Beard Community

Here's a great website about beards and facial hair as well as the entire beard and facial hair community. This website has a picture gallery as well as bulletin boards.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

If you appreciate good facial hair, including beards and moustaches, then you absolutely have to respect the men who compete in the World Beard and Moustache Championships.

Check out this website for pictures and information about this event, as well as to find out how you can compete and get involved in this amazing competition.

You don't know what you got 'til it's gone

I do miss my beard, but as I stated earlier, it's gonna come back in. Probably the biggest thing I have realized today is that having a beard really gives someone trouble when eating, especially messy foods. I have eaten almost exclusively eaten messy foods since being in Philadelphia. Last night a Slouvaki and for lunch today I had a Philly Cheese Steak from Pat's (provolone mushrooms wit). Both of these food items got very messy when I attempted to stuff them in my face. I realized then that my beard would be annoying with that messy food, cause all the sauces and stuff would just stuck in there, and cleaning it would be a pain.

I think maybe someone needs to invent some kind of beard bib. That way someone with a beard can eat without worrying about getting a ton of food stuck in there. I know there are the covers for people working in the food service industry with beards, but I am not sure that would work for this. Plus, they are not that stylish, someone could make them to look very nice. Imagine going to a nice fancy restaurant and putting a beard bib on.

Classy.

I feel terrible

As you may know, I am in Philadelphia, PA right now. I am representing my Honors College at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference. As a representative of my University, I felt it was in my best interest to get rid of the facial hair, so I took out the clippers and started hacking away. I took a picture of my facial hair before I shaved it off, and I will post that picture when I get a chance. Fortunately it lined up nicely with the 15th, which is technically the date where people are allowed to trim. This was a bit of a trim, but I am planning on just letting it grow the rest of the month. What I've found in the past is that after not shaving for a while my facial hair isn't growing as quickly. Last year at the end of No Shave November I didn't have to shave for a whole week after shaving for the first time because it didn't get sufficiently long enough. So I can probably let the facial hair grow for the rest of my time in Philadelphia, and continue letting it grow for the rest of the month.

Ads

As Alex commented, this blog does get some interesting advertisements picked out by the wonderful computers at Google. I've also noticed some of these advertisements in my gmail account with messages that relate to No Shave November.

Here is one example...

"Female Pubic Hair Style - bettybeauty.com - Stylish Color For Hair Down There Gray? No Way! Get Your Betty Ready."

It's really quite disturbing, but I guess a small fraction of people discussing shaving in a blog or email would want to click on this kind of ad. Not for me, but there's something out there for everyone, right?

Color

I really have no idea why, but my facial hair comes in a different color than my head hair. In fact, my facial hair comes in a kind of reddish brown color. My normal hair is a dirty blonde/brown color with no visible red. It makes for some very interesting conversation, as far as I know I don't have any Irish or British in me (as the British Isles have the highest concentration of red hair on the planet). I've actually heard from a number of people that tell me their facial hair is coming in a different color than their normal hair.

I wonder why these hairs are colored different, is it because they don't show themselves as often, or maybe something genetic?

Aftershave

As I was getting ready for my day today, I was about to put on some aftershave/cologne. However, I had to stop myself for a couple seconds just to make sure I should be putting it on. Because I did not shave this morning (obviously) I was not sure it was appropriate to wear AFTERshave. I decided I would just go for it and that it wouldn't matter much in the long run.