About Facial Hair...

[Anthony W.]

Okay, well, if you were looking for a serious issue - might as well check another post. I come here because Google Search has failed me - and I know there are people here from all over.

I keep considering growing a mustache - just like my grandfather had all his life. I think it'd make me look older and more distinctive. Everyone in my family says that if I grew one, I'd look just like him - and he's the person I try to be the most like (his list of high accomplishments is very long).

What are your feelings on them?

Also - I can't get my facial hair to grow in darker than my skin (I'm tan) - I mean - I can grow a beard easily. It'd take me a month to have a full, dark, beard - but I can't get a mustache to grow in darker than a moderate brown.

Any ideas?

Well, thanks

[RickC Sniper]

If it is the same color of your skin it won't even be very noticeable.

If you want to honor your grandfather try to BE like him rather than try to look like him.

[Torplexed]

Depends on genetics. If weeks pass and all you have is what looks likes like a fuzzy caterpillar over your lips, I'd say forget it. Older and more distinctive usually just comes how you carry yourself, not facial hair.

Had a friend of mine at twenty who had a full beard. But he confessed it was only to cover a weak chin. Otherwise he said it was more trouble than it was worth.

[Anthony W.]

If it is the same color of your skin it won't even be very noticeable.

If you want to honor your grandfather try to BE like him rather than try to look like him.

I am when I'm in public - blunt - down to business - money oriented - respectful - always one to make someone smile - ect

[Betonov]

Otherwise he said it was more trouble than it was worth.

This !!

I had an ''anchor shaped'' beard for three years. Plus I have very sparse hair so it took me a long time to groom it so it looked more dense. Not worth the trouble.

[Jimbuna]

I always found a felt tip pen allowed you to create the perfect profile :DL

[Anthony W.]

Gahh so all I can do is wait?

I can't encourage it to grow in darker?

[Takeda Shingen]

I tend to alternate between a full beard and clean-shaven, depending on my mood and the time of year. In terms of growing advice, I don't have any; mine just comes in full. I suppose it is all genetics; you can either grow a beard or you can't.

[Anthony W.]

Yeah - unfortunately a beard isn't my problem. I could grow a full beard in a month - but the pencil mustache is what I'm having issues with :/

Though, if the Russian girl I want to date doesn't work out, I think I'm going to try a beard for the winter.

[CCIP]

Well, there are such things as facial hair dyes if the colour's too light... would be worth considering if you're really that desperate.

Funny, I was in a debate with myself about facial hair for the last little while. I just can't grow enough of it, even though I really like it. Ended up shaving it all off yesterday after deciding it makes me look far too sloppy and unprofessional, but now I feel naked and ironically it's made me look older all of a sudden (odd, usually the opposite happens when you shave...) :doh:

[TLAM Strike]

I can't encourage it to grow in darker?You can try yelling at it... :yeah:

[Anthony W.]

You can try yelling at it... :yeah:

(@ mustache) GAAHH YOU STUPID, INSIGNIFICANT, HUNK OF MANURE!!! GROW IN DARKER OR I'LL KILL YOU!!!

[FIREWALL]

Gahh so all I can do is wait?

I can't encourage it to grow in darker?
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Go to Drug store
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Turn down Womens Makeup aisle.

Stop a Eyebrow Pencil Section.

Find Darker Shade you want.

Buy It.

[Anthony W.]

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Go to Drug store
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Turn down Womens Makeup aisle.

Stop a Eyebrow Pencil Section.

Find Darker Shade you want.

Buy It.

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[Flaxpants]

Interesting thread.

I'll ask the wife and get back to you.

[Feuer Frei!]

Inb4 Tribesman.

[Castout]

Mustache bleach?

You can even get it to pink :DL

[papa_smurf]

I always go for the clean shave option, although that may change as I'm slowly going bald (stupid family genetics...).

[jumpy]

I'd say go with whatever you're comfortable with;

Since enjoying (though that is a relative term) the single life of the solitary male, I have not bothered with a razor in over 18 months, apart from running my hair clippers over my face once a fortnight or so.
As they say, it's all in the genetics for some - I'm not particularly hairy, but after a month of not shaving I have a passable beardy thing, more reminiscent of a recent piratical character style than the full on founding fathers thing lol.
Make the best of what you've got and go with it. Or shave it off.
Once you get used to one or the other, it often presents a difficulty making a change either way :O:

EDIT: Has anyone noticed that the ocean warrior avatar looks a bit like cary grant?

[Feuer Frei!]

@ Anthony:

Justin Bieber approves, so it'll be good enough for you!
http://cdn2.greatsong.net/actu/art/justin-bieber-porte-la-moustache-vous-le-trouvez-comment-23398.jpg

And here is a chart for you to decide on your look:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XUPl0-TdEqs/S0tK3V2jn_I/AAAAAAAAAAM/qUBrYCaE55A/s320/moustache.gif

You don't strike me as the Trucker type, perhaps the Porn star or after 8 one?

[AVGWarhawk]

I have had a mustache for about 20 years. My wife will not let me shave it off. It is not troublesome. I have a small electric grooming kit. The mustache does not make me feel distinquished or older. It's just there for lack of a better word. My grandfather sported a mustache. He had one because as a kid a hockey puck left a bad scar after it hitting him under his nose. The mustache covered it nicely.

[Stealhead]

Chances are that if you currently cant grow much hair for a mustache you never will be able to. I can grow a beard just fine but I can not shave above my lip for a month and it will never get beyond fuzzy caterpillar it was that way when I was 17 it is the same today and I am 34.And my brothers are the same way.

