Howdy gentlemen, here is the update for week 4 (a couple of days late but there you go). Not a lot to say but that the sides are finally starting to fill in and look less wispy and I can only look forward to what will be coming in the next weeks. Also I can't wait for the mustache to fill in properly and balance out the bottom of the beard, but from past experience I expect that'll only happen around the 8-9 week mark (and by the fourth month or so it will be a Josif Stalin-like monster).

I do get a tad frustrated at times that one of the sides seems noticeably weaker than the other, but as it turns out this is only noticeable to me - when I asked a friend to confirm he just gave a befuddled look.

Feedback to this point has mostly been positive, aside from my mother dropping the odd "taliban" remark… on the other hand I think my (majestically moustachioed) father may be thinking about regrowing the glorious full beard he used to sport in the 1980's. That would blow me away, considering that one of the reasons I started this whole thing was to honour the family tradition whereby all males on my father's side always have some sort of facial hair going on.

However the best feedback so far has come from a little kid who walked up to me and asked me "Are you a pirate? How do I become a pirate like you?". Good times

Here come the pictures, feedback and advice most welcome of course.

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