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I am 18 and I desperatly want to grow a beard. I am starting to shave the patches I have more often than normal with a blade now. Is that the best way to get it going? I have also been growing my brownish red hair since June. I can now pull it down almost to my top lip. It's really cool to have it cover my eyes and lay on my cheeks when I stick my head under the water in the shower! I love it. I appreciate any info about the beard issue. Thanks guys, you rule.
I started growing my first beard at 17. It had some patchiness and my moustache and beard didn't connect. By senior year, I had this big, furry Grizzly Adams thing going and I was envied throughout the male school population. I've found that beards get thicker with age, so you may have to wait a while to look like Jerry Garcia. Are there beards on other, older males in your family? That will give you some hints of where your genetics lie. Best of luck!
My dad can't really grow much of a beard, it doesn't get very thick or long at all. On the other hand, his dad could grow a nice one apparently. I'm hoping it's some kind of recessive gene and it skips a generation. I guess I'll just have to shave alot and see what comes of it.
Really? I always thought that shaving hair, as opposed to cutting it off, got your hair all mad that you were trying to eliminate it and it would come back with a vengeance. That sucks, a lot of the guys I know, especially younger guys, can grow a nice beard, though they don't for the sake of being "fashionable". I can't get much going at all, little patches on my jaw and chin, the stuff on my jaw isn't even very dark!
Shaving won't make your beard any thicker. All it will do is make the beard you have disappear for the next few days. :-)
I grew in a very thick beard at age 14, but I know one guy who had no beard at all at age 24 and by age 26 he had a very thick one. So don't despair if at age 18 your beard isn't thick yet. Guys have them come in at different ages.