Spoiler tags bro, spoiler tags. 'sides, I think he looks like a douche.Phlakes said:
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If you were already a badass, you can pull it off. If not, well, it looks lame as hell.
Do only guys think mustaches and beards are badass anymore?
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If you were already a badass, you can pull it off. If not, well, it looks lame as hell.
For those who do like em, drool on this.
For those who dont.. Suck on it.
Recognize it? You prolly should, Its the beard model used in Dragon Age
In all serious now.. I think what your tripping on does exist to an extent. Girls under 30 seemingly are not as into them for a wide variety of reasons. Usually you see women over 30 be more tolerant of them, However even then there are cases when they arent and usually in those cases they have had to deal with a beard that was unkempt, and likely drawing its own odor.
But yes, Below 30 girls seem to dismiss them out of hand to the point if you didnt know any better you might think girls just wanted to be with other girls that just happened to be packing sausage. But we all know better than that now dont we.
For those who dont.. Suck on it.
Recognize it? You prolly should, Its the beard model used in Dragon Age
In all serious now.. I think what your tripping on does exist to an extent. Girls under 30 seemingly are not as into them for a wide variety of reasons. Usually you see women over 30 be more tolerant of them, However even then there are cases when they arent and usually in those cases they have had to deal with a beard that was unkempt, and likely drawing its own odor.
But yes, Below 30 girls seem to dismiss them out of hand to the point if you didnt know any better you might think girls just wanted to be with other girls that just happened to be packing sausage. But we all know better than that now dont we.
Mixed bag. I've had girlfriends who preferred me clean-shaven and those who preferred the goatee. Have had it both ways in the 12 years with my wife, but tend towards the goatee... largely because I have this absurd little chin that looks like a tiny butt on the front of my face.
I have long blond hair and just to prove to my friend that I would look like a Germanic warrior I grew a beard.
Did I? Yes!
Did anyone find it an attractive look? Nope. Really not.
Did people think I would win in a fight? Yes... suddenly a lot of people who didn't know me started acting a bit weird around me xD No women... because they aren't intimidated by hair... (no don't play around with that in your sick little minds).
Is it still here? No...
Did I? Yes!
Did anyone find it an attractive look? Nope. Really not.
Did people think I would win in a fight? Yes... suddenly a lot of people who didn't know me started acting a bit weird around me xD No women... because they aren't intimidated by hair... (no don't play around with that in your sick little minds).
Is it still here? No...
Yep, I totally agree. Some guys can pull off a goatee and stubble is usually just fine. It's that beard thing, when it like, changes the silhouette of your face.LiberalSquirrel said:
I would like to amend my list of suitable beard/mustache owners to also include Santa Claus and Will Riker. Gordon Freeman doesn't count because that's a goatee. Also Marcus Fenix looks retarded without his retarded facial hair, so that's kind of ironic.
It depends on the beard and moustache, neck-beards and pedo-moustaches look bad on everyone, but full and properly maintained facial hair will not make an already handsome man look bad and can make some people look better by framing their face or hiding weak facial features.
Funny you should mention that; I have long brown hair and a full (though neatly trimmed) beard, and a girl recently told me that I looked like a Scottish warrior and should totally track down a kilt and a set of bagpipes for Halloween. This is after I mentioned that most of my ancestors were Scottish; the mental image clicked for her. To be fair, I really do look ridiculously Scottish, and I mean like an actual Scotsman, not like some stereotype. Everything from my face-shape to my body shape to the places and way in which I grow hair screams "this man's ancestors lived in Scotland."Comando96 said:
OT: The person who mentioned that beards are scratchy and make kissing uncomfortable has a very good point, although I can't imagine a full beard is any worse than the kind of stubble most men have an hour or two after shaving; if you've got enough testosterone in you that you can grow a full beard, you've got enough that your face is going to be scratchy no matter what. Growing a beard, at least in my case, probably serves to make things less scratchy, since clean shaven me's face is like sandpaper.
As for other reasons why younger women are turned off by beards, there has been a definite trend in recent years towards the ideal of an attractive man being relatively hairless. Women went through the same thing, actually; shaved legs and armpits are a relatively new thing, to say nothing of shaved crotches. There have been suggestions over the years that the ideal for both genders would eventually be essentially hairless.
There's probably also the fact that many young men can't grow respectable facial hair. I think any guy with a beard under the age of about 30 looks rather silly. I don't have a problem with facial hair, I just don't think it suits most men in the age range I would be keen to date.Owyn_Merrilin said:
That too. I've always been a hairy SOB -- my arms and legs were fairly well covered in black hair by the age of 10 or 11, and I had pretty thick chest hair by 14. I grew my first beard at 16[footnote]which was, incidentally, about the time my hair started to thin; I've got a widow's peak that would be quite at home on the head of a 30 year old[/footnote], and even then it was a lot thicker and manlier than a lot of guys half again my age could grow. At my current age (21) the biggest problem is keeping it from being too thick, because it gets long rather quickly. Most other guys aren't blessed/cursed with the levels of testosterone that are clearly running through my body.Dags90 said:
I prefer clean shaven. Sometimes facial hair can look alright, especially if it's trimmed and maintained or whatever. But a lot of guys can't really pull it off.
It seems sort of 'unnatural' that the ideal for attraction is being pushed in a direction that requires more and more maintenance and effort. I kind of hate that I feel the need to shave every 1-2 days in order to maintain a standardized version of myself. I can only really go 1 day before my face starts to feel like sandpaper, and apparently that's longer then plenty of men out there, as a lot of guys seem to get that 5 o' clock shadow. I guess I'm lucky?
Stupid modern society. Always embedding my psych with these unreasonable standards of sexual attraction.
Yeah, I feel like people are going in the more hairless direction. To be honest, hair in general is something I overlook for both genders.Owyn_Merrilin said:
It seems sort of 'unnatural' that the ideal for attraction is being pushed in a direction that requires more and more maintenance and effort. I kind of hate that I feel the need to shave every 1-2 days in order to maintain a standardized version of myself. I can only really go 1 day before my face starts to feel like sandpaper, and apparently that's longer then plenty of men out there, as a lot of guys seem to get that 5 o' clock shadow. I guess I'm lucky?
Stupid modern society. Always embedding my psych with these unreasonable standards of sexual attraction.
You're definitely lucky in that respect. I can go from clean shaven to a full beard in about two weeks. I have to shave a minimum of once a day, even when I have a beard (I mean, I don't exactly want anything growing on my neck, now do I?). It's a real pain in the butt.TheLaofKazi said:
Edit: Oh, also, if I neglect to shave for a while (like, say, if I spend a few days holed up in my room studying, which happened during finals week last Spring), the hair that grows on my neck chafes against the hairless areas around it, and leaves me with these rough red patches of skin. I thought I had eczema the first time it happened, until I realized that it was just my neckbeard chafing.
My sister told me that recently she and her friends have found some attractiveness in beards and Mustache beard combos but not mustaches alone. Im going to try and grow a Stark beard and see how the people like it at my school. but first i need to get out of the puberty beard stage.