Some poor chaps cannot grow that fine adornment, or are so stuck in their prepubescent stage that they scrape it off.

Fortunately help is at hand

It doesn’t have the full benefits – remember beards keep you young, healthy, and handsome, says science.

So beard up, chaps!

Who knows, you may then graduate to the next step, single speeds… 🙂

Wrong on so many levels. 😛

Living in the sticks I have noticed in the last few weeks an explosion of beards on the skinny jeand youth of the town, I thought the top trend setters of Shoreditch had started scraping their faces clean again, when will this filter down to the shires?

That hat beard combo looks as itchy as the real thing 😆 my beard has never been itchy, I must be trully blessed 😉

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*taken from the gif thread!

JEngledow – Member
*taken from the gif thread!

I saw that, so you can blame maccruiskeen for inspiring this thread. 🙂

If only it was so easy to get that handsome sophisticated look.

Not all beards give a “handsome sophisticated look“:

JEngledow – Member
Not all beards give a “handsome sophisticated look”:

That’s because he hasn’t got his single speed yet.

You can see he wants one, he’s indicating quite clearly how many cogs there should be front and rear. 🙂

They also give you great longevity, as famous local-to-me runner Don Antonio Ledesma, el Tragamillas, shows:

70 years old and still running marathons. Handsome devil, too.

peak beard reached some time ago

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jul/24/have-we-reached-peak-beard