Friday, March 26, 2010

So I'm Thinking About Growing a Beard

But I'm having trouble figuring out where to draw the line. You know, on my face. I'm referring to the parts I should shave and the parts I should leave disheveled. I guess I could go hobo and not shave anything, until my chest hair connects with my facial hair, which connects under my ear to the hair on the back of my head, which then connects with my back hair (I'm going to get that lasered, I swear). Then I could go around making Chewbacca noises and none of my friends would find it all that strange. Mostly because I wouldn't have any friends left if I went around lookin' like a great big furball.

But seriously, I can't work this out. Should I cut it off right at the jawline? Should I let it creep down my neck a little? I guess it will depend on what kind of coverage I end up with. That's kind of my motivation for this little experiment. I haven't ever really just let it grow, so I have no clear picture of what my facial hair looks like. I mean, I have a picture from the fuzz patch at 18 that we all tried until our parents made us shave that looked more like the grass on a hillbilly's yard than facial hair, but that's it.

I've done the goat a couple of times. It's not easy for me to leave that sentence there, but I won't let those of you with dirty minds dictate how I run this blog. I'm a fan of the goatee, but it's almost more maintenance than just shaving, what with getting the edges right and even, and then trimming the hair you leave so you don't look like Hairy McNo-lips. Right now I have it just under my jawline, kind of in between the edge and my neck. Okay, to be honest I have it just under the jawline on one side and at the jawline on the other. I'm telling ya, it's hard to get even. I have a feeling that this experiment won't last long, since I don't see signs of a thick crop. Maybe I should just park a couple dozen cars on my face and call it good.

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