Aren't beards uncomfortable to wear?

[Ponder This]

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.

Hair becomes scratchy when it is cut or when it is dry. Your 5 o'clock shadow is scratchy primarily because you shaved. Hard truth.

 

[Twilight Hue]

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.

My goatee is very soft. My wife likes it. It's only scruffy at the start.

 

[Thief]

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 all of my adult life

and if I shave it off...….my wife will make me VERY uncomfortable

 

[Audie]

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

There is a different name for that.

 

[Audie]

My goatee is very soft. My wife likes it. It's only scruffy at the start.

I think most asian women find facial hair repellent

 

[Mock Turtle]

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

I never question my appreciation of female beauty - those of others often, but not my own.

 

[ManSinha]

Some "not-so-clean-shaven" politicians

 

[Twilight Hue]

I think most asian women find facial hair repellent

What about all those Yojimbo movies and Kung Fu theater?

Tradition!

 

[columbus]

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

Let it grow out a bit.

I grew a beard in 1977. I came home for family Christmas, didn't shave the last couple of days, then didn't come home until March. It took my family about 2 days to get over it. I've had it ever since.

Closest I ever came to shaving it off was in the 80s. Do not trim while inebriated. Luckily, the "Don Johnson 5 day stubble" thing was in vogue. Everybody thought I meant to do that.

I trim the beard with electric clippers, and shave a bit. I shave to tidy up the lines on my cheeks, and shave under my jawline(so the beard curls under instead of being wild and free).

I did let my hair and beard go wild and free for over a year once. There are pics on RF. But that much hair is too much trouble to care for, so I stopped.
So is a clean shaven face. I prefer a low maintenance look.
Tom

 

[columbus]

It seems unnatural for dudes to want to look like girls or children.
Maybe it's just me.
Tom

 

[BSM1]

There is a different name for that.

No judgement intended...

 

[Flame]

 

[Audie]

No judgement intended...

Ya mean no meaning intended?

 

[Audie]

It seems unnatural for dudes to want to look like girls or children.
Maybe it's just me.
Tom

They can try but we wont be fooled.

 

[BSM1]

Ya mean no meaning intended?

Does this mean what I think you intended to mean?

 

[Audie]

Does this mean what I think you intended to mean?

Who knows, now.

 

[Shad]

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.

You get use to it. Just keep it clean.

It is winter up here. A beard is cheaper than a scarf.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It's a millennials thing.

Yeah. That memo didn't reach all the rednecks I've known who look the part for Duck Dynasty.

 

[McBell]

Yeah. That memo didn't reach all the rednecks I've known who look the part for Duck Dynasty.

Thats just it, a part.
Before the show they Robertson's were clean shaven yuppy dressers.

 

[Galateasdream]

There's an itchy phase, but it passes.

And when long your beard can get caught under your armpit or trapped elsewhere and that can be annoying. And small children might pull it, which isn't so fun.