How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?

[DannyBoy]

I was about 10/11 when i started lol it was stubble "bumfluff" if you will in the mustache area then when i hit secondary school (or high school to some) so i was 12 at this point i had a full on mustache lol...i didnt learn to shave yet so it was just there i didnt care either but in the end i started to shave...the rest of my face started to grow from 14 onwards and is still growing to this day at 22.

[djones]

Probably around 14 or 15 when I started herring the peach fuzz on the chin..

[Sir Harry]

I struggled mightily to grow facial hair in my teens and early 20's....In fact, I couldn't grow a full-blown mustache till about 24...Ironically, within the next two years, the MPB started kicking in...so I guess you could say I wound up sacrificing scalp hair to grow facial hair...

[DannyBoy]

Lol maybe you didnt "lose" your head hair it just went down to your face lol.

[imaginary]

Began developing peach fuzz at around fourteen. Did not really begin developing until my later teens.

[Cave Dweller]

Wisps appeared at thirteen. I started to get some serious growth around fifteen, but only under the jaw and on the chin. Looked really bad.

I grew my first beard at eighteen during my freshman year. It was located mostly on my neck and cheeks. There are few pictures of me at that stage, thankfully. I didn't get a decent mustache until my twenties - and even then it was pretty thin.

[DannyBoy]

You would think my beard would be really good by now i mean dont get me wrong i can get a good enough beard but it could be alot better.

[Hingatao]

I started shaving at the ripe old age of 12 and had my first full blown mustache at 13.

[Mike E. P.]

I went to a Catholic high school and we were forced to be clean shaven as soon as there was any evidence do hair on the face. When I was fifteen I spent a good many days in detention for not being whisker free. That was after they forced you to shave with an old bic in a bathroom without a mirror.

[EarlBald]

I started growing facial hair at the age of 15, altho I didn't need to shave regularly until I was 16.  I grew a mustache at the age of 17 and my first beard (it could have come in years earlier!) at the age of 22.

[reddog]

I had a wispy moustache at 16, my Dad hated it, had a pretty good black beard at about 23.

[slybeard]

Started around 16, but not much to speak of.  I was in my early 20's before I was able to grow a mustache.  Around 30 I finally was able to add the goatee for a circle beard, with almost nothing on the cheeks and sideburns.  In my mid 40's it thickened up enough for a full beard.  So it took my beard a very long time to mature.

[TheSlyBear]

Grew my mustache at 19, and it's been with me ever since -- except for my 3 months of Basic Training when it had to temporarily come off.

I've had one of a beard, Van Dyke, or biker stach for three decades.

[mrzed]

Well, I don't remember. being blonde at the time, it did not show up much. Not a big deal.

At about 24 was in Alaska for the summer. Tried to grow a beard. That was 'safe' because probably 70% of the guys had beards, whether they looked good or not.  Took a full 8 weeks to start to look like anything, but I took it home to show off. School then required that I remove the beard to start classes. (now that school permits trim beards).

When I went back to Alaska at 27 in 1980, I re-started the beard and it came in pretty well that time. I've had it ever since.

[Blitzed]

At twelve I could have, but did not, have grown any combination of facial hair I chose. I had to shave twice a day...of course I was 6'5 when I was 13.

My first moustache appeared out of a surgical suite when I was 69. I was having a shoulder replaced and while they would-and did-shave my shoulder and part of my chest, they refused-for insurance reasons-to shave my already shaved head or my face. By the time I'd got to a rehab hospital, I was on my way to a goodly moustache and thought....what the hell. I did lose that which would have become a beard but the 'stache is still there although it's gone through several changes.