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It seems my beard is undergoing another growth spurt. I just measured it, and the longest whiskers are right at 26 inches.
Thanks, Victor for getting us back to the true purpose of the board. It seems as though your beard length is nearly as long as my hair length. 28 inches down the back. peace and keep it growing, jonalbear
Very nice!
That's definitely get-caught-in-your-fly length.
I am half way there with my beard at 13 inches.
- Oren
With only six inches of beard, I feel very inadequate. [grin] But this week it began to blow freely in the wind, and it's beginning to get in my soup. Hey, progress!
I've been growing mine this time for just a year, so six inches is just what one would expect.
Bill
Whose beard today is starring on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle!
I wish I had the guts to grow my beard out like you, Oren, & Victor, as I think I'd get a kick out of it; but my beard's "awkward stage" is TRULY AWKWARD, --- i look *exactly* like a perverted Santa Claus (and not in a happy "ho-ho-ho" sort of way)....
I just trimmed my beard last week, in fact. I like it best when it looks a little "shaggy"; but then just a couple of weeks after that, and little kids start clinging tightly to their mothers at just the sight of me, --- NOT a good feeling!
- Ken
And how have you determined that it's THE BEARD? ((:o)>
I get pretty much the same reaction without a beard!
I wear button fly jeans but still have the problem on occasion. I've noticed that I've acquired a habit of essentially looking up at the ceiling after I've finished my business at the restroom. This keeps my beard free from harm. It's not just the fly but also the belt.
At work I have a problem with my badge. We're supposed to wear it on a lanyard around our necks. I generally just hold it, unless I get told I have to wear it. Then I wear it until I'm out of sight of the person who told me to wear it.
Clip-ons are OK if they are above waist-level, which somehow doesn't work for me.
How long have you been growing it?
When I was in junior high school, my dad noticed that I had the same pattern he had, with hairs growing out sideways below the chin. Mind you, at the time it was just peach fuzz. But the pattern he noticed prompted him to forecast problems with ingrown hairs.
He was right. Once my beard started growing for real when I was at college, I let it grow, because if I shaved, I'd get the ingrown hairs.
At first, I kept it trim (which, for me meant that I'd cut it down to the longest setting on the beard trimmer when it got to a scruffy length of, say 3-4 inches).
I continued in that way until 1996 when I went with my daughters to the Pecan Street festival. At the festival, there was a lady who was making fancy braids. I bought a fancy braid for each of my daughters and had her put my own hair in a 4-strand braid. I also asked her if she could braid my beard.
She tried a couple of times but eventually gave up, saying it was just slightly too short to braid and that I should come back at the next festival.
These festivals occur in the spring and fall. I went to the next one, and she wasn't there. Then I went to the one after that, and she wasn't there either, nor at the one after that. Meanwhile, I'd been letting my beard grow.
I got involved with beards.org and decided that I'd like to see how long I could grow it. I haven't cut it since.
I did eventually run into the lady again, at Scarborough Faire. She gave my beard a nice French braid and took a picture of it for her album that she uses for people to choose a braid style.
So what I generally tell people is that I've not cut it since 1996.
Wow thats amazing, my hair is no where near that!
Wow Victor, that is almost 3 times as long as mine. I would love to see a photo of it at its current length. I have seen past photos of your beard and it looked fantastic.
The longest strands in my beard are a mere 10 inches. I hope I can get at to grow to at least 15 inches.
Absalom
You guys are bad news for the electric shaver industry. LOL
Nice beards though my compliments to you.
Kevin
My longest is at around 5 inches, and I've been growing since january last year :(
That's awesome for a beard, Victor.
I just measured from my chin to the top of my belt and got a traveling distance of 20 inches. My beard is 6 inches long now, so I have 14 inches to go!
The longest mane hair I've found in recent years is 22-7/8 inches, although at the moment the longest one seems to be about 19 inches. Will my beard reach my belt? The question is whether my beard's terminal length will be greater than that of my mane. I guess in 2 years and four months I'll know. Ask me in September 2009 to check!
Bill
That sounds about right. If I slouch, sometimes I sit on my beard (between my legs, not around back -- that feat belongs to my hair). Sometimes I've caught myself stuffing the end into my pocket accidentally.
Yup, Im jealous!!
peace
clayton
Wow you are a true inspiration I cant wait for my facial hair to thicken, as I would be growing a full on beard now. Could you perhaps show us a better pic of your beard please. By the way have you heard of a guy called wayne static, of a band called static x, he has a killer beard! here is a pic of him