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Miss Lynn, I appreciate your aesthetic sensibilities... but summer's coming in and as both my daughters say, I can always grow it back...

Break out the bic & the frozen OJ....have fun...

Doc;
Other than your current dilemma, I trust that this finds you and yours doing acceptably well.

I've been tossing around similar thoughts lately, but while my good wife voted for "the procedure" the girls threatened to disown me if I did.

As you might recall seeing a couple photos of me, I've had at least a fairly thick mustache continually for the past 30 plus years. These days it's accompanied by a grey goatee..... I know it's grey because the nice lady where I was renewing my BC Driver's License pronounced it thus.

It might make one look younger though Doc and none of us appear to be getting younger, so I'll vote a "yea" for the motion and add that you can always grow it back if you aren't happy with it.

All the best to you and yours Doc - Happy Canada Day as an ex-pat and Happy Fourth of July to you as a current.

Dwayne

do it right. legs, chest, back, crack, brazilian, whole 9 yards. 100% hairless. no turning back.

Was it a peach,plum,pluot,plum-cot,or apricot? I forget.
I bought a couple of Pluot trees from Lowes after I got home from your place and mine are doing well too.

I call toro caca on mustache maintenance! I prefers my handle bar to be as socially unacceptable as I can get it. I may trim a wild hair out of mine every other month or so. Just to have something to do. Otherwise, my stache is like my hat crease 110 years behind the times!

Ah yeah, I shaved back in '83. One less thing to do.

LOL!!

And GFY...

I can't imagine shaving my beard and mustache off. Just ain't gonna happen.

I've had a mustache since I was 17 or 18 and IIRC I think I've shaved it off only once. In the 70's I sported a fumanchu, pork chop sideburns, and only once a full beard. It was too itchy so that went away. I've done the goatee in several variations over the years and have had long and short sideburns but the stash has never been shaved.

Lately I've been thinking about shaving all the hair off my face. I haven't looked in a mirror and seen a clean shaven face since the early 80s. Worst case, I don't like it and in a couple of weeks it's back to a hairy mug.

Doc,

You're not alone.

Don't do it..... Long live the "double chin comb over".

Do it Doc. It might make you handsome.

Has anyone considered, shaving say, the left half, leaving the right?
A side, by side comparison if you will.

I've done a beard a few times. Always wind up getting tired of it, and shaving it off. Heck it's good to restyle yourself, every so often, so go for it.






and if it looks worse it gives me a head start competing with you for the wimmins

Doc - My kids have never seen me without facial hair . . . Did go to a goatee for all of one day before growing the rest of the beard back. Bride didn't like the stubble left after a shave, so I was more than willing to oblige. I do trim it up every couple of months. Personally, I find the beard acts as a radiator in the hot summers and as a face blanket in the winter. If you do shave it off, it will grow back, for sure, but how long it takes to grow back is up to your genetics. To each their own, but I ain't shaving . . . ain't much on regular haircuts, either.

Fall in line with Christianity and shave your gahdamn face.


Travis

Quit shaving my upper lip when I was about 19 years old - stubble kept me licking my lip, keeping it raw. Maintained a "cookie duster" ever since. - No problem.

Mar

I consider myself to be a wild, untamed animal.

Therefore I shave no body hair(other than my pubes).

I think most guys try the wolfman look or variations of it at least once in their life.



I had a caterpillar on my lip since I was 20 in the Army. After I got out I wore it long at the ends, tried to style it like Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid (except I was more handsome). Used to be in a local theater melodrama group, usually ended up playing the villain and didn't need any artificial hair to twirl my mustache.

Around about age 46 I shaved it off for some reason or other and the next day at the gym some cute little early 20-something told me I looked a lot younger without it.

I've been shaving the upper lip religiously since that very day.

Speaking of that, saw a guy in the gym today that was probably early 50ish. Big, really strong guy with big arms and lots of definition. Had dark hair and sideburns but this very gray full goatee. I wanted to tell him he'd probably look like he was in his early 40's without that large patch of gray on the bottom of his face, but him being a big mean looking guy I figure he could look old if'n he wanted to.