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Can you grow it?  What is your opinion

-Jimmybob

You're looking for a manual? 
        . . . Just wait . .  even women get facial hair . . . in time.

It's more tricky how to remove them in an optimal way.

No I can't grow facial hair - the wife does not allow it.

I do becuase it hurts to be clean shaven.
Doggett has very sensitive skin so I don't shave often. Most of the time I got a slight stubble look. 

Oh, I also have trouble with the tache. Hair grows much quicker above my lip than on the rest of my face and it always kinda sticks out like a teenager who doesn't know how to shave properly !

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 :teddyr:

yes. you should see my face, look under the mouth!

I can grow a slight beard, but I shave

I can grow a mustache and a beard, but it takes an eternity. I don't bother anymore though, because I like looking like a chick.  :tongueout:

I keep getting this one hair under my chin!  I DON'T like it!

I've always had a mustache, and now I have a beard, mainly because I hate to shave just a little bit more than I hate the way I look with a hairy face. My wife is used to this facial hair now and when I do show up with a clean shave, which happens occasionally, she gets a bit annoyed.

I've always had facial hair once I hit college. Very lazy about shaving. Actually, I hate it with a passion. Once in a great while, I do trim all my facial hair off. I can't use a regular razor on my face as it hurts and my skin breaks out. One time when I shaved all my facial hair off, it made my ex cry and the cat hissed at me.

I'm never gonna be able to grow any facial hair thanks to the lack of a Y chromosone, but I quite like men who are a little scruffy provided they've got a few other characteristics going for them, too. To me, facial hair highlights manliness, not creates it.

I'm hardly without facial hair.  Usually its the goatee and mustache look.  I do grow a full beard pending on what mood I'm in.  I don't grow a heavy beard so it usually takes at least 3 days to look start to even look manly.   :bluesad:

If I try to grow a full beard, it comes in patchy and gray (grayer than the hair on my head).  So, a little bit of stubble is fine, but no more beards or mustaches for me. 

I have worn a moustache since High School, and am currently sporting a goatee as well.  Quite a bit of grey coming in, but I think it makes me look somewhat elvish  somehow .  . . . .

I grow sideburns and a beard like crazy.  Sadly, my mustache still looks like a teen-stache.

I can grow a beard but it takes a few days for it to get the length I like it and it looks pretty gross.  I like having facial hair but I shave on work days or for important events.

By the way what is everybody's preferred method of shaving?

I use a traditional non-electric razor (whatever is on sale) and I shave without any water, cream, or lather. The only water I use is for cleaning hairs out of the razor.

I have a bit of a beard (not really bushy) I'll let grow out a bit before it itches, and then I shave it off.  I always keep my mustache, just trim it once in a while.  When I do shave my beard I bleed like crazy, especially around the jaw and on my neck.  Doesn't really hurt, I just have thin skin there.  I use a non-electric razor with gel foam.

I wear the the full beard. It's long enough I have to be carefull when I eat soup.

My facial hair comes in kind of sparsely, but extremely coarse -- more like boar bristles than human hair.  I tend to shave every other day or every third day, because if I shave any less frequently, I have to wear a beard guard at work, and those things itch like mad.  I grew a goatee once and liked it, but had to get rid of it because I was developing such horrible ingrown hairs on my chin. 

I have considered doing the Civil War "mustache blends into sideburns" look, but there's two patches, one on either side of my upper lip, where hair simply does not grow.  So there goes that idea. 

I like using the old fashioned cut-throat razor.

You mean one of these: (http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6667/straightrazor0098main.jpg) (http://img441.imageshack.us/i/straightrazor0098main.jpg/)?

I've heard they take quite a bit of practice to use correctly. Was that the case with you?

Hell yeah. Nearly bought the farm a few times... :bouncegiggle:

You don't strike me as the farming type.

D'oh!  Sorry.   :twirl: :twirl: :twirl: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I've never used a straight razor personally, but I've had barbers use them on me. Each time I imagine my throat being slashed by various movie killers.

I razor-shave my head once or twice a week, and have a goatee, making me look a little like Anton LeVey at times. I don't mind the receding hairline so much, but the bald patch at the back of the head annoys me, so I went totally bald. I've toyed with the idea of growing a full beard along with the shaved head, as I don't mind being humous with my appearance. I even had the idea of growing a full beard, including having a line of hair run over and behind my ears and around the bottom of the back of my head, and call it a "surgical mask."

Since shaving my head, I've been wanting to do a mohawk, but that would look riduculous because of the bald patch. It would end up being a broken mohawk. Hey, there's a new idea, I'll call it a brohawk. Hmm. No that doesn't work. A broke-hawk? I'll come up with something.

