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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Beards => Topic started by: DannyBoy on February 15, 2014, 08:09:08 PM

Title: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: DannyBoy on February 15, 2014, 08:09:08 PM
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.
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Post by: djones on February 15, 2014, 08:17:14 PM
Probably around 14 or 15 when I started herring the peach fuzz on the chin..
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: Sir Harry on February 15, 2014, 08:22:48 PM
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... ;D
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Post by: DannyBoy on February 15, 2014, 08:28:31 PM
Lol maybe you didnt "lose" your head hair it just went down to your face lol.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: imaginary on February 15, 2014, 10:06:29 PM
Began developing peach fuzz at around fourteen. Did not really begin developing until my later teens.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: Cave Dweller on February 15, 2014, 10:23:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: DannyBoy on February 16, 2014, 08:33:01 AM
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.
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Post by: Hingatao on February 16, 2014, 02:44:38 PM
I started shaving at the ripe old age of 12 and had my first full blown mustache at 13.
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Post by: Mike E. P. on February 16, 2014, 02:49:13 PM
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.
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Post by: EarlBald on February 16, 2014, 02:54:58 PM
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.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: reddog on February 16, 2014, 03:15:35 PM
I had a wispy moustache at 16, my Dad hated it, had a pretty good black beard at about 23.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: slybeard on February 16, 2014, 04:09:01 PM
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.
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Post by: TheSlyBear on February 16, 2014, 04:46:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: mrzed on February 16, 2014, 04:59:49 PM
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.

Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: Blitzed on February 28, 2014, 10:41:48 AM
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.
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Post by: greatnessinc on April 04, 2014, 02:01:10 PM
Started about 12, full goatee by 15.
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Post by: wutwutman on April 09, 2014, 08:55:27 AM
I had nothing until the Army made me start shaving LOL  So I was 18 when anything visible started.  I was into my 20s before it became a respectable mustache.  Started the goatee in my 30s.  i STILL cant grow a respectable beard... lol
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Post by: BBCESQ on April 09, 2014, 02:21:50 PM
I can't even begin to remember.  I do remember growing a gotee the summer after highschool, but it wasn't quite full.  By the time I started college a year later, though, I was able to grow a full thick beard. 
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Post by: nuts on April 10, 2014, 03:46:50 AM
Grew a beard when I travelled in Europe in 1966 age 24.  I've had a full beard ever since so now 48 years on 1 May.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: Blitzed on April 10, 2014, 06:05:36 AM
Shaved daily  by 12. Fully grown, 6'5" at 13, fully furred, chest, armpits, groin by 14. Shaved head 55...17 years ago.
Title: Re: How old was you when you started to grow facial hair?
Post by: baldjoeg on April 10, 2014, 10:24:34 AM
I started to grow my goatee and mustache about 10 years ago when I shaved the dome sly. I love the look of a good beard or goatee and mustache and a sly dome. They look awesome together.
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Post by: Goatee on April 11, 2014, 11:38:40 AM
When i was 6 months old. lol