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For excellent pix of X-treme beards go to
www.quasi-modo.net/long_beard_photos.html.
Can you imagine what those guys would look like with floor length hair to go with their floor lenght beards? Any one here interested in letting everything grow to terminal?
I have gotten rid of all razors and clippers and am letting it all grow.
do not know if it would get floor length but am letting
head hair and beard grow as long as it can/wants
I don't particularly consider this to be off-topic, by the way. Perhaps others do. There is a story that one of the men (at least I think it's one of the men pictured) met his maker by stepping on his beard, then falling down a flight of stairs and breaking his neck or something on the way down.
Growing a long beard does have its hazards. I occasionally sit on mine, and I have to look up when buttoning up after taking a leak (yes, I wear 501s). I've buttoned up my beard more than once.
Hi Victor, I feel the same way too. I feel beards are on topic. A beard complements long hair very well.
I have this same problem but with my hair. I sit on it even when riding my bike. I now secure the last foot of it with a mini butterfly clip to prevent this.
As for catching your beard in your 501s buttons, all I can say is ouch.
My beard has a long way to grow for that to be a problem for me. I am probably never going to cut it again, so maybe it will reach my waist someday.
Absalom
Great looking beard!
By all means, do keep it growing.
- Oren
I will, I want to grow it to terminal length. I made a stupid mistake and cut it short in September of '05. I won't do that again.
Absalom
Have you tried the onion style I've described before? Maybe it's too much work to do well.
Funny thing is that usually I don't notice until I'm finished buttoning, when I look up -- or at least have a false start looking up.
Keep us informed of the progress you make. What's the longest you've grown it?
No, I have not. I will probably use my current method, since it is simple to do.
I am at about my longest right now. It should grow quite a bit longer than it is right now with a little patience.
Absalom
Well, Absalom, your beard is long, and it is made of hair. This is, after all, the men's long hair hyperboard, not the men's long mane hyperboard. [grin] I feel as you do - my beard and mane go together. After all, they do grow together, merging and blending in front of my ears.
I'm growing my beard out again. It is four inches long and really bushy. The photo above was taken the last time I grew it out (spring of 2005) and my beard was about the same length then as it is now. Maybe this time I'll let it go to terminal! I never have, and I do have some curiousity about how long and bushy it would become.
Bill
I just took this photo, showing how long my beard is now.
Bill
looking good there! keep it growing
you do look like a nice teddy bear
Looks great Bill!
I may be in the Bay area next May. A get-together would be fun.
- Oren
Hey Oren, please let me know. Maybe we can make it a multi-person longhair get together event.
Absalom
Sounds like you've got a belt buckle grazer now Victor!
My beard is about 11 inches in length. Got a ways to go yet before I worry about catching it in my 501s (and 505s)....
I do have to tip my head back to button or zip up a shirt or jacket.
- Oren
I don't consider long beards off-topic, either, Victor. My only problem with long beards is that I get jealous of you guys that look so good with long beards. You, Oren, Bill, Absalom, and others I think look gheat with the long beards: I, on the other hand, can only stand to look in teh mirror a little past the "shaggy" stage. After that, I begin to look too much like Santa, --- in fact, friends and family have even recommended I consider applying for the job at Macy's!
- Ken
Wow. That looks like a real maintenance hassle. I lost patience with my beard when it started tangling at 3 inches. These pictures look all 19th century. At that time, a long beard was more a sign of masculinity than now, perhaps. This is an interesting counterpoint to people wondering why guys would want to go through the hassle of maintaining head hair when it's considered by many to be feminine. If you go for the long beard, which is undeniably a symbol of masulinity, you end up with something that looks even less convenient.
Not that I would ever want to go terminal with my beard, I did well enough getting my wife to let me grow it keep it. I'd be severely pushing my luck if I told her I wanted to grow it long.
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