The ‘hipster’ beard is over…

I'm not at all a fan of beards so three cheers from me. DH is clean shaven and has no desire to abandon the blade; otherwise I'd never have married him.

Our whole bodies are covered in trillions of bacteria, friendly and unfriendly, including, of course, all body hair. Nothing exceptional about that.

Can’t stand ZZ Top beards, they just look unkempt. Don’t mind a clean, groomed beard on the right face but actually I think all beards are ageing. I’m sure Graham Norton would immediately look ten years younger if he shaved off his very well kept beard.
Also kissing a bearded man leaves you with a rash and hairs in your mouth ?

My DH was branded a Hippy by my parents when they first met him. He still kept the well-trimmed beard for the rest of his life, though the long hair was eventually cut short. Mum and Dad never really ever took to him, though.

I remember, round about 1958, one of the young men in our office returned from holiday with a beard. He had no contact with the customers, but was brusquely ordered, by the Boss, to shave it off or be sacked. Good for him. He walked out. Of course jobs were much easier to find then, but you certainly wouldn't get away with such high-handed behaviour these days.

I don't care for beards at all. Mainly because I am so deaf and need to lip read as well as use hearing aids, so I try to avoid men with beards. They probably think I am rude or standoffish or some such, but they would probably be more than irritated if I kept asking them to repeat everything.

I used to like beards until I read an article a couple of years ago containing the following:
Beards may be totally "in," but they are also dirty, and hazardous to human health according to a recent study. A new study found that every sample of beard hair collected was crawling with bacteria. Nearly half had bugs and bacteria considered hazardous to human health"
And I read it in The Daily Mail - so it must be true!

I come out in a rash when OH has facial hair so I’m in the hate beards camp.

My two sons and DH usually grow winter beards but they are neat and tidy. Don't like the bushy long beards and those that reach downs to the chest - yuck!

Coastpath brilliant ????
I like the nice trimmed oiled beards, but the big bushy ones no.

I have face blindness and use beards, hair colour and styles as an aid to differentiate characters on tv, but am finding so many men on tv have beards which means I constantly have to ask if he is the bearded man in the bar, or the bus or school etc which drives my poor long suffering dh mad.

I hate those beards too, I always imagine food getting caught in them.

My other half has a small neat beard, not sure of the correct name for it, the type which is just around the mouth and chin, doesn't go up his cheeks. He grew it after getting covid and his hair thinning, I think to make him feel a bit better about himself. It suits him very well and many people have commented on it similarly.
I actually like older men with ponytails, though I hasten to say hubby doesn't wear his hair long.
However I absolutely can't stand man-buns.

I actually find a beard attractive on an older men....my age group. I like the the 'Father Christmas' look...hahaha

My eldest son went through a phase (for a few years) of having a very thick, long beard - ginger - like Brian Blessed's. He's still got a beard, but it's trimmed and neat (still ginger, with his black hair)

My father was in the RAF so was not allowed a beard. He had chickenpox very badly in his forties so, on the advice of his doctor, had permission not to shave until the spots had cleared up.

This took most of the summer months and he complained that the beard made the itching worse but we thought it made him look handsome in a rugged sort of way.

My mother overheard the doctor’s receptionist telling Dad that she thought his beard made him look sexy so she drove him home in high dudgeon, marched him up to the bathroom and that was the end of the beard ?

DH was clean-shaven when we married but announced shortly after our wedding that he preferred a longer time in bed with me so was growing a beard.

He has had a beard every since. Except, twice the children persuaded him to shave it off and then cried when they saw him beardless.

He wouldn't be dh without his very well kept facial hair.

Coastpath

Sorry Callistemon21. Please have another cuppa on me.

I need to get the tweezers in action first ?

It's a bit worrying but DDIL has promised to sort me out if I become incapable.

Both my grandsons have beards I prefer them clean shaven but it’s just not the fashion at the moment, so I guess not for me to choose
I once had a boyfriend who I d only ever know with a beard I nagged him to shave it off and then realised I much preferred him with a beard ?poor chap

Sorry Callistemon21. Please have another cuppa on me.

With a DH who looks ike Captain Birdseye and a son who has designer stubble because shaving brings him up in a rash. I doubt either will take any notice of what the Times says.

I love a beard. Coloured or grey. I think that especially on older men, they can cover a multitude of sins! I think also they make a man look more masculine.

Grew my first beard in the summer holidays when I was 16, and have had one permanently since I left school, apart from two shaves for amateur theatre roles and one disaster when the electric trimmer went berserk. Kept trimmed, especially now that my head of hair is, to put it mildly, not what it was.

Nope, really don't cope well with beards at all. Even though I know it's not true (well......mostly!) I have pictures of all sorts of creepy crawlies bustling about in there. S2 has one. I wish he didn't. He doesn't know that. Such fine features hidden in fungus is a sin for me.

Cannot bear beards of any description! I read once that beard hair is the same "type" as pubic! The thought of those pubes being in close proximity all the time is nauseating.

Doesn’t it get really hot under all of that hair?