Please, please post a picture if you actually do that.   :bouncegiggle:

I've done the full beard with a shaved head look, and it's not too bad except that I need to remember to get the sideburns the same length (in the opposite of the normal direction). Mostly, I've done the shaved head and goatee (more properly a Van Dyck), and I used to do a mustache now and then, except my wife doesn't seem to like it. Says it looks gay. Why that would bother her, I don't know.

Right now, I'm wearing the compromise look, which I think suits me best - the mustache and chin puff. I've occasionally modified that to a Frank Zappa mustache and soul patch, or just a very small goatee with no mustache, but I tend to favour the Kentucky Colonel look.

(http://www.men-access.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/beard-vandyke-muttonchop.jpg)

Why are those "friendly" mutton chops?  Are mutton chops without an accompanying mustache considered threatening?

The balbo is one I could grow, but it sure looks stupid.

I'm guessing the muttonchops are friendly because they join the mustache.

I just have sideburns right now, and that's it.  I was thinking about growing a mustache this summer, but I am still thinking about it.

I wish I was a guy sometimes.

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I did the handlebar and chin puff thing and kind of rocked it.  I felt like a supervillain from a silent film.  

I'm guilty of the Balbo.


 :bluesad:

Might have been the Hollywoodian. They're pretty close, with one just a little more blended to the face. I've considered the Hollywoodian a couple of times, for kind of a Sid Haig look. Never did it though.
(http://nixbased.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beardtypes1.jpg)
Of this chart, I've done the Fu Manchu (before I met my wife - she hates that one), the Van Dyke, the short boxed beard, something like the ducktail, the Zappa, the petit goatee (maybe not as pointy), and my current and favourite, the stache and chin puff. Not really a handlebar though, more like the mustache on the Sparrow. I've pretty much avoided growing anything on the cheeks since I started turning white there.

I had an odd thing going on in college and I realize what I'm about to say will be hard to picture.  I grew my sideburns out kind of handlebar style but didn't sport a mustache, rather just a goatee with the burns.  Shaving that was more than impossible at times. 

Question for my bearded brethren...how long do you let your facial hair grow?  I let my goatee get long at times.  Often it takes my boss to start referring to me as "Jim 'The Anvil' Neihart" to get me to trim it.  I do keep my stache more trimmed though.  I hate when it gets too bushy, I find it irritates the hell out of my lip.  I'm not sure how people like Sam Elliot and Tom Selleck deal with theirs. 

Oh side note I was thinking of the other day.  Does anyone else feel kind of sorry for the Hitler stache?   Isn't odd that a facial hair style be retired because of one a-hole?  Then again, did anyone wear it before him?   

Charlie Chaplin!  Well, around the same time, I guess.  I heard that Hitler "stole" the stache from Charlie to make people like him more, so that would mean that Charlie Chaplin had it first.  I don't know if that's true though.

Yep...silly me.  So say if I choose to look like Charlie Chaplin, I'm going to get flamed for doing the Hitler stache.  I think it is dead and burried as a facial hair style .

The chin puff I try to keep fairly short. The stache I can sometimes forget to trim, although it never gets so long as to be really noticeable. I've let the goatee grow to near Jim the Anvil length once, just to try it, and I did go for a really long beard once. The problem is, my facial hair is not the kind that comes in all full and bushy, and if it gets beyond a certain length, it starts to curl in unwanted directions. So the Jim Neidhart and Grizzly Adams looks didn't stay for too long. Mostly, I look best when I keep things somewhat trimmed and the edges well defined. Even when I was wearing the full beard, I'd shave my neck and cheeks to give it a nice shape.

Yeah, rather unfortunate about the Hitler stache. It's weird that part of the guy's legacy is effectively killing off an entire facial hair style. There is not one other person in all of history who can claim to have given a mustache a bad name.

Speaking of staches that pretty much stayed confined to the early 20th century, has anybody tried a pencil-thin mustache? That's one I wanted to do, but I don't have the right mustache to do it. Not thick enough directly above the lip.

I'd probably do it on a dare.   I know it would net me a lot of flack which I would welcome.  But nope, I haven't tried it.  Next time I shave the stache I may just do that. 

Yes, but then I've been growing it ever since I retired 16 months ago, but next month I'm going into the barbershop and have it all cut off, as I'm going to Europe next month, and as the photo in my passport looks nothing like I look now, I got this fear that I'll be stopped someplace and held for questioning.

And then when I get  back from Europe, I'll probably let it grow out for another six months, before I have it cut again, as I don't have another overseas trip planned till a cruise to the Bahamas at the end of December.

Yeah, when I was a kid, there was a friend of the family - a university professor - who travelled to the Soviet Union on some kind of academic business. He's had a beard pretty much as long as I can remember but his passport photo had no beard. Of course, they detained him at the border and eventually made him shave the beard off before they'd let him in. The Cold War was an interesting time.

Currently working on a full gentlemen's beard.  I expect it to be filled in by midweek.