[Closed] January Beard

The itchiness has completely gone for me now and someone at work commented that it's actually starting to look like a beard 🙂

The hairs on my top lip have started to touch the ones on my bottom lip, which is an odd feeling.

i just took a couple of pics with my phone as i left my camera at home today, but they look terrible so tonight i'll either do better composed ones or shave the beard off... not sure which yet.

I will be day 7 for me tomorrow so I'll take a picture tonight and post it.

Mucho love

I'm still in, albeit with a big head start. Pics to come. Its like a real beard now rather than long stubble.

pffft at the quitters. You are [i]weak[/i]I am in it till the end and then maybe a bit longer. Day 12, the only pics from me will be day one and the last day.

mine will take some beating.
day 12 too.

I am considering growing a proper beard after this if the wife doesnt veet it while I am asleep!

quitters = splitters 🙂

I'm thinking of keeping mine longer too. Will decide when I get a better idea of how if fills out when left longer, but I fancy keeping it till SSUK in June.

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Day 10, pretty poor but will be going for another week at least.

Veet's OK. Just take the batteries out of her epilator...

Terrible. Not an ounce of testosterone between you. 10 days to get some 5 o'clock shadow?
Big beards are so December 2008. I've just trimmed down from 'WG Grace' to 'Ming the Merciless'

Not an ounce of testosterone between you.

On the positive side, we're unlikely to go bald or get into fights 🙂

day 15
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Would take me at least a year to grow a beard, maybe one day.

32 Years old and only shave twice a week 😳

Bust your lip ton?

I'll get some taken tonight and post them up.

Here's mine. Looking very ginger in the pics...

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The wife isnt at all happy with me she says it hurts and really doesnt like it.

It is a great form of contraception!

The wife isnt at all happy with me she says it hurts and really doesnt like it.

It is a great form of contraception!

My wife feels, erm, the opposite of that 😀

Friday update

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sorry I have been very late
Mine after 10 days.
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"miketually - Member
GF planned on shaving today, I think.
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I'm still here and it's driving me mental. Really itchy, has been from about day five. Comments from people at work are now "I see you've got a beard" rather than "why haven't you shaved the last couple of days?" and some seem to like it. MrsF likes it but says I look like a pirate or fisherman. not sure if that's good or bad really.

My boss told me to get rid of it. I told her I shave it off only if she'd shave her beard off.

I've trimmed round the neck a couple of times to keep it a bit smarter and because I wear a collar and tie for work.

Not sure how much longer it'll last but i'll post a photo over the weekend. With my shaved hair becoming due for a cut, i'm heading towards looking like [url= ]this.[/url]

booo
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Hang in there, Ginger. Get some head and shoulders on it and give it a good lather.

Watch it grow...

Changed to a link so those with epilepsy don't have to endure !

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Progress so far

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if ever there was a facebook profile pic.....

Day 16

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A woman at work today asked to stroke it 🙂

had a bit of a tidy up
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when did you start Postie? (Not accusatory, I remember someone saying they started at Christmas...) If Jan 1st, you got beardability!

had a bit of a tidy up

To tidy or not to tidy...

I think I'll leave mine au naturale for January but maybe tidy it up a bit if I decide to keep it longer.

Clean shaven on Xmas eve was full of flu and I thought it might make me feel better so I,ve got a week on you guys.

I'm bored...

Scruffy;
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Groomed;
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that scruffy look is quite a bush Jimmy...sort of fisherman.

mine has gone.
i bottled it yesterday in the bath.
i felt like a dirty tramp, and the wifes inner thighs are sore 😈

Why did you bottle it? Are you keeping if for posterity?

btw... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

How many of the proper "shaved on New Years Eve/Day" group are left? Mine's still there.

mine's still there too; just a lack of photos (as i don't like any photos of myself!), and i started about a week before christmas so technically i should be finished now really... i may take a photo later then shave it off tomorrow cos it's getting too irritating now (and it's ginger!)...

I'm probably going to have to trim my 'tache before the end of the month, or wax it to points 🙂

Edit: 200!

My last shave or trim was 1st Jan. I always thought my beard grew quite healthily and even, but it seems the more it grows it varies. The cheeks seem to have stalled but the chin/neck is moving on.

I'm still in. And still not taking photies.

It's that time again.

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[url= http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/trevsterx/BeardProgress# ]Full daily record[/url]

It's as if it's stopped, doesn;t feel like much prgress over the last few days !

