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So, facial hair. What the heck.
I just hit my summer semester after the most grueling year of school I'll ever have in my life. I'm quite relaxed. What could be more relaxing than ordering 50% Papa John's pizza from TL while watching random StarCraft streams, and intermittently playing your favorite SNES games? I'll tell you what: not much. Only thing that could make it better is if my number of posts had pure 2's in all digits. Oh wait... Gotta screenshot this so the occasion will last longer than my newly shaved bare face + Show Spoiler +.
My girlfriend is out of town and it's a bummer I can't hang out with her during all this amazing weather and lack of school breaking my feeble spine. So what do I do in her leave? Grow facial hair.
What's up with this facial hair. I don't know about the rest of you, but facial hair is god damn annoying. You have to shave it and constantly keep it groomed. Even if you don't shave you probably have to do some sort of grooming, or shaving of the excess areas. Fuck. I mean I can totally understanding natural daily tasks like taking out the trash, feeding the homeless, bathing, etc. These tasks, sure they take time... But they are important.
What isn't important is cutting off little hairs from your scrabbly face every freakin day. I suppose if I didn't have a girlfriend and wasn't looking for one, I'd just let all loose and see what sprouts forth. But my girlfriend playfully calls me a "shinker" when I don't shave. Why "shinker" you may ask? Well you know that drastic sword/knife-plunging sound you hear in horror or medieval movies when something gets stabbed? It's called an onomatopoeia.
Why should a dude have to suffer through their face being an itchy onomatopoeia. If there were ever an argument against intelligent design, the human beardy face would be the end-all-be-all and we'd all be atheists. Sucks knowing that I'll be shaving once again, for the manyeth time.
Laser hair surgery? Right how about you go zap your face with death rays and then come talk to me. Plus I aint rich foo.
Razor and cut it off? Sure. Razor and cut it off the 2000th time? Hell no go home. Facial hair is ruining my Papa John SNES TL StarCraft Streaming Summer in the Sun.
So anyway, facial hair. What's up with that?
 
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I've been blessed with the fact that my facial hair grows nice and neatly for about 2 weeks at which point I shave. I also don't have very much chest hair or back hair so thank god for that.
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On May 21 2013 08:56 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
I've been blessed with the fact that my facial hair grows nice and neatly for about 2 weeks at which point I shave. I also don't have very much chest hair or back hair so thank god for that.
You are so blessed, an inspiration to us all. Job well done
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What facet of growing facial hair don't you like? I mean you're alone and entirely free to do it right?
I'm doing the exact same thing right now, and i'm just literally itching to shave it *again*.
For some people it grows out nicely and naturally and for others it feels like an unnatural phenomenon, especially if you're asian.
On one hand i wish i didn't have to do it, and on the other hand i'm glad i can mix it up once in a while.... but is that option worth the effort?! Tune in next time, on MAN vs MANHOOD!
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Shaving blows, it is one of the routine tasks that I hate the most. Whats worse is I feel obligated to shave daily when I am employed. Its definitely something I am not looking forward to after I'm done with school.
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Beards are manly. Manifesto has one, too.
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On May 21 2013 08:59 CecilSunkure wrote:Show nested quote +On May 21 2013 08:56 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
I've been blessed with the fact that my facial hair grows nice and neatly for about 2 weeks at which point I shave. I also don't have very much chest hair or back hair so thank god for that. You are so blessed, an inspiration to us all. Job well done
Well it does itch when i excersize so i have to shave it regularly. But can't you get like a beard guard or something so it always shaves down to the same point this way you can fake the perma 5 o clock shadow.
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If only I had a picture of the beard I'm sporting right now :/
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Buy razor and razer. Lols
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Have to shave everyday. The catch? I don't. :D
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I feel your pain; most of my facial hair grows on my scrawny pencil neck. It's impossible to get it all, and every day I have to run the risk of horrible decapitation.
Also I have a really thin dirt-stache. I hate facial hair
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Purge is now the manliest waifu in DOTO thanks to his facial hair..
He is an inspiration to us all.
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I use a hair clipper. Take me 15 seconds every morning. And it makes me look bad ass.
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Your face is only itchy because its not used to being manly i guess. I think sometimes you just have to man up and grow a beard. Ive been growing one for about a year now and I must say its fucing awesome. I don't know what I was thinking shaving. Once you start growing one all the dudes will be jealous and all the women will want to rub on your beard dude trust me. My beard is now an extension of me just like my penis. My goal is to grow this bad dude down to my face now.
