Men Shaving... I'll never understand

[HaMMerHeD]

I shave my face and my apple bag. If that makes me look feminine, then so be it.

It is useful for merry attentions.

 

[AaronMB]

If only... Years ago I was bald by choice and now I'm balding, but not by choice. :scowl:

Sorry, Matticus:
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[6jase5]

My 2 year old daughter likes when my face is smooth and she mashes her cheek in to me when it's freshly shaven with big kisses. Otherwise I get no hugs and "Daddy, you're too scrathy, it hurths".

I shave daily. I used to have a beard for many years and looking back at pictures I just wonder what I was thinking.

 

[DerHoggz]

Lucky bastard. My beard is shiny copper orange with black streaks. If I go an hour without shaving, I look like a dirty hobo.

Actually, I have 3 strong manly black hairs that grow on my throat, looks completely ridiculous. I have blonde hair on my arms as well, except for a few black ones here or there, so much so that I have been asked if I shave my arms several times.

If you keep doing a full shave, down to the skin, every few days, maybe once a week, your beard will start to come in full.
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Its not. Thats how I filled in my beard when I was younger. Your face, if youre able, has those peach fuzz hairs in the void spaces. When you shave those off they will grow back, only thicker. I just thickened my beard when I shaved it off last Halloween, the difference can not only be felt, but has been noticed by others.

Yeah, this isn't true, it is just a rougher end.

 

[El Beardo]

I started growing a full beard a few years ago out of curiosity. After a few months it wasn't itchy anymore and I hate shaving anyway so I'm still going strong. Plus it grows back so fast that I could shave in the morning and end up with 5 o'clock shadow before noon. Seems like it's "cool" for guys to be hairless, feminine and fashionable now. Kinda like the 80's with a little less hair spray. That's fine by me, I'm good with being uncool.

 

[GregC]

I have a goatee. I've rocked the full beard before, but even then I had to shave down low on my neck. The hair has never grown thick enough on my face to come close to balancing with the neck, so going completely unshaven is just a bad look on me.

 

[Eric Perry]

...I suspect after the OP has Father time visit him a few more times, he'll stop defining his masculinity by how much facial hair he has, how big a lift kit he has on his pickup truck, and the amount of hard liquor he can guzzle before puking it up.

 

[guitardefector]

Ill never understand this concept of men shaving. I currently have to for work (not for long) and never understood people who purposely do this for their own appearance. I think it's stupid to make a man look more feminine. Why wasn't this viewed as some sort of cross dressing 200 years ago and shunned?i might as well wear a shirt and paint my toes.

Tony, it's been going on for quite some time now and it's universal, just like the suit and tie, so it can't be all that bad.

 

[Tony Flow MMMM]

Its not. Thats how I filled in my beard when I was younger. Your face, if youre able, has those peach fuzz hairs in the void spaces. When you shave those off they will grow back, only thicker. I just thickened my beard when I shaved it off last Halloween, the difference can not only be felt, but has been noticed by others.

No bro. It's a wives tail.

By the way I meant skirt not shirt

 

[bassman314]

I tried wearing a loincloth to work once, they forbid me to enter the building with outside packages...

This is pure win right here!

 

[bassman314]

My 2 year old daughter likes when my face is smooth and she mashes her cheek in to me when it's freshly shaven with big kisses. Otherwise I get no hugs and "Daddy, you're too scrathy, it hurths".

I shave daily. I used to have a beard for many years and looking back at pictures I just wonder what I was thinking.

My brother has full beard. Almost mountain man-like in appearence. Our dad and his father-in-law both have beards, so his daughter is used to them.

In fact, I visited a while ago when she was about 2. I had completely shaved for a musical I was in. She firmly grabbed me by both cheeks and asked "Beard goes?".

I shave about once evert 2-3 weeks, and otherwise keep everything nicely trimmed about 2-3 times a week.

 

[slobake]

I shave at least once a week whether I need it or not.

 

[wednesdayagain]

It's fashion

 

[Lowactnsatsfctn]

Some of us would have facial hair like this dude if we didn't shave.

IME women prefer a clean shave and I look more professional when I'm meeting with potential clients.
As far as it not being manly, well, that doesn't hold true. A beard wouldn't have helped me dig up my main water line during the hottest part of the summer, it wouldn't have helped me change the timing belt on my girl friends car, and a beard has never held a chainsaw or changed my oil. That's the type of man stuff I do beardless.

There should be A Beardless bassist club

 

[Simo98]

Hah, this thread reminds me of these guys:



"If your Dad doesn't have a beard, you've got two Mums" - The Beards

Slight profanity at some point if I remember right.

 

[A-Step-Towards]

I hate facial hair, 100% hate it. I shave every 2 days, I like to be totally clean shaven.

 

[michael_atw]

I love growing out my facial hair, but I hate the feeling of food in my moustache (which would grow long enough to cover my mouth if I let it). I eat several times a day, but only need to shave a couple times a week. That's the beginning and end of it for me.

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[michael_atw]

I haven't shaved for about 4 years.

I have a saying, "only mature women like beards". I've found more often than not that women with daddy issues like clean shaven men.

hehehehe...I'm joking...or am I?

That being said, I've sex'ed the minds of many women with my whiskers. Had one told me it's the most perfect beard she's seen. I think I'll keep it. There is a point though where it has to be sculpted for quality's sake.

 

[ridethespiral]

I look like a hobo if I don't shave haha. Very patchy, which is funny because all the men in my family have a crap load of facial hair. I am only 20 though.

 

[Thor]

Right. Trends come and go but back in WWI it was a 'requirement' or your gas mask didn't work. The idea stuck.

I'll keep that in mind for the next zombie attack.

Mine now comes in grey, so I shave it to maintain my youthful look.

Bingo.

Ill never understand this concept of men shaving. I currently have to for work (not for long) and never understood people who purposely do this for their own appearance. I think it's stupid to make a man look more feminine. Why wasn't this viewed as some sort of cross dressing 200 years ago and shunned?i might as well wear a shirt and paint my toes.

Skirt? Ever read anything about those wimpy Scotsmen in battle?

And don't be dissin my toes, dude.

I shave lots more than just my face.........
Pretty happy about it too, and yes, my girlfriend really likes it

I knew you'd show up.

Nothing like a well trimmed poodle

Even my standard gets trimmed regularly.

Alexander the Great's armies and Roman Legionnaires were clean shaven. Girly men conquered some of the largest empires in history. Before Peter the Great everyone in Russia was required to have beard. Peter made it a death penalty offense to have a beard; but then he created a lot of death penalty offenses.

Sorry OP, the premise is asinine.

And one time when I asked my dad this question back in the Stone Age, he commented, 'It's a matter of good discipline'.
(If the leader you are taking orders from has a beard, prepare to be sunk at some point.)