Aren't beards uncomfortable to wear?

[Jonathan Bailey]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing. I first noticed this beard thing around 1995 when young fellows started to sport little goatees. I thought that looked crappy even then. Now, it's largely a long biker-beard thing. Male faces are commonly looking like a string mop head.

Clean-shaven was the norm for the baby-boom and gen X in their youth save for a mustache and long sideburns here and there.

I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.

Looking at CNN on TV today, virtually all men in elected positions from federal to state are clean-shaven still.

Here in Lawton, OK, virtually all male (most of them here) cops are clean-shaven.

 

[PureX]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

By the time they grow out you get used to them.

 

[wizanda]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

Put olive oil on it, it makes it nourish it; don't use soap as the skin can become dry.

In my opinion.

 

[Jonathan Bailey]

By the time they grow out you get used to them.

They might get awfully sweaty in hot weather.

Once in a while, figure around 1978, my grandfather would see a guy on TV with a beard and ask how a woman could even stand to kiss that guy.

In coastal northern California, I worked at a national chain hamburger joint in the mid 1980's. Male employees had to be clean-shaven, no mustaches even. One of the managers was growing a mustache and the owner told him not to tote that mustache back to the store when he got off his paid vacation. Another manager got on a young male employee for wearing his hair too long back in 1985 and long-hair California beach/surf dudes was the fashion then. In 1986, there was another high-school-age boy at the store who wore a short mustache and I don't know how management let him get away with it. I was age 22 then and he said I should grow a mustache to look like Tom Selleck. I just laughed and said nothing.

I was clean-shaven most of the time except for the couple of days I was running late and came to work with a shadow. The owner or managers would soon get on me and I would have to take a crappy cheap Bic disposable to the men's room and shave with no lather. You know how badly those things tug and pull.

 

[Darkforbid]

Personally I grow a beard in the Autumn/winter and shave it off in spring

Best face wamer available

 

[PureX]

They might get awfully sweaty in hot weather.

Once in a while, figure around 1978, my grandfather would see a guy on TV with a beard and ask how a woman could even stand to kiss that guy.

Women do all kinds of unimaginable things to guy's, and they like it. So I wouldn't put much stock in Grampy's skepticism.

 

[Erebus]

There can be an itchy period when growing a beard. For me it was a little over a week but I've heard that some people had it for around a month and other lucky sods don't get it at all. This is also the time-frame where a beard tends to look patchy and scruffy for a lot of people which makes them much more likely to just shave it off. Get past that though and it's not uncomfortable at all.

I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.

Putting aside your personal dislike of beards, I kind of agree with you here. I would extend that to hairnets too.

While I couldn't tell you if it's a legal requirement, I do know that an awful lot of employers do require hair and beard nets for employees involved in food preparation and processing.

 

[Jonathan Bailey]

There can be an itchy period when growing a beard. For me it was a little over a week but I've heard that some people had it for around a month and other lucky sods don't get it at all. This is also the time-frame where a beard tends to look patchy and scruffy for a lot of people which makes them much more likely to just shave it off. Get past that though and it's not uncomfortable at all.



Putting aside your personal dislike of beards, I kind of agree with you here. I would extend that to hairnets too.

While I couldn't tell you if it's a legal requirement, I do know that an awful lot of employers do require hair and beard nets for employees involved in food preparation and processing.

Yes I agree hair should be covered too in food work. We were always required to wear hats at my burger joint.

 

[Polymath257]

Not at all. In fact, I grew my beard out primarily because my face was breaking out from eczema and the beard provides a barrier to scratching. My face also was bad enough from the eczema that it freaked people out in public and the beard provides a nice 'cover' to hide that.

The itchy stage is temporary and is mostly from the 'stubble' phase. Once past that, a beard is actually soft and comfortable.

Plus, my wife prefers it. I am 56 years old, so it is not an age thing.

 

[SalixIncendium]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing. I first noticed this beard thing around 1995 when young fellows started to sport little goatees. I thought that looked crappy even then. Now, it's largely a long biker-beard thing. Male faces are commonly looking like a string mop head.

Clean-shaven was the norm for the baby-boom and gen X in their youth save for a mustache and long sideburns here and there.

I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.

Looking at CNN on TV today, virtually all men in elected positions from federal to state are clean-shaven still.

Here in Lawton, OK, virtually all male (most of them here) cops are clean-shaven.

Oh look. Another beard rant.

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but this one convinced me.

I'm running into the bathroom and shaving off my facial hair as soon as I'm done posting this.

 

[Darkforbid]

Are there any clean saven Hunters in the USA?

 

[Estro Felino]

Matthew Salvini...my ideal man.
Bearded...manly, black-haired.

Most liked politician by women.

 

[McBell]

Are there any clean saven Hunters in the USA?

Quite a few actually.
At least here in Michiana.
Of course, they do an awful lot of complaining 'bout their face being cold whilst up in the deer stand...

 

[SalixIncendium]

Are there any clean saven Hunters in the USA?

Well, Hunter R. Rawlings III is clean shaven.

 

[oldbadger]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing. I first noticed this beard thing around 1995 when young fellows started to sport little goatees. I thought that looked crappy even then. Now, it's largely a long biker-beard thing. Male faces are commonly looking like a string mop head.

Clean-shaven was the norm for the baby-boom and gen X in their youth save for a mustache and long sideburns here and there.

I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.

Looking at CNN on TV today, virtually all men in elected positions from federal to state are clean-shaven still.

Here in Lawton, OK, virtually all male (most of them here) cops are clean-shaven.

I have worn a beard for over 50 years. At first it is scratchy but as time goes by it becomes as easy to wear as a head of hair.

Police here can grow a beard or not, as they please, and they are allowed to have tattoos on their arms now, possibly because so many ex servicemen have been recruited in recent decades.

There's no stigma about beards in the UK.

 

[oldbadger]

Oh look. Another beard rant.

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but this one convinced me.

I'm running into the bathroom and shaving off my facial hair as soon as I'm done posting this.

What is it with some folks that they want everyone to be and wear uniforms?

Seems petty to me.

The fashion in young celebrity males is to have stubble, but at my age it just looks rubbish. But if my wife told me that she prefers shaven, stubble, beard etc then I would go for it.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Matthew Salvini...my ideal man.
Bearded...manly, black-haired.

Most liked politician by women.


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Sorry, but who is the numpty in the middle spoiling the picture?

 

[BSM1]

My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.

My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing. I first noticed this beard thing around 1995 when young fellows started to sport little goatees. I thought that looked crappy even then. Now, it's largely a long biker-beard thing. Male faces are commonly looking like a string mop head.

Clean-shaven was the norm for the baby-boom and gen X in their youth save for a mustache and long sideburns here and there.

I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.

Looking at CNN on TV today, virtually all men in elected positions from federal to state are clean-shaven still.

Here in Lawton, OK, virtually all male (most of them here) cops are clean-shaven.

Depends on where you wear them...just sayin'.

 

[Estro Felino]

Sorry, but who is the numpty in the middle spoiling the picture?

Well...at least you like Italian females...

 

[Harel13]

My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing

You make it sound as though beards were invented in the 90's. Beards have been around for ages and they come and go in terms of fashion.