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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Beards => Topic started by: DOC_OSMC on January 17, 2014, 11:00:28 AM
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Anyone use or try Just for Men on their beard? Don't get me wrong, I've accepted the fact that my beard has grays, but every now and again I get the urge to try and color it, but just don't know if I want to go through the hassle. I have a couple of friends who have tried it and it seems to look natural, but I'm still not convinced.
Who's tried it? What's the upkeep and time commitment?
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DOC,
I color my beard and I have used JFM, but I now find that other products work better for me. Since my beard is longer and almost totally gray, there just is not enough product in the JFM to color my beard. It looks like with the few grays you have, JFM may be for you if you decide to try. I suggest you start with a color lighter than your natural color, and just apply to the grays. Since you control how much product you use with JFM, you could try on one small gray area before trying to get all the grays. Since you are not totally gray, it would be easy for you to stop anytime you wanted. Being totally gray, if I stopped, I would end up with a weird looking gray underneath a dark beard, so I would likely have to shave and start over. Good luck.
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I haven't tried JFM because of the upkeep, but out of curiosity, I tried some of that cheap spray color you use at Halloween. I think it looked pretty cool!
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I haven't tried JFM because of the upkeep, but out of curiosity, I tries some of that cheap spray color you use at Halloween. I think it looked pretty cool!
I can't imagine why you woul dever want to dye that awesome white goat of yours!!!
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Anyone use or try Just for Men on their beard? Don't get me wrong, I've accepted the fact that my beard has grays, but every now and again I get the urge to try and color it, but just don't know if I want to go through the hassle. I have a couple of friends who have tried it and it seems to look natural, but I'm still not convinced.
Who's tried it? What's the upkeep and time commitment?
Wear your greys with pride my Friend.... like most of us that have them... I'm sure you earned them.
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Yessir Reddog, that is a pretty awesome white goatee!
Mike, don't get me wrong I've accepted the greyness in my beard. I think it adds character, and it definitely has been earned! But as with anything, we get antsy every now and again to change things up. I can't grow my beard long like some of the others, and thus the only thing I can think of to change the look would be to color it for a spell. But again, not really up on the upkeep.
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I haven't tried JFM because of the upkeep, but out of curiosity, I tries some of that cheap spray color you use at Halloween. I think it looked pretty cool!
I can't imagine why you woul dever want to dye that awesome white goat of yours!!!
I totally agree with this, your goat looks great as is. O0
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Thanks guys, the color just washed out with soap. I only kept it black for about 30 minutes.
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I've used JFM a few times to color in parts of my facial hair that are still growing in. I have a few greys but not that many.
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It works well enough for me, but with my goatee being so long and kept rolled up most of the time there ends up being very few moments in time when it is unleashed and where I want to be bothered coloring it. It works, but the color just doesn't last long enough. It is definitely true that you should not keep the dye on very long because after about 4 minutes it just starts turning it black even when I use the light brown color. I think it is a chemical reaction that continues on for up to an hour or so after it has been washed out.
Once it does go gray I'd like to try out different colors just to see what I would look like as a blonde or ginger.
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I have dark hair, I've found that if using JFM to get a natural looking color it's best to pick a dye that's a bit lighter than my hair color such as medium brown.
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I've been using JFM for about ten years now - not because its grey but because it grows in multiple colors (hairs are brown, blonde, red, black) and I think it looks better as one set color. It has some greys in it now but I still use the jfm because of the multi color thing (I also think it makes it look thicker)
I use it every other week (depending on when I trim the beard) its easy and not too expensive. One box lasts about a month
some advice - try going with a shade lighter than you would expect. I have natural brown hair. I tried the drak brown and it was way too dark. The medium brown is okay. The best one for me is the light brown
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So I hadn't shaved for about a week until last night and decided to leave my beard grow for a while. I'm starting to remember why I shaved it in the first place, too much grey. I think it makes me look 10 years older with the grey in my beard. I've used JFM in the past, but was a lot of upkeep. Not sure what I am going to do this time around, but I'll make that decision when my beard gets longer.
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I've considered using JFM for my goatee also. After shaving off the mostly gray horseshoe I'm thinking of trying it out and seeing how it looks. My beard is mostly gray, and if was possible to get some sort of natural salt and pepper type look I think that would look good. What I'm afraid of is a really fake, unnatural look. A friend of mine (also sly) did his goatee in JFM and it looked like he used black shoe shine, it looked unnaturally black.
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My partner uses JFM on his goatee now and again. The trick is to use it sparingly and don't leave it on too long. That way, the natural variation in the colors of the hair is retained for the most part.
