Reclaiming my face

[greatbear]

Last week I had enough of my beard becoming ensnared in my work, waking up to a mouthful of it in the morning, and the general raggedness that I was not in the mood to try and deal with. So, it got clipped back to a combination #8/#4. Couple that with a #1 buzzcut and I feel the effects of the rather mild winter cold for a while.

Here is the last picture taken in full face rug mode, on xmas day:



Jeff is enjoying seeing more of my face, I'm enjoying not getting trapped or snagged by machinery.

A more thoughtful post is coming.

Comments

[thetarnishedowl.livejournal.com]

So let's see a pic of the new you!

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Wimp. ;)

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

That's coming soon!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I knew you'd say that. ;)

I'm going to try again one day.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

To be a bit serious - I understand guys who work with high speed lathes or drill presses or the like not wanting a beard long enough to get caught in the works.

Beards also do go through "phases" as they grow out. Think in terms of someone growing his hair out long - there's that really frustrating phase where it's long enough to get in your eyes and drive you crazy - but it's not QUITE long enough to put in a pony tail. You just have to ride 'em out.

[liftinmoose.livejournal.com]

wow that's some long beard!!!!!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

At one time I had shoulderblade-length hair. Problem there is my hair is (was) thick and very fine. The slightest breeze would waft it everywhere, and it got oily fast. It was a lot of fussing to make it not be unruly. I gave up on that by around '79 or so.

These days I can forget about that. ;)

Still, I might try once again with the beard. I know it can be pinned up to stay out of machinery, but I feel that would be more fussing than I want to out up with. How do you do it?

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Well, that's just it - I don't work with machinery where a long beard would be potentially dangerous. Still, you might find this illustration interesting:



As for the day to day stuff - partly, you just get used to it. A beard my length is in some ways less trouble than the length you had - much less likely to wind up in my mouth, for instance.

The only time I do anything "special" with my beard is to braid or "pony-tail" it when I'm out on my motorcycle, to keep it from getting tangled.