Got Facial Hair?

[Q.Q.Quillume]

Sorry ladies, this question is for the guys only . . .

If you do got facial hair, what kind?
Beard, mustache, goatee, soul patch, van dyke, whatever.

Right now I'm sans facial hair, but in the past have had a mustache, a full bear (for skiing season) and a short goatee + mustache.

[Shindig]

I shave about weekly. Facial hair just doesn't seem to grow much for me.

When I was 19, I wanted a beard. Like, civil war general beard. I didn't shave for a month. I mentioned at school that I was going without shaving so I'd have a beard. A faculty member who knew me was walking by and pointed out that I've got a good day's worth and should keep at it.

I'd consider a classic villain mustache, but I really only got the idea from an episode of Firefly . I would also consider a Fu Manchu if I could grow it.

[Finn07]

Would love to have facial hair, but job permits to be well groomed. However when im on vacation i get scruffy.

[popey]

Well some women maybe able to answer!

[choran]

Well some women maybe able to answer!

hahaha...

anyways i prefer the scruffy look.

[popey]

So you like women with facial hair and a scruffy look!

Every man to there own!

[Golf Yokel]

I have a mustache that connects to my goatee... then my goatee connects to my sideburns. I keep my cheeks and under-chin shaved, and I use my electric clippers to keep my beard at the 1-guard length (like 1/6" I'd guess).

I thought it was "cool" when I had to start shaving in middle-school (no lie, I've had a full beard since I was 16)... but now, I wish I had never started shaving and didn't have to deal with this fur every day (I have to shave twice a day if I'm going out that night).

I did grow a ZZ Top back when I was 22 though, and I have to be honest... it felt good knowing I could grow a Gandalf beard if I wanted to. One day soon I am going to stop trimming my chin hair and grow one of those old Chinese Kung-Fu movie goatees and braid that bastard down to my knees.

[moshdirtjumpr]

Mostly chin hair

[Shindig]

I thought it was "cool" when I had to start shaving in middle-school (no lie, I've had a full beard since I was 16)... but now, I wish I had never started shaving and didn't have to deal with this fur every day (I have to shave twice a day if I'm going out that night).

It seems to me that the current thinking is that shaving doesn't affect how much your hair grows. So relax, you'd be in that boat even if you had let the beard grow in middle school.

[ChiChiIsMe]

I had a full beard, 'bout 2 months growth as of Friday.

Saturday I shaved little, left full mutton-chop side burns and left a horseshoe 'stache. Had alot of fun with that Sat night out.

Clean-shaved as of this am.

[allin]

I had a full beard kept, kept it short, for 15 years. Since I went gray I have a moustache, last 15 years. Shindig don't worry it starts growing slower once you get close to 50, I was a twice a day shaver when young and clean shaven.

[Shindig]

Shindig don't worry it starts growing slower once you get close to 50, I was a twice a day shaver when young and clean shaven.

Slower? Great, I won't have any facial hair as an old man either!

[Golf Yokel]

Slower? Great, I won't have any facial hair as an old man either!

Haha, I believe that comment was for me

Shin, you lucky dog

[Shindig]

Haha, I believe that comment was for me

There are some disadvantages. It's easy to go a while without shaving, but then I just look dirty. It doesn't look careless or unshaven, just dirty.

[lamebums]

I have to shave it off once, maybe twice a week. Within two weeks of not shaving it looks dirty, or peach fuzzy. Four weeks and I look like a yeti.

[Golf Yokel]

Four weeks and I look like a yeti.

Give me a week and I could audition for an extra on Cavemen

I never thought about that though, and you guys might be right. It might be better having stubble and someone saying, "Wow, he needs to shave..." instead of looking "dirty". OK, here's a pretty weird, slightly metrosexual question... Anyone ever heard of waxing a beard? I've never heard of anyone doing it, but it was suggested to me once, and I blew it off until this topic

[p_funk]

I have a goatee. Sometimes I will shave my mustache and just leave the chin hair. I will always have some form of facial hair, as I do not like the way I look when I am clean shaven. My wife talked me into a clean shave a while back and it just confirmed it for me. I would noe suggest doing a wax on your facial hair. I have heard that waxing is pretty painful.

[Jeepthrills]

With the exception of most of 2007 I have had some form of facial hair for more than 10 years. I used to have a goatee year round but it started getting gray so I went to just the flavor saver or soul patch. I kept that for about a year. For a while I went with the chin hair only. In December of 2007 I decided to grow a beard for a week or two. I shaved my neck in the front because I get bad ingrown hairs but went full beard. It was not lovely. Right before Christmas I went back to the combo chin hair and soul patch. It's dark in the middle and gray on either side.