After four months, I just trimmed and reshaped my beard.

[MineralMan]

I'm not going to go to the barbershop, due to COVID-19, but my beard had gotten way to shaggy, even for my own taste. Now, it's back to its original length and shape from four months ago, when the barber trimmed it.

I used to trim it myself, but stopped doing that many years ago. I've had a full beard since 1969, and it has gone through several different shapes and lengths. After my efforts, which took about 15 minutes, it's back to being just a run-of-the-mill full beard again.

My beard began as an anti-Vietnam war symbol, at a time when not too many people wore beards. It also saved me about 5 minutes each morning that would have been wasted in removing the whiskers that naturally grow on my face. That amounts to 93075 minutes or about 1551 hours saved. I think that's worthwhile.

My wife has never seen me clean-shaven. Hell, I haven't seen myself clean-shaven for 51 years. I'm sure I'd faint from shock if I did. My wife would probably call the cops on me as a stranger in the house.

Anyhow, that's my Sunday, i guess.

[42bambi]

1. Happy Sunday to you MM. nt

[MineralMan]

2. Thank you very much!

[flying_wahini]

3. Wanting before and after pictures next time! 😄

[ismnotwasm]

4. I do my husband beard

He simply forgets, and is not very vain. Me? I like seeing those cheekbones and blue eagle eyes shown to their best advantage. After all these years, he still makes me catch my breath.

Anyway, he enjoys the attention, and I actually got good at it. I just use a razor and scissors, and play with slightly different looks. He doesn’t like the “little more than a stubble look” though, I kinda do, but it’s not my face.

We are very decadent and I do it in our hottub, which means extra cleaning, but that’s ok.

[42bambi]

5. You're a good wife! I also trim my husband beard and cut his hair. I think he's embarrassed to

go out, he's in late stage liver disease. Retired AF colonel - so I do understand the hesitation of him not wanting to be seen in public ... I try to take care of his personal needs. Sad, but glad he's still with me!

[MLAA]

11. Sending you guy 💕💕💕💖💖💖

My husband had heart surgery last summer. His short term memory has suffered, but I’m just so happy to still have him 🙂

[ooky]

6. I had a beard back in my younger years but never could get used to it.

I had it all the years I was dating my wife, and one day decided to shave it off, about a year after we were married. I thought I was spending too much time trimming it. I didn't tell her first, and was she ever shocked when she saw it. Not in a happy way either. It was not a good day.

I've lost count of the times I have grown it and shaved it since then. Trimming technology is much better now, but it also itches in the first days it grows back out. During Covid I've settled into an ~ once a week shaving pattern, to get rid of it when it starts itching. Time-wise, that works pretty good. If I let it grow it now with my hair also growing out I look a slender version of hippy Santa.

[niyad]

7. The least you could do is provide pictures of this masterpiece!

[MineralMan]

12. Sorry. I don't do selfies.

My avatar is the only picture of me I'll post here on DU. I don't want to drive people off the site, you know...

[PJMcK]

8. I'm going to cut my hair tonight

At the beginning of March, I got a haircut and it lasted until the third week of April when I couldn't take it any longer. I pulled out an electric razor, stuck the longest attachment on it and moved that sucker all over my noggin until the hair stopped falling off. It turned out okay. But now, I need to do it again.

Although I've grown several beards and mustaches in my life, about 20 years ago I decided I preferred to be clean shaven. It helps me wake up in the morning and it feels better to me. I have no objections to beards, (unless it's on a woman!), just to each their own.

Since you're self-isolated, MineralMan, why not try something fun or crazy? You might give your wife a laugh.

Well, wait a minute... my wife didn't laugh when she saw my haircut. It was more of an eye-roll!

[sl8]

9. Doesn't the beard interfere with the proper wear of a mask? n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

10. I Trim Mine Weekly

Mine is only a goatee, so I'm shaving around it every day.
But, I knock out the stragglers and cut over a comb each week.
Now, haircuts are out. I've now got about a 10 inch pony tail. My hairline is where it was when I was 25, so combing it all back and tying it is fast and easy.
I've had guys at the golf course why I wear my hair long. My answer is "Because I can.". 50% of those guys are bald.

[MineralMan]

13. Mine grows out pretty evenly, so I don't trim it

very often. My barber cuts it better than I do, but I can manage a trim if necessary.

At its longest, back in the early 70s, it hid my shirt collar and was about 6 inches long. Every four months, I get it whacked back to 1" long overall, and it grows out evenly between trims.

I do need a haircut, but I don't attempt that myself. I can always go back to the pony tail look, if necessary. It used to be halfway down my back at one point, but I cut it short one time when I couldn't use a hotel swimming pool without a swim cap, which I didn't have. So, I dropped into the hotel's barber shop and said to the woman barber, "Take it off down to about 1" overall." She said, "What? Really?" I said, "Yeah. I want to go swimming." So she whacked it off for me.

I'm a lazy man when it comes to such things. I can't be bothered.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I'm The Same

But an unkempt beard is a pet peeve of mine, and compared to my wife, it's a minor annoyance. She can't stand that look.
So, if I want my goatee, I've got to keep it neat.
Oddly, my beard is 35 or 40% gray, but the hair on my head is still 95% black.
I got gray on my temples at about 35, and then it just stopped!
My dad was fully gray by 50.
Go figure!

[backscatter712]

15. I've been using a beard-trimmer - I tend to keep my face-fuzz in some sort of designer-stubble look.

I tend to set my trimmer to 4mm length or so. Maybe buzz it shorter or shave it along the cheeks (my cheek-fuzz gets really patchy.)

It's my hair that's getting long as hell.

I think I'm gonna go full-hippie with the hair - see if I can grow it long enough to pull it into a ponytail.