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
I'm beard user for 5 years already :D Feels so good and comfortable.
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After shaving maybe 5 times in the past 3 years or so, with my longest stretch going over 18 months, I'm honestly getting sick of sweat collecting in my beard. I'm getting a better understanding of why they are less socially acceptable. I think I will go spend $40 on razors just so I can form a new habit and keep it off.
I went through a phase where I thought it was completely weird and insane that people keep their hair ultra-short and their face baby smooth, like they are all 10 year olds fulfilling some pedo's wet dream: to have a world of large baby-men running around in suits that strangely look like uniforms. So I grew my hair to maybe mid-bicep and my beard to just above my man-nipples. Let me tell you how much shit I got for that. At the time I was working maybe the worst job in the U.S.; I felt like an anorexic bodybuilder, so I could get away with looking "like that" for as long as I cared to, or as long as I could stand up to the shit I got for it. At the time I was jaded about relationships so I didn't care much about finding or keeping a girl around.
There might have been 2-3 people out of 20 or so that I knew, including my family, who never once told me to cut my hair, or made mention of how they thought I would look with a different style, or bought razors for me during those months. And one of them was my dad. Go figure. It really showed me just how superficial people really can be and how fucked up and shallow most of society has become. But of course I knew that already. I'll say I'm happier without the hair (yeah I cut it all at the same time) but I still don't believe long hair is in any way feminine. People who say that show a fundamental ignorance that I find it hard to tolerate.
Good luck with the beard.
Edit: Not that all the comments were bad. I got some good upvotes on facebook and twitter from old high school friends I hadn't seen in years. One of the more hipster-type kids told me I looked like Jesus. Some girls find it sexy. But mostly the reason I cut it was the comfort factor. I don't much like intimidating people and looking unfriendly. It can hurt the social life.
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So I never shaved from it started growing so beard is pretty fine. Hair is kinda soft and doesn't really trouble. Barely notice it unless I fall asleep in class at which point it jumps into my face since head is bowed down.
Other then that its pretty cool. Not sure will ever shave, maybe just trim the bottom to keep in check.
But hey its a personal thing.
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Trim once a week with clippers... (takes 30 seconds) and I look both manly and groomed :D
+ Show Spoiler + I've shaved ONCE in the last decade + Show Spoiler +I've grown facial hair since last millennium
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Cmon guys beards are awesome. Just, not all of us have the comfort of rockin such manly man hairs.
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Goatee....the mini beard! It's like having a beard,but also not having one.
The only problem is, you might be mistaken for a muslim in airports etc.
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I hate to shave, makes my skin all itchy 
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I look much better with a stubble than shaved but unfortunately after like 10 days it starts to look silly and i have to shave again
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What's this extra sorcery you have on your user information stuffs :O
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I'm only comfortable having a goatee and a moustache, my body hair is such that I have to shave almost everywhere else every now and then. And even my super curly bushes aren't that hard to trim really. Man up.
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On May 21 2013 20:29 EtherealDeath wrote:
What's this extra sorcery you have on your user information stuffs :O
yea wtf is that, cecil tell us! 
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I hate how I look with a beard, but I'm also lazy and dislike shaving. Normally, I'd shave every other day to look socially acceptable. However, my girlfriend left for Asia three weeks ago and I haven't bothered shaving since then. Freedom!
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TLO justifies everyone else having to put up with it.
I'm unlucky cos I would like a "chinstrap" style, but while my mustache grows (and is shaved) like crazy, the jawline is pretty pathetic.
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Ive had a "goatee" since i was 15 (at least thats what i call it, ive looked at some things called a goatee before and they look batshit re..different.)
Its honestly the easiest thing on my body to keep groomed. I just give it the once over with my electrical trimmer every week and im done.
Shaving my face is something entirely fucking different, 2-3 days and im shaving..shaving..shaving...fucking so annoying
EDIT: Yeah my goatee is like this, not one of those that have whispers of hair. http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/colin-farrell-1.jpg
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I fucking hate shaving, therefore I have a slight beard. I shave every week or so, otherwise I'd have to do it every day...
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I have to have a goatee to provide my face with the illusion of a chin.
Seriously, Mom, couldn't you have found a dude with three-dimensional facial features?
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This thread has a disgusting lack of beard photos. I demand a TL beard thread to which I can aspire in the years to come when I'll be growing one myself.
