Hiding Your Butt-chin (new facial hair thread)

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, that makes the most sense. I don't mean to insult Van Dyke fans our wearers, but I always feel like a douche when I sport it.

No way, you have more than enough in the soul patch region to totally rock the Frank Zappa.

[what whale]

I'm not against trimming, per se, just total facial nudity...

whale, we need pics. and "jesus, man, what happened to you?" is the best beard-descriptor I'd heard so far. When I relayed it to the bloke he said "ZZ Top"?

Yeah, I haven't had total facial nudity, I'm happy to say, in years and years and years.

And no, unfortunately nothing like ZZ Top.  My beard wasn't really long, just really, really full.  And then, the other night, the lady and I met some friends at the neighborhood pub; we showed up first, and were sorta drunk, and after a few games of pool I get to acting all like a maniac and so my hair gets bigger and crazier and my beard gets bushier and crazier and then my friend - who'd been on vacation and whom I hadn't seen in a few weeks - shows up and says, "Jesus, man, what happened to you?"  At some point later in the night he also called me a Neanderthal, I think.

Anyhow, this does what I was rockin' no justice, but it's the most recent picture I could find (taken like two months ago - so add two months' worth of beard and hair, which on my chin and head grow rather rapidly, to this): 

[donblood]

You've got some mighty eyelashes, my friend.

[coldforge]

Now i want to shave into a Van Dyke.

[clare]

Excellent facial expression too, whale... and looking not unlike Mr Nog.

[Chet]

I think my beard is making my niece cry 

[donblood]

Wait until you shave it and she cries at that too.

[davy]

My beard had an uncharacteristically photogenic weekend. Primarily because all the photographers were on its good side.

[davy]

And this one even touched it up with a little dignified gray! My beard is not, in fact, graying...but now I kinda wish it was.

[girl]

Excellent photos, davy! 

[YojimboMonkey]

Beard Progress Report:

Still haven't trimmed down from the winter weight mountain man look yet, though that day is likely coming soon

[coldforge]

I still want a van dyke. But I fear I'd look less like orlando bloom and more like a fat computer nerd.

[Anglophile]

I still want a van dyke. But I fear I'd look less like orlando bloom and more like a fat computer nerd.

This is essentially my predicament. I think I'm just gonna say fuck it and sport it for this Easter weekend, and if I feel like a douche it'll be gone by Monday.

[Anglophile]

And lo, 40 minutes hence, the seeds of impulse have borne fruit

[jm]

Thinking really seriously about getting rid of the beard.  Because it's really ridiculous and cumbersome.  On the other hand, I'm sort of stuck in "well, I've gone this far; can't stop now" mode.

[Augo]

God damn Jim!  That's a fantastic look!!

[Thermofusion]

I still want a van dyke. But I fear I'd look less like orlando bloom and more like a fat computer nerd.

Aren't you the one who looks like F. Murray Abraham? Or was that someone else

Anyway, someone who posts here looks like F. Murray Abraham, and that person should make it their quest to look as much like F. Murray Abraham as possible, including growing the necessary facial hair

[coldforge]

man, i hope it's me.

[jm]

nah, coldforge writes way better music than Salieri.

[davy]

God damn Jim!  That's a fantastic look!!

Seconded.

You kinda look like the sun!

[YojimboMonkey]

and that's about it I'm afraid, I'm getting tired of it and will likely trim it up sometime this weekend.

[Greg Nog]

Dang.  Well, rock it REAL FUCKIN' HARD today, then.

[Ignatius]

Enter a bear-wrestling tourney.

[YojimboMonkey]

You mean, like, as a bear?  I, uh, I don't really want to encourage that kind of attention...

[davy]

I love the spade-shape of it.