Beard or No Beard?

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So seeing how there are not enough non-serious threads here…I propose a very very very important issue. As a bearded man, I am wondering if I seem to be less professional than my clean shaving counterparts.

What do you think? Does a beard signify rough unkept mountain man or can a bearded guy look just as clean cut as a smooth faced guy?
 
When I was in graduate school, 50 years ago, we discovered that no one with a beard had failed the qualifying exam in the previous half century or more.

[Of course we had no evidence that anyone with a beard had taken the exam in that time, but we didn’t want to get hung up on details.]

To the distress of our teachers we all grew beards.
One unfortunate shaved his beard the night before the exam - and he failed.

We all wore our beards ever thereafter.

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I would have chosen #3… it depends on many factors sucha as bone structure, careful grooming yadda yadda, but then I realized that in real life, most men who aren’t on “Queer eye for the Straight Guy,” dont’ have a stylist, and don’t have this natural sense of whether their beard looks good on them and how to groom it to it’s fullest potential and therefore, I’m goin’ for the bigfoot analogy.

Very few men in my life, friends, Uncles, Father- in Law dads, actually look good in a beard. I respect people with religious regulations such as Jewish, Amish, etc, but MOST men should play it safe and shave.

My dad is an example of a man who looks strange without a mustache, and I have a few friends like that… but my husband tried to grow a mustache when we were newly engaged and he looked awful, I didnt’ say anything because I was trying to be open-minded. He shaved it when he saw our engagement pictures. I am using him as an example because he has an extremely good sense of style, and even he couldn’t tell that it looked bad until he saw pictures of himself. I can’t imagine if the poor man had grown a beard, he would have look like a mountain man who relies on hunting and gathering for his nutrition (he is a tall thin runner)

I’m just not a fan of facial hair, sorry. My dad looks like Tom Selleck, so he looks great with a mustache, but when he experimented with a beard when I was a kid, he looked like…bigfoot.

Most of my uncles look good in mustaches… and one of them even curled the ends of his up for awhile…sort of funny! .My grandpa grew a goatee a year or two before he died…I’m not sure why… maybe he was trying to fit in with his grandsons. 🙂 He kept it well trimmed and it actually looked kind of cool. He didnt’ keep it all the time. He was generally a clean cut, hair always perfect well shaved guy. The day before he died he was perfectly healthy but didn’t shave, which was unusual for him. Maybe he didnt’ feel well and we didnt’ know it. I will always remember the last kiss I gave him on the cheek and how his stubble felt on my face, It is a fond memory. He died unexpectedly in the night. I thank God for that one last day with him, and that last kiss on his stubbly cheek.

I agree with # 3, but chose “Bigfoot” just to be safe!
 
Joe Kelley:
When I was in graduate school, 50 years ago, we discovered that no one with a beard had failed the qualifying exam in the previous half century or more.

[Of course we had no evidence that anyone with a beard had taken the exam in that time, but we didn’t want to get hung up on details.]

To the distress of our teachers we all grew beards.
One unfortunate shaved his beard the night before the exam - and he failed.

We all wore our beards ever thereafter.

.😃
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Maybe the weight of the beard pulls down on your jaw relieving pressure on your brain… allowing more blood flow and oxygen to enter the brain… maybe this is why when bearded men are deep in thought they often pull on their beards… creating more oxygen rich blood flow to the brain, and a relaxing affect to allow free thought.:whacky:
 
I’ve had beards at different times in my life. Sometimes neat and some like ZZ TOP. If it wasn’t all gray I would have one now. Alot of men have told me that they would have a beard but their wife won’t let them.
 
I was a late bloomer and couldn’t grow a beard until college. From then on I had a goatee until I started working in a restaurant. Then I had to shave. When I went off to Latin America I let the beard go crazy, allowing it to grow for 8 months without a trim! I didn’t think it looked that wild at all because I worked with the CFRs (Franciscan Friars of the Renewal) and their beards made mine look wimpy…

Now I realize that my beard was big!
 
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Peace-bwu:
Maybe the weight of the beard pulls down on your jaw relieving pressure on your brain… allowing more blood flow and oxygen to enter the brain… maybe this is why when bearded men are deep in thought they often pull on their beards… creating more oxygen rich blood flow to the brain, and a relaxing affect to allow free thought.:whacky:
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So **thats **the reason I’m always tugging on my beard…thanks for letting me know!

For all of those who don’t like the ‘Mountain Man’ look…What’s wrong with it? I enjoy the ‘rugged’ look (ie. I trim my beard about once every two weeks- and I wouldn’t do that except I like to clean up a bit for Mass every once in a while…)

My wife likes my beard though, & I don’t know what I’d do if she didn’t…I think I’ve shaved twice since I got out of the Army (I’m pretty sure it was for my wedding…). Thats not to say I don’t experiment…Sometimes I shave my mustache off (the good 'ol Amish look 😃 ), but a full beard is just soooooo much easier to take care of (almost maintenance free!)…

I love my beard! Everyone should grow one! (except you females of course- it just doesn’t look too good on women…)
 
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Isidore_AK:
I love my beard! Everyone should grow one! (except you females of course- it just doesn’t look too good on women…)
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Hahaha!

I come from an Italian family and mom always said that Italian men grow beards because they want to grow up and be like there mothers!
 
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Isidore_AK:
So **thats **the reason I’m always tugging on my beard…thanks for letting me know!

