Ok, what is that 5 O'clock shadow beard thing lotsa men are wearing these days???

[a kennedy]

and I will admit some men do look pretty hot showing that look. OTHERS not so much......what is the look called??

[vlyons]

1. I call it scruffy ugly

[a kennedy]

2. Ha ha, ha......I know....so popular tho....

and really some guys do look kinda cool......JMHP.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. I get lots of compliments on mine... but, I just go with it cuz I got better things to do than shave

every day. Don't see how that would bother other people... tho it does sometimes irritate their soft skin.

[a kennedy]

7. Come on....ya gotta show us......

Please post a photo.

[mitch96]

18. Unless your a handsome 20 something....

Your just scruffy, shabby,grungy and need a shave...
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[Major Nikon]

20. If you are older than 50...

It’s called no more fucks to give

[TwistOneUp]

55. Scrugly. Less offensive if overheard. nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. It's called "Hipster Doofus".

[eShirl]

4. it makes me think...

maybe they haven't washed up in a few days

I mean, grow a beard, don't grow a beard, whatever's fine.

[Quemado]

6. It's called "Perma Stubble"

The face that inspired the "stubble" setting on electric razors:



https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PermaStubble

[htuttle]

13. yup, pretty sure it debuted on Miami Vice

[d_r]

15. I cane to post miami vice

Late to party as always

[pansypoo53219]

19. dated look. SHAVE! gah.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. ...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

35. When Don Johnson made it popular I tried in

On me, the effect was more reminiscent of Yasser Arafat, so I shaved.

[bdtrppr6]

8. every second not shaving,

beard is growing. been shaving since 13, really fucking tired of it at 50! i hate having full beard so i go 2 weeks then shave.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. Evokes memories of my bartending days...

when a couple of the "regulars" routinely showed up unbathed and unshaved; one of them even joked that he shook too badly to risk using a razor. Couple of times they smelled so bad that the other customers threatened to take them out back and introduce them to a garden hose. Sorry, guys, but seeing the scruffiness brings back those smells. Also reminds of junior high when some of the boys were trying to show off the scraggly beginning effects of puberty.

Just one old lady's opinion. And, for the record, I've always been partial to beards and 'staches.


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[NRaleighLiberal]

10. they've finally caught up with me - that's been my look since 1979!

[SWBTATTReg]

11. This look has been around forever ... it just that some are lazy and don't trim / clean up...

I've had this look forever due to skin issues so didn't shave.

[skypilot]

12. "these days"???

Guys have been sporting that look for a while. Works better on some than on others.

[Solly Mack]

14. My husband calls it his day off.

Never shaves on his days off.

[Paladin]

16. Not surprisingly, it doesn't work for Donald Trump Jr.

It just confirms his status as a member of a more-or-less organized crime family.

[yonder]

17. My two-year old tRump protest beard

is getting close to Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) long. It ain't coming off til the GutBrain-in-Chief is out of there. I honestly thought he wouldn't last more than 6 months. I was wrong. Awhile back, I gave it a slight Manafort trim and another Manafort/Kushner/Don Jr. trim might be coming up but I'm in it for the long haul.

I believe there is another DU'er doing the same.

[MrsMatt]

22. Steve Bannon Stubble? n/t

[NightWatcher]

23. I'm 60/40 grey hair and I can pull the look off.

I always look like I've just been out to sea for a week or two without a razor.

I'm working on the river, running a boat, so I can get away with it.

[Fla Dem]

24. Doesn't work for everybody. Some guys just look like they rolled out of bed and couldn't be bothered

after a 3 night bender.

[malthaussen]

25. "Lazy."

De gustibus non est disputandum.

-- Mal

[lark]

26. i hate it, at least for the man I'm with.

Way too scratchy for me. I want either clean shaven or a full soft beard, nothing that hurts.

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. It's how it feels for me too

Once a friend's boyfriend sported the perma stubble look. When I left a party at her place, he walked me to my car. While I was thinking he was being a gentleman, he decided to drunkenly steal a kiss. Besides being put off by him assuming he could kiss me, I wondered how she put up with that stubble. It was like kissing a hedgehog! But I couldn't say anything ...

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. Such BS.

The only thing Spanky respects is his bank account.

[Farmer-Rick]

28. Yup, 5 o'clock shadow

When I wasn't so gray, I had that shadow, stubbiness, if I didn't shave a second time around 5 pm. My wife didn't mind so I just shaved once.

But with my gray, I don't get such an obvious look anymore. The gray stubble, that comes after a day or 2 of not shaving, looks really awful. It looks dirty and makes most old men look grayer and older. I don't know why those old men in Hollywood think it's a good look.

