Facial hair

[Sleepyskull]

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.

[retrorussell]

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.

[joejoeherron]

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

[Saucerman]

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. 

[Psycho Circus]

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

I like using the old fashioned cut-throat razor.

[Sleepyskull]

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

I like using the old fashioned cut-throat razor.

You mean one of these: ?

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

[Psycho Circus]

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

I like using the old fashioned cut-throat razor.

You mean one of these: ?

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...

[Javakoala]

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

I like using the old fashioned cut-throat razor.

You mean one of these: ?

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...

You don't strike me as the farming type.

D'oh!  Sorry.   

[Sleepyskull]

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.

[Flick James]

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.

[Rev. Powell]

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.   

[AndyC]

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.

[Rev. Powell]

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.

[AndyC]

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

[asimpson2006]

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.