+1I want a beard like Silas Robertson has.
I started growing a beard just before the millennium (1999) and had it until I shaved it off a little over a year ago. The beard was down to my belt and so was my hair (had not had a hair cut in the same amount of time). It was funny walking down the street as people would cross over to the other side when they saw me coming toward them.
I had my barber cut my hair a little longer than a buzz cut and take off the beard at the same time. No one in the barber shop thought I would go through with it and there was a little girl there with her father who just stared with her mouth open as my barber went to work on me.
Surprisingly that after not visiting my barber for 12 years he still remembered me.
I think what made me decide to cut everything off was at a local charity I was volunteering with. A news crew came in to do an expose on the homeless. Out of everyone there they zeroed in on me and asked if I wouldn't mind giving them an interview. Sort of put my "grooming practices" at question in my mind. Been back to shaving every day and visiting my barber regularly since "the hair" has been removed
This is the biggest surprise of the day so far. Judging by all your excellent pics here and shaving advice i would have never in a million years thought you had a beard! We need pictures of this