Guys need to learn to look after their own neck hair...

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'Specially single guys. Girls don't like neck hair.

It's best to do so in the shower. Lather it up (the back of your neck, I mean) and using the opposite hand's index finger as your guide, shave all that errant neck hair. Splash liberally with bay rum.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough, I too have *always* hated the neck hair I have, and pretty much have shaved it regularly since I was...14? And this is when I had short hair!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I am a big noticer of this. It's funny: everything on people is completely styled, except for this invisible patch. I get the feeling most guys couldn't even tell you what was going on back there -- whether it cut off with the hair, or thinned out along the neck, or connected down into back hair, or what.

Thing is, of course, that it's kind of difficult to care for on your own -- you have to set up complex mirror arrangements! I mean, I shave my head, which should make this easier than ever -- but a lot of neck-hair is fine enough that a big clipper isn't going to catch it. The finger-guiding is tricky, too, cause there's always the fear that you're going to wind up with a ridiculous slanty neckline.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Ned you also hate your side hair!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what the hair on my neck is like.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

It buys time betwixt cuts, to be sure.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

My mother was always on at me about this.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there that Bjork song about...a boy...with a neck...beautifully shaven?

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I'd love to do this but I haven't found the way! I do NOT trust myself to shave behind my head and create a straight line.

So, I always wait until I get a haircut to have this taken care of, although I did make my girlfriend do it once.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

You honestly don't need to worry about mirrors. Your eyes will deceive, and the mirror image is especially awkward. Just go by feel. Understand where the hairline is, and use the other index finger to prevent you from digging into it. Don't trust your eyes, you CAN'T see the back of your head.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Use your finger as a guide, feeling the edge of your hairline, shaving horizontally.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I shave vertically, but that's neither here nor there.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm not using The Force to shave my neck, guys.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Wimp.

Ned you also hate your side hair!

Sad patches bequeathed to us by evolution in error.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

ILX is making me feel unkempt today :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

The man my best friend married a couple weeks ago had overgrown neck hair. It bothered me, but not that much, until the next day when I saw him wearing a sweater with nothing underneath and you could see that it grew down INTO THE HAIR ON HIS SHOULDERS/BACK.

Ew.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

MINOTAURS ARE REAL

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

The centaurs then have someone for them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Can we have an image? I don't even know what people are talking about here.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

oh, you probably don't HAVE neck hair.

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

because you'd know, really.

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

omg luna otm. thats why maintaining ones neck hair is urgent and key.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

neck hair leads to back hair leads to ass hair leads to neck hair leads to foot hair = SASQUATCH

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I dunno -- for some reason it never bothers me if the next hair connects up with back hair. I mean, if you've got that going, it's just silly to create this artificial neck-space. It'd be like having a beard with a big clean space running through the center of your chin.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

It's very important for single guys if they're seeking a mate. Girls like to think that guys are maybe seeing another girl, so they can swoop in and grab him. But guys with neck hair are obviously seeing NO ONE AT ALL.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

just grow a mullet

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

It'd be like having a beard with a big clean space running through the center of your chin.

You have given me a June project.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.skinandhealth.com/img/ba_hair_neck.jpg

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I like how they've evidently followed up on the neck-shaving with a skin-lightening chemical peel.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Ok I have just checked this with mirrors and shit and andy definitely made this up.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Mirrors lie.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

He could be right, though. Hair is a time based medium and time may not actually exist except within our own individual perceptive universes.

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

You don't realize that your hair is longer on Monday than it was on Sunday.. but it is.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I don't have a lot of neck hair, however I have a natural parting at the back of my head where the hair seperates down the middle - weird!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Everybody has a little. It becomes more of an issue when you shave your head.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I wanna GROW my neckhair out and braid it into a CAPE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I trim my neck hair as part of my head-shaving routine. I have seen men with Wookie-length neck hair, and it ain't a pretty sight.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I hate the neckhair when it grows down to shirt-collar level, because it makes it LOOK like I could have a carpet of backhair creeping up out of my shirt when, in fact, I do not.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

the Perfect Sideburn people should come up with a backwards facing extension to those glasses that gives you the perfect neck hair line. you could cut it into all sorts of wacky patterns!

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

TS neckhair vs. neckbeard

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I twisted all my neck and back hair into a rope and hung Ann Coulter with it.

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

She's still back there!

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

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This is what happens when you don't go to town very often.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

ive always (well not ALWAYS) had a little bit of neck hair, but i never shaved it.. it felt so boojie. but.. from what you folks are telling me... i should shave it?

― matlewis, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

i just shaved my neck this morning. i like it just a bit scruffy, though. back hair, there's the problem.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I never can get an even neck shave.

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

andy, do you work for cosmo?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Guys with neck hair score here all the time. More to the point, people here just don't care about body hair issues as much.

"Californians hate body hair. New Yorkers hate humidity."

http://www.dramuse.com/images/dick_shrug.JPG

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I once produced a commercial for one of those laser hair removal places, and they said a surprisingly large part of their business was male neck hair. State troopers they mentioned in particular.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

You know what's even worse.. guys with neck hair that DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT MUTING POOPIE NOISES WHEN THEY USE THE WORK TOILET!

teeny: maybe because their uniforms made it painful? At least that's a more valid reason than "not gettin' the chicks"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

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(hahaha thank you Trayce!)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

My man always asks me to shave off his neck hair for him. It's one of my designated chores.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

*cue for blount to post that NASCAR couple pic with the "3" guy again*

― donut e-goon (donut), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Okay, does anyone have one sideburn that grows faster than the other? It's freaking me out.

― andy --, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

YES! BANE OF SOMETHING OR OTHER.

