POLL: Do you have a beard?

[BenjaminBurton]

I've grown out my facial hair for about 6 years, but have had a beard for about 4 years now. My Christian high school would not allow gentlemen to grow facial hair or it would be closer to 8 years of beard-love.

 

[reaganmarsh]

I've had a beard for about 3 years now. I like it. My wife lets me keep it (I was clean-shaven from 1998 when we met). Our little guy plays with my beard and calls it "Daddy's scratchies." But when I had a mishap with the trimmer a few months back he said, "Daddy, you look funny. I want your beard back." I look about 12 years old without it.

But I keep it short, because when it gets longer it just looks weird. View attachment 2819

 

[bookslover]

I don't always have a beard
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But when I do, it's at least a 3 month beard.
Stay hairy, my friends.

Judging by the bottom photo, that's not really a beard - it's just hair migrating south from your upper regions!

 

[JimmyH]

A well trimmed mustache for me.

 

[Jesus is my friend]

I have had a beard for about 25 yrs,it starts to get itchy fast so I keep it fairly short,One thing I miss is the tradition with NHL hockey (as a fan) to grow a beard for the duration of your teams progress in the Stanley Cup playoff,last years beard would have rocked! (I'm a longtime Bruins and Northeastern Huskies fan)that being said,I cannot grow a beard for this since I am a full-time beard wearer anyway.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playoff_beard

 

[Martin]

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[Somerset]

As Jessica pointed out, there are a few women around....

No discrimination against bearded ladies on the PB.

 

[Jeff Burns]

Proof that beards save lives.


(I won't vouch for everything on the site, but the article is funny and clean, minus one curse word).

 

[Stargazer65]

RIght now I have a goatee, sometimes a full beard, sometimes I'm clean shaven. It's like changing clothes, just takes a little longer.

I was watching a Francis Schaeffer video and wondered if I should try that look sometime.

 

[Andres]

For years, my job wouldn't allow facial hair. The day they sent out the memo saying that policy was rescinded was the day I quit shaving. Started out with the goatee approximately Dec 2010 and then decided to go full beard around Oct 2011. The picture below is the beard at it's longest in January of this year. I keep it shorter now, but still have the full beard. I love it. The wife loves it. And I feel confident that God loves it.

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[bookslover]

Best-looking beard ever award: B. B. Warfield

 

[AThornquist]

I wouldn't marry a woman without a beard.

(You'll have to decipher what I mean by that, exactly. )

 

[PuritanCovenanter]

My beard about 5 years ago. Just have the chin thing going now.

 

[Reformed Irish Man]

As a reserve police officer I must be clean shaven

 

[mhseal]

I've had beards since I was 20; I guess that along with the diabetes and high blood pressure, my parents also gave me some good beard genes. Living in the south I shaved every spring because it was just too hot. I'm optimistic that in Grand Rapids I'll be able to keep the beard this summer. I would say that it surprises me greatly that there are so few good beards in reformed theology these days.

 

[Curt]

I have had a full beard since 1972. When I was in seminary at Covenant, Will Barker was President. Every year a "Barker Beard Award," was given to a graduating senior. Gary Reynolds won it in 1981.

 

[kvanlaan]

Beard. As full as 'full' gets on me. In this photo, it was just trimmed:

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[PuritanCovenanter]

Beard. As full as 'full' gets on me. In this photo, it was just trimmed:

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I see gray. We are getting older brother. For some reason it seems gray shows up in beards first. We are getting older. Grow it out. Winter is coming. As long as the Lord permits anyways.

 

[kvanlaan]

There is indeed gray - it is well earned gray, too. I need to keep it trimmed for work, otherwise you might see something more like this:

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[J. Dean]

Gotee, usually. On occasion I will wear a "T-bar" which you get by taking a gotee and shaving off the vertical strips of hair on either side.

Hmmm.... maybe I'll go back to a T-bar tonight...

 

[Jack]

I wish I could grow a beard, but it is not permitted in my current profession. The last time I grew a beard was on a remote fire base in Afghanistan in 2008. I will say that it was a beautiful bushy red.

 

[Sgt Grit]

I have a beard that I shave completely off every July before I go to my Dermatologist. I had Latigo Maligna <sp> (Skin Cancer), and get checked out every July.

 

[Christopher88]

Went to the goatee, took off my beard. See my Profile picture or Avatar. I think this looks much better, hopefully the girl friend will be happy.

 

[Brother John]

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You may purchase this manly shirt at Growing a beard - Spurgeon (Visual Quote) // MissionalWear.com

 

[crimsonleaf]

I have a beard because I have a face best kept covered. My wife won't let me shave it off because I look 12 without it despite being 56.

 

[jandrusk]

Wow, I have the exact same problem.

 

[Peairtach]

Beards cover a multitude of chins (I Peter 4:8).

 

[crimsonleaf]

I also belong to a couple of pipe smoking forums where the same question is sometimes asked - the vast majority of us have beards in the pipe smoking world.

Being a pipe smoking Christian probably means I'll always have a beard.