What makes things look fake is if all the hairs are the same color. That just doesn't happen in nature, and is a sure sign of a bad dye job, or a bad wig.
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I have used it in the past for the salt and pepper look. Just use a small amount and brush in with the brush provided. You will be basically brushing in streaks of the dye, the object is to not saturate the entire beard. It is easy to add more later if not enough was used, so start small with it.
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So I hadn't shaved for about a week until last night and decided to leave my beard grow for a while. I'm starting to remember why I shaved it in the first place, too much grey. I think it makes me look 10 years older with the grey in my beard.
A lot of that comes down to perception. While a grey beard is never going to be associated with youth, it doesn't necessarily make you look older. If you grow a beard and it comes in grey, it can be a bit jarring -- and aging. But you've worn a beard for a long time and it turns grey and then you shave it off -- you may find you look older without it because you may suddenly see the ravages of time on your face, which were previously hidden by the beard.
It can be difficult to adjust to a greying beard but as time goes by you eventually come to terms with the fact that even if you had your original color back, no one is going to mistake you for a 25-year-old.
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I'm keeping the grey. Just was curious as to the use of it, hence my original post. Funny enough, lately, I've been getting compliments on the grey in my beard. One girl said it looked sexy, another said it suits me, and another said it makes me look distinguished. So as long as the positive feedback keep coming, it's staying!
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I like the gray in my beard. It think it adds something - makes it more noticeable or interesting.
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Doc and Mike, it looks like you guys have that "touch of gray" look that I want to get, if your photos are still recent. My goatee is mostly gray, very gray in the middle with some color left on the outsides. I think it looks patchy and just too gray. I'm thinking of giving the JFM a try to get a more even color with maybe 20% gray or something like that, if it's even possible to control the coloring which sounds difficult.
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Doc and Mike, it looks like you guys have that "touch of gray" look that I want to get, if your photos are still recent. My goatee is mostly gray, very gray in the middle with some color left on the outsides. I think it looks patchy and just too gray. I'm thinking of giving the JFM a try to get a more even color with maybe 20% gray or something like that, if it's even possible to control the coloring which sounds difficult.
Yeah, mine is a small but noticeable amount of gray in the chin area, but I like yours. I'd leave it!
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Pablo, my photo is very recent.
Give it a shot, got nothing to lose. Seems like there's some good advice here on how to do it so it looks natural, a shade lighter than your normal color and just use enough to shade in the areas you want.
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I don't wanna sound hypocrital by telling you to try it while I decide not to. For me it just boils down to not wanting to go through the hassle of the upkeep.
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Yeah, mine is a small but noticeable amount of gray in the chin area, but I like yours. I'd leave it!
I just saw that my profile photo shows my patchiness pretty well. Dark on the sides and gray in the middle (under my nose and on the chin). Not a look I like, it looks like I only colored the sides.
I think I'll give it a shot. I can see my wife rolling her eyes and wondering what I'm doing now as she isn't even used to the shaved head yet!
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I don't wanna sound hypocrital by telling you to try it while I decide not to. For me it just boils down to not wanting to go through the hassle of the upkeep.
no worries at all Doc. I hear you on the upkeep part. Already the head shaving is adding 20 minutes to my morning getting ready. I still haven't figured out a routine that works.
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You will. It took me about 3 weeks to get a routine down and then I just changed it up again a couple of weeks ago. I went from shaving every other day in front of the mirror to shaving by feel in the shower every day. So far shower shaving has been working well and has been much faster. Just give it time, you'll get there.
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I just saw that my profile photo shows my patchiness pretty well. Dark on the sides and gray in the middle (under my nose and on the chin). Not a look I like, it looks like I only colored the sides.
I don't think it looks patchy at all in your avatar. And I am no stranger to patchiness since I see it in the mirror every day.
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There a lot of good advice out here .I think what works for someone may not work for others.My self I have a lot of grey in my beard
and that is the way it's staying.I just don't want hassle of the up keep.It has taken me this long to get this grey I'm keeping it.Lots of luck to those who are trying to change the beard color.I hope it go's well for you.
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I was all set to give it a try and I read all sorts of posts about guys who have tried it recently and have had all sorts of bad reactions to the chemicals. There were enough posts to make me reconsider trying it.
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That's another reason why I'm weary about trying it. Don't need any reactions on the face.
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Just to update this, I was in CVS and saw the JFM stuff and bought one to try it out. I got the JFM Touch of Gray, for beards and mustaches, dark brown/black color. I did the allergy test for 2 days with no reactions, so I gave it a shot. Followed the directions exactly and after the first try it definitely put in some color, but my wife didn't even notice the difference. The next day I applied it again and this time it was noticeably more colored. She would be my main, honest critic and she said it looks natural and OK. When I look at it, the part that was really gray looks sort of like a grayish soot color to me lose up, but from a few feet away it looks OK, pretty much what Touch of Gray advertises. When I see myself in the mirror it doesn't look unnatural or dyed to me, but then I might not be the best judge of that.
