I have changed beyond recognition

[andrewducker]

I shaved earlier today. First time without a beard in, um, two years?

Julie keeps staring at me and making faces. Apparently she only recognises me if she holds her hand over the bottom half of my face. And I look waaaaay too young.

This is entertaining me more than it probably should :->

Comments

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

PICS PLS

[ckd]

Heh. I grew the face-fuzz so I wouldn't look so baby-faced in college, and kept it -- since I'm a sysadmin, I think I'm required by law to keep it.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Is sysadmin the parallel-universe version of Amish?

[ajr.livejournal.com]

I've had a beard since, probably sometime 2010 now. Think 2011 was the first year I didn't go anywhere near clean-shaven at all. This year, occasionally, I've considered shaving it off, for a change. But two things have stopped me; one, that every time I've considered it has coincided with someone complimenting my beard, and two, the fact that I worry if I shave it off I may discover I have a fat face. I have compromised by promising myself that if I manage to lose two stone, I'll shave then.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Beards can hide a multitude of chins.

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

My husband did this once, when I was pregnant with our first child. (So we'd know if the baby looked like him.) :-)

I kept giggling every time I kissed my husband. I couldn't help it, it felt so WRONG!

He quickly grew it back.

Just as well, he looked like an ax-murderer without it.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Just as well, he looked like an ax-murderer without it.

Was that just a general observation, or did he grow it to avoid being recognised?

[andrewducker]

Julie found it very hard to kiss me last night, as I was clearly my evil twin, or some other interloper.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Four years ago at my previous job, I was sitting in the downstairs kitchen where I never usually went, and I'd never had a beard before (or ever imagined I'd grow a beard), but I'd grown a small-ish beard that was quite goatee-like over Christmas, just to see what it was like.

And when my colleage saw me, he jumped and said "Oh no! It's Evil Jack!" :)

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Ann didn't allow me to shave. I cut it too close once and she barely talked to me for the next couple of days.

[moniqueleigh]

While you can't really see much of his face-fuzz in this picture, I generally make Galoot grow his back anytime he gets rid of it. He can't grow a full beard (odd bald spot placement), but he gets a rather nice Van Dyke/mustache. :)

Actually, I think I was instrumental in the original growing too as I was tired of people thinking I was older than him when he's eight years older than me. Hrmph. He's enough grey now that it might not be an issue anymore...

Beardage

[paddie-gal.livejournal.com]

I've only seen Rich's chin IRL twice in the 10+ years we've been together, and both have been when he shaves off his goatee and has a handlebar/The Edge style tache for Movember. I've never seen his top lip.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I find I generally grow a beard until the point it starts to itch and have split ends, then shave it off, leaving just a soul patch.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I've never shaved in my life, and haven't even trimmed my beard in a little over six years (last time was for our wedding). Nobody knows what I look like under this. I *think* there's a double chin under there, but I've not seen my jawline since I was sixteen, so I can't be sure.

When I eventually snap and go on a killing spree, all I'll have to do afterwards is shave and even *I* won't know who I am...

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I guy I used to know who had had a beard since he was nineteen once, on a whim, had it shaved off while his wife of ten years was shopping. He stood leaning against their car waiting for her and she walked past him three times...

[charleysjob.livejournal.com]

Probably one of the last photos taken of me before I grew my beard in late 2003-ish is, unfortunately, my passport photo. I frequently have to show secondary ID at the airport because they don't believe it's my photo.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Late 2001, I had a beard (or as much of one as a 19 year old can manage), and was in need of a new passport. My parents saw the photo I took and said "you'll not have a beard when you're older, shave it off, wear a tie, and get a smart looking photo". So I duly shaved it off, and that's what I have on my passport. It's a terrible picture, in case you were wondering, with 6 months into growing my hair long not helping.

Since I've had a beard pretty much non-stop for the last 7 of those 10 years, and that the last time I shaved my beard off (January 2011) I looked so bad that I immediately grew it back, I think that this was probably a mistake. My next passport (since the last one expired in November) is definitely going to feature a full (but tidy) beard.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

If you went from full beard to no beard, you missed out on the wonderful opportunity to go for a creative middle stage. I currently sport a Guy Fawkes style and scoff at those protester types who have to wear a plastic mask to achieve the same effect.

[andrewducker]

I did consider popping back out with a variety of styles as I shaved, but decided that startling Julie with the maximum change all at once was the best option.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Yep, last time I shaved it off, I gave myself a moustache. I then spooked my wife who said I was the spitting image of my late father.

two years? pffft!

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

It starts to count when you shave because you don't remember what your face looks like.