Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Why do people on the internet think you don't have to shave if you have a beard? You're just shaving less area.
Very variable, depending on style and your personal growth pattern. I have a small patch on each cheek that has to be cleaned off, but otherwise it doesn't require shaving. With a big beard you have to care for it like normal hair, though, with haircuts and products.
Buuut I do have the shave my whole head. Oh well.
its the other way around for those people: they have a beard because they stopped shaving, not because they wanted a nice looking beard.
tbh there is a part of me that resents this "ew you grow facial hair and don't shave around the edges to create sharp lines" view though. Its like women feeling they have to shave their legs or pits, it's BS and people shouldn't be judged for literally just how their body naturally is. Its not like there's a legitimate sanitary reason for shaving legs or necks.
I mean, they were never out in Afghanistan. I think we have to confine discussion to the West here, where I assume OP lives.
You could go back to the 19th century in America, but beards were definitely out from the 1920s to 60s. IIRC it was chemical warfare that killed the beard, because they don't fit under a gas mask, and dudes all want to look like a tough guy. After that, the counterculture brought them back for people involved. I'm less clear on post-Cold-War trends.
Of course, it's the internet, we're always in the twilight between serious and joking.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
IIRC, it’s the same testosterone-y hormone that determines how good you are at growing a beard that also determines how aggressively you go bald. So there’s lots of folks in this boat with us
It's more so how sensitive your cells/receptors are to these hormones (testosterone/DHT), assuming you have healthy levels. There's people on anabolic steroids that still can't grow a dense beard. It's just genetics.
Alas, I have just enough native blood to not be able to grow a beard, and not enough to not go bald. Worst of both worlds haha
Fewer beardless people to bully others into shaving, the cycle will continue to reinforce itself until system collapse
I grew one during lockdown, decided I liked it and kept it. I suspect I am not an anomaly in this.
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it's usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
Could be recency bias, could be that fashion is a cycle that repeats and old fashions are rediscovered. Could be laziness because at some point it becomes easier to trim a beard once every month than shave everyday.
Some people's skin also can't handle daily trauma from razors.
It also looks more interesting than a vanilla clean shave, imo. People might be looking to stand out for that reason.
Ages ago, I won a bet that I would get carded at the pub if I shaved, even if I was wearing an expensive suit. I was 35 at the time.
Well, it does more-or-less happen on its own if you aren't paying attention.
This is the real reason. And I also just prefer to sleep an extra ten minutes every day.
I mean, they're both coming back a bit, but I don't know anyone who was like "well, Marx had one".
Beards are great. Shaving was the greatest crime of Romans.
