Good evening gentlemen,

Tomorrow I will reach week 13. Only 8 days left till I reach my goal of 14 weeks.

Feelings: image
I am not happy with my beard at the moment and I have a lot of doubts. I feel like I look very unkempt all the time. I think my beard is not dense enough and thin...
I am overanalyzing and overthinking my beard, but I dont know how I can get rid of this doubts... Its like everybody else sees a good beard and I see pubes in my face. I think I am beard-obsessed of my own beard and its very frustrating. I know that some guys would love to have what i have but its not the beard I thought it would be. hard to describe.

Peoples reactions:image
I did get some positive comments this week. I had a meeting with some of my superiors this week. They said nothing about my beard. One of my co-workers who hasnt seen me a few month said to me out of the blue: "I usually dont like beards but yours suits you very well." Another one just said: "HiTom! Now with full beard! dashing!" . No negative reactions or comments. (only in MY stupid head)

My beard:image
It is slowly starting to lift from my chin and neck. I have a area with low density in the middle of my chin, down to the adamsapple. . So far I have been brushing surrounding whiskers over it to hide that spot . But this is not so easy anymore to make it look neat. The whiskers are starting to curl now and its out of control. I have the strong urge to get some shape in the beard. I even took the scissor today and trimmed some hair-ends because I thought I can handle this. But I put the scissor away after a few hairs because I was scared to ruin my beard. I dont know if a barber trim could make anything better or if i just need more length ?
I am ok with my stache although I am the only one around my place who doesnt trim it and wears it with that slight sweep at the ends. Sometimes I am proud of it and sometimes I think about a trimmed stache because its pretty annoying sometimes and I need a lot of waxing, combing and mirror checking throughout the day.

What next?:
I have 4 days off now and I am thinking about a barber trim on Saturday or just leaving everything as it is and waiting for better beard days because I hope that length will solve my doubts. Undecided yet.
In the pics you can see my beard mostly natural except the stache.


Cheers and happy Easter

Tom

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