Why Do Bearded Men Choose Synthesizers Over Shaving?

[Kurdt]

Integral is Santa wolram. He must be. Reminds me of Richard Attenborough's beard in the 1994 Miracle on 34th Street.

Nice beard any way integral.

 

[wolram]

Integral is Santa wolram. He must be.

Wow so we can all post or present wants lists here?
All i want is a Thruxton Velocette, please.

 

[wolram]

I had to shave today, my mom said i looked scruffy

 

[G01]

I find shaving annoying too. I only have to shave my face every other day though. I like to be clean shaven. I hate having more than 5:00 shadow (2-day shadow in my case). It just gets too itchy.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I shave once a week. I like a bit of scruff. In winter it can really help keep your face warm.

 

[rbj]

i just let my scraggles grow until it looks like a silly Fu Man Chu goatee thingie. then i get a scissors and cut it back to about a 1/2 cm. in case you want to know what it looks like. I'm the guy on the right. (can you identify the guy on the left? his name is quite recognizable.)

just found another photo on the web (i do not put these up) that's more current (more gray). i don't know of any others.

 

[turbo]

I'm the guy on the right. (can you identify the guy on the left? his name is quite recognizable.)

Is that Robert Moog?

 

[BobG]

I really do not (like) them either, it is just nice to have a holliday from shaving.

It is about time some one invented a way to rid us of hairy faces for ever.

They have! Try this method:

Blend one egg white with 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1/2 tablespoon of corn flour until it becomes a sticky paste. Apply the mixture to your face. When it dries gently peel it off. Repeat this 3-4 times a week.

Or, this method:

Sugaring Solution:
Mix lemon juice (1/2 lemon), sugar (1 cup), and honey (1/4 cup) in a bowl. Microwave or heat on a stove until it bubbles up into a smooth consistency. Remove from heat and let it cool to a temperature you can an touch it.

Application for Removing Hair:
Wash and dry your body part where you want to remove hair. Dust with some cornstarch or plain flour to absorb body oil. Spread a thin layer of the sugaring solution in the direction of the hair. Cover with a strip of fabric, rub your hand on the strip and pull it off quickly against the direction of the hair growth. It will be slight painful, but tolerable. Repeat it 2-3 times.

You can store the unused sugaring solution in a jar and reheat the mixture when you use it next time.

Or, this:

Waxing
Waxing is the easiest and most convenient way for removing hair and can be done at home with ease. Waxing pulls the hair out from below the top layer of skin and leaves your skin smooth. In waxing, a thin layer of melted wax is applied to the skin in the direction of the hair growth. The wax is then pulled off quickly in the opposite direction of the hair growth, taking the hair with it.

In the sugar form of waxing, sugar is used instead of wax to get rid of teh hair from face and body. Sugaring is easier to apply and easier to cleanup the mess.

There's a man's version of the above methods (copied from the man book).

Apply duct tape to facial area.

Pull off quickly.

This way seems just plain stupid to me. I would lose patience way too soon:

Tweezing and threading are considered to be the safest method of removal of unwanted hair but these are extremely time-consuming.. Tweeze eyebrows using a sharp, clean pair of tweezers. Place a warm damp cloth over the brows for 5-10 minutes before plucking to soften the area or tweeze immediately after shower.

This way is pretty exciting:

Electrolysis
Electrolysis use electric current to remove hair. Electrolysis is considered a permanent hair removal method because this technique destroys the hair follicle. The technique, however, needs repeats and thus costly.

There are two types of electrolysis devices are in use: the needle epilator and the tweezer epilator. The major risks of using electrolysis include electrical shock, infection from a non-sterile needle and scarring caused by improper technique.

Advantages: Risk of electric shock!

Disadvantages: Using a needle or a tweezer sounds like you're removing one hair at a time, which is way too time consuming. Some kind of flexible mesh covering that would shock all the hairs in your beard at the same time would seem like a better option. I imagine that would carry some risk of facial discoloration, though.

 

[hypatia]

Is that Robert Moog?

It does look like him. He was a great inspiration, but I couldn't afford a Moog, so I got a ARP2600. Great fun..oh and he was well shaved too{to stay on topic}.

 

[Astronuc]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081112/ids_photos_wl/r1590342461.jpg/

BTW - I don't shave, and haven't in 27 yrs, 5 months.

I never liked shaving, and I definitely don't miss it.

 

[~christina~]

Um...it's weird but my uncle plucks his beard hair out of his face.

It doesn't grow back fast and

 

[Evo]

They have! Try this method:

Laser hair removal is the big thing now.

 

[Kurdt]

Could always just get your face removed. Problem solved.

 

[wolram]

Any one have a laser i can borrow please.

 

[turbo]

Any one have a laser i can borrow please.

I have lots of lasers but they are low-power diode lasers and are currently in use.

