About Facial Hair...
 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Gahh so all I can do is wait?

I can't encourage it to grow in darker?

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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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.

Interesting thread.

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

Inb4 Tribesman.

Mustache bleach?

You can even get it to pink :DL

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

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?

@ Anthony:

Justin Bieber approves, so it'll be good enough for you!
http://cdn2.greatsong.net/actu/art/j...ment-23398.jpg

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

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