Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
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I grew one so people would stop thinking I’m 12.
The rent (razors) is too damn high!!!
It’s been trending since COVID
At least maybe even before that
It’s crazy how long it’s been since we’ve had a bearded president in the US.
Fewer beardless people to bully others into shaving, the cycle will continue to reinforce itself until system collapse
And when everyone’s bearded, no one will be
heightening contradictions eventually lead to a crisis
Why do people on the internet think you don’t have to shave if you have a beard? You’re just shaving less area.
I don’t shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.
It’s also easier area. Cheeks and neck are way flatter than chin.
Very variable, depending on style and your personal growth pattern. I have a small patch on each cheek that has to be cleaned off, but otherwise it doesn’t require shaving. With a big beard you have to care for it like normal hair, though, with haircuts and products.
Buuut I do have the shave my whole head. Oh well.
Exactly, it’s actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it’s symmetrical.
I haven’t shaved since 2014.
A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.
I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.
And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.
Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.
There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.
You don’t have to shave, you just probably should if want it to look remotely stylish.
A lot of people, especially online, don’t care about style.
Some people think beards are stylish.
Well-groomed beards are stylish, unkempt beards not.
Exactly. When I was clean shaven, it was easy, I could just hold the shaver against the contours of my face.
Now, with a large beard, I only need to shave every one or two weeks, but it takes much longer to do so and is much trickier. I’ve got to sculpt and shape a mound of hair manually. And every day I still brush and oil it.
Clean or short shaven was actually less effort.
Ha, NSFW example but my God when people call the tight trimmed triangle a “natural bush” on women I laugh. It’s more work to maintain than just about any other alternative.
I’m seeing a lot of those creepy mustaches lately.
The Charlie Chaplin ones?
I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they’re cool again. I’m afraid it’ll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.
Dawg like a year ago I came back into the office for the first time since Covid and all the 20 year olds had somewhere between pedo stashes and handlebars. Zoomers crack me up they’re great
The girls seem to like it, so I can’t complain
It’s partly because of Top Gun and some other recent pop culture occurrence I can’t recall off the top of my head. But yeah, I know several people at work who recently started doing it as well, and one of them mentioned that as their inspiration. I’m guessing a few started bc of that and more followed suit, because why not or something.
No one here did it because of Top Gun lol… I think it just came hand in hand with the mullet being back in fashion
- I’m lazy
- I can
- makes me look my age
- razor burn sucks
- 3’o clock shadow sucks
- who cares?
Im lazy. Dont like my beard, but cbf shaving.
What do you mean men are growing beards “again”? I haven’t noticed any trend between clean shaven / bearded. Some do, some don’t.
I’m at least six years in on my current beard. Many others before that.
Yeah, beards have been common since at least the ‘hipster/lumbersexual’ memes which were about 2008 or so. There’s not been any particular drop off since then. It’s just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.
Yeah, I haven’t been clean shaven since I could first pull off a beard. Last time I saw my naked face was 15 years ago.
That said, I have started to put more effort into my beard to try to keep up with trends. Growing it out, oiling it, shaping the edges. It’s fun, but I still find myself trimming it down after too long just to make it easier to manage.
What oil are you using? Hands down the best stuff I have ever tried is from a small New Zealand brand called Lambert’s Luscious Beard Oils. I started getting compliments at work after switching to that stuff.
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it’s usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
Eh, idk. Depends on the person. I’ve been going for a “scruff” look for a few years now. I trim close-ish 1-2 times/week, just before it starts to get itchy from hairs getting long enough. I always have at least 1-2mm facial hair.
If I go clean-shaven, I have baby face and I look 10 years younger. Not a good look. A bit of scruff makes me look closer to my age, but I don’t like the look of a full beard on me since I can’t grow a decent mustache. It looks like I’m trying too hard.
I’m a fucking wizard - the beard is mandatory.
I control electron flow on my spare time
I control erection flow.
Do the other wizards just give you the staff, or do you have to go on a quest or something?
Becoming a wizard isn’t so trivial as just being declared one - many wizards apprenticed themselves to gain knowledge and improve their chances but that elevation is a personal journey.
You will know you’re a wizard when you can look at fellows in your skill and know that none of them would challenge your adoption of the title. I wish you the best of luck. It’s a title within reach of everyone in their lifetime.
The staff and robes are optional but who would turn down a badass purple robe.
It’s really the stick I’m interested in. So you can just go get your own staff? Nobody awards you the staff, or stops you from getting a staff?
Nah, you can just make yourself a staff - there aren’t any restrictions, registries or waiting periods.
Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.
For some of us that’s “new”
Yeah, even more than 10 years really - maybe OP was in a coma 😅 or just didn’t notice until someone made a comment and then couldn’t stop seeing them. Kind of like when you a buy a certain car you suddenly start seeing them everywhere because you’re more familiar.
More like 70 years.
I mean, they were never out in Afghanistan. I think we have to confine discussion to the West here, where I assume OP lives.
You could go back to the 19th century in America, but beards were definitely out from the 1920s to 60s. IIRC it was chemical warfare that killed the beard, because they don’t fit under a gas mask, and dudes all want to look like a tough guy. After that, the counterculture brought them back for people involved. I’m less clear on post-Cold-War trends.
yes thank you my post was very serious
Of course, it’s the internet, we’re always in the twilight between serious and joking.
Some dumb influencer is doing it and everyone now think that looks cool.
It does look cool.
It really doesn’t. :)
So many men think they look sexy with a beard.
Reality: You look like a serial killer from the backwoods.
Trim and wash it properly or shave it off.
Facial hair is such a turn off.For every you, there’s a woman who feels compelled to pet me because of my beard. I’ll take that trade-off.
Many men do look sexier with a beard. For some men it helps with obscuring a recessed chin and giving a ‘stronger’ shape.
My personal preference is when men have bit of scruff imo. Like a week of growth with a full mustache. Obviously people like you dislike beards but everyone has their opinions.
I like them
Especially when most dudes growing beards look like they have public hair growing out of their face. They look ridiculous.
I think they’ve given up on trying to get laid.
This is not a fictional world that you’re living in.
I’m not growing it for you. I’m growing it because I like it for me. If you don’t like it, that’s your loss.
