Greetings, gentlemen. I have a little update here, and I have a couple reasons for updating! The following pictures show a little over a week of no shaving, and I wanted to post this because, although I won't be growing it out yet, I noticed 2 things: one, if you look, I actually have considerable density on the left side these days (although most of the hairs are still transitional and light-blonde), and two, the right side is slowly but notably improving, too. I also included a poorly-angled (sorry about that!) shot of the neck, which I think is improving as well, but I haven't been paying quite as much attention to that, so it's hard to say for certain. I also just feel like it's coming in faster, since I'm getting in about a week or a week and a half what used to take 2 weeks. As a bonus, even my goatee is thicker!

Case in point, I think I see improvement. Is it my imagination? smiley: laugh

Left side (dense with transitionals - notice the jawline transitionals and the neck transitionals even "connect" now):

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Right side (weaker but getting there - transitionals slowly replacing vellus hairs; there are actually more transitionals filling out the right side than can be seen here):

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Neck (hard to determine progress, but it seems further down the neck than it was):

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Finally, while I'm here, I have a question. If you look at the lower right side, you'll see it curls back, and I remember the same thing when I was growing it out for a few months. What causes that, and is there a way to tame it early on in the growing process so that things lie down properly? I don't want "swirly twirly" beard, lol. I will say I had been shaving for a while with a Phillips electric razor that has three rotating blades... could that have caused the right side to turn in strange directions?

Beard on, gents. 


“For God wished women to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane; but has adorned man, like the lions, with a beard.” - St. Clement of Alexandria




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