Rothenberger wrote:
Where your beard looked great before your trip to the barber, after your barber's visit it looks totally perfect! He is a ture artist, congrats!

Yep, Jeremy is a keeper. You can tell he is in his chosen element as he works. I hope he gets connected on the Board here soon. 
Tom E wrote:
Well, if I had a barber with a beard as nice as Jeremy's I'd let him have his way with me too. Well, you know what I mean It looks like he even whipped your dyslexic albino sea lion into submission.

I'd be smiling from ear-to-ear too after a trim and shaping as nice as that one!

Good to see that you have some time for the board again, sir. We've missed you.

Cheers!
Tom

Your barber Cory seems to have a way of perfecting your beard too, I'd say, Tom. And yes, a tiny dab of an orange-scented pomade did the job with the moustache -- for about an hour anyway. Then it got all ADHD again. 

Good to be back with some time in this great Community again. I have indeed missed the old guard and meeting the new members. 
MileHigh wrote:
Really nice trim. Your beard now looks so symmetrical. I have always thought highly of your appearance, especially when you crown your face with that classic cowboy hat.

Cheers,

Sean

This trim seems to have generated the most positive comments from friends and colleagues (outside this Board) of any previous visit to a barber in recent years. It's gratifying to me, of course, but a real complement to Jeremy as well.

The hat has been a rather practical asset recently. It functions well to keep off the rain and snow. Wind can be a problem, though, especially what Mark Twain called the "Washoe Zephyrs" when he was living in the area.
metallic1 wrote:
Wow your barber did a great job, if you diddnt say 2 inches were trimmed,
I never would have guessed!, does your beard grow better, or faster after a
Trim like that? The ends are healthier, no doubt.,
Iv had 1 trim in about 15 months, I was thinking about a
small one around springtime, mabey 1-2 cm, just to clean up the ends, but
I'm not so shure..
Your beard looks great sir, and your barbers beard is pretty awesome too!

Thanks, Metallic. I can't assess whether it actually grows any differently before or after a trim, but it does seem to look bigger to some people after each 2-inch shortening. If this trend keeps up with a 2-inch trim every month, I won't fit through a doorway!

You're right, the trim put the ends in good shape, and the overall length is evened out, removing wispy stragglers. I'm sure your beard can afford to give up a half-inch or so and still look as big as ever.

I'm still using Admiral Red Beard's Beard Boost in the evening and his Bay Rum Beard Balm in the morning with good results.
Slybeard wrote:
You need to get your barber to join this site, he knows what he is doing with your beard. It must easier to sit in the chair of a barber with a big beard himself. I would love a good barber trim if I only knew of a good beard barber in my area, but I have not been willing to allow a barber to "experiment" or "practice" his beard skills with my beard.

I gave Jeremy the Board's web address, and he said he was going to look it up. I've had a bearded barber once before, but he was fairly new to bearding himself and really didn't seem all that confident in working on a beard that wasn't his own. Jeremy seems to be quite at ease and skilled in his craft. We all see the result. Finding such a barber is the luck of the draw, and I understand the reluctance to put our beards through a "trial period" as it were. Perhaps a half-inch trim won't put that much at risk.

Thank you, everyone, for the welcome back and the kind comments. You're all looking as magnificently bearded as ever.

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)
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