Beards on men.

Stubble - scruffy.
Beard - aging.
Ugh! I wouldn't fancy touching either!

I have had a beard all my life and would never dream of shaving it off. It grows naturally. I tend to prefer the natural look and dislike tattoos, piercings, make up or hair dye and find it very rare that mankind can improve on the beauty of nature.

You've obviously not seen me first thing in the morning simtib!

My OH is five years older than me but always looked younger until he grew a beard. I loved that beard (they are actually quite soft) then he shaved it off and looks younger than me again - not fair.

Polycystic ovaries causes women to grow beards.

I love the feel of my bearded one!

Lona, just smile and I am sure you will look perfect.

All your life, simtib?

the natural look that's me no piercings (yet) no make up never dyed my hair (yet) no tattoos (once had a stick on one from GS think it was a skull n crossbones and still got my own teeth!

Funnily enough DGD2 raised the subject of beards this very a.m. Both her Grandpas, Her Dad and his brother and her only other Uncle (DD2's new DH) are bearded. She was telling me a long story about her brother (6) drawing beards on pictures of himself to see which type he would grow when he was a man. She had declined his invitation to draw beards on her own picture, telling him in no uncertain terms that when she grew up she was going to be A LADY. Before I could respond she confided, in a whisper, "I suppose I will have to shave".

PS DD1 tells me that the female equivalent of Movember is Fanuary

annodomini Well for as long as I have been able to grow one. I had a soft down when I was 16 and thought I would try and shave. My chin felt sore afterwards and as no one noticed anyway I gave up the idea. By the time I got to about 24 people started to ask me if I was trying to grow a beard, with the emphasis on trying. That is the problem with fine fair hair, beards don't really show up.

bikergran you don't need make up, just leathers and a Vincent Black Shadow, so you can ride in style.

It rather depends on the man. on the whole I'm not keen, but some are very attractive. The chap on the Great British Sewing Bee really won me over!

DH, being a marine type, although not navy, had a beard off and on throughout his 20s and then went clean shaven in his 30s, and then did the reverse of Feetlebaum regrew one for an operatic performance, Princess Ida, I think.

The children and I agreed to this on the condition it came off as soon as the show was over, but when the beard appeared we all liked it so much we told him to keep it, which he did. A few years later he had to shave for a operatic performance - and we all hated the unshaven look so as soon as the show was over he regrew it and has had one ever since.

DS has a beard because, like me, he has very sensitive skin and shaving left his skin red and raw. He tried all sorts of different shaving creams, oils etc and razors but without effect so by his mid 20s he had decided a beard was the way forward, although it is closer to designer stubble than DH's carefully kempt beard.

I quite like beards..DH has had one for years now and looks 100% better with than without. It is a bit straggley and odd a bit like
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In fact he looks a lot like Shaggy altogether nor i come to think about it !

DH stopped shaving when he retired - got rid of all but two suits (one for weddings, one for funerals) and nearly all his ties. He keeps the beard short to stop me nagging as his ambition is to look like ZZ Top!

Mine stopped shaving when we bought our (small) yacht.
I loved his beard, it tickled!

No beard - looks awful. But he does have a splendid twirly moustache that causes people to smile when they see it. Our sons' friends (in their early twenties) think that his moustache makes him a 'legend' and complete strangers have been known to stop him and ask for photographs with him. I've put a photo up on my profile.

Wow, that's a magnificent tash!

When we returned from our honeymoon my OH had to go into hospital for a rest (he had ankylosing spondilitis) He grew a moustache while he was in the hospital for a fortnight. 9 days after he was let home I said to him,''Oh, you've shaved your moustache off!'' He replied, ''I shaved it off before I came home!'' 9 whole days and I hadn't noticed!

My DH grew a beard once in the 90's - he looked like a guerrilla fighter from the USSR , so shaved it off

my DH has had a mustache since he was 30.He looks very handsome with it (as both grandaughters agree; but now he is much older and whiter! it matches his hair colour.