Will take some tonight; I look like I have a beard now.

Seriously considering keeping mine until the summer.

Today's update (remember I started the 6th)
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I might trim it this week end though as I will have to talk to a group meeting

I woondered what this thread was about.. it's scarier than I ever could've imagined.

juan = pirate

[b]Day 23[/b]

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OK, I'm ready to trim.

I have been going since 10th December and am getting looks from people that have gone past "oh you've got a beard" to "Errm, OK, you've won the bet but seriously now...." and "Woops you put your head on upside down this morning".

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Thinking about shaving it feels like taking a pet to the vets to have it put down. We've become very attached, but I think its time.

Alternatively I could just take the pet to the grooming salon, have a trim, scrub, wash n conditioner and get back out there with a new lease of life.

OK, time to stop procrastinating over my studies.

AKK, AKK, AKK, [b]why ever[/b] did I click on this topic ?? << whimper >>

go on si, nustle in. hmmmmmmmmmm

it's all gone a bit unwieldy
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beards, the elephants' grave yard for faces 🙁

Thinking about shaving it feels like taking a pet to the vets to have it put down. We've become very attached, but I think its time.

Alternatively I could just take the pet to the grooming salon, have a trim, scrub, wash n conditioner and get back out there with a new lease of life.

I think mine might be a keeper, but will need a bit of trimming. I'm leaving it au naturale to the end of the month, but will be tidying up the neck a bit after that.

hairy chin = beard
hairy neck = tramp

beards, the elephants' grave yard for faces

I'm very ugly, so the beard helps 🙂

Have trimmed... was an experience. Put the #1 attachment on my clippers and extended the blades fully, expecting to take off a couple of mm's and tons fell off, way more than expected. So now it is fuzzy all over rather than grizzly.

I miss it 🙁

Well I'm loving my baby smooth face 🙂

SSP

You were loving your baby smooth face when you were beard growing though Alex.

😉

remember giving up shaving for lent.

some quality shave photos afterwards, the "donald finlay", mexican bandit, full tash and the "chaplin" (as it's known in pc circles)

A #1 attachment's only about 3mm, isn't it? That's quite short 🙂

Mine will be getting a tidy around the neck at the weekend, but I think I'll be keeping it. Might have a go over with the clippers too, to even it up.

from looking at these pics mine has definately stopped growing. Could be handy in a kind of not needing to shave type way but not handy in a 'growing a bush' competition.

On a course all week so no access to camera. Maybe the picture on Friday will be better !

why does everyone have ginger beards? 😐

I think this thread should be renamed "The January David Bellamy lookalikes competition"

I think I win..I look just like him....

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from looking at these pics mine has definately stopped growing. Could be handy in a kind of not needing to shave type way but not handy in a 'growing a bush' competition.

I thought mine had slowed down, but it's gone quite bushy this morning.

why does everyone have ginger beards?

I think it's the flash. Mine's much lighter-coloured than my hair, but the photos are always taken in a room with red walls so it looks redder. That's my excuse, anyway.

from looking at these pics mine has definately stopped growing. Could be handy in a kind of not needing to shave type way but not handy in a 'growing a bush' competition.

I thought mine had slowed down, but it's gone quite bushy this morning.

Mine did the same, thought it had finished. Then realised how bushy it was 'all of a sudden'

It hasn't stopped, you're just getting used to it. 🙂

Jimmy it's looking good....

rOcKeTdOg wins me thinks...

I think rocketdog started before New Year, so he's had a head start 🙂

Everyone at work thinks I'm odd(er than they did before). I think my students are impressed though.

Last Friday update tomorrow, before final photos on Saturday.

I currently look like a tramp. I think the beard will be staying, at least for a while, but it needs a bit of a tidy up.

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Lee, you've let yourself go a bit.

🙂

I know I'd never thought I'd smoke.

[b]Day 30:[/b]

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The flash is broken in my camera...

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and now it's gone

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that tach lasted 2 minutes ...

All you need to do now is lose the beads! 😉

[b]Day 31:[/b]

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The shadow on the wall makes it look a lot bushier than it is.

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The beard has stayed, though in a slightly trimmed and neatened form. It's really hard using hair clippers on chins and under noses.

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My last pics are above, c.6 weeks of growth. Shaving it off so quick leaves me feeling empty and small-chinned.

February beard anyone?

My January Beard is staying on into February.

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My students think trevorx wins.