For all of those who don’t like the ‘Mountain Man’ look…What’s wrong with it? I enjoy the ‘rugged’ look (ie. I trim my beard about once every two weeks- and I wouldn’t do that except I like to clean up a bit for Mass every once in a while…)

My wife likes my beard though, & I don’t know what I’d do if she didn’t…I think I’ve shaved twice since I got out of the Army (I’m pretty sure it was for my wedding…). Thats not to say I don’t experiment…Sometimes I shave my mustache off (the good 'ol Amish look 😃 ), but a full beard is just soooooo much easier to take care of (almost maintenance free!)…

I love my beard! Everyone should grow one! (except you females of course- it just doesn’t look too good on women…)
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I must agree that facial hair can become a part of a man’s identity and accentuate his personality. My dad is a big time outdoorsman, and I inherited it from him… but I’m not going to let my leg hair or pit hair grow… I could never be an unshaven hippie, mountain woman! LOL

I was very patient when my husband experimented with facial hair, if he REALLY wanted it, I wouldn’t object, but he just doesn’t have the face for it, and he realized that on his own. He also has to keep his hair cut according to USAF regulations… so maybe when he retires he will decide to go for the Mountain Man AKA bigfoot look. I love him no matter what!!!

I must admit that for many men facial hair, even beards, can be endearing.🙂
 
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Isidore_AK:
So **thats **the reason I’m always tugging on my beard…thanks for letting me know!

For all of those who don’t like the ‘Mountain Man’ look…What’s wrong with it? I enjoy the ‘rugged’ look (ie. I trim my beard about once every two weeks- and I wouldn’t do that except I like to clean up a bit for Mass every once in a while…)

My wife likes my beard though, & I don’t know what I’d do if she didn’t…I think I’ve shaved twice since I got out of the Army (I’m pretty sure it was for my wedding…). Thats not to say I don’t experiment…Sometimes I shave my mustache off (the good 'ol Amish look 😃 ), but a full beard is just soooooo much easier to take care of (almost maintenance free!)…

I love my beard! Everyone should grow one! (except you females of course- it just doesn’t look too good on women…)
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After 30 years of my dad almost always having a mustache, I must say the only drawback is that when I go snowskiing with him he sometimes gets lovely snotsicles in his 'stach. Nothing wrong with being rugged, guys, just keep it clean! Of course, it might be nice to find cookie crumbs in your beard, a little snack for later. I’m sure Santa Clause enjoys this now and then.😃

also my dad’s hair has been thinning over the years and he claims that gravity is pulling it down through his nose, ears and chin… he does seem wiser as I get older, maybe it is because of the oxygen flow theory.
 
Some men look good with a beard and take good care of their beard. Some men doesn’t look good with beard and/or they don’t take well care of their face hair.

So the decision whether the man should grow a beard or not is his wife’s decision since she have to look at his face everyday. 😉 😛
 
I voted both bigfoot and depending.

Bigfoot because I’ve got enough hair on my head as is, a beard makes me a literal bigfoot. Depending because I’ve seen many people look very presentable with a beard, though again I’m not one of them.
 
DH grew himself a handlebar mustache and wore it for a few years. He looked so handsome! Can’t grow a beard though - thank goodness. I don’t care for beards
FYI: jws are not allowed to grow their facial hair. Supposedly, facial hair on men is a put off to potential converts. :whacky:
 
I voted “depends…” and here is my explanation:

I think it reall does depend on the guy. My husband for years looked much younger than he actually is so a bead and/or mustache allowed him to look like an adult 🙂 He is 1/2 Norwegian which actually means it is hard for him to grow facial hair so he looks scruffy for a longer period of time as he is growing it. He just last year shaved off a beard because he was going to be working with the Taiwanese and they consider facial hair an insult (I guess). He hasn’t grown it back yet either.

My dad looks good in a beard too - he is ex-Air Force and once he retired he immediately grew a beard. My mom insists he keep it neat at all times though.

You see that is the difference between the Big Foot/Mountain man look, if you keep it neatly trimmed and well washed it can look really nice. If you let it get raggedy and let your hair go that way too you can look awful and not proffessional at all!

Just my humbel opinion.

Brenda V.
 
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EsclavoDeCristo:
Hahaha!

I come from an Italian family and mom always said that Italian men grow beards because they want to grow up and be like there mothers!
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:mad: Hey! Ma Ma here.
 
My Italian hubby has that blue/green shadow look just 2 or 3 hours after shaving.

He has grown a nice upper lip hair a few times. It looked nice but felt more like a wire brush…terrible.
 
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EsclavoDeCristo:
Hahaha!

I come from an Italian family and mom always said that Italian men grow beards because they want to grow up and be like there mothers!
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What a hoot! :whistle:
 
I think it depends on the person, the shape of their face, the coarseness or maybe it’s fullness of the beard, and the style of the beard. I think men with thin faces and very neatly kept beards (i.e. clean lines) look very distinguished. Fuller beards look great too but convey a more rugged message which is great but may not fair well in a business environment.
 
I voted “no beard”, it’s not natural for your head to look exactly the same upside down :rolleyes:

…in 99.999% of cases…I have heard that there are always exceptions. :confused:

Sometimes a couple of days stubble can look attractive, on the right guy. But beyond a couple of days growth, no way! There are some men who I have never known without beards and I’m certainly not saying they are unattractive, but any man who I originally knew as clean-shaven never did himself a favour by growing a beard in my own humble opinion.

I think a beard does tend to make a man look older.
 
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