I attempted to grow out my facial hair past its usual shortish, "level nine" on the clippers length and while I had positive results the fact that my beard and hair is silver, I suddenly began to notice entirely too many older-than-me fellows around town with long beards and it made them look like homeless (non-score-accumulating) winos. Some actually were winos but others just looked like they were. So, not wishing to be miscounted among that grey-faced rabble, I trimmed the olde facial hair back to its relatively more youthful "level nine" (As it shall now be known).
Have you ever noticed that when a man with a beard shaves it off it somehow makes him look less intelligent?
Personally, in the matter of beards, I don't go in for fads.
Funny! Beards being a "fad", that is. I know that the so-called hipsters have only now discovered them but as someone who probably survived the 1970s, you know that facial hair is nothing new.
After six years, my old grey whistle test beard is gone. There are a few reasons for finally shaving the damned thing, one of them being the sight of so many of those hipster-style barbed wire beards so many of the chubbier Millennial gangsta-wannabe boys are sporting these days.
My new directive is towards a "New Frontier"-era clean-faced look in both shave and sartorial style. Besides, I've really missed my Pinaud Clubman aftershave, even though it had me screaming Macaulay Culkin/disappointed-middle-aged-Star Wars fanboy-style this morning. Holy non-existent-deity-of-your-choice did that smart!
Now it's time to put The Right Stuff and Thirteen Days on the olde stereo; tremendous scores--with very few stray facial hairs.
Shaving rash/razor burn finally subsiding, thanks to some baby oil and later, Nivea sensitive post-shave balm.
Now that the facial hair of six years, four European visits--I always don the facial hair when traveling abroad--and two "you look younger without the facial hair" remarks, I am ready to assume the role of disapproving establishment figure to the hordes of effeminate lumberjack-looking Millennials and their freakishly sculpted beards, tattoos, and ear-hole-spreading earrings.
I've had a neat, basic beard for a year and a half now.
A few weeks ago, I shaved it off since the pronounced greyness DOES add a year or two to my age. However, since I've gained a bit of weight in the same period, what I discovered underneath was an uncomfortable double chin. So I had a choice -- keep the beard and have a more defined jaw line, but add a few years to your age OR shave the beard, lose a few years, but look kinda fat. I chose the first.
I'm a little disgruntled that Jim Phelps, a man I've also come to call a friend (his view may differ), has re-joined the beardless.
As Shakespeare wrote at the end of Sonnett XVII -
A beard distincts a man from girl or child The smooth-faced hoards form not a manly gang A hirsute type drinks bitter beer, not mild And gives a wench a thing from which to hang For Henry found that those who were most craven Were found among the ranks of newly-shaven.
I've had a neat, basic beard for a year and a half now.
A few weeks ago, I shaved it off since the pronounced greyness DOES add a year or two to my age. However, since I've gained a bit of weight in the same period, what I discovered underneath was an uncomfortable double chin. So I had a choice -- keep the beard and have a more defined jaw line, but add a few years to your age OR shave the beard, lose a few years, but look kinda fat. I chose the first.
How about the third, best option? LOSE THE FAT!!!!
I'm a little disgruntled that Jim Phelps, a man I've also come to call a friend (his view may differ), has re-joined the beardless.
yeah, and "somehow, it makes you look less intelligent."
(My first POTA line reference of the week. Sorry, but it's what I do.)
As Shakespeare wrote at the end of Sonnett XVII -
A beard distincts a man from girl or child The smooth-faced hoards form not a manly gang A hirsute type drinks bitter beer, not mild And gives a wench a thing from which to hang For Henry found that those who were most craven Were found among the ranks of newly-shaven.
Words to live by.
Shakespeare wrote that? What a wanker.
(Hey, how do you like my "beard" in my avatar, guys?)
Having said that, the Bard himself did have a flimsy little weenie one. Can't imagine any of his wenches getting a good grip on that. I think he may have been a fraud.
Even the traditional brands are hopping aboard the bearded hipster bandwagon!
For the record, TG, the Phelps scruff will no doubt return after the summer hath ended. In the meantime I'll just jokingly rail against the hirsute hipster hordes. Besides, I already miss ol' barba (which looks nothing like the one in the above image).
I've had my once-every-4-months shave and everyone at work keeps asking if i've bought new glasses or had a haircut. Bizarre.
"Hey, you look like a Serbian sniper!"
That's a cutting remark, due to some truth in it.
My friends told me ever since i was a teen, that when i grew my hair and beard i looked like an IRA man and then when i had a shave and hair cut (usually getting buzzed no.1 all over) they'd call me a Serbian sniper. I couldn't win.
