Hey everyone. Welcome!
So a little background. Way back in 1996, a 16 year old Rookie decided that shaving my chin and upper lip kind of sucked. Lucky for me it was the 90s. Also lucky for me my heritage left me some pretty killer beard growing genes. I graduated high school with a full beard.
And then I enlisted. Bye bye beard. But I got to keep the mustache at least. Standard military issue light brown lampshade mustache. Then I got out and lost my razor! Search high and low, it was nowhere to be found! So I grew a wonderfully thick and full beard.
Fast forward to two weeks ago. I'm a fairly healthy guy, 40 years old with wife and kids and all. Two weeks ago I had a dental surgery which I had to go clean shaven. So now my face is half for the first time in 26 years, a little more than half my life.
And shaving my upper lip and chin still kinda sucks. I think it's time. For the good of, well, everyone I'm growing my beard back. March 1st looks arbitrary enough to start. I figure I'll go throw the process in real time. Hopefully someone reading this one day finds hope or answers. Sees that awkward phases happen to everyone. Or at least we'll get to hang out and chat about something our clean-shaven brethren won't quite get.
So a little background. Way back in 1996, a 16 year old Rookie decided that shaving my chin and upper lip kind of sucked. Lucky for me it was the 90s. Also lucky for me my heritage left me some pretty killer beard growing genes. I graduated high school with a full beard.
And then I enlisted. Bye bye beard. But I got to keep the mustache at least. Standard military issue light brown lampshade mustache. Then I got out and lost my razor! Search high and low, it was nowhere to be found! So I grew a wonderfully thick and full beard.
Fast forward to two weeks ago. I'm a fairly healthy guy, 40 years old with wife and kids and all. Two weeks ago I had a dental surgery which I had to go clean shaven. So now my face is half for the first time in 26 years, a little more than half my life.
And shaving my upper lip and chin still kinda sucks. I think it's time. For the good of, well, everyone I'm growing my beard back. March 1st looks arbitrary enough to start. I figure I'll go throw the process in real time. Hopefully someone reading this one day finds hope or answers. Sees that awkward phases happen to everyone. Or at least we'll get to hang out and chat about something our clean-shaven brethren won't quite get.