thanks everyone for your replies so far.I'm going through with it and growing the beard out.My goatee is getting really bushy, it's about 6 weeks of growth.The rest of the beard is about 8 days.My goal is to grow the goatee to another months length aas well as the beard.gonna give my stache and goatee a more striking look compared to the rest of my beard.I'll post a new pic when I acheive this look!Kinda cool trying out this bald/longer bearded look.Never thought id get the chance to rock this look
Just wanted to tell that this thread inspired me to try growing a full beard. A lot of patience is needed in my case, but I'm intrigued to see if it's going to look any better in future. Meaning thicker & fuller. Right now it's not a pretty sight.
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.
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.
Quote from: Razor X on October 23, 2009, 07:16:10 PMPatience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.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.
Quote from: Rusty Shackleford on October 23, 2009, 10:00:22 PMQuote from: Razor X on October 23, 2009, 07:16:10 PMPatience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.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.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.
Quote from: saintc on October 24, 2009, 08:01:06 AMQuote from: Rusty Shackleford on October 23, 2009, 10:00:22 PMQuote from: Razor X on October 23, 2009, 07:16:10 PMPatience is the name of the game when it comes to growing facial hair. It's very difficult to persevere through the early scruffy stages.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.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. That's true, but if you have a thin or bald spot on your face it's still going to be thin or nearly bald if it has some dormant hairs in that space. The dormant hairs can enhance the density, but they aren't going to work miracles.