Hi Guys, from my avatar you can see I have a beard. I have it trimmed every five weeks when the lady who has been cutting my hair for about the last 40 years does the usual. My wife of 43 years has only seen a few pictures of me without a beard. I haven't shaved the beard since December 1973, the old straight razor used to cut me just about every time so I said enough of that and quit shaving. I has a few more gray hairs in it now but I blame that on stress. Oh well, can't have everything perfect, but it would be nice. Thanks Holy Cow, hang in there and keep it up!! Carry on.
I had a beard in the past, but now it just comes out white and makes me look even older than I am!
Here is a pic from my younger days with a beard...and with a lot more hair (I just do a #2 all around at the barber now)
Part of the year I sport a Van Dyke, other times a full beard. I currently have the full version going. I have only shaved it completely off once in almost 18 years and no one liked it....
Williwaw, post: 443679, member: 7066 wrote: Stopped shaving twenty years ago, just couldn't keep up. By the end of the day I'd have a short sandpaper like beard. Grows like kudzu. Buzz it with the beard trimmer couple times a week. Makes a nice sun and wind barrier, like a baby's bottom under there. SWMBO thinks it's Don Johnson sexy, but insists I keep the top of my head the same length which has everyone assuming I'm military. Call it my 'high speed, low drag' look.
If I had enough left on top, I might try that. As it is I keep a little bush to the beard to distract from the nearly shiny pate.
eapls2708, post: 443692, member: 589 wrote: I keep mine short & trimmed. Shaved it off a few years ago just for a change of pace. Wife looked at me with an expression of... I'm not sure if it was fear, disgust, or just a lack of recognition. I didn't get a chance to ask her opinion before she told me to grow it back. Apparently, I'm not as cute & cuddly with a beardless face as that swell Radar Casement guy.
When I was dating my wife, I only had a mustache. I had cut my beard a couple of years before. Then she saw a picture of me with my beard and wanted me to grow it back. 20+ years and counting this time.
I believe I've had mine since 1979, no exceptions. It gets trimmed when my hair gets cut and then receives no attention till the next haircut. I try not to get too shaggy looking but I don't always succeed, especially come winter time. I just can't see the point in shaving.
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Having a bushy beard in suit and tie country helps to make one memorable. BTW, tying a tie is quite challenging with a long bushy beard in the way. You can forget a bow tie or a bolo tie as no one will ever know it's there.
Well beards are great but with conditions
- Require a gibson and a respectable Hat and whole lot of talents
Kent McMillan Esquire has been reported by BBC world news seen viewing zz top early texas days while incognito wearing a beard, top hat and plus dark sunglasses back in the college days surveying the act
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just a cheap shot
Looks like the red beards predominate.
Sorry can't add another.
Long lost in the database somewhere.
Jerry Hastings, post: 443753, member: 9996 wrote: Hi Guys, from my avatar you can see I have a beard. I have it trimmed every five weeks when the lady who has been cutting my hair for about the last 40 years does the usual. My wife of 43 years has only seen a few pictures of me without a beard. I haven't shaved the beard since December 1973, the old straight razor used to cut me just about every time so I said enough of that and quit shaving. I has a few more gray hairs in it now but I blame that on stress. Oh well, can't have everything perfect, but it would be nice. Thanks Holy Cow, hang in there and keep it up!! Carry on.
I hate to point out the obvious Jerry but.....Momma Cash's side of the family is rampant with red heads and my whole family is familiar with red head maintenance. I'm pretty sure if you had a beard in 1973 your avatar is either an old picture or you color your beard.
Now I might be wrong....but I doubt it. 😉
I grew a pretty awesome mustache, wife didn't like it. It's gone.
When I removed it the puzzled look on my Grandson's face was priceless. It looks mostly like Pahwa, it sounds like Pahwa, it's a giant like Pahwa, but something is different?
I grew a mustache in 1972 or 73 when a bunch of guys at work did. Have never shaved it since. A few times I let the beard grow for a couple weeks but always shaved it when some occasion came up to try to look spiffy.
After retiring I was letting it go for a week or so when I wasn't going out in the world much, and the wife suggested I keep it. Maybe she thought it hid some of the ugly.
It's been several years now and I enjoy the freedom to trim it a couple times a week instead of shaving daily.
Usually let it grow out during fall and winter. First time I shaved it off after youngest daughter got old enough to notice, she shot up the stairs yelling "momma, daddy got a new head!!!"
The Turner side of the family were mostly redheads.
Now they are mostly smooth headed.
The Harris side are born with white hair that turns to brown after a few years and then goes back to white again near retirement age, still with full coverage.
Jerry Hastings, post: 443753, member: 9996 wrote: I haven't shaved the beard since December 1973
My beard is 3 years younger that Jerry's. I grew it in 1976 for the bicentennial and I plan to shave it off on July 4 of the tricentennial. Mine is red, although it's more of a salt and cayenne pepper now.
I tend to grow a beard for hunting season each year. I keep it "high and tight" and shaved right to my jaw line. I can pass a "fit test" on my air pack at the FD like that.
I don't like the long beards but for SWMBO, she doesn't want it too short but not too long. She says when it's really short, it hurts her face but too long looks gnarly.
On my beard trimmer, a No. 2 is right at the breakover point. I shave the neck every other day and trim the beard back generally on Sunday evening. I'll normally begin growing in late September and shave it sometime in March.
I'm blown away at the insulatory value of the beard when working outside when it's cold. Makes a huge difference.
Holy Cow, post: 443720, member: 50 wrote:
Mine partially compensates for the shortage on top of the head.
Help me out here: your statement gives me the picture of a comb over..... from the beard area to the top of the head..... is that how it works? 😉
Hee hee hee. Nope.
@padencash Well Paden,, this an older picture of me. It is from January 2004 when I started for the county. Now, it is more gray than red but oh well. That is better than some of the alternatives some of my friends have had. They are pushing up daisies in the marble orchard. That is something I hope to delay for a while longer. Many of us of this age have figured out how to keep going. Beware of old men who have survived in a young man's world. As long as it it still fun, I will keep on doing this. Thanks.
I've had a mustache and goatee for several years now. Allergy season was so bad, I shaved it all off for some relief. I showed up at the office and everybody freaked out... they even posted a MISSING poster on Facebook.