When I was the network administrator for an ophthalmic medical practice, the doctors used to press me into service to calibrate their surgical lasers. It was fun to cycle a laser, and blast a target into oblivion with just a little "snap". They had to spend a bunch of money to bring technicians up from 100-200 miles away to fix lasers that were drifting. Generally, I only collimated the targeting beams, so that the laser "zaps" were delivered accurately, but that was the most critical issue for some doctors who were dealing with very small post-op contamination.

 

[Integral]

Integral is Santa wolram. He must be. Reminds me of Richard Attenborough's beard in the 1994 Miracle on 34th Street.

Nice beard any way integral.

Would you believe that I have heard that before?

My usual response is a hearty "HO HO HO"

I am not quite round enough. Small kids size me up frequently, most seem to decide that the lack of a big round belly out weigh the beard, they then run in terror to mom.

 

[Integral]

Any one have a laser i can borrow please.

I have lasers also, opposite problem of turbo's, My lasers would not stop at the hair, probabaly take your skin as well. It wouldn't be pretty.

 

[Evo]

I had to shave today, my mom said i looked scruffy

I love the scruffy look. I just can't get near scruff. I actually was bleeding and had to wear bandaids until I healed. I looked like a clown with the red all around my mouth. He had to shave. It's like kissing a steel wool pad.

 

[DaveC426913]

I decided decades ago that facial hair is natural and I shouldn't fight it. So, beard & moustache. I use trimmers and a razor once a week so it doesn't look like a mess.

 

[moose]

I love the scruffy look. I just can't get near scruff. I actually was bleeding and had to wear bandaids until I healed. I looked like a clown with the red all around my mouth. He had to shave. It's like kissing a steel wool pad.

If I shave in the morning, my face is sandpaper later on that day until a day or two after. If I haven't shaved in about 3 days though, it gets pretty smooth. Girls don't seem to have a problem with it if it's after 3 or 4 days. The next day after I shave it's absolutely terrible though...

 

[DaveC426913]

This way is pretty exciting:

Electrolysis is considered a permanent hair removal method because this technique destroys the hair follicle.

The technique, however, needs repeats and thus costly.

Ummm... This is a rather creative definition of "permanent" - the use of which I was not previously aware.
.

 

[moose]

Ummm... This is a rather creative definition of "permanent" - the use of which I was not previously aware.
.

Hair grows in three phases (anagen, telogen, catagen). Laser hair removal only works against the currently growing hair (anagen). You need many more sessions to be able to fully destroy all the hair.

 

[phyzmatix]

I don't like shaving, but don't like having a beard either. Bit of a conundrum, so I shave approx every three days...Often wonder if us hairy Caucasian lot aren't perhaps the least evolved of the races. Closer to the apes, ye ken?

Or perhaps the system was designed to maintain a balance [As in women got to have periods and we got beards and hairy arses...]

 

[redargon]

Or perhaps the system was designed to maintain a balance [As in women got to have periods and we got beards and hairy arses...]

Interesting... I read the other day that a male partner will often neglect shaving for the few days that his female partner is menstrating. Thus, the guy in the office with the 3 day stubble, isn't getting any. Oooor, he's getting so much he's too tired to shave in the morning and it has nothing to do with his gf's menstration cycle. Oooor, there's a new baby in the house and he's not getting any and he's too tired to shave in the morning. I don't believe everything I read in Men's Health anyway, so you decide.

There was however a good article about growing the right facial hear for your face structure and it seems to work, from what I've seen. Round face - goatee, Square jaw - rough 3 day look, Anything else - clean shave. And never ever grow just a moustache, no matter how cool you think Magnum PI is.

I have a patchy beard (a couple of "bald" spots) so if I shave every day it looks fine, but if I miss a few days, I look a little dorky or like I decided to try some new shaving trend (like those muppets that shave those thin lines down their jaw line or stripes in their sideburns... here's your sign!)

 

[wolram]

The worst part of shaving for me is my top lip, if the razor is even slightly blunt it feels like i am pulling my eyeballs out.

 

[DaveC426913]

... there's a new baby in the house and he's not getting any and he's too tired to shave in the morning...

Fight for Kisses

 

[DaveC426913]

... we got beards and hairy arses...

The worst part of shaving for me is my top lip, if the razor is even slightly blunt it feels like i am pulling my eyeballs out.

The worst part for me is shaving my arse. If the razor is even slightly blunt it feel like I am pulling...

oh never mind...

 

[phyzmatix]

The worst part for me is shaving my arse. If the razor is even slightly blunt it feel like I am pulling...

oh never mind...

So it brings tears to your eyarse?

 

[rbj]

Is that Robert Moog?

It does look like him. He was a great inspiration, but I couldn't afford a Moog, so I got a ARP2600.

it was. i was at a pretty cool IEEE conference at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz NY.