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Beard of Hilarity +4
Aug. 17th, 2007 11:01 amFor a while, Whitney has been saying how good I'd look with a beard. I didn't believe it myself, and after a few failed efforts during fourth year of university where I just looked like I was in some dreadful nu-metal band, I gave up for a while, but as a first wedding anniversary present, I've tried again.
I have always hated shaving. I'm still genuinely afraid to use "real" hand razors for fear of peeling my skin off, and have used an electric one for as long as I remember, which does the job but doesn't give quite as close a shave, and it's awkward to get your face completely clean with one without leaving stupid-looking tufts of hair on the underside of your chin. You would think that after about ten years of cutting it off every day, facial hair would get the hint and stop trying to grow, but it still pushes out of my skin relentlessly. So I've let it form a sort of goatee thing. (I wasn't going for this because of the hideousness of the word, but that's what Whitney told me I had.)
This is what I look like. (We took about eight hundred photos, and the best one we got was one where my eyes were pointing in opposite directions - I am not a photogenic person.) I've actually got more used to the feeling of it on my face than I thought I would, but I'm still not entirely happy with the way that hair simply refuses to grow on one side of my mouth, making the beard into a strange C shape. And I don't know what colour it is - Whitney says it has red in it.
I'm not sure how long I'll keep it. Part of my aversion to beards is that it's so easy to get them wrong. I wasn't aware until Whitney told me that just having a moustache without a beard was known as a "molest-ache" in America (There's no way to spell that word that makes it pronounceable at first glance - I've gone for the one that sounds like an embarrassing pain rather than the one that sounds like you have a small burrowing creature on your upper lip.)
Beards make the face look very different, and a lot of the time, it seems that what you think works can just look appalling to other people. Perhaps I'm not looking at the right demographic here, but I know that Marco From Nightwish (hereafter referred to as King Forkbeard III) has a beard in a style that went out of fashion a couple of hundred years before the days of William the Conqueror. And Roy Khan managed the impressive feat of having an even more record-breakingly stupid beard for each album since "Karma".
But for the truly adventurous, you can't look further than this page.
I have always hated shaving. I'm still genuinely afraid to use "real" hand razors for fear of peeling my skin off, and have used an electric one for as long as I remember, which does the job but doesn't give quite as close a shave, and it's awkward to get your face completely clean with one without leaving stupid-looking tufts of hair on the underside of your chin. You would think that after about ten years of cutting it off every day, facial hair would get the hint and stop trying to grow, but it still pushes out of my skin relentlessly. So I've let it form a sort of goatee thing. (I wasn't going for this because of the hideousness of the word, but that's what Whitney told me I had.)
This is what I look like. (We took about eight hundred photos, and the best one we got was one where my eyes were pointing in opposite directions - I am not a photogenic person.) I've actually got more used to the feeling of it on my face than I thought I would, but I'm still not entirely happy with the way that hair simply refuses to grow on one side of my mouth, making the beard into a strange C shape. And I don't know what colour it is - Whitney says it has red in it.
I'm not sure how long I'll keep it. Part of my aversion to beards is that it's so easy to get them wrong. I wasn't aware until Whitney told me that just having a moustache without a beard was known as a "molest-ache" in America (There's no way to spell that word that makes it pronounceable at first glance - I've gone for the one that sounds like an embarrassing pain rather than the one that sounds like you have a small burrowing creature on your upper lip.)
Beards make the face look very different, and a lot of the time, it seems that what you think works can just look appalling to other people. Perhaps I'm not looking at the right demographic here, but I know that Marco From Nightwish (hereafter referred to as King Forkbeard III) has a beard in a style that went out of fashion a couple of hundred years before the days of William the Conqueror. And Roy Khan managed the impressive feat of having an even more record-breakingly stupid beard for each album since "Karma".
But for the truly adventurous, you can't look further than this page.