Neck hair is still fictional.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

My right sideburn always grows faster and thicker than the left.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Do you sleep on one side more than the other? Supposedly that can mess with the hair on your head, so it might also with the hair on your face.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

my right sideburn is totally thicker and weirder than the left one

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

MY MOLES ARE NOT SYMMETRICALLY ALIGNED ON MY FAYCE!

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

neck hair exists on some people, and not on others, why was everyone so confused in this thread?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Frack is your friend.

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/26262_PE092247_S3.jpg

Positioned correctly, behind you, while facing the medicine cabinet.

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15553&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=13145&langId=-1&parentCats=15553*16264*16074

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

NECK BEARD.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

A tip for guys with electric trimmers:

Try using a leather or similar belt as a trimmer guide. Place the rough midpoint of the belt against your neck, and hold the belt taut with one hand gripping both ends together, either at forehead or nearer the chin, depending on the how much of a curve you want).
Run the trimmer (without the blade guard) along the edge of the belt a few times in each direction, then (without the belt) take care of any hair running down to the collar line on the sides. Follow up with a shave in the shower if you're picky and not sensitive to the pricklies.

I've (greatly) extended my intervals between proper haircuts this way for over a decade.

We have the technology.

Next, my guide to desensitizing nasal folicles before ripping them assunder with tweezers...

― sombrehombre, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

just use clippers with no attachment. i've been doing this for years, more or less. in the dark even, without a mirror.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

does anyone remember those non-electric comb clippers that hurt to hell and back? yes you 'combed' it through your hair to 'shave' your hair off? invented sometime in the 1950's for housewives to apparently torture their husbands and offspring with. what the fuck was going on there?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.filmsondisc.com/images/waynes_world.jpg

Well, it certainly does suck.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

neck hair... totally gross...

― kateorsini, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

A tip for guys with electric trimmers:
Try using a leather or similar belt as a trimmer guide. Place the rough midpoint of the belt against your neck, and hold the belt taut with one hand gripping both ends together, either at forehead or nearer the chin, depending on the how much of a curve you want).

Barbers refer to this as the "Michael Hutchence Method."

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

What's the difference between Michael Hutchence and Princess Diana?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Six inches. Er, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I advocta eshving the head except the neck hair. Its a nice, back-beard

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

She wasn't wearing a belt.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Boy I really tyep in a strange and poor way. Look how badly I messed up "I advocate shaving"

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

kephm I totally remember those brutal pain combs, my mom tried to use one on me as a youngster. But I have a buddy who bought a more modern one and he swears by it.. but he has long hair and just uses it to trim the ends from time to time. I generally believe it's a bad idea to cut one's own hair, illustrated by the time I decided to trim my bangs after a shower and ended up looking like Emo Phillips/Prince Valiant. Bad idea to cut your own hair when it's wet.

― andy --, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Neck hair is the worst kind of bod hair.

― american soldiers are trained to identify threads and then (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

Yyytyyuuuuucccckkkk!

― american soldiers are trained to identify threads and then (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

Especially when you think.you got it all and then you look in the mirror at work and nope - missed a patch right on the side there.

― american soldiers are trained to identify threads and then (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure nut-sac hair is worse.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

Men w/ neck hair vs. women w/ nipple hair.

Discuss.

― SUPER USA (╓abies), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

Especially when you think you got all your nutsack hair and then you look in the mirror at work and nope - missed a patch right on the side there.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

I can shave my nutsack hair really easily though - just schwoop, schwoop and it's done! I think the problem with neck hair is that if you're shaving in the shower, you get some of it and some of it just gets slicked down.

― american soldiers are trained to identify threads and then (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:13 (sixteen years ago)

Most body hair is problematic. You may all win some battles, but we're all going to lose the war.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

Excepting genetic selection.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

I can shave my nutsack hair really easily though - just schwoop, schwoop and it's done!

i am envious of your nutsack.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

this is one of those manscape things that im post gay enough to ignore imo

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:31 (sixteen years ago)

If you are hairy anyway there isn't any point in trying to hide it IMO. If your back hair meets your neck hair so be it.

― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

'schwoop' sounds like far too quick an action to involve my balls and a sharp edge

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

far too german also, tbh

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

ten years pass...

i want to know how andy's feeling about this these days.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:01 (five years ago)

My feelings haven't changed.

There's a trick you can do with a canvas web belt... use that as a guide, shaving up to it.

I also bought a little razor-comb thing at Daiso and that helps keeps things under control. I've noticed a lot of crazy neck hair on men who haven't been to the barber since Covid began, but not this guy.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:04 (five years ago)

i love ILX

― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:19 (five years ago)

I use a disposable razor and a second mirror after buzzing me head to put the final touches to the neck area.

Especially spending so much time standing in queues in these unprecedented times one does not want to be lax about the appearance of the back of one's bonce. It's a civic duty.

― fist of micro bunter (Noel Emits), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:38 (five years ago)

i get my haircut every 4 weeks, there's no need to trim neck hair between appointments

― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:41 (five years ago)

My wife clipped my head and neck this morning. A smooth, hairless neck feels nice.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:44 (five years ago)

i just don't want another thing to be self conscious about.

― treeship., Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:42 (five years ago)

"canvas web belt"?? i am tentatively beguiled by this phrase

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:57 (five years ago)

canvas web belt

The worst part of the new Spider Man suit redesign, imo.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:00 (five years ago)

https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0070/0874/7556/products/4170-khaki-web-belt-chrome-buckle_1024x1✧✧✧@2✧.j✧✧?v=1583784321

Pretty pedestrian, actually

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:06 (five years ago)

https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-79187215592273/military-army-canvas-web-belt-1-25-inch-olive-30.jpg

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:07 (five years ago)

okay so you get out of the shower... strap a belt around your neck.. the phone rings..

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:10 (five years ago)

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