• Victor@lemmy.world
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    Bros, just do you. Do what you think makes you look your best. Be comfortable in your own skin, that’s the most important part. Respect, bois. 🫂🤝🤜🤛

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    I’ve had a beard almost the entire time since it sprouted. Briefly shaved for a few weeks because I was curious and realized it was horribly difficult my genetics make it to stay clean shaven. I’d grow stubble back at the end of the day.

    I have big hairy men in my family none of them could go beardless. I’m just glad I didn’t inherit the back and upper arm hair.

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      O just you wait. I didn’t have back hair for the first 35 years of my life. Now that shit is everywhere 😭

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      I’d grow stubble back at the end of the day.

      That’s… normal? Do you know the term “five o’clock shadow”?

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        Yup, it’s just more pronounced, much thicker. Guess I should have said it takes me a couple weeks to get a beard length to where it takes other people a couple months? But I didn’t think it was necessary?

        But since you’re just chiming in to be picky. Men do grow beards at different speeds, mine is on the higher end is what I’m implying.

        Average beard hair growth = ~0.3–0.5 mm per day, but some men’s can be as low as 0.2 mm/day and others 0.6 mm/day or more.

        A fast grower can have visible stubble by the evening (5 o’clock shadow).

        A slow grower might take 2–3 days before stubble is obvious.

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    Beard gives me a chin, which is otherwise weak. (This is apparently a common problem in modern humans. Too much utensil use and not enough flesh tearing begets a reduced jaw.)

    Even so, I take it off occasionally because, even when washed well, it will begin to literally irritate me.

    It’s my own hair. It’s not supposed to do that. And yet…

    aaand now I’m itchy.

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      NGL though that feeling of scritching through your beard from the neck going up is bliss

      Or that feeling when someone brushes your beard for you

      Ah I miss my beard sometimes

      Personally I just go with a wide curly handle bar mustache as I need to get a good seal on a respirator now kicks pebbles

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      Get you one of these rubber brushes, put a little oil on it or just scrub your beard in the shower with it. This helps get down to the skin and also grabs loose/dead hair which can be irritating.

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      even when washed well, it will begin to literally irritate me

      Define “washed well”. Most men I have encountered complaining about irritated or itchy under their beard don’t use oil or moisturizer.

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        I don’t think conditioner and oil is part of washing. Besides, I have never used oil on my head-, chest-, arm-, whatever-hair, and still the beard is the only one that randomly goes itchy sometimes.

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          That’s because afaik beard hair is structurally different from “regular” hair.

          And depending on your skin and “head”-hair type your scalp can become itchy too. Which is why some people prefer to use oil instead of soap for their scalp.

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    I’m the guy in the middle of the second picture and for a while now. Am I doing it wrong? How do I enter the third one?

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      So when do we get women with beards again? I personally think this clean shaven cycle has gone on for too long. Then I can finally get some beard products that smell nice.