Throttle wrote:
In the name of posterity and to answer any curiosities about what I have to start with in the morning, here is a picture I took first thing when I got up this morning. Enjoy...

Tom this isn't exactly a how-to but maybe it will strike a chord with some of the other bearded fellows who wake up looking like a rented mule. image

Cheers,
Troy
Your post made me think of this image and its conclusion: "Woke up like this... FLAWLESS!"


Triibeard's Thirty-NINE years of being bearded    (The recent journey from a short- to a long-beard)
Introducing LEGO-Sheriff Triibeard     (The origin story for our polymeric polychromatic hero)
Sheriff Triibeard and The Case of the Missing Beard Balm   (In search of that scoundrel RiffRaff)
Sheriff Triibeard and the Hermit Hoarder    (Consequences of acquisitiveness)

In a world of shorn faces, it is our privilege to offer those around us the exquisite opportunity to know a gentleman with a beard.