beards...a curiosity

Years ago, I was talking with a friend who had a beard. I mentioned mine and he promptly corrected me saying "A beard is facial hair whose outline changes the shape of a man's head. What you have is juat facial hair, not a beard."
So, to some, I have a heard, to others I have short facial hair.
Are we getting into the weeds of facial hair semantics?
I keep it because I hate shaving with a razor, it kills my skin (yes I've tried everything.)
As for photography, I don't think it helps nor hinders. I look much like many other 5'10" males in their late 30s and early 40s here in Philly, so it may be urban camouflage...

Phil Forrest
 
I let it grow since a few weeks now.

I mostly was totally shaved or had a small beard on my chin, but now I go for the whole shabang.
 
Hmmm, I reckon beards are natural and being clean shaven is unnatural; another word for unnatural is perverted...

The real problem with beards is split ends.

Regards, David
 
I have a beard, and a mustache, or maybe that's just considered part of the beard.

The reason? I am fundamentally a lazy person, as well as a scardey cat. The idea of getting up every morning and putting a razor to my face and neck before I am fully awake sounds like a non starter to me.

Do I think it makes me look more creative or artistic? No, that's what the black beret, black T-shirt, and black pants are for 🙂
 
Right, gotta have the french cigarettes. If I could find black cigarettes, I would go back to smoking.

By the way, try not shaving for a month or two. No trimming the nose and ears either. This is what we REALLY look like. It's quite a wake up into reality, not the tidied up version of how we look.
 
Steve M. said:
Right, gotta have the french cigarettes. If I could find black cigarettes, I would go back to smoking.

By the way, try not shaving for a month or two. No trimming the nose and ears either. This is what we REALLY look like. It's quite a wake up into reality, not the tidied up version of how we look.
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Well yes. Even when I do the ZZ Top beard thing, I still have to shave the neck or it gets all itchy, catches in the threads of my shirt collars, and is generally a hassle. I still have to shave even when I have a larger beard.

Mine also does not grow as thickly as some, but it grows in many places I wish it would not, like directly under my eyes and on my ears. I'm a mutant of some sort, apparently.
 
Joe,

Part of my branding is of a "Lazy Slacker" so not shaving is part of my style.

In my 20's I was clean shaven, but that meant I only shaved once a week. Also one reason I first grew a moustach was being a skinny guy with long hair I often got mistaken as a girl.

Being an Asian (Chinese) I get profiled as being Japanese because of my beard, and here in NYC this kinda allows me to be mistaken as a tourist. I shoot with a 28 a lot and perhaps I shoot rather close. I have had many a New Yorker yell at me, "Fxxx-N tourist," when perhaps taking liberties.

Also in Madhattan the culture is messing with tourists has pretty big reprocussions with the police, so I kinda take advantage of this culture street shooting.

I also have buzzed my sideburns for many years. It all started out as a shaving accident with a beard trimmer, and every week the buzzing just got higher and bigger. Now it has become a strong trend: buzzed sides with a pony tail.

So I would call my facial hair "an arrogant chin beard" that identifies me as a creature of the art world. In my case it makes me look like I'm an artist.

Also I think my beard confuses people further because there have been times when I've been called unkind racist names when mistaken as a Latino.

In fact at Grumman when I worked there there was this guy "Max" who was a Latino, who was a fork lift operator in Plant 2. Max also worked at Hempstead Harley and was a full blown biker who rode a hog. Many times I was mistaken for him out in Long Island (Lawn-GUY-Land).

Anyways in my case my beard makes me stand out.

Cal
 
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