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Zanycat4	2 weeks and questions	Lead	[-]
Beard Newcomer Posts: 1 (03/05/08 13:05:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None What's up all? I'm 30 and new to this board and I've finally decided to make some changes in my personal appearance. Most of the time I don't shave but once a week out of laziness because my work is cool with it and I've never had anything shaped because of the perceived maintenance. I just had minor surgery on my head and I'm going bald anyway, so I decided to shave that all off. I have to wait to get my stitches out to shave it again, but the attached picture shows my fuzzy dome and 2 weeks of facial hair. I just bought a decent trimmer and since everyone here are all pros, I wanted to ask the following: 1. Can I start to trim and shape by beard even though I only have the 2 weeks growth? It's still kind of thin in places but I think It'll come in. I've never gone more than this before. 2. I wear glasses all the time. Can you pull off a beard and a bald head simultaneously? Where should the sideburns stop vertically in comparison to your ear? The glasses arm line? 3. I want to do something different. I'm debating between a Lemmy/Friendly Mutton Chops or some variation of a goatee. Maybe a Frank Zappa/Doc Holiday would be cool too. 4. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. It's growing kind of wild in all directions now and some hairs are longer than others so it needs some taming. Feel free to be critical. Keep it feral...
Jake22UK		#1	[-]
Beard Friendly Posts: 39 (03/05/08 13:24:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Hey, I'm new here too. I can't give as good advice as the pros here but in regard to point 2, if you look around here, there are some guys who have shaved heads and full beards so their pictures may give you a good idea where to stop the sideburns. In terms of shaping it up already, I'd say that the cheeklines look pretty good naturally; it is hard to see the neckline and I think that whether you do that now or later is a matter of opinion but if so there is advice here on doing it well. I'd definately keep it in a full beard shape for a bit longer though until you work out which style to go for. I think a goatee-with-moustache or a full beard would probably both look pretty good. Or maybe even a large extended goatee. I think the Lemmy style sounds good too, I think that would look especially cool if you let it grow fairly longish. The growth seems fairly evenish so far; your facial hair seems similar to mine in colour and your stache seems to have grown evenly with the rest whereas I think mine is growing a bit slower then the rest.
amarkworth		#2	[-]
Beard Newcomer Posts: 2 (03/05/08 15:54:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jake - Thanks for the feedback. I think I can trim up the cheek lines OK as miraculously they're actually pretty symmetrical thanks to the genes. My neckline is a mess and there is none right now. I've read some of the pointers and think I can handle shaping it as a U. I have to go to a social get together this weekend and would like to clean it up beforehand. I'll also probably use my trimmer on the whole thing at a really long setting just to catch stragglers, but I'll wait like you said a few more weeks before picking a style. I just don't have much of a clue to what beard would suit my facial shape. I don't know about you, but I used to have dark brown hair on my head and my beard is a weird red brown mix. I guess it's because when I was little I had red curly hair. Freaky.
Jake22UK		#3	[-]
Beard Friendly Posts: 39 (03/05/08 16:10:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	amarkworth wrote: Jake - Thanks for the feedback. I think I can trim up the cheek lines OK as miraculously they're actually pretty symmetrical thanks to the genes. My neckline is a mess and there is none right now. I've read some of the pointers and think I can handle shaping it as a U. I have to go to a social get together this weekend and would like to clean it up beforehand. I'll also probably use my trimmer on the whole thing at a really long setting just to catch stragglers, but I'll wait like you said a few more weeks before picking a style. I just don't have much of a clue to what beard would suit my facial shape. I don't know about you, but I used to have dark brown hair on my head and my beard is a weird red brown mix. I guess it's because when I was little I had red curly hair. Freaky. Yeah, same, my hair went from blond as a child through gingerish to dark brown but my beard is also a mix of ginger and brown (and even some blond hairs). I think its a good idea to wait before styling as it'll look pretty neat as a full beard until you decide anyway.
TheBearded1		#4	[-]
Beard Elite Posts: 240 (03/05/08 17:41:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Welcome to the beard board. While I am certainly no expert, I want to give you my opinions on your 3 questions. First, you can shave in a neckline and cheekline anytime, but the longer you wait the easier it is. Second, A bald head and full beard looks great. If it was me, I would the ear as a guide and not the glasses (the ear is always on your head). And then lastly, any style you choose will be fine, just get bearded. Keep us up to date on your decisions and your progress... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Temporarily... (Non)Bearded1
sleepy33		#5	[-]
Beard Elite Posts: 317 (03/05/08 22:26:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Everyone has given you good advice . . . no need to repeat it, but as a head shaver and beard grower I can tell you how I go about it. I just bring the trimmer across the top of my ear horizontally. Somehow the line always ends up a bit lower than I think it will, but it works for me. The first time I tried it I just put the edge of the trimmer where I wanted the line to be and shaved upwards -- that was a mistake. The line was totally mangled and uneven. But if you bring it across horizontally you'll get a fairly straight line. I usually have few stray hairs by my ear that I trim with a small electric trimmer afterwards. I never get it quite perfect, but I've come to accept that. Here are a couple pictures to illustrate.
amarkworth		#6	[-]
Beard Newcomer Posts: 2 (03/06/08 00:26:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Sleepy - Thanks for the pics. That gives me a decent idea of where to cut the neckline. I looked in the mirror and I think I'm gonna use a line from the edge of my eye back to the junction where my ear meets my head for the sideburns. That's also the line that the arm of my glasses follows so it doesn't look too bad. Since I have to have the 4 eyes I might as well use them as a shaving guide! I'll post a better pic with my real camera once I shape everything up. I think I'm gonna let the full beard go for a while before I try the Lemmy, and I'll keep the chops fairly tight so they don't look too much like an extra set of jowls.
LateBloomerDanko		#7	[-]
Beard Legend Posts: 2450 (03/06/08 06:29:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Your beard is going to be awesome. I think it's too early yet to do maintenance. Since your whiskers seem fully mature, I would just wait 2 more weeks, and then start trimming. There is always the circle beard a.k.a. goatee and mustache that seems to be sported by many head shaven guys, but that doesn't make the full beard impossible as you can plainly see by Sleepy's look. Sleepy seems to have hit the target on the shaved head and full bearded profile. So you won't go wrong there. Happy "bearding" ----------------- Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. -Thomas Babington Macaulay Last Edited By: LateBloomerDanko 03/06/08 06:35:03. Edited 3 times.

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