[moose65]

29. I do it for one reason....

And one reason only - I absolutely HATE to shave. Ugh. Drives me up the fucking wall, so I’d rather have the stubble. As a geezer-in-training of 53, I have reached the point in my life when I don’t give a shit what other people think of my face! Of course, it helps that as a gay man I don’t have to worry about what the ladies like 😁

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. Why not grow a beard?

I can totally understand not liking to shave. I hate shaving my legs, but I do like how they feel smooth, so I do it.

[moose65]

45. I alternate between beard and scruff

When it gets too long, it gets itchy and there’s a lot of gray in it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. I see

Gray does seem to show up in a guy's beard first, or most. It can make you look older than you want.

[Aristus]

30. There are times when I don't want to bother shaving before going to the clinic.

But I do it anyway.

Stubble is great for looking the part of a scruffy, exhausted, overworked medical provider. But it's best left to the emergency medicine staff. It just looks lazy on a primary care provider like me who at least gets to go home at five o'clock.

[Guilded Lilly]

31. Scruffy :) works well on some men. Oh yeah.

[Generic Brad]

32. No Shave November

It's December now. You should begin seeing fewer raggedy ass beards.

[JudyM]

33. Designer stubble

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_stubble

George Michael... or was Don Johnson first?

[trueblue2007]

34. I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL. I think it's dumb.

i like smooth face.

[moose65]

44. It's "dumb"?

Are you talking about your own face or someone else’s?

[trueblue2007]

50. I'm not sure why you're asking me this. I am woman and ..... lolol, I have a smooth face.

[moose65]

58. How am I supposed to know that you're a woman?

I’m curious why you called it “dumb” though.

[trueblue2007]

59. well you do what smart people on DU do.... check posters profile

and as to why I called the look dumb. Look it is my opinion. You don't like what I say.....just ignore my comment.
I am not the only person calling the look dumb ...

[moose65]

61. Your profile says nothing about you being a woman

[trueblue2007]

62. Oh stop it already, Stop harrassing me.

[cbdo2007]

36. Laziness...I just dgaf anymore

My job is pretty laid back and especially on days i don't have meetings I'll just skip a few days here and there because I'm over it.

Normally I would have shaved every other day but in my advanced age (40) and young kids who don't sleep...I'm over it. Sorry

[Recursion]

37. They sell trimmers with that as a setting now, like a "# 1/2"

I hesitate to call that a "beard", but if it's hair that you deliberately have on your face, I suppose that's a beard.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. More of a "growth" than a beard ... nt

[zanana1]

39. When you want to get personal, but...

The guys gives you beard burns.

[Aristus]

42. That's why I try to stay baby-smooth as often as possible...

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. Here's what I really loathe - designer stubble w/ a tux

?fit=250%2C375&ssl=1

I am totally fine will a well groomed beard or goatee, but if you're in a tux, FUCKING SHAVE ALREADY!!!

[frogmarch]

46. To me, the shadow beard thing

makes guys look as if they don't wash and have bad breath and b.o.

Equally ugly to me is the "shadow root" fad I see on some tv actresses now. The bottom part of their hair is blonde and the upper part, starting with the roots, is dark.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/08/169865/blonde-hair-dark-roots-hair-trend

[Tobin S.]

48. Mine means that I've been working so hard that I don't have the energy to shave.

[Laffy Kat]

49. I kinda like it.

[applegrove]

51. Movember campaign? Men's health?

[demosincebirth]

52. "Monkey do what monkey see."

[dameatball]

53. When I retired I decided to go without shaving for a while. IMHO I looked much older after a

couple weeks. So I ended up buying one of those beard/moustache trimmers where you can adjust the settings. Eh...it was okay. But mostly I just shave. Now and then I let it grow for a few days, but not often. Lots of men and women shave various areas these days. A friend told me so.

[randr]

54. Call it "some people think it's hot"

I get compliments from younger women if I sport a shadow, which I often do, and I am in my 70s. Go figure.

[mahina]

56. See, they have SO much testosterone that even after they shave, the beard grows so fast.

Mui macho.

Is the idea I guess.

[Lunabell]

57. I think it makes you look dirty

And smelly. Just my opinion.

I like clean shaved or well groomed beard and mustache.

[jmowreader]

60. It's what hipsters do...

...when they want something on their face and they refuse to wear eye shadow.

[Harker]

63. Shaving was interesting for a month or two.

I thank Don Johnson and George Michael practically every day. After 45 years, scraping the hair off my face is something I don't mind doing a few times per year.