I also didn't get any reaction at all, and anything that got on my skin washed out in the shower after application. It's also really easy to use and apply.
Now 1 week later is seems to be holding up OK. I haven't decided if it's something I'm going to stick with, as it looks like I probably need to redo it every 2 weeks or so. But for now I'll at least use up the contents of this first box.
I understand it's not for everyone and I probably should just accept the fact that I'm old and the gray is natural...but, for now I'll stick with it for a while.
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Mother Nature can be sloppy and beards don't always turn grey in a symmetrical, flattering way. Products like JFM can help camouflage things and make the transition easier. That's the main advantage of using those products. From your avatar pic, your goatee is mostly grey and it the color is uniform and even. Personally, I wouldn't bother with JFM if I were you. I'll be glad when my beard finishes turning grey because I hate being stuck in between colors the way I currently am.
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I used the Jet Black for my beard over the summer, and used it once more not too long ago before I made a huge mistake and shaved the goatee off... I am 23, and my natural color is more of a reddish/blondish, and I got tired of that and decided I wanted to try the black goatee look on me. I will admit I was scared of the bad reactions I could get, but I went ahead and done it. I ended up getting a bit more than I should have on my skin, and I had to go out that day so I scrubbed it off... Only I didn't just scrub, I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed lol. I ended up getting a raw spot on my chin on the skin above the goatee, but I still think that was from all of the scrubbing. I didn't get any bad reactions, and I have sensitive, dry skin, and at 23, I figured I for sure would have some kind of reaction but I got lucky. It lasted me a long time too, I ended up waiting until half of my goatee was natural and half was black ( where it had grown in ) before I dyed it again. I loved the black look, and when it grows back out I will probably go back with Jet Black again. I know most people might think that is nuts, but I wanted a black goatee so I went for Jet Black. Wanted to make sure I got it BLACK and not a darker brown lol. I loved the stuff, just scares me about the possible reactions, but I think it's worth the risk for me to have a goatee color that I actually like.
Here is a pic of my natural, reddish color ( I am on the right, it's the best pic I have to show my reddish color ) and another pic from when I first dyed it black. The goatee is uneven in the 2nd picture, and looks messy, but that was right after I dyed it so it was sticking out in all sorts of wild ways LOL.
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I used it for years on my mustache and for a while on my beard. But, the beard and mustache grow so quickly that the grey roots showed after just a couple of days. So, I would have to repeat it every two days to keep it looking "natural". I cannot even be bothered to shave every other day much less go through the hassle of re-dying as well.
In order to get rid of it I had to shave off my beard and mustache.
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I have used this stuff a few times when I was in a show. It was easy to apply with the brush provided, and turned the gray into a pretty natural looking gradation when I used a dye that was about two shades lighter than my beard's brown color. The problem was that, like BBBA's experience, it wore out/off within less than a week of every application.
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I am beyond any help that JFM can offer. It would take a more powerful and cumbersome product to get rid of all this grey and I just can't be bothered with the upkeep - not to mention the fear that it would not come out right. I don't really like getting grey but I'm learning to live with it.
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I cannot repeat this often enough: the mixed color in your beard is nothing short of freaking awesome. Embrace it.
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I concur with SlyBear's opinion, Razor.
That is an awesome pattern going on in your beard.
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Everybody seems to like it except me. :)
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+1 for thinking the beard looks super cool...
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That is a great combination of colours in your beard Razor, looks amazing.
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Thanks, guys.
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Yes, I agree with the others, that is an awesome beard and the color pattern is nothing to be ashamed of!
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You look GREAT NATURAL
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Razor - - -You say you don't like the grey - - -It is like getting BALD
It all goes with growing up. The grey looks GREAT on you. Embrace it.
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I like the color mix too. If it were all perfectly ginger it might look a little "artificial". This way you have some depth and texture. Enjoy the ride!
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This just confirms that this product is a waste of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDZMagR0vM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDZMagR0vM)
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BTW this JFM stuff tends not to last very long, and it seems to me that if you use beard oils or beard balm then the problem seems to be even worse. It's my theory that those products repel the JFM and prevent them from bonding to the hair. I have even tried thoroughly cleaning with shampoo before applying the dye and I guess the trace of oil or balm that remains is enough to impact the coloring. I've given up on the stuff since noticing this.