A Note on Facial Hair

[jamesq]

For all the ladies opining that I look good with a goatee: You're probably right. I certainly agree that covering at least part of my ugly mug is better then not covering it. The truth of the matter is, I go clean shaven because my beard comes in slowly and patchy and manages to make me look even worse (Hard to believe, I know, but it's the truth). My options are pasty white double-chin due to too many cheeseburgers or pasty white double-chin covered with patchy uneven beard due to too many cheeseburgers in the isotope lab.

I couldn't grow a decent looking beard if you held a gun to my head for a really really long time.

Comments

[sagaciouslu.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, after six months of facial hair growth, I look like a (failed) genetic experiment to create a union between an old Amish guy with mange, and Yasser Arafat.

OTOH, after sixty years, Yasser Arafat still looked like Yasser Arafat. There is no hope for some of us...

[jamesq]

Probably could have been a decent looking fellow if he wasn't stuck in a culture where men have to grow beards.

It's a good thing we're not Muslim.

[sagaciouslu.livejournal.com]

For a whole bunch of reasons. My atheism and their fundamentalism being a good example...

[jamesq]

Oh, I'm sure they'd have beaten the apostate out of us.

[jamesq]

Conversely, as Christians, if we'd been born a couple hundred years earlier, we'd probably have been turned into some frighteningly convincing Jesuits.

[sagaciouslu.livejournal.com]

Hey. Look at the profile pic. I coulda been a father of the church...

[missymorgan1.livejournal.com]

well, there must be some rogaine/surgical fix, no? They sem to have a quickfix for everything else.

BTW: I don't think it is covering up an ugly mug - I think it is enhancing your best features. That's why we of the feminine variety like make-up. You can make yourself look more like yourself, only better!

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

What Missy M says!

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

What you don't go for the bristle brush love?

I personally have to agree. Scratchy kiss = no.