Need Help With Beard "Styling"!

[BayStateBass]

Okay, leaving myself in the capable hands of my fellow TB'ers.

So I have this bushy, rather long-ish red beard. I've just been letting it grow but now it's becoming unruly, my wife is at me to trim it, and it's got a bunch of gray mixed in anyway. So I'm considering a new style. But, at 40 years old, and given the fact that my idea of high style is Old Navy jeans and a henley, I'm at a loss as far as what looks decent but not "I'm a 40 year old douche".

Goatee? Goatee with sideburns? No sideburns? Long goatee?

Closely trimmed? Like one of those New Country Cowboy beards?

No beard? Don't know if I can do that....last time I shaved it off my kids laughed at me.....

Soul patch? Chinnee (Is that what they call it)? Diddler 'stache???

As far as the rest of me, I'm not in bad shape, a lot of people guess me to be younger, and I usually wear my hair a tad on the short side.

Help a brother out here.

 

[Happynoj]

Pics or the beard doesn't exist.

 

[bassinplace]

Idk, mine's kinda on the longish side with a quite a bit of grey mixed in, too. I just trim it up with a clippers and a no. 2 attachment whenever I think it's getting a bit on the unruly side. No fuss, no muss.

 

[Basshappi]

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

What? No mustache option? Cookie dusters are coming back, get on the band wagon!

 

[Happynoj]

This thread needs a poll.

 

[BayStateBass]

Pics or the beard doesn't exist.

Okay. Here are two pics. One is about 6 or 7 years old, me without a beard. The other was taken a little while ago when the beard was in it's formative stages, that is my wife in the picture with me. I do not have a current one, unfortunately.

 

[SunnBass]

Just trim a little.
Keep it groomed.
But keep the whole thing.
Goatee's, chin straps, and soul patches are incorrect.


Some fathers teach their sons to shave, others teach them to be men.

 

[sandmangeck]

I shampoo and condition mine twice a week. Trim in with a #5 clipper.

 

[hover]

Nuttin wrong with that beard.

Keep it groomed and neat, and use some good quality beard-oil to keep the beardruff at bay. Something I learned recently myself.

 

[slobake]

My beard used to be the same color as yours, now it's all white. I'm jealous.
Do what you like. One of the joys of being a man is facial hair. We can grow it, shave it, trim and try different things. Have fun. If you trim it and it looks terrible you can always shave it off and grow it again.

 

[Happynoj]

Just trim a little.
Keep it groomed.
But keep the whole thing.

+1

Take it down to 6 or 7mm but keep the whole thing.

 

[AaronVonRock]

Buy some clippers and keep your beard kempt. I bought some small clippers by Braun that are made just for facial hair, maybe $15-$20. I go over my beard once or twice a month so it doesn't get too unruly. Sometimes before a gig, I'll give myself some nice mutton chops and a handlebar, then shave it all off for work on Monday. I'm half ape, so I can grow a full beard back in two weeks.

 

[BeerSuds]

Mutton Chops FTW!!!

 

[Immigrant]

The beard in the photo on the right is a nice length.

I started my beard just under a year ago and have only trimmed the sideburns and around the piehole areas. It's getting outta hand. My sibs call me Mr Natural. That's after over 15 years of a shaved head and goatee (I started that trend) and I did give myself a haircut once in the past year, and that was a mistake. It looks really, really bad now. Kind of like a Bozo impersonator/pervert in a windowless van.

 

[mellowinman]

She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself

They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

 

[marko138]

You sound like me and your wife sounds like mine. Let it roll! Resist!

Or stop washing and combing it like I did. It'll get thick and rough and crazy.

From august:

 

[DwaynieAD]

Mark you ******' scumbag

same show as mark's in august.

 

[marko138]

Mark you ******' scumbag

same show as mark's in august.

Man, we are sexy.

 

[bkbirge]

Enjoy, you might like what it says about the goatee...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/mans-facial-hair_n_4227661.html