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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

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.