Beards

[amused1]

I've had a beard since the early 90's. Am I a trendsetter?

[RandyC]

I am good with beards.. they can be very sexy but they must be well trimmed and generally follow the shape of the face, no bushy beards please

[+ JEC]

Most of my life I was vehemently anti-beard, really wouldn't even look at a guy with a beard and no interest in being with him. THAT has all changed, the (now) cropped/manscaped beards & scruff are HOT AF!

[wbtravis]

Going out on a limb here. All of these replies speak to personal taste, but few address the laziness of guys hiding behind the beard trend when it’s really just laziness. The distinction for me is shaping on the face and neck. I just want to shake some of the otherwise hot guys... go full on Cher, and smack them with a “SNAP OUT OF IT!”.

[Rudynate]

I just grew a beard, I'm going to be on stage in a few weeks, and I wanted to have a big bushy beard for the occasion. I've been getting a lot compliments, but probably not from guys that don't like beards- it is sort of an uber-beard.

[Gadfly22]

All of these replies speak to personal taste, but few address the laziness of guys hiding behind the beard trend when it’s really just laziness.

Yes and no. I have no doubt there are plenty of millenials (and older guys - think Letterman) who have beards because they are too lazy to shave. But most of us I think who have them still shave every day. I do - my cheeks and neck. Really not any less work than being totally clean shaven IMO.

[wbtravis]

Yes and no. I have no doubt there are plenty of millenials (and older guys - think Letterman) who have beards because they are too lazy to shave. But most of us I think who have them still shave every day. I do - my cheeks and neck. Really not any less work than being totally clean shaven IMO.

I hear you, and bow in your honor. Part of the issue for me is geography. If I can safety stereotype in this thread - loads of Millennials in my area (Silicon Valley/SF), and as a generation... there is a heaping herd of lazy groomers. I am on a mission to change a trend that is SO much bigger than me!

[steed8]

We may have hit peak beard,uk.blastingnews.com/opinion/2018/03/we-dont-appear-to-have-hit-peak-beard-yet-002439943.htmls://, but this trend of facial hair has been around for the last decade. It's gotten to the point that you are likely a millienial or younger if you are sporting facial hair and folder than 40 if you are clean shaven. Remember the "clone" look of the 70's. That was the last time facial hair was big. Then the 80's hit and the clean shaven, hairless chest was in. Look at videos from Falcon and Catalina from that era. A brief return of the goatee occurred in the 90's and a general more unkempt look with the rise of grunge signified a return of the hirsute look. It was solidified with the brief lumbersexual look. Then hipsters came. Now things are coming full circle where the much derided mustache is making a comeback with less comments of "porn stach", "hide your children" and "pedophile" being mentioned.

One needs to qualify that this is a purely Anglo - English phenomena. Facial hair never left the Islam world, Indian subcontinent and Latin America's men were proudly sporting chest hair for a while.

 

Adding my 2 cents to your great observations, the meteoric rise of the shaved/buzzed head look, which almost just screams out for facial hair ranging from a small goatee on up to a full on beard, has also done much to help advance the trend for facial hair.

Lot's of bald/buzzed head guys look great without facial hair but I think that the general consensus has been to add facial hair.

Man, can they make for a sexy & head turning combo!

[wbtravis]

Adding my 2 cents to your great observations, the meteoric rise of the shaved/buzzed head look, which almost just screams out for facial hair ranging from a small goatee on up to a full on beard, has also done much to help advance the trend for facial hair.

Lot's of bald/buzzed head guys look great without facial hair but I think that the general consensus has been to add facial hair.

Man, can they make for a sexy & head turning combo!

Good observation indeed. And, the guys to mention almost never have unkempt necks.

[LTH]

OK. So you're a working guy and that HOBO looks call out to you. There's nothing wrong with that. But remember you have to NOT make it IMPOSSIBLE for your clients to work with you... All clients want to work with you and God knows we've tried!

 

I've always HATED FACIAL & BODY HAIR but I've found ways to work around that. I have learned that putting a tight-fitted T-shirt over the guy's body SOLVES the body hair problem and ALL working guys I've seen have had NO PROBLEM with that. But keeping a SKI-MASK over a guy's head to solve the HOBO problem is a completely different story! Half way through the session, it's either the guy screaming TAKE IT OFF. TAKE IT OFF. I CAN'T BREATH or they all sweated like a PIG soaking and stinking up the thing.

