Head Shaving, Grooming & Care > Beards
What to do?
HoodooMan:
i'm with stu! no facial hair for me! i'm 25 and i can't even grow a goat. i hope one day it'll all thicken up, but i have bad genes for facial hair so i doubt it!
Stu:
My problem is not that I can't grow it (except in the middle of my chin). My problem is I always compare myself to others - usually the ones who look like they need to shave a half hour after they did... really heavy, dense facial hair. Since I can't have that, eventually I shave it all off again.
Razor X:
--- Quote from: Stu on October 23, 2009, 02:24:19 PM ---My problem is not that I can't grow it (except in the middle of my chin). My problem is I always compare myself to others - usually the ones who look like they need to shave a half hour after they did... really heavy, dense facial hair. Since I can't have that, eventually I shave it all off again.
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Patience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.
Rusty Shackleford:
--- Quote from: Razor X on October 23, 2009, 07:16:10 PM ---Patience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.
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That's not entirely true. If you don't have the hair follicles, you don't have the hair follicles. No amount of time will ever make up for having bad genes. Some guys get blessed with amazing density while others get medicore density that can be presentable when the hairs get longer, and others get stuck with crap. For those guys time simply makes crap into longer crap.
D.A.L.U.I.:
--- Quote from: Rusty Shackleford on October 23, 2009, 10:00:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: Razor X on October 23, 2009, 07:16:10 PM ---Patience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.
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That's not entirely true. If you don't have the hair follicles, you don't have the hair follicles. No amount of time will ever make up for having bad genes. Some guys get blessed with amazing density while others get medicore density that can be presentable when the hairs get longer, and others get stuck with crap. For those guys time simply makes crap into longer crap.
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There are dormant hairs on the face that cycle back on--as this happens over a period of several months--six to eight--the beard will become thicker because you'll get the full advantage of hairs that have reached the terminal stage, i.e. they don't grow but neither do they fall out. That will be the maximum density. Physically, you can't judge what a beard will look like at a month, you can shape it, but it will continue to mature for at least six months before a final determiination of the density can be made. If at that point your beard isn't sufficient to support the look nothing can be done. Another point, when you're in the process of growing a beard, you are you're own worst critic--you need to look at fully developed beards as a standard, not your own in isolation.
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