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Offline Rusty Shackleford

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2895 on: January 01, 2021, 08:16:13 AM »
Thanks, @Rusty Shackleford, the day you cut your beard was a sad day for all of us... I remember it well...

How about an update?
Hum... I think the last time I posted a pic here that Photobucket was still a thing.  I'll have to see what I need to do to post another pic.

I don't think I mentioned the last big trim here though.   December 2019 and my beard was probably 10" or a little more.  I remembered I dyed my beard and then got a haircut with no intention on getting the beard trimmed.  Then at the next chair a bald guy with a huge beard came in and got a trim and I decided to trim mine.  I had a few inches cut off, but then I decided that I needed to end using hair dye.  Since it can't be removed from the hair I kept cutting here and there until last May when I got it down to a paltry 4".  At that point most of the dye was visibly gone, and I've let it grow back since then with only a couple minor trims on the tips.

Also in 2019 I was having huge problems with knots and if I pulled my beard through my fist it actually puffed out at the last inch or so.  It just hit me recently that I was likely hitting it too hard with a heated brush and just ruined the hair.  It's about 7" long now and does not do that, and in 2020 I maybe used the heated brush once (mainly because it was so short anyway)

So now I know!
No dyeing - it's too hard to stop
No heat
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Offline Rusty Shackleford

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2896 on: January 01, 2021, 08:24:16 AM »
This was either the shortest I had it or very close:

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2897 on: January 02, 2021, 04:13:56 AM »
Even at its shortest it looks great

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2898 on: January 02, 2021, 09:01:56 AM »
Looks great, @Rusty Shackleford

You still have a lot of natural color left there.
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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2899 on: January 02, 2021, 11:07:29 AM »
Haven’t checked in for some time. Here is where I now am



Impressive! Awesome

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2900 on: January 02, 2021, 11:22:17 PM »
This was either the shortest I had it or very close:


Wow... looks great... I think you should definitely ditch the dye... the grey looks awesome.

You can switch to Imgur...

Thanks for the update!

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2901 on: January 11, 2021, 02:02:19 AM »
Thats grown!, looks great

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2902 on: January 11, 2021, 06:18:51 PM »
Beard looks great @stn87 !
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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2903 on: January 12, 2021, 01:06:56 AM »
@stn87 DUDE!

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2904 on: February 02, 2021, 01:38:26 AM »



ok, I havent seen my top lip in almost 30 years and my chin in about 8 yrs.  Been sly now for 3 or 4 years.  so ive never been sly and shaven. Feel like a change on the lower face.  Advice?  short, goatee (never tried), or let it grow?

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2905 on: February 02, 2021, 05:44:34 AM »
I was at the same point one year ago. I hadn't had a clean shaven face in several decades, and never with a shaved head. I started noticing alot of guys with bald heads and no facial hair, and finally got up the nerve to shave my face. Wow, what a shock! I didn't recognize myself in the mirror, and didn't like what I saw! Luckily, it grew back pretty fast, but I'm glad I tried it. I suppose it's just like when you first shave your head, it takes time to get used to the change.
Bald by choice, and loving it!

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2906 on: February 06, 2021, 11:32:51 PM »
@Dragon you have quite the impressive beard, I would hate to see you cut it. Your beard is now part of your face.

Like when people ask me... don't I "miss my face". This IS my face.

That being said, it's your face.

What I will say that is every time in the past 36 years of being bearded... I have regretted every time that I drastically cut or shaved.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2021, 11:34:28 PM by DoberDaddy »

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2907 on: February 07, 2021, 03:00:40 AM »
thanks guys

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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2908 on: February 07, 2021, 05:15:49 PM »
If not too late, I vote to keep the beard you have.  It looks awesome.
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Re: Show us your beard!
« Reply #2909 on: February 08, 2021, 01:46:53 AM »
thanks @slybeard, I havent done anything rash!