Same goes for hair color I have known guys that had black,brown,or blonde hair but if they tried to grow a mustache the hair there is red your only cure there is to buy the just for men facial hair coloring stuff if you dislike the color.

I'd say don't bother with a stash if you do not like how it naturally looks dying your facial hair is silly at any age.Also some women do not like facial hair at all so keep that in mind.

Honestly if you still have the same hair style that you did in pictures that you have posted in the past I'd stay clean shaven unless you want to look like this guy:

http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m567/donkeyyakov/guy-fieri-minute-to-win-it-320.jpg

Maybe you are shooting for this look but this SF guy only has the beard to help him mingle with the locals
and he is a bad ass the first thing he does when he gets back to the states is shave that sucker:
http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m567/donkeyyakov/sf-beard.jpg

The basic rule of thumb is what ever you do have make it look like you give a **** about how it looks in other words keep it groomed and if you cant grow it thick enough
do not bother or if your wife/girlfriend dislikes/likes a certain style well that is that but seeing as Anthony is trying to hook up with some girl he does not know what she likes but
if she is worth the time she will like a guy that confident in himself which has nothing to do with facial hair.

[Growler]

Anthony, you're what, 18? 20? Be patient is the first bit of advice I'd offer. Shoot, it took me about three years after I got out of the Army for my facial hair to look decent. Lenape blood not a help, btw, and while my hair is a sandy brown beginning to grey, my beard & stache come in reddish, with odd bits of blond.

If you're under 23 years old, be patient, shave the caterpillar every few days. It'll grow back in a little darker and fuller over time.

[Stealhead]

I still argue that it is largely genetics the point at which it starts growing might vary a bit but if you cant grow much facial hair after about 23~24 you probably never will hormones have a major effect on when your hair grows some guys get sent a strong message younger than others.I recall this one guy in my class joker had a full and I mean full upper lip included beard at freaking 15! Still your DNA is going to determine how much hair you will get and where.He would have to look at all his male relatives on both his mother and fathers side to determine roughly what he can expect to get(if he can get any more)

Also testosterone has an effect but again you could have it out the ying yang and still not be able to grow a full beard if genetically you have fewer hair follicles.

[Sailor Steve]

@ Anthony:

Justin Bieber approves, so it'll be good enough for you!


And here is a chart for you to decide on your look:


You don't strike me as the Trucker type, perhaps the Porn star or after 8 one?
I approve of this method.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/478px-Groucho_Marx.jpg




Oh, and when I was 17 and even 20 my mustache and beard were paltry, to say the least. By the time I was 25 I was growing the full set every winter. The beard came off in the spring and the 'stache around July 1. I still do that sometimes, but since they got grey not so much.

[Jimbuna]

I give up!!

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLuC_nKQxfceQD0C08GUt1Xq8SPx29N Kr0lTaFOiANCEKxHXK_Yw

[August]

Anthony, you're what, 18? 20? Be patient is the first bit of advice I'd offer. Shoot, it took me about three years after I got out of the Army for my facial hair to look decent. Lenape blood not a help, btw, and while my hair is a sandy brown beginning to grey, my beard & stache come in reddish, with odd bits of blond.

If you're under 23 years old, be patient, shave the caterpillar every few days. It'll grow back in a little darker and fuller over time.


This is some good advice.

[Anthony W.]

I blame karma. I'm the only guy in my family that didn't have one by 16...

[Stealhead]

Is your facial hair blonde? If it is then it just appears to be thinner than others but in a few more years it wont be that way.

I noticed that alot of the guys in my high school who had more facial hair most of them ate alot of chicken so there must be something in the hormones that they put in chicken so eat alot of Tyson.

[August]

I blame karma. I'm the only guy in my family that didn't have one by 16...


16?

Count yourself lucky then Sonny. Most guys that can grow a beard by 16 are bald as a as a cue ball by 30. :yep:

Trust me that's way more irritating than a few teenage years of sparse facial hair... :DL

[Anthony W.]

16?

Count yourself lucky then Sonny. Most guys that can grow a beard by 16 are bald as a as a cue ball by 30. :yep:

Trust me that's way more irritating than a few teenage years of sparse facial hair... :DL

Actually, my older bro (37) has a bald spot. My other older brother (49) is thinning. My father (68) still has a full head of (white) hair, and they're the only men on my father's side that I really know.

My grandfather on my mom's side (died at 93 back in like 06) had one and a full head of hair.

[FIREWALL]

I serious Anthony W. Maybe I meant one of those mascara eyelash brushes that colors and thickens eyelashes.

I have a full mustache so this is new to me.
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Just trying to help. :yep: Remember it all washes off.

All it seems that your trying to do is darken and fill it in. Find the right thing and take your time. :up: Commom sense tells me don't, do it all at once. Do it in stages.

And I think my second idea, Eyelash Mascara that Colors and Thickens done in Stages with, those pointed brushes is, the better way to Accomplish what your looking for. :yep: And at about $10.00 is a inexpensive way to test it out.

Let us know how it works out.

[Stealhead]

Like August said you'd much rather have thinner patchy facial hair at 17-18 than the other way round as it does seem that most guys like that do seem to go bald.I think maybe the patchiness most guys get it in the teens early 20s is caused by the more oily skin you tend to have at this age as your skin matures it allows some more hairs to grow.

But you might end up like me and it may just get a little less patchy but never quite full.You will wake up one day in a few years and know for sure.

Or you can always go the cosmetic route I am sure that there are many aids for the improvement of facial hair.

[Jimbuna]

Why don't you all post a few pictures to let the guy know precisely what you mean? :DL