I like to have something of an almost goatee if I can help it because I hate how my stupid baby face looks clean shaven and I hate my chin; mostly covering this is the most important part, the 'tache comes and goes.
Poll: Facial Hair. Yay, Nay or damn that's just hay.
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My girlfriend likes full beards, not the stubble I've got going. If I met her and had a beard, she'd be happy. I didn't, so I just don't grow one, she thinks it itches.
Personally, after I started wearing facial hair I can never go back. The few times I've shaved it all off I feel like I've lost 5-10 years. 
Just, for the love of all that is holy, if you're gonna grow a beard, make a bit of effort to take care of it/not look like a homeless person.
Just, for the love of all that is holy, if you're gonna grow a beard, make a bit of effort to take care of it/not look like a homeless person.
Not unless we get another cooling period. Even with breeding it doesn't counter the issues with heat and hair. XDBaffle said:
The farther we get from the last ice age, the less hair humans have overall, even those hairy Europeans..
I think it's extremely far from an evolutionary issue at present. Like many minor factors in our genetics we are simply advanced enough socially to counter any obvious biological issues. So we may be more likely to get a tick if we have hairy bodies but the sort of disease we get from ticks is much less likely to cause any significant degree of harm to hairy persons. Similarly our breeding is still heavily social and current data suggests that having facial hair is seen as more masculine and a little more aggressive but also (conversely to what I initially thought) more trustworthy. Perhaps masculinity and straightforwardness are perceived in tandem?
Anyway, the point is evolutionary biology is still important but is being seriously affected by contemporary medicine and social norms, born of evolutionary tendencies but let's face it, different.
Anyway, the point is evolutionary biology is still important but is being seriously affected by contemporary medicine and social norms, born of evolutionary tendencies but let's face it, different.
There are several men in my social circle with beards. Some of them are annoying to look at, while others make me want to run my fingers through them and scritch their chins. So, I can't really say either way what I like. I guess it depends on how manly it makes you look. I don't like men who look like little boys, but a good-looking beard has a fine line, too.
Well according to this guy beard lice are blessing and you shouldn't kill them. LOL
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/free-syrian-army-fatwa-forbids-killing-lice-growing-in-blessed-beards-113082700282_1.html
That is the first time I think i have ever heard lice being called a blessing.. Oh my D:
I do hope this was just a mistranslation.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/free-syrian-army-fatwa-forbids-killing-lice-growing-in-blessed-beards-113082700282_1.html
That is the first time I think i have ever heard lice being called a blessing.. Oh my D:
I do hope this was just a mistranslation.
I love having proper facial hair, but I can't stand stubble. It's itchy and annoying, and it's the main reason I don't even bother shaving during the infrequent periods where I don't have to keep up appearances. And I always hate how I feel like I'm way younger after I shave.
I also like playing around with different beard styles, since I can grow a full beard in less than two weeks. Right now I'm trying out a sort of Jack Sparrow beard. Without the ridiculous braids, of course. My moustache doesn't come in as thick as I'd like, though--it's barely more than pencil-thin. Which sucks, because I've often wanted to try out a handlebar moustache, especially around Halloween time.
I also like playing around with different beard styles, since I can grow a full beard in less than two weeks. Right now I'm trying out a sort of Jack Sparrow beard. Without the ridiculous braids, of course. My moustache doesn't come in as thick as I'd like, though--it's barely more than pencil-thin. Which sucks, because I've often wanted to try out a handlebar moustache, especially around Halloween time.
Been growing facial hair since I was 14. In fact, I asked my dad for a razor and he said "There is no way you need a razor yet" because he couldn't even grow a goatee until he was 30 (my mom got me a razor right away). He's 60 now and can grow a "full" beard but still has very little body hair. However, I could grow a fuller beard by the time I graduated high school with body hair to match. College was mainly goatee years and by grad school I had transitioned into "full" beards, as I had gotten way more complements over the goatee. My wife definitely prefers the beard to my baby face without it, even if it makes her itch.
