently adds gravitas and dignity to what would otherwise be the face of an aging leprechaun.

 

[Agent Intellect]

I have my beard shaved off and my head shaved just about bald about once every 6-8 weeks by my sister. As a result, I can usually be found with a relatively thick beard. I'm too lazy and just don't care enough to shave it off myself everyday.

 

[lightspeed]

My hair grows thick, fast, and all over my face....lately I shave all of it of except for a tiny bit left on the chin so that people take me more seriously. I don't like the bother of getting id'd or looking like a child, and I seem to have the problem of looking too young.

 

[lightspeed]

I like a good razor...like the schick proglide....(but they cost too much) I just met a friend recently who got in the habit of collecting old straight razors after watching the Sweeny Todd musical. I thought the idea both creepy and quite cool in a way.

I might get into the art of a straight razor as I love a good shave, and I tend to grow facial hair very quickly!

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

I'm 20 and I'm just now starting to grow some strings on my chin which are barely noticeable. I have very little hair, even on my arms and legs so shaving hasn't been an issue for me yet. I'm trying to make my hair grow so I can actually look my age and people will stop thinking I'm 15.

@MsAnthrophy, I don't mind your "open-mindedness" but I'm curious as to why you're dating outside your "cultural congruency". (If you don't mind answering). Btw I'm black, I mean uh "African-American".

I go through phases of curiosity in different areas. Sometimes it's musically, sometimes in fashion. I am more than willing to date "within my cultural congruency", but I feel like I'm limiting myself. It's not a challenge to date someone who looks or was raised just like you. I like attracting opposites, I guess. Mostly just because people are raised so variently, it really gives me insight into different traditions, expectations and norms--all of which I find interesting.

 

[snafupants]

Over the last few months I've been cultivating a somewhat kempt Iron and Wine type thing. I potentially look like a bum without a black cap or beanie, because of my equally unhinged Frank Zappa hair, so whenever I go out...

 

[EditorOne]

"I might get into the art of a straight razor as I love a good shave, and I tend to grow facial hair very quickly!"

Ah. The real art is not using it, although by all means get serious instruction as you can lay your cheek open to the teeth without much trouble.

The difficulty is in properly sharpening it. A sharp razor is a dangerous thing, but a dull one is even more dangerous because you start applying dangerous amounts of pressure to try to make it work. Bad things then happen, plus it is just so public when you have to explain to the emergency room doctor why you need 19 stitches along your jawbone and a few more to sew your ear back on.

Knife sharpening is an art. Razor sharpening is a religion, one requiring instruction and some arcane tools. I mean, really, a leather razor "strop?" Doesn't that sound like something a dominatrix would have?

 

[Cogwulf]

I like a good razor...like the schick proglide....(but they cost too much) I just met a friend recently who got in the habit of collecting old straight razors after watching the Sweeny Todd musical. I thought the idea both creepy and quite cool in a way.

I might get into the art of a straight razor as I love a good shave, and I tend to grow facial hair very quickly!

Try a DE razor first, you can pick up some decent ones quite cheap.
It's a completely different thing to modern cartridge razors, most people who try it cut themselves up badly because they're handling it the same way as a modern razor, and then because of one bad experience never try it again.
The problem with cartridges is that they work by completely taking almost all control away from you, with a DE you need to think more carefully about the angle and pressure you use. This means that DE razors are excellent practice for using a straight.

For more information see here: www.badgerandblade.com

 

[duke of new york]

I started growing a beard in high school, but my mom hated it and made me shave, so I did, but I kept a little soul patch. When I went to college, I started wearing a short, thin beard and mustache (the "line," if you will). By the time I was a few years into college, I was letting my full beard grow out for weeks or months at a time. I was pretty grizzly, but it was a cool look. Nowadays, I live and work in Korea, so I shave every other day because having facial hair is considered unclean here. My beard grows in really quick and thick, though, and I look pretty unkempt even just one day after shaving.

I think my next project, when I move back to the US, will be to grow a handlebar mustache. I'm thinking Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York.

The main issue with the beard was always the ladies. Some girls really liked it, while others would think it was kind of cool but unattractive. I guess there are girls who like beards, and there are girls who don't. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I don't have the hair yet to connect the mustache and chin beard to form a goatee. :/

My side burns and beard grow well, but just not thick enough for the full beard look, which is what I really want. It's weird because my hair grows back fast, but then slows down at a certain point and then doesn't seem to grow at all.

 

[Cogwulf]

It's weird because my hair grows back fast, but then slows down at a certain point and then doesn't seem to grow at all.

Mines the same, I think it's because it reaches a point where it falls out as fast as it grows. Trimming the tips seems to help but I cant be bothered to do it much.

 

[Otherside]

It drives me nuts after three days or so.

 

[jandar]

About the only part of being part cherokee that shows is my facial and chest hair.

Takes me forever to grow a goatee. I shave every monday, you can't even tell by sunday that I have facial hair, and Im pushing 40.