Do you own a beard or a moustache? Is there a reason behing having such a growth and do you find women are attracted to you more this way??

Ladies, what do you prefer? a beard, a goatee, a smoothie? Let us into your hairy world.:hihi:

I quite the look of a bit of stubble at times, but it's murder if you fancy a bit of a snog! :P

Smoothies for me please :D

i used to go for the Magnum look in the 70s when it was fashionable lol ... for myself I mean - not my man :P

no, no, no, just jk really ....

I don't mind a bit of stubble after a hard days work, but for general aesthetic reasons, shaven men for me everytime ... :cool:

beardy men never look quite clean somehow ... and it's quite aging ... no offence to the full beardies amongst us. You have your admirers no doubt (stops digging, throws shovel aside, and climbs out of hole ... wanders off, muttering to self)

Smooth - deffo! :D

I can really see the "Osama Bin Laden" option getting lots of votes!

Originally posted by Yodameister
I can really see the "Osama Bin Laden" option getting lots of votes!

I was going to say Father Christmas or ZZ Top but thought Old Ossie was the funniest option. :D

It's the devil-beard goatee for me, except when I can't be bothered to shave for a couple of weeks, then I turn into an near-Osama lookalike (albeit with glasses).

If I shaved it all off, I'd look about 12 years old...hmmm, perhaps I could get away with paying half-fare on the buses :idea:

Edit - oh yes, the birds are all over me :clap:

Originally posted by Lestat
Is there a reason behind having such a growth?
I dunno, but my stubble quickly comes back (and doesn't properly go in the first place) when I shave :( I want smooth skin damn it!

Evolutionarily speaking, women must have liked a bit of stubble at some point in history :P

Abdul,
Re your 'the birds are all over me' claim. Does this refer to being mobbed by lustful women, or defacated upon by pigeons? I would like to think you are referring to the former.

Would never kiss a man with a moustache, you never know whats left behind on it after blowing their nose !

Sorry but beards and taches make me feel ill. Smoothy smoothy for me all the way :clap:

Just has to be smooth, everytime!

Raine:)

There isn't an options for: as smooth as I can get it from what seems like hours of scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape...

Youngsters! Don't believe the hype! Those adverts show just one swipe and it's all done. Noooo... It's scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape...

I go through stages where the hassle of shaving outweights the hassles of having a beard, and stages where the hassle of a beard outweights the hassles of shaving.

Why can't somebody invent some face soap that just dissolves the hair? :(

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JGH

Originally posted by timo
Abdul,
Re your 'the birds are all over me' claim. Does this refer to being mobbed by lustful women, or defacated upon by pigeons? I would like to think you are referring to the former.

Let me answer that with a riddle:

Q: What do you do if a bird poos on your car?

A: Never go out with her again

I have a full set, and bushy t'boot, a la Dave Lee Travis. I have found in my 40 odd years of sporting it, it does attract a certain type of person to you.

I also have a piercing or two and have noticed how many people choose not to sit next to me on the bus.

Lets me read the Metro in peace anyway

Smooth please fella's..!!

Usually, I just trim my hair and beard down to a zero crop once a week, and it all grows back at the same speed.

After a week or two it's quite long and starts to get itchy.

Sometimes (for variety) I shave my head completely and have a goatee, or just a bit on the chin.

Recently I have tried to keep my beard and hair realy short as the number of grey/white hairs is getting quite alarming.

Originally posted by slinky
I quite the look of a bit of stubble at times, but it's murder if you fancy a bit of a snog! :P

I have a bit of stubble, see HERE (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/viking99/forums/gilletterazors.jpg)

I love the rugged look. My bloke is sexyest when he hasn't shaven for a few days and i love sidburns/diggers. MMMMMmmmmmmmmmm.:P If a bloke is smooth it feels weird! :gag:

I'm generally "5 o'clock shadow" shaven..

If anyone knows what I mean?

Unfortunately, my face only seems to stay smooth for about 2 hours after shaving. Then the stubble is back again. If I shave fresh stubble, it really hurts my skin and gives me a rash. So, I generally leave it for about 3 days between shaves.

Stubble is more of a necessity than a preference.

Smooth please, I can't cope with the red stinging stubble rash which appears on my face after a snog with my fella. He is pretty lazy with a razor so there's no kissy bits until he's indulged with the Mach3.

