Beards : Classic or Dud?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article659439.ece

beardar

HAHA, stressing the "d", but either way.

In the ages-old war of The Beards vs The Suits, I have always favored The Beards.

also this pic

http://ricksblog.biz/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/crist.jpg

So I've had my beard on and off for a few years now and I'm bored with its current status. It's pretty thick but kinda on the short and trimmed side and I'm thinking about letting it grow out more. But then I'm worried I'll just like one of those guys, you know the kind. I just need to take things to the next level. maybe I'll shave it off and get a buzz cut. What is your opinion on longer, untrimmed beards? It's not like I have to show up at an office or a courthouse anytime soon, so I should be able to do what I want. What is the status of other ILX beards?

i'm kinda bored of mmine too but it isn't going anywhere, at least not til i lose 15 kilos. i hate the way my fat face looks without something covering it

figuring I'm gonna stay bearded-up until it's time to retire, at which time I will forego haircutting altogether and achiege full-on Civil War era/Walt Whitman neckbeard and wild hair mode

achieve

I've had my beard for over 2 years now, still really like it. As does my wife. She actually said the other night while looking at our wedding photos that she wishes she hadn't pushed for me to shave it off for the big day. In her defense, I had only just started toying with it in the months before us getting married.

I hate how young and ugly I look without it.

My husband has had one since around the time I was born.

classic for the most part

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4unn66xXs1qzw3gpo1_500.jpg

wearing a hairy chin since the beginning of this week iirc

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbrgmuBRaR1qa9bmvo1_500.png

Greatest picture of all time.

Have had my beard for just over two years, keep it fairly short and neat. Can't imagine not having it now really...sometimes consider losing it for a while to see how it'd look but I don't have the guts!

I've had a beard since December, pretty much, having grown a moustache for Movember first. I always intended it to be just a winter thing, and this morning I trimmed it off. Now my face looks big and empty.

Traitor. Grow it back.

Normally have one on my chin and around bottom of jaw with face cleanly shaved apart from the jazz triangle. Bit of a Lincoln, though I don't seem to be able to grow sideburns.
Been a couple of years since I last fully shaved. & often leave it a few days between shaves cos I'm busy with otherstuff like typing on chatlists.

beardychat.org

Grew a beard, shaved it off when the anti-beard sentiment of the family hit majority. Though I've gotta say, there was something nice about it. Kind of how I imagine having lazik and not needing to reach for glasses or put in contacts, it's just out of bed, into the shower, and done. Not shaving was great.

i let a beard grow over the christmas break and have kept since, it's funny about 50% of work ppl don't even mention the change, and the other 50% are all 'what's with the beard, weirdo??'

I have light brown head hair, but teh beard is multi-coloured: brown, blond, ginger and grey, which keeps things interesting

Some people at work haven't commented that it's gone at all, others (including a new woman who only started about three weeks ago) have been quite taken aback - the new woman said she hadn't recognised me!

how do you *trim* ? whenever I try with clippers or scissors it just looks uneven, so I end up taking the whole beard off - and then my kids tell me I "look about twelve"

but to answer the thread question, my chin needs as much help as it can get so Classic.

how do you *trim* ?

Wahl Groomsman ftw

Gotta say I'm keeping mine. I'm a small man and without a beard I look 14 years old. I never really grew one until this year. I was real depressed and didn't leave my house or shave for a week or two and just felt like shit. Then one day i went out and everyone was telling me how good i look.

i've become too used to it. last time i shaved it off i was horrified by the results

Reality TV personality Jeremy McConnell has been jailed for 18 weeks for missing community service to get a hair and beard transplant.

same

I've vacillated between beard and no beard on and off for about 6 years now; every so often I get bored and shave it off, then let it grow back. I hate shaving, and don't like being clean shaven. And people tell me a beard suits me.

This year I last shaved on New Year's Day, so unless I have a hissy fit in the next five or so weeks, I'll have kept a beard for a whole year, which feels like... something.

Grow one every now and again, the balder I get the more it looks about right I think

pretty much all around dud these days

I don’t trust anyone without a beard.

in the process of growing one now but i am bald so thats ok

Haven't been clean shaven in several years. I grew one of them long beards during the great beard craze of 2014. I did do a very close stubble shave a while back because of a fancy dress party and I didn't like it, although I am curious as to what a clean shave would feel like again. The first thing I noticed when I grew a beard wasn't itching, so much as how peculiar it was to press my lips or kiss my partner's skin and for it to feel hairy

I've had a beard since 2012 and had a notion to go back to clean-shaven, so I did, and it was horrifying. I felt naked, and I looked... idk, gaunt, weird... anyway,never again. Hirsute to the grave.

otm I will only shave when I feel completely OK with myself, so, never

had a beard since 2008 or so. i've shaven it off before and i've also had an absolutely giant beard for a while.

i like the feeling of being clean shaven but i am balding and tend to feel a beard gives some definition.

bald + beard is good