Beards... disgusting

GardenofEngland that made me weep. I am so sorry for your loss - and for others bereaved after their loved ones die.

My dear friend also lost a lot of his beard during cancer treatment. He shaved the stragglers eventually and it did grow back a little before he died. It was a part of him. He was a part of his self and part of the way he faced the world.

It was very moving to hear about your experience and brought back memories both sad and happy of a dear friend no longer with us. Thank you.

Beards always look like pubic hair to me yuck

My husband has had a beard for maybe 35-40 years. I love it. He was "clean shaven" when we met. He is always clean - this is more than I can say about some other people - beard or no beard.

My late husband had a beard that was well groomed and it really suited him . My son now has also grown a beard again suits him.
There are reason some men have beards. My husband grew his after an accident t left him with a damaged chin. So think before saying they are dirty as I can assure that was definitely not the case with my husband and many other men too

My eldest son grows a beard, which I hate, gets fed up and goes clean shaven, which I love, for a while before starting to sprout again. Despite people telling him he looks younger minus beard he insists going through the cycle. There is a glimmer of hope though as the latest beard is growing with a generous sprinkling of grey ?

I quite like a man with a beard. Everyone I know with one keeps them clean. Actually I can't remember ever seeing one with food caught in it..

DH has a moustache and so did my father.

When I was young in the 1970s beards suddenly came into fashion and practically every young or youngish man had one.

I have literally never seen a bearded man with food stuck in his beard - or anything else for that matter.

You must really have been unlucky OP to meet so many unwashed men!

Most of the bearded men I have known, and those I still see about with a beard, although wearing one is not "in" here at present, have trimmed their beards regularly, and made sure they were and looked clean.

I have seen some straggly beards, but usually men who cannot grow a luxurious beard shave it off again quite quickly.

A dear friend sported a beard all his life. possibly as he had only shaved a few times his beard was silky and soft. He kept it short and tidy and looked great. I have no issue with tidy ones, just don’t like frizzy bush faces.

I encouraged my previously beardless husband to grow his, when he was feeling very low after a bad bout of covid had made his hair much thinner, and many people have said it suits him and I agree. It is always clean and trimmed, and in answer to someone likening a beard to pubes, I can categorically say in this case they are nothing alike!
I too suffered a lot of hair loss after covid but his beard is doing much better than mine....

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Well all my sons have beards , all clean and well groomed thankyou very much .
Checked your own chin lately ?
You don't like them fine but don't judge people or generalise , honestly what are some people like on here ?

I don't like beards either. I think they are unhygienic unless the owner of one is assiduous about keeping it clean and alas most aren't. And as others have said food gets stuck in it. Yuck! Personally I think they are just all round unpleasant for any woman to live with. But, hey, each to their own!

I grew my first beard in the school summer holidays when I was sixteen, and repeated the process annually until I left school. I have had one ever since, apart from four brief intervals: two for plays I was in, and two when my electric beard trimmer went berserk and I had to restart from scratch. It was once jet black, now it's white, and has always been kept trimmed, shorter now than fifty-odd years ago.

As for beard hair being pubic - of course it is, in the sense that it begins to grow with the onset of puberty, and tends to be equally wiry. Anyway, what's wrong with pubic hair?

Like all other body parts it need to be looked after and kept clean, but I think many men really suit a beard - and once they are established they're quite silky rather than being scratchy
Thought ..... if women had beards it would stop spilled food from dripping straight onto their chests!

I don’t mind a short stubbly beard in its natural shape, not sculpted and manicured, but I think a moustache without a beard looks hideous and ridiculous on any man of any age!

My late husband was clean shaven from March to late August and then he let his beard grow. He said it was because it kept his face warm when working outside in the winter. I used to say that I had two husbands! Loved them both the same,

I’m not keen on big bushy beards. Perhaps I’ve read The Twits too often, but the neatly trimmed ones look good, and I know they take more attention to keep looking good than a quick shave. I just wish designer stubble has been in fashion when DH was younger. His beard seemed to grow so fast that even though he shaved in the morning, if we were going out in the evening he had to shave all over again.

Each to his own and who knew that I’d be plucking a few stragglers every now and again. Where do they come from, and how do I not notice them appearing?

I much prefer a clean shaven man.

I don't mind a bit of designer stubble in fact it can look dam sexy on some men That aside I really can't stand full blown beards but each to their own. Their owners probably look at me and think what's with the hair down to her waist at her age

How I love a man with a beard! Mr, GW has had one all our married life. Can’t ever remember finding second helpings in it.

Some very judgemental and frankly, quite unpleasant comments on here relating to people's physical appearance. Rather shallow IMHO. I'm much more interested in the personality behind the beard.

My Son in law has a full on , clean BUT unkempt beard and extremely longhair. My son has a neatly trimmed two week beard.
My grandson is 15 …. so I’m holding my breath!

Beards suit some men but not others. Our GS (22) has a beard and it really suits him - he's a rugged outdoor type. DH grew a beard as a student in the early 1960s. I wasn't keen on it but hadn't known him long and didn't like to tell him. The issue was resolved quite soon after when he was going to New York to do some work experience. He was advised to shave off the beard as it wouldn't be well received in the US where beards at that time were regarded as hippie (with drug-related associations). He's never grown a beard since.

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Mr K has had a beard all our married life apart from a month or so when it was shaved for work. I cried as well - it just wasn’t Mr K! I’ve never seen food trapped in his beard and he also has a full head of curly hair so beard is not grown in compensation! DS also has a very nice, well trimmed beard.

I detest all beards. How unhygienic! So many men still have dark hair and a horrible white beard! Can’t they see it adds 20 years on them! Bald men with a huge beard look as though their heads on upside down