At the same time, my beard always itches to some degree, and only gets worse was it gets longer. I also hate the routine of shaving. But I also hate trimming my beard, even though I prefer a short, full beard, as cheap commercial trimmers just aren't sharp or good enough to prevent half-cut hairs and split ends. So I generally go through cycles of a few months, trimming down to stubble (sometimes a full shave - there is a nice clean feeling afterward - followed by razor burn for a few days), then let regrow. I might trim it down a few times until the quality of the beard decreases and requires starting over.
And since partner hair preferences keep coming up, given the amount of hair I have, both on my face and body, I refuse to do anything else but an occasional minor trim. I tried trimming everything down to nothing once and the regrowth process was full of itching and chaffing I refuse to repeat. I'm not a hypocrite though, so I never complain about my wife's hair, and I have zero problems with it anyway. It's natural to have hair as we all have hair everywhere, just some much finer or lacking pigment. Keep up with hygiene and there's no problem.
We still universally have body hair (the thick kind) in a few places, and my understanding why we've kept them evolutionarily is that it's due to temperature control and chaffing reduction mainly. On our heads (not faces), our hair provides something to hold our perspiration when we are hot and allows our heads to keep cool (our brains do not like temperature changes), and conversely keeps our heads warm when it is cold (not to mention UV protection that hair provides). Under our arms and between our legs, the cooling part still applies (especially to us men - our sperm require lower temperatures than our bodies (80-85 deg F versus 98.6 deg F)) but probably not so much heating. But anyone who has trimmed, shaved or otherwise eliminated hair between their legs probably realizes that the hair prevents our skin from rubbing on itself and chaffing, which is way worse when wet. I imagine we have kept facial hair in general to keep our faces warm/cool, but sexual selection has preferred women with little to no facial hair and men with facial hair (as men don't get facial hair until they are sexual mature).
At the same time, my beard always itches to some degree, and only gets worse was it gets longer. I also hate the routine of shaving. But I also hate trimming my beard, even though I prefer a short, full beard, as cheap commercial trimmers just aren't sharp or good enough to prevent half-cut hairs and split ends. So I generally go through cycles of a few months, trimming down to stubble (sometimes a full shave - there is a nice clean feeling afterward - followed by razor burn for a few days), then let regrow. I might trim it down a few times until the quality of the beard decreases and requires starting over.
And since partner hair preferences keep coming up, given the amount of hair I have, both on my face and body, I refuse to do anything else but an occasional minor trim. I tried trimming everything down to nothing once and the regrowth process was full of itching and chaffing I refuse to repeat. I'm not a hypocrite though, so I never complain about my wife's hair, and I have zero problems with it anyway. It's natural to have hair as we all have hair everywhere, just some much finer or lacking pigment. Keep up with hygiene and there's no problem.
We still universally have body hair (the thick kind) in a few places, and my understanding why we've kept them evolutionarily is that it's due to temperature control and chaffing reduction mainly. On our heads (not faces), our hair provides something to hold our perspiration when we are hot and allows our heads to keep cool (our brains do not like temperature changes), and conversely keeps our heads warm when it is cold (not to mention UV protection that hair provides). Under our arms and between our legs, the cooling part still applies (especially to us men - our sperm require lower temperatures than our bodies (80-85 deg F versus 98.6 deg F)) but probably not so much heating. But anyone who has trimmed, shaved or otherwise eliminated hair between their legs probably realizes that the hair prevents our skin from rubbing on itself and chaffing, which is way worse when wet. I imagine we have kept facial hair in general to keep our faces warm/cool, but sexual selection has preferred women with little to no facial hair and men with facial hair (as men don't get facial hair until they are sexual mature).
Everywhere on my face, aside from the chin, the hair grows unpleasantly stiff and patchy as hell.
I shave off the awkward bits every other day, and the goatee when it's time for an extended exposure to the public.
Other than that I am forever envious of men who can grow a full beard, or at the very least some decent sideburns.
I shave off the awkward bits every other day, and the goatee when it's time for an extended exposure to the public.
Other than that I am forever envious of men who can grow a full beard, or at the very least some decent sideburns.
I grew my beard out and was given a backhanded compliment;
"You look too manly with that beard".
uhhh....
"You look too manly with that beard".
uhhh....