Had a bit of beard going on this morning as I hadn't shaved all weekend but now back smooth again. Don't think I could ever grow a beard - they itch too much and I suffer from ingrown hairs if I try.

Another reason I tend to just trim down to stubble is that razors are so bloody expensive, the top of the range 3 blade jobs are about £8, and they wear out after 3 normal shaves, or one head shave.

I'm convinced they are designed to go blunt quick.

Originally posted by nick2
Another reason I tend to just trim down to stubble is that razors are so bloody expensive, the top of the range 3 blade jobs are about £8, and they wear out after 3 normal shaves, or one head shave.

I'm convinced they are designed to go blunt quick.

I've noticed that. Blades seem to last for far fewer shaves than they used to. The quattro seems to last longer than the mach3 though.

Has anyone tried that electric vibrating razor ?
Does it actually work or is it all a load of advertising bumf ?

Clean-shaven for me every time (beards - ughh - gross).

But there's no denying a bit of stubble can look very sexy! :o

StarSparkle :)

Mine doesn't fit any of the above categories - I put "stylish thin-line goatee" as that's about the closest, but actually I've only got facial hair in non-beard and non-tache areas. An unintended but useful side-effect of this is that, as there's nothing around my mouth, it doesn't tickle/scratch when I snog.

The reason my facial hair is like it is dates back to my wedding, just over two years ago. I went shopping for wedding clothes with my best man Ed two days before the wedding, and discovered a really nice Paul Smith suit with a long drape-coat style jacket, which looked kinda teddy-boy-ish. The next day I went to get my hair cut, asked them to do something vaguely rockabilly to go with the clothes. Then on the morning of my wedding, I asked Ed to shave me (I'd grown my stubble for a couple of weeks beforehand). I gave him free rein, just asking him to make something which would go with the clothes & the haircut. Ed is a fashion designer, studied sculpture, is one of the most skilled artists & craftsmen on this planet, and I trusted him to come up with the goods.

Well, I was so happy that I've kept it more-or-less the same since. It does evolve from time to time - originally there was nothing under the chin, then it stretched down there, and recently it's turned into a sort of "W" underneath, not very flattering on my double-chin but kind of fun. I also added a tiny triangle between my lower lip and the top of my chin, when I noticed how cool that area looked on Aaragorn and Theoden in Lord of the Rings :)

I know my particular style is unique, because at a party somebody told me so. "I've just spent a year in California", he said, "and even there I've never seen anybody with facial hair even vaguely resembling that". Not sure whether that was praise or an insult, but I chose to take it as the former :)

This (http://www.sumption.org/wedding/DadsCamera/DadsCamera0014.html) is what I looked like at the time of the wedding. This (http://www.sumption.org/lifeless/images/DanAsRobertSmith.jpg) is what I looked like on a hungover morning last week.

Originally posted by DanSumption
This is what I looked like on a hungover morning last week.

I've never seen eyebags like that, you must have had one hell of a night out.

Originally posted by nick2
I've never seen eyebags like that, you must have had one hell of a night out.
It's the remnants of makeup - explained here (http://www.sumption.org/lifeless/002728.html).

Remember Billy Connoly's goatee at it's longest whispiest???


That's mine :thumbsup: :D

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
I have a full set, and bushy t'boot, a la Dave Lee Travis. I have found in my 40 odd years of sporting it, it does attract a certain type of person to you. I also have a piercing or two and have noticed how many people choose not to sit next to me on the bus.

You weren't in the DevCat last night were you BB?

Please say it wasn't you :P

Originally posted by rubydazzler
... it's quite aging ...
I first grew a beard when I was 17. Soon afterwards, I went on a Woodcraft Folk camp with loads of kids. A six year-old said to me: "are you really 17? you don't look like you're 17 with that beard, you look more like you're... 18"

Yes, quite aging.

Originally posted by DanSumption
I first grew a beard when I was 17. Soon afterwards, I went on a Woodcraft Folk camp with loads of kids. A six year-old said to me: "are you really 17? you don't look like you're 17 with that beard, you look more like you're... 18"

Yes, quite aging.

loving it! that's soooo funny Dan ... I wouldn't say you had a beard now, anyway - more a very creative sort of face painting with hair ...

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by rubydazzler
I wouldn't say you had a beard now, anyway - more a very creative sort of face painting with hair ...

:thumbsup:
Thank you, I like that description. I sometimes refer to it as an anti-beard, as it only grows in all the places that beards don't.