Tinkerty Tonk
The older you are the older a beard makes you look. I grow one every few years, mainly as a change of pace, but lately I've removed them quickly because of all the white hair. Plus it's as much work to keep them looking neat as it is to shave, and after 9/11 I got tired of people telling me that I looked like a terrorist. Now when I see a guy with an elaborate beard it kind of reminds of the big-eyeglass/hat/giant earring look on women: high maintenance.
Juvenile male fashion models who grow beards aren't fooling anyone.
And what about those guys who always have a permanent 3-day stubble? Is there some special razor that enables them to achieve that effect?
Yes, a bad electric can do that for you. It's very good if you are into judo or wrestling, because if someone tries to put you in a headlock, your chin can give them rug burn.
Ah, that nostalgia thing again.
IIRC it used to be possible, maybe still is, to buy shavers with a scruffy-beard setting for the Don Johnson look.
I was thinking more of House. And Viggo Mortenson in LOTR.
I don't like growing a beard as much as I don't like shaving more than once a week.
What's the big deal with Viggo Mortenson? Look at a href=">this guy (a model on fashion show in Bishkek, fercrissakes). And yeah, 3-day stubble is definitely in.
{Gentelmen, I recommend you to scroll to the bottom of the page.}
I really only like Viggo in LOTR--he was so deliciously scruffy. He doesn't appeal to me when he's all cleaned yo.
That guy in the fashion show doesn't have enough facial hair to grow a beard. I think he gets his jaw waxed to achieve the perfect blend of simulated callowness and scruffiness that drives women wild. However, the Pocahontas thong look on the female models is not entirely without appeal.
When I read "Viggo" I can't help thinking "Leggo my Eggo!" Sour grapes on my part, no doubt.
Beards = soup strainers.
Perhaps I am biased because hubby's job requires a clean shave.
I also think of beards as food collection agents. And FWIW Jonathan I don't like the model's look and don't really go for the scruffy thing either-- Cary Grant is more my ideal--but in Viggo's case I'll make an exception. He looks kind of bland and boring when he's clean-shaven.
As a bearded scientist-type myself (picture here, I have to defend my longstanding facial hair against these slurs.
The number of bearded science Nobel winners must be way over the clean-shaven count. Every little bit helps!
The three-day stubble look, for which we can all thank Michael Mann and Don Johnson, is easily achievable with a higher razor setting.
I found that out from a friend of mine who generally wore a full, but well-trimmed, short beard.
Men have a blind spot when it comes to facial hair. They simply cannot tell when they look sexy, and when they look ridiculous. Witness the mustaches on my brother and father in the 70s (thankfully, finally shaved off) and EVERY SINGLE ONE of those stupid little pieces of hair below the lip on the chin.
Dudes. Shave it. You look sloppy, not sexy. We all want to say, "Hey, you missed a spot" when we see you.
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