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sadly my beard does not grow properly to have an awesome beard but how can you not be in awe over such a magnificent display of manliness
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for clarification, a goatee does not count as a beard!
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On May 21 2013 09:22 Chimpalimp wrote:
Shaving blows, it is one of the routine tasks that I hate the most. Whats worse is I feel obligated to shave daily when I am employed. Its definitely something I am not looking forward to after I'm done with school.
At least we're blessed enough to not have to shove a tampon inside ourselves and bleed every month or so.
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United States24664 Posts
Nobody here rocking a shaver? I shave every morning with an electric shaver and don't have much of a problem. It's a bit more expensive than razors (the cheapies) probably (replacing the cleaning solution every month or so) but much easier. You don't need shaving cream either.
Something interesting I learned a couple of years ago is that it's common for autistic people to choose to let their facial hair grow out because the rubbing feeling of a razor/shaver on their face is picked up on 'high volume' and makes them very uncomfortable. People who complain about shaving, while not necessarily autistic, might have a similar problem where the sensation of shaving is much more uncomfortable for them than for daily shavers like me.
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On May 21 2013 22:25 NDDseer wrote:
TLO justifies everyone else having to put up with it.
I'm unlucky cos I would like a "chinstrap" style, but while my mustache grows (and is shaved) like crazy, the jawline is pretty pathetic.
Chin straps are gay. Go full beard or go home. Hasn't Dario taught you anything?
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Be a man and grow it out.
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I don't know man.
I like shaving D:
My new foam smells too good, i'm addicted now.
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lazer your beard off, you might as well have them remove those pesky balls between your legs too
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Haven't shaved in ten months. And I have a girlfriend.
+ Show Spoiler +
Thats a real beard.
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On May 22 2013 03:56 QuanticHawk wrote:
lazer your beard off, you might as well have them remove those pesky balls between your legs too
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On May 22 2013 05:12 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:Oh my god.... + Show Spoiler +Cmon, Cecil, embrace your open-source beard
Oh lord I've been doing this SO wrong.
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On May 22 2013 03:05 micronesia wrote:
Nobody here rocking a shaver? I shave every morning with an electric shaver and don't have much of a problem. It's a bit more expensive than razors (the cheapies) probably (replacing the cleaning solution every month or so) but much easier. You don't need shaving cream either.
Something interesting I learned a couple of years ago is that it's common for autistic people to choose to let their facial hair grow out because the rubbing feeling of a razor/shaver on their face is picked up on 'high volume' and makes them very uncomfortable. People who complain about shaving, while not necessarily autistic, might have a similar problem where the sensation of shaving is much more uncomfortable for them than for daily shavers like me.
I've yet to find an electric that can tame my chin (granted, I stopped looking long ago). TBH, (the reason I stopped shaving) even using a brand new razor get will end up pulling at the wire growing out of my chin if I'm not super careful. So, I'll stick to a weekly trim with a "1" on my clippers.
+ Show Spoiler [related] +![[image loading]](http://www.beardandmustachetshirts.com/images/THERES-A-NAME-FOR-PEOPLE-WITHOUT-BEARDS...-WOMEN_MODEL.jpg) E: (not me)
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Beards being itchy? Annoying? Be grateful that the mighty norse gods have granted you the favor of beards, and respect their gift by growing a great manly one.
I trim once a week using an electric trimmer, and I shave a few places around the beard to keep it clean, sharp and tidy. You should explore the art of beards before giving up so easily! I wouldnt look half as good without one, women compliment me on it, and by Odin, its a great scratch.
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How do you have all that fancy stuff next to your name...
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Fancy stuff on my name: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=405682
My friend memcpy is good programmer, so he wrote tools that do these things. Also notice this, it's a hype detector for finding new threads:
Lets just say, memcpy might have a beard... Because he's a man's man making such cool things for TL browsing.
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I absolutely hate facial hair and shaving almost daily is a chore. Can't pull off the look... Maybe a 5'o clock shadow. Though I've tried growing for a week, amazing how drastically it ages my appearance. But then again you wouldn't find many young Chinese or middle age with any sign of facial hair.
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i want to grow a big beard so badly but at best I grow a mediocre goatee and a dead rat on my neck. It really sucks being such a facial hair loser. I need the beard to complete my look. I got the long metal hair, I workout a lot, I need the beard to be sure nobody ever approaches me in public. With my work clothes and hair back people still greet me. :/
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On May 22 2013 03:56 QuanticHawk wrote:
lazer your beard off, you might as well have them remove those pesky balls between your legs too
I'd do it without hesitation (the former). Shaving is annoying as feck.
