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Blacksmiths and Beards

Blacksmiths and Beards 440 members have voted

  1. 1. Do you have a beard?

    • Yes, I have a full beard
      53%
      236
    • Yes, I have a goatee
      22%
      97
    • No, I'm clean shaven
      17%
      79
    • No, I couldn't grow a beard if I wanted to
      5%
      23
    • No, of course I don't have a beard - I'm a woman!
      1%
      5

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If you think a lady can't grow facial hair, you've never met my ex....sigh.

 

5 years til the military lets me loose and I can grow it out. Just a weekend warrior now, so I can grow a month's worth, but it drives ya crazy starting over all the time.

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I was well into my twenties before I had more facial hair than my great aunt!

Ahh, put up a smoke stack for her and she'll leave your face unnicked. <snicker>
 
Frosty The Lucky.


That's what he will hope, I may shave it off just because. Haha

That's what he will hope, I may shave it off just because. Haha

 

If he really ticks you off take the tweasers to it, that'll learn him.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

She probably knows where to get all the stuff to do a facial wax on him. LOL :P

She probably knows where to get all the stuff to do a facial wax on him. LOL :P

 

Good point a lot of ladies like a smooth fellow. Full body wax? Head too? WHooeee!

 

Frosty The Lucky.

man, you guys are brutal, i thought we were all friends here :blink:

 

i did wake up with all my hair, made it threw one more night safe and sound :D

  • 8 months later...

I've worn a beard at various points in life, but currently am cleanshaven most of the time. I usually don't shave on weekends or vacations, partly because it's easier and partly because my wife likes me a bit scruffy.

However, I wear a CPAP for my sleep apnea, and too much facial hair can mess with the seal on the mask.

Have a Cpap, grow a beard regardless, gotta do what ya gotta do.

I've had the same aguments over scba and protective masks with the fire department. As the german army, police and fire departments alow full beards. I can get a good seal with SCBA and protective mask

I shave my upper lip / soul patch and the bottom of my neck.... I can't stand the whiskers poking my lip. The neck bit is because it catches on my clothes and pulls. 

 

Had a moustache all my adult life, except for when I met the wife and she wanted me to shave it, then decided she didn't like it!

I gave up on shaving, despite how good a shave I had in the morning, by noon I'd look like I forgot to have one,,,,,so I just trim it down to designer stubble when the critters start nesting in it......!

not all blacksmiths have beards,
I have met several female blacksmiths with only stubble

I gave up on shaving, despite how good a shave I had in the morning, by noon I'd look like I forgot to have one,

Started some agency work a few years ago in one of the big chain stores, shaved and showered at 5am and around noon the same day my new manager told me I needed to make sure I shave to keep in line with store policy on acceptable grooming.

I didn't last 2 weeks.....

I get to wear mine about three months at a time. Atleast quarterly I have to work in the refinery whose policy is clean shaven or a tight mustach. I would attempt a zz top beard if time allowed, maybe after I retire.

Scott

Clean shaven, most days never more than 2 days and that is if I'm not leaving the farm.  Close hair cut military left over just enough to comb easy  to care for.  My brother has had a full beard since he came home from Afghanistan in 1967 and long hair always needing a cutting.   

My most recent serious beard.

(And no, I don't have a nose ring. That was a joke.)

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I posted earlier I had a goatee. I've had the same bald head/goatee for 15 years now.
My son wants me to Be Obi-Wan-Ken obi from Star wars for Halloween, so I'm growing the beard out, but last night I shaved my head again, so now It's just a beard.

Not sure if i like it or not, so far no comments other than the wife who simply said "Ugh."

(She hates change!) :rolleyes:

I went 4 days without shaving on vacation once. People started avoiding me as if I were a criminal so off it came. Clean shaven ever since.

Carfule, your ol' lady might like the idea of that nose ring!

On the other hand, this was what I looked like when we started dating in the early Eighties -- that is, before I could even grow a beard.

(And coincidentally, this is my ID card from the intro blacksmithing classes I took at PCA with Fred Crist.)

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All things considerd you look better with the nose ring. She must have seen potential. 

Just be carfule, it is an all to conviniunt place to atach a leash...

Edited by Charles R. Stevens

itchy beard problems wash with head and shoulders i used to use regular shampoo on it and couldnt get it longer than an inch to an inch and a half do to itchyness. now since i made the switch im at 3 inches and growing. i love my beard

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