Survey - Facial Hair
Nov 9, 2023 16:08:09 #
bw79st wrote:
I grew a mustache in early 1967. Then I got drafte... (show quote)
I kept one in the army. Army regulations: No wider than your mouth, upper lip must be visible ... have a nice day!
Nov 9, 2023 17:03:04 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Just curious - How many of you (men, only) have a mustache or beard of any kind? I had a mustaches for decades, and then I shaved it off. Now, I have a mustaches and chin whiskers. Since Covid, many more men have beards.
This may be a little long, but back over 50 years ago, when I met my wife, I had a mustache. Shortly after we got married, she said she wondered what my upper lip looked like, so I shaved it. When she saw me without the mustache, she commented that my upper lip looked funny. I then re-grew my mustache.
Several years later I had grown a beard to complete the facial hair. I had never shaved my mustache. In December, 1994, I decided to shave my facial hair. I did that while at work, on Christmas Eve.
Christmas morning when I arrived home, as I turned my car around and parked it in my drive, my middle son exited the front door of our home and looked at me then ran into the house, exclaiming loudly, "Dad shaved his mustache." Did not mention the full beard I had grown.
Nov 9, 2023 17:36:42 #
By the way, all of my comments are based on my own personal preference. I do think that some men look great with facial hair, and some should not adorn themselves with any. Some have the ability to determine if they are more attractive with, or without. Most need some assistance from others. I kind of made my own determination based on both seeing someone else similar to me, as well as my close relative’s opinions and feedback. Done deal! No facial hair for me. Doesn’t mean it’s not appropriate for others.
Nov 9, 2023 17:49:23 #
Nov 9, 2023 17:49:29 #
I'll grow a beard and 'stash after my wife dies. I shave only when I must, but that is still too often.
Nov 9, 2023 18:20:28 #
Tucker
Loc: Derry, NH
Have had a full beard since 1981. I shaved it off in 1993 for my daughter who lost her hair while going through chemo, then we grew it back, (her hair, my beard), after her treatment was over.
Nov 9, 2023 18:24:08 #
Tucker wrote:
Have had a full beard since 1981. I shaved it off in 1993 for my daughter who lost her hair while going through chemo, then we grew it back, (her hair, my beard), after her treatment was over.
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Nov 9, 2023 18:47:31 #
I have a mustache and beard. Mustache since about 1972 and beard since about 1985.
Don
Don
Nov 9, 2023 18:51:03 #
Have had both mustache and beard off and on over the years. I find the beard makes me look too old. Am only 86 and look 10 years younger clean shaven. So, I just shave every other day or so depending on what my social schedule looks like.
D
D
Nov 9, 2023 19:42:39 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Just curious - How many of you (men, only) have a mustache or beard of any kind? I had a mustaches for decades, and then I shaved it off. Now, I have a mustaches and chin whiskers. Since Covid, many more men have beards.
Currently, I just have a mustache, but when I was younger, I had both a mustache and a goatee. However, as I started to turn gray (my original hair color was dark brown) my goatee started to change first and so I shaved it off, but kept the mustache, more as an omaĝe to my father, who for most of his life also had a mustache.
With that in mind, men have an advantage over women; when they're young, they can grow a beard to look older, and when they get old, they can shave it off to look younger
And for the record, I'm currently 76 and my hair is turning white (taking after my mother). I played with a goatee and mustache during college but had to shave when I was in the Army reserves, but at around 35, I regrew it. It was about 10-years to so ago, that I lost the goatee.
Nov 9, 2023 21:03:05 #
Tom467
Loc: North Central Florida
Jerry, I am clean shaven. I just do not like to cultivate something on my face that grows wild elsewhere on my body.
Tom
Tom
Nov 9, 2023 21:17:10 #
gastech1949
Loc: Imperial Beach, CA.
Full beard and mustache since 1968, but I still shave every day (Cheeks and neck)
Nov 9, 2023 21:28:22 #
For years I could not have a beard because of requirements to wear full face masks. After I retired and covid hit I decided to give my face a break and stopped shaving. I now have two new grandsons who would not know me without the whiskers. Plus both daughters hate it so it stays for a while.
Nov 9, 2023 21:38:39 #
Nov 9, 2023 22:06:00 #
I just don’t have the energy to shave much more than 4 days a week, but I wish I did, because I feel I look all old and grizzled. I don’t like the “manly” look of a 5-day growth beard like so many young men sport- it’s like they want to look like some big-deal Wall Street trader, who flies down to the Bahamas every weekend. I really don’t care for the look of the old guys with scraggly full beards, sreaked with grey, white, and yellow around the mouth. I immediately think “dirty”, a great repository for food or saliva. I don’t mind a nicely trimmed “Lincoln” kind of beard, but, like a psychologist suggested to me once, beards are a form of hiding one’s face, maybe their emotions.
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