OK, after being a beardyfaced long haired late period hippy I’ve been clean shaven for decades other than the odd Movember showing. Just had a week away and have returned with a goatee….not sure yet, but I quite like it. I remember someone on here saying once you lose your hair you need to grow something to stop looking like a thumb in a suit. Harsh, but possibly fair. Any other hairy faces out there?
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I found a goatee useful in hiding multiple chins, but the chins have won and the goatee now looks like an upside down comb-over.
Try as I might I can’t make that bloody picture smaller!
Never mind, means we can see the credit nice and clearly! 😉
Back on the old blog didn’t David Hepworth declare this LP to have the worst/most gruesome cover of all time?
Toe Fat featured pop/soul merchant Cliff Bennett and two future members of Uriah Heep, Ken Hensley and Lee Kerslake. Bassist John Glascock went on to Jethro Tull.
They existed between 1969/71, releasing two LPs.
Never heard it but it’s a good lineup! I saw Cliff Bennett with short lived Shanghai with Mick Green on guitar. I bought him a pint. He was grumpy. Only made one album I think, which I have…they were great on OGWT doing this….
The must disturbing thing about that sleeve is the lamb in the background. I feel that poor wee thing will come to no good.
Oddly enough I could see it on my desk top, but just the link on this iPad.
Anyway, hair … Each to their own, but I’m generally of the opinion that men only look better with beards if they are covering up something worse, and that you will usually look younger clean shaven too. I think ‘peak beard’ in Britain was about 2012, but shares in razor manufacturers have probably been on the up again since.
Beards, like tattoos, are just not for me, but if that’s your bag then go for it, you hairy little devils.
“men only look better with beards if they are covering up something worse” – I allow a little bit of stubble so that my face looks face-shaped rather than just looking like play-doh with eyes stuck in it.
My first beard in 1977 was certainly to deal with the residue of bad acne, I’m happy to admit!
The lamb is there to replace a topless lady from the original sleeve. Every day’s a school day…
I posted this back when we had the selfie thread, but this seems like the right thread for it to reappear – me at a festival a couple of years ago. Calm down, ladies, etc
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Awesome. My mo was along similar lines though not quite so splendid.
I’ve tried a beard a few times, most recently a few weeks ago. Given it is now largely white it ages me considerably. I could never get past the itch and given you need to do maintenance around the mouth etc it was just as easy to shave. I find that shaving is quite effective as a depilatory treatment too.
Also its summer down here and beards just make things hotter, though try telling that to the hipsters.
I thought your Outback stubble was rather dashing, JW
Surely having stubble “out back” can be rather painful?
Why thanks Mike ! The stubble was fine @mikethep and, truth be known, I was really aspiring to the thep look.
But beyond a certain point I cannot tolerate the whiskers.
I grew mine to distract from the bruising*. It didn’t really work 🙁
It’s a bit longer and whiter now, and the swelling is long gone.
*(I didn’t.)
Blimey what did the other guy look like?
😀
Short, cuddly, avuncular. And a bloody good neurosurgeon to boot!
(Not that I booted him. Being unconscious was a bit of a handicap.)
I’ve just remembered to charge up the trimmer for the weekly spruce-up, so thanks, @Twang
I love your photos, Nigel. You have that look of abject misery off to a tee!
It takes a lifetime’s practice, @Tiggerlion.* I was actually pretty damn pleased with things, having just survived brain surgery.
*(And the fact that I look like some kind of loon if I smile in photos.)
Like you @Twang I was a “beardyfaced long haired late period hippy”.
I shaved it all off in 1976 at the urging of my girlfriend (who just wanted to see my face I suppose)(she didn’t want to talk about Jesus) and have been clean shaven ever since.
If my stubble grows for more than 3 days it looks like – well, like I haven’t shaved for 3 days.
I HATE those cultivated stubble people – someone once described Hugh Jackman as having such perfect stubble it probably had its own agent.
And I hate those hipster early 20th century beards.
Grumpy old clean shaven man that’s me. Fortunately I still have a flourishing head of hair at 62
I always fancied one, and would grow stubble, but always assumed women hated the full beard. Anyway, when I met the current Mrs Scribbler she said she loved them and asked if I’d grow one. I didn’t need asking twice. Now I’m so used to it that photos of me from as recently as 2010 just don’t look like me, I really do look like the aforementioned thumb. I think the matching pair of grey patches just under my mouth give me a certain distinguished air. Not that I’m a narcissist or owt. *cough*
And rather like smokers, I don’t know what I’d do with my hands now if I didn’t have a beard to play with.
I tend to bumble about the place with a week’s stubble that is just starting to look like a scruffy beard. I prefer my face with a bit of fur but I’ve never gone the full Misty. Largely cos most of the blokes my age with beards are trying to look like 23 year olds and it’s a bit tragic.
My early attempts made me look rather rabbinical – think Dylan, c.New Morning. These days the moustache and bit under the chin are still salt and pepper, while the rest is pure white. I think I look rather distinguished; the Light doesn’t really like it but tolerates it as long as I get it trimmed regularly. I go off to Phil the Greek (not that one) once a month for a No.3 on top and 11/2 underneath, and that seems to keep everyone happy.
I occasionally toy with the idea of a Zappa rig, but experiments so far haven’t gone down well.
Went beardy in 2012, on my 3 week camper van jaunt around the highlands and islands, with only 2 small dogs for company. Couldn’t be arsed to shave. Half way round I saw my reflection, in the seaman’s showers (careful how you say that) at Tobermory quayside, and saw the more annoying of the hairy bikers looking back, so lost the side bits forthwith. On return the new squeeze, now Mrs Path iii, wouldn’t let me lose it. And I haven’t. I have to trim it as otherwise I rock the Charles Dickins look.
The last time I was clean shaven (about 12 years ago) my mum and sister politely suggested I should grow my beard again. What this says about my face, I don’t know. Mrs Wilson Wilson has never seen me sans beard.
I have been asked to grow hair and beard for a possible walk on in a film. I am more hirsute than I have been for years. I shaved my beard off about seven years ago, clean shaven for a few years, but grew it back. Stroking the beard is a great tension reliever and I hate to see myself clean shaven, my wife unfortunately prefers me clean shaven.
Mr B once shaved his beard off without warning. It was like having a stranger in the house, really freaked me out. I asked him never to do it again.
I grow beards intermittently. It usually starts with forgetting to shave, then curiosity mixed with fond memories of my pride at being able to grow one as a teenager takes over. It looks rubbish for a few days, then I start to think ‘I should always look like this, this suits me!’, then it starts to get a bit vagrant and annoying and I shave it off. Repeat every 9 months or so.
Me too – beards of apathy. My current one is around ten days in.
Beards of Apathy – that’s it. TMFTL of course.