 

With a GOATEE, CHIN-STRIP, SOUL-PATCH, etc... a little DUCT-TAPE-OVER-MOUTH roleplaying can easily solve the problem and ALL working guys I've seen have had no problem with that. But ANYTHING MORE is gonna be a much more difficult problem to work it unless the guy can comfortably wearing a ski-mask throughout the entire session.

 

So

 

NO CHIN-STRAP!

NO FULL-BEARD!

NO WIDE-GOATEE!

NO MUTTON-CHOPS!

 

unless you have no problems wearing a ski-mask!

 

(https://www.liveabout.com/facial-hair-and-beard-styles-4139881)

[Jeff Meuller]

Adding my 2 cents to your great observations, the meteoric rise of the shaved/buzzed head look, which almost just screams out for facial hair ranging from a small goatee on up to a full on beard, has also done much to help advance the trend for facial hair.

Lot's of bald/buzzed head guys look great without facial hair but I think that the general consensus has been to add facial hair.

Man, can they make for a sexy & head turning combo!

 

And the rise of the bald/buzzed head look came from the acceptance of it as a viable solution to thinning/balding heads. Look at Bruce Willis, Patrick Stewart and Vince Diesel. The addition of facial hair helps draw attention away from the thinning bald head.

[steed8]

OK. So you're a working guy and that HOBO looks call out to you. There's nothing wrong with that. But remember you have to NOT make it IMPOSSIBLE for your clients to work with you... All clients want to work with you and God knows we've tried!

 

I've always HATED FACIAL & BODY HAIR but I've found ways to work around that. I have learned that putting a tight-fitted T-shirt over the guy's body SOLVES the body hair problem and ALL working guys I've seen have had NO PROBLEM with that. But keeping a SKI-MASK over a guy's head to solve the HOBO problem is a completely different story! Half way through the session, it's either the guy screaming TAKE IT OFF. TAKE IT OFF. I CAN'T BREATH or they all sweated like a PIG soaking and stinking up the thing.

 

With a GOATEE, CHIN-STRIP, SOUL-PATCH, etc... a little DUCT-TAPE-OVER-MOUTH roleplaying can easily solve the problem and ALL working guys I've seen have had no problem with that. But ANYTHING MORE is gonna be a much more difficult problem to work it unless the guy can comfortably wearing a ski-mask throughout the entire session.

 

So

 

NO CHIN-STRAP!

NO FULL-BEARD!

NO WIDE-GOATEE!

NO MUTTON-CHOPS!

 

unless you have no problems wearing a ski-mask!

 

(https://www.liveabout.com/facial-hair-and-beard-styles-4139881)

 

 

You are quite adept at humorous writing.

Is your chosen field in the literary field?

[steed8]

And the rise of the bald/buzzed head look came from the acceptance of it as a viable solution to thinning/balding heads. Look at Bruce Willis, Patrick Stewart and Vince Diesel. The addition of facial hair helps draw attention away from the thinning bald head.

 

 

Quite on spot there...

And going back further, Telly Savalaa & Yul Bryner were just kind of odd balls hanging out there alone for a couple of decades as they broke ground while shaving their heads & saying the hell with wearing the cover of a hairpiece, the use of which was shockingly common in Hollywood & tv back then.

Fortunately the worm started to turn in the 1990's probably due to the rise of the stars you mentioned but also because of the rise of a different type of sensibility that allowed men to think differently & form new opinions & self concepts about their appearance & specifically their hair loss. Imagine the joy (seriously!) a man could feel in dumping the old, constraining shackles of fear & loathing over male pattern baldness &, in a manner almost akin to revenge, being able to shave or buzz his head & join one of the hottest & sexiest trends for men!

And as I noted here earlier, the combination of a shaved/buzzed head with some type of facial hair is a look that is now incredibly popular.

The dude below was perhaps one of the first gay porn stars to really put me on a firm footing of viewing the shaved/buzzed head as supremely HOT if done correctly. Count me as one who generally finds his gaze more easily turned by a good-looking shaved head dude than one with a full head of hair!

So, thank you Jake Stockman & your studio handlers & stylist!

 

[marylander1940]

What's with all the beards??? I know it's a matter of personal taste (not mine) like tattoos or hirsute guys, but is it me, or do lots more men have beards now? I see so many I would hire if they did not.

 

Me personally, love them!

 

In this case it makes a hell of a difference on his face, and for good.

 

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