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beard are awesome.
they get annoying thoug, sometimes it's hard to eat with a beard helping you out.
buy anyway, i quite like beards. I shave once in 3 months or so, and it's pretty cool.
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I been prone to only shave once a month cuz fuckitall. Let the beard be fellas! Not all ladies will dig it, but some really do. ; )
What games u go back to SNES for? I always like me some classics but I feel like I've played them all too many times now...
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On May 22 2013 08:14 TehWyLD wrote:
I been prone to only shave once a month cuz fuckitall. Let the beard be fellas! Not all ladies will dig it, but some really do. ; )
What games u go back to SNES for? I always like me some classics but I feel like I've played them all too many times now...
oh man, I have so many I haven't even had a chance to play through! Super mario RPG, Secret of Mana, oh so many... I've been hittin up Megaman X2. I got it on super famicom so technically it's Rockman X2 (modded my NA SNES to play famicom games with some pliers).
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As a gay man I can tell you that a good, well trimmed beard can make a guy go up 2-4 points in attractiveness easily. The number one subconscious determiner of attraction is physical symmetry and a beard adds tons of facial symmetry. Same with glasses and caps which is why, if you ever do online dating you have to ask for a pic without them.
Nothing wrong with a clean shaven guy but there is nothing wrong with working every angle either.
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On May 22 2013 10:04 Velocirapture wrote:
As a gay man I can tell you that a good, well trimmed beard can make a guy go up 2-4 points in attractiveness easily. The number one subconscious determiner of attraction is physical symmetry and a beard adds tons of facial symmetry. Same with glasses and caps which is why, if you ever do online dating you have to ask for a pic without them.
Nothing wrong with a clean shaven guy but there is nothing wrong with working every angle either.
Quite the interesting insight there, thanks for sharing 
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You're lucky you can even grow facial hair. The best i can do is grow a weird old asian wise man mustache w/o the middle area...
![[image loading]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2gm2drTtn1qby1r2o1_400.jpg)
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Get a beard trimmer and electric shaver.
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Netherlands6181 Posts
I find this really subjective. It differs per person I guess. Most of my female friends avoid bearded men like the plague. They also tend to think bearded men are older, and they don't find facial/body hair attractive. I have another friend I went to uni with, who has the most epic beard ever, and a great curly moustache too that he waxes into shape. He testifies that having masses of facial hair is at the sacrifice of your head hair. Not that you can stop your genes from being mean sons of bitches on this topic anyway.
He did shave once, and the ladies flocked over to him, but he has since grown it all back and so far as I know he is still single. I guess the problem here is if you already have an attractive face, having a beard is going to spoil it. Having a less symmetrical/attractive face can be enhanced by having a beard.
I hate shaving.
TL;DR Having a beard isn't for everyone.
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On May 22 2013 10:04 Velocirapture wrote:
As a gay man I can tell you that a good, well trimmed beard can make a guy go up 2-4 points in attractiveness easily. The number one subconscious determiner of attraction is physical symmetry and a beard adds tons of facial symmetry. Same with glasses and caps which is why, if you ever do online dating you have to ask for a pic without them.
Nothing wrong with a clean shaven guy but there is nothing wrong with working every angle either.
I never considered that
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Russian Federation138 Posts
Yeah... I cant keep up with them so i cut out and maintain something like a chin strap. ANd shave clean once i dont really like it anymore ( about after 2 weeks). Occasionally a beard will slip out though.
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On May 22 2013 15:43 inn5013orecl wrote:You're lucky you can even grow facial hair. The best i can do is grow a weird old asian wise man mustache w/o the middle area...
I would be so excited if I could make my moustache do that.
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United Kingdom14103 Posts
18 and still can't grow facial hair that's not blonde...
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At 1st I hate my facial hair but I learned to love it. I grow the and if they get curly and unkempt I just shave them together with my head with the number 2 trimmer.
Why do you hate beards? they are fucking awesome, damn even gods have beards, odin, jupiter, zues heck even fucking korean jesus!
Also beards can be customized and styled, you can be a spy too lol
It is actually more ichy if you keep on shaving, thats why I grew them because I hate the itchy growing hairs and because real men grow fucking beards!
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I'm not a fan of facial hair nor do I hate it. I'm just thankful that beards are in now, since I don't particular want to shave every week. So I do it once a month.
