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Aug 19, 2018 - 11:04 AM
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Graham Watt
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Mine came back too. After too long living the life of a potato, my dermatologist told me that I have very sensitive skin. Poor quality, pale, and evidently Nordic. ("Nordic?", I exclaimed). Anyway, years of lying naked under the boiling Scottish sun from Day 1 of my existence until I was about 30, without suntan cream (we didn't have that in Scotland - we used lard, or nothing at all), has caused Actinic Queratosis (or whatever it's called in English), which is a pre-cancerous skin condition. So, apart from having to undergo several treatments, plus periodical examinations of every square millimetre of my entire body (which can be very exciting - my dermatologist is a very lovely lady, especially in a lab coat and intellectual specs), I must lead the life of a vampire and never go out in the daylight, even when it's cloudy. But what's that got to do with the price of potatoes? Ah yes, my sensitive skin. My lovely dermatologist told me that I have very poor-quality Nordic (Nordic?) skin, and I'd be doing myself a favour if I didn't shave at all, because apparently shaving is one of the most aggressive things you can do to your skin. Another even more dangerous thing is burning your face off with a flame-thrower, but I told her I'm not mad, really. So she imposed a "no-shaving" ban. But in order to see if my "condition" is worsening or improving, she must delve under the thatch. So we came to an agreement. I would cultivate a generous thicket of moustache and "Gary Oldman in Air Force One" beard, while weekly shaving of the bits that grow out of my cheeks, nose and ears. Those are the parts most affected by sun damage, so I hack at them in order to let her inspect every millimetre of my former potato. But none of this "every morning" slavery. And the moustache and beard get the once-a-month trim. I'm impressed that my moustache is black, but my beard is a combination of black, white and red. That is the situation at the moment. More in Breaking News.
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Aug 19, 2018 - 5:39 PM
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Jim Phelps
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While I cannot claim to suffer from the skin condition you describe--I looked it up and conducted an image search to see what you meant--I can state that shaving, or "mugging one's mug", can yield unpleasant after effects, not counting allowing the world to see even more of one's unprepossessing visage. However, during the past nine-plus months of daily shaving, redness and irritation did occur more often than not. Witch hazel and ice-cold water splashes began to lessen the effects, but I must admit, I really just missed the beard and looking fifteen years older. In the following link, our good friend Jake O'Kane reflects upon his beard and what it did to him, as well as how his significant other viewed his beard: https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2018/06/30/news/jake-o-kane-i-wish-i-d-thought-of-sending-my-shaved-off-beard-hair-to-arlene-foster-1368606/
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Aug 21, 2018 - 10:09 AM
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Jim Phelps
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No more clean-shaved face for me, ever. Like the lousy beard balm I tried last year states: "Grave Before Shave"! You n' him n' me all! It's funny - Phelpsy was the most vociferous of us all when it came down to extolling the virtues of the bare-faced cheeks, and yet now he/we are falling over ourselves, and tripping over our Gandolfs, shouting from the rooftops how wonderful it is to be freed from the slavery - but not the salivary - of denying nature to run its course and create exotic facial topiary-effects. I think some of us may have secretly discarded some giant sea-pods from under the bed in the past few weeks. It ain't so bad. No soppy love problems, and no hate either. Can we all now just accept Star Wars in peace? Yes, shaving every day was a fun novelty--while it lasted. I will also confess that during that time, I was tired of all the bearded trendies popping up all around me. However, I had a beard for several years well before it became a "thing" for the young folk. Why should I change because beards "suddenly" became popular? I like my beard! I need my beard! Beards are what make us who we are! Plus, I have sensitive skin. My mug did not enjoy its daily "mugging."
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Aug 22, 2018 - 3:26 PM
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Jim Phelps
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This edition of the Beard Growing Olympics will not feature unnecessary trimming, clipping, or cutting. The use of beard oil from the start, as well as twice-weekly beard shampoo will hopefull keep stray, independent-minded, and non-collectivist facial hairs from, as Fleetwood Mac once sang, "going their own way." I also go to a barber who has a majestic, flowing silver beard, and I will confer with him about maintaining my mane(s).
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