The end of the current Time Of The Beard may be at hand.

I grew it during the Cold Times, you see. But it’s getting warm out, now – and, if nothing else, the itching seems worse when the weather’s warm. I haven’t yet pulled the trigger on shaving it, though: not least because I haven’t decided whether to just shave the whole darn thing, or whether to try a different style of facial hair. It’s proving to be a surprisingly difficult decision…

13 thoughts on “The end of the current Time Of The Beard may be at hand.”

  1. I rock the Van Dyke, mostly because I hate shaving my face in that area. Which wikipedia apparently wants me to call a circle beard.

  2. I find whiskers to be a good thing.
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    I suggest keeping track of where it itches for a day or three, then fire up the character generator for Fallout and pick a style that leaves the irritated areas shaved.
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    Alternately, especially if you’ve got any interviews coming up, I recommend the icepick-goatee. Stylish, and yet suggests that you might be willing to be the first one to resort to violence… not a bad mental image for an interviewer, eh?
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    Mew

  4. I used to shave … and I used to rip my face to shreds (to use Bil Cosby’s evocative phrase from “Little Tiny Hairs”). Then I switched to a carefully shaped goatee connected to sideburns (AKA full beard but with shaved cheeks) that I touched up every two or three days. Eventually I got lazy, and now I take clippers to my full beard every week or three to keep the hairs anywhere between 1/4- and 3/4-inch long. It doesn’t take much effort, it doesn’t itch, it doesn’t look like I don’t trim it, and it’s sufficiently long that it isn’t mistaken for Hipster/Terrorist Stubble.

  6. Remember Seneca Crane’s beard in the first Hunger Games movie? Apparently that’s his actual beard, just very carefully and precisely trimmed.

  7. Also, since I can’t grow anything but a horribly scraggly beard, I never grow one, since otherwise I look too much like Richard Stallman for my comfort.

  8. My beard is not a fashion statement, or any form of social or political commentary. Shaving sucks, so I do it as little as possible, and since my one true talent is “growing the *** out of some hair”, I generally look like “Hagar the Horrible”….

  9. I shaved mine about a month ago when it started to get warm for the same reason. I usually grow one in the fall for hunting season, and then shave it a few months later. Although some years I cut it down to a goatee instead.

  10. I wear a circle beard throughout the year. I’ve never had problems with that during the summer months.

  11. Oh — *whiskers* — that kind of beard. I thought you were going to be commenting about the president’s wife.

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