Because you demanded it! This is me without a beard.

[andrewducker]

With thanks to Julie for getting out of bed long enough to take the photo,
and then going back to bed and photoshopping it to size and emailing it to
me in the office.

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

I remember that guy....

[allorin.livejournal.com]

P.S. Get a haircut now, you hippy!

[andrewducker]

So not happening, Julie would kill me (and I loathe short hair)!

I've already promised her the beard will be back in plenty of time for the wedding.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Why remove it? Now you have to go through the irritating early stages of beard growth again (I'm told it's irritating at least).

[andrewducker]

It doesn't irritate me. And I hadn't been beardless in ages and missed it a bit.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.

[andrewducker]

Sorry if I was a bit abrupt there - just head deep in code.

To expand a little - I used to change back and forth every couple of months. I like the way a trimmed beard looks on me, but I also like looking younger (which being beardless does for me). And I get bored with anything given enough time (apart from black t-shirts with silly things on them. That seems to have lasted pretty well).

[naath.livejournal.com]

Well, I rudely asked you why you changed your appearance so abruptness is fine :)

When I shaved I used to find having stubble almost unbearably irritating (no hair was OK, hair is fine, stubble is bad) I sorta assumed that it was like that for men too (itchy scratchy annoying) but I guess I'm dim like that.

Sometimes I get bored with my hair; but the prospect of growing it all out again is preventing me from hacking it all off.

[andrewducker]

I don't really notice that kind of thing after the first 5 minutes. My brain seems to switch off constant signals very quickly.

And that's the same reason I've never gone bald. Otherwise my curiosity would have led me to shave off all my hair at some point.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I think the "itchy scratching" stage of a beard growth is common for men, but I've not thought about it; I experience it a bit when I've not shaved at all, but don't normally notice when I'm growing a goatee (maybe it's worse on chin/cheeks, or partially psychosomatic?).

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

No I could manage a hair cut, although not so soon after losing the beard, otherwise I might start frantically calling the police when you wander around the house.

[andrewducker]

:->

How short could you be comfortable with?

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

This long? *gestures*

This is your face on shaving.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

This is your face on beard.

Re: This is your face on shaving.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

He looks so young there! All fresh faced and well slept!

Re: This is your face on shaving.

[andrewducker]

Oh, to be well slept.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You look quite good (not better, just different) :)

[andrewducker]

Thank you.

[zz]

how long did you have a beard? i'm not sure i've ever noticed it. my mental image of you looks more like the above. :)

[andrewducker]

About two years this time around.

And on-and-off for the past fifteen :->

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

beardloss!!!! :-( Oh well, now you remember what you look like without it I suppose.

I like beards, I may have mentioned.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

It's difficult for me to comment on the beard/beardless issue because I generally don't notice well people's facial features -- I tend to identify them more by the way they move their body -- but you have strong eyes, nose, mouth, & teeth so I think a beard gives the whole a better balance.

(Note that I've not shaved for something like 30 years and have a probably-too-large full (white) beard that might be too prominent for most aesthetic ideals, but hey, it relieves me of having to look at my face in a mirror every morning.)