You might think all the facial hair you’re seeing on the street is a way of attracting a mate. It might not be so simple.
  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Appealing to prospective partners is not why I have a beard. Improving my standing with other men is not why I have a beard.

    I have a beard because…I like it. It’s for me. I was clean shaven for a year for a job and hated it so much I quit.

    • HiddenLychee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      If you don’t mind my asking, why do you think you hated it so much? Just hate the way it looks on you specifically?

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        1. It made me look 10 years younger and I’d prefer to look my age

        2. Shaving is annoying. Occasional razor burn and cuts aside, it’s an “all or nothing” style. If you miss a spot, it sticks out against the smooth skin

        3. Having to do it daily sucks especially for people like me who get 10am shadows. Post-shave stubble looks bad. Post-#1 trimmer stubble looks the same

        4. It’s relaxing to scratch a beard and it doesn’t feel good to scratch a freshly-shaven face.

        I trim my beard once a week and I can do it half asleep. it stays relatively nice and if I miss a spot, it mostly blends in. Sometimes during the week I will trim the couple of hairs that grow a little higher on my cheeks but even if I don’t, it doesn’t look too bad.

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    There have been a lot of articles about men’s beards since hipsters started rocking full beards in the last couple of decades, and they’re often loaded with opinions against it. It’s usually not more scientifically interesting than asking “why animals grow hair”. They do, and nobody really cares enough to ask “why”.

    I’d rather like to know “the real reason men shave”. That’s somewhat more interesting, because it’s something humans have created and there ought to be a reason why.

  • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    My kid didn’t think I look enough like a real dad so he harangued me until I grew a beard. And hey it grew on me and eventually even on my wife. Well you know what I mean.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Do nothing, and voilà! No makeup.

      Do nothing, and voilà! Beard.

      Beards take effort to remove, not to grow, and exist completely independently from human fashion and technology