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On May 22 2013 21:53 woreyour wrote:
At 1st I hate my facial hair but I learned to love it. I grow the and if they get curly and unkempt I just shave them together with my head with the number 2 trimmer.
Why do you hate beards? they are fucking awesome, damn even gods have beards, odin, jupiter, zues heck even fucking korean jesus!
Also beards can be customized and styled, you can be a spy too lol
It is actually more ichy if you keep on shaving, thats why I grew them because I hate the itchy growing hairs and because real men grow fucking beards!
This is all assuming you have a) enough and b) somewhat covering facial hair growth. I have quite a lot of patches with somewhat sparse growth and others with dense, especially on my chops (chin and mustache-area are somewhat alright). The only thing I can somewhat do with my chops are stubbles (we call that "Dreitagebart", literally: three-days-beard, in German, haha), but then again it looks like shit if I underestimate how much it grows over a day.
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Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face
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On May 22 2013 23:21 Doodsmack wrote:
Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face
![[image loading]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5yaqbuxby1roo639o1_500.jpg)
You're wrong.
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On May 23 2013 00:11 Fruscainte wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2013 23:21 Doodsmack wrote:
Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face You're wrong.
I think there's a correlation with how much mass your beard can have (and look good) vs how much mass the grower has...
I do also understand that some guys just can't grow anything (I could grow more of a beard at 17 than my brother can at 27).
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On May 23 2013 00:11 Fruscainte wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2013 23:21 Doodsmack wrote:
Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face You're wrong.
I guess those two have more style than most but the fact remains they've got long hair drooping down off their face which is in unnattractive in and of itself.
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My facial hair confirms into a natural "Sea Captain's beard" when left alone. I leave it alone until it starts going into "Wizard mode". When I do this, I only trim, resulting in a "Vagabond's Scruff" which then slowly turns back into "Sea Captain's Beard". Each beard gives me a different bonus:
Sea Captains beard: + 2 leadership, +1 warmth
Wizard mode: +1 intimidation, +1 itchiness, +2 warmth
Vagabonds Scruff: +2charisma, +1 dexterity
It's pretty complicated trying to min/max my stats with the natural beard cycle but I seem to manage ok.
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On May 23 2013 03:01 Doodsmack wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2013 00:11 Fruscainte wrote:On May 22 2013 23:21 Doodsmack wrote:
Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face You're wrong. I guess those two have more style than most but the fact remains they've got long hair drooping down off their face which is in unnattractive in and of itself.
Thats pretty much an opinion, yes.
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had 15+cm beard at some point; it was better to look at than to live with, those things soon become quite annoying
i mean, do you know why nietzsche always looks so angry and dissatisfied with the world? why, obviously because the bloody moustache hairs are getting in his mouth *all the time*
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I've let my beard grow for a while and most guys said it looks good on me, but so much as I hate shaving I also hate having all this hear over my face. I wasn't very long at the time. I shaved it off 2 days ago, but now I'm feeling that maybe with a bit of work I can define the beard in such a way that it looks good and still feel comfortable. There's no way that I want a beard that stretches from my chin to my chest.
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On May 23 2013 07:40 JacobShock wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2013 03:01 Doodsmack wrote:On May 23 2013 00:11 Fruscainte wrote:On May 22 2013 23:21 Doodsmack wrote:
Some of the guys who grow facial need to realize that if its all uneven and patchy, you need to wipe that shit off your face because it looks terrible lol. Long beards also look terrible IMO. Why would you want a ball of fur on the bottom of your face You're wrong. I guess those two have more style than most but the fact remains they've got long hair drooping down off their face which is in unnattractive in and of itself. Thats pretty much an opinion, yes.
Yeah. I think they'd look better with no facial hair or much more trimmed.
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I'm lazy and half arabic...so it's beard time for me if I don't shave for a week. A lot of it is due to laziness because it's a massive pain to shave long coarse hair on your rather vulnerable neck.
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haha that sucks. my arab friends are some of the hairiestp eople i know. like can grow a beard in two days hairy
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Grow a beard and keep it. Be a man for once in your life.
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On May 23 2013 07:53 figq wrote:
had 15+cm beard at some point; it was better to look at than to live with, those things soon become quite annoying
i mean, do you know why nietzsche always looks so angry and dissatisfied with the world? why, obviously because the bloody moustache hairs are getting in his mouth *all the time*
Nietzsche looks that way because he's german :D
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