Facial Hair

Chet

Chet

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Got any? I have a mustache to cover a scar on my upper lip. Got any, gents? Ladies are optional.
 

Chet said:
Got any? I have a mustache to cover a scar on my upper lip. Got any, gents? Ladies are optional.
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Had to laugh at last sentence. When i told doctor i would not be continuing HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) they put me on when diagnosed as fully menopausal they tried to scare me into it by talking about facial hair on Post menopausal women. i said i'd take my chances considering the uncomfortable side effects of the HRT on me.

Much to Doctors surprise (several since then then have assumed i was on HRT) i not only did not get any significant facial hair growth, my body hair slowly diminished. Once every year or two i get a single pure white hair on chin or left cheek, always same two spots. i pluck it and am good for long time before one comes back. i can live with that.

For the record when younger i always liked the look of facial hair on men, tho sometimes mustaches tickled and beards (especially when short stubbly) were scratchy. But i always felt that just as with our/women's style/grooming choices it was up to the man how much facial hair he wanted and how he styled it---unattractiveness was linked to low levels of cleanliness.
 
Nope. When I worked at United, they allowed a "neatly trimmed mustache." I tried it for a few weeks, but when I would get an ingrown hair, it hurt like the devil, so I shaved it off and never went back to it. I don't use anything except my Gillette Mach III razor for shaving.
 
I generally try to stay shaven. I have let it grow out, but it feels itchy. If I shave to closely or in the morning it is itchy and feels like a heat rash. I use a beard and mustache trimer to shave my face in the evening, but it still leaves stubble on my face.
 
Don't shave, but do trim.

Allan Sherman said it best. Ever since I was 12 years old God has been putting hair on my face and everyday I've been shaving it off. I finally decided to let God have his way.

I owe Allan Sherman a big debt. My Dad would always get on me about shaving and he had nothing to say to that.
 
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dseag2 said:
No facial hair for me. It would be white and I'm just not ready for that.
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There's a mole on the right side of my chin, which in my twenties, I was very conscious of. When I asked a doctor about having it removed the doctor explained that moles are caused when cells in the skin, called melanocytes, grow in clusters. Melanocytes are generally distributed throughout the skin. They produce melanin, the natural pigment that gives skin its colour.

Doctor then went on to say that she wouldn't recommend removing it, there was a risk that the cells left around the site of the mole could become cancerous. "It's not proven," she said, "but why risk it?" Then she looked straight at me and said: "Grow a beard." I had that beard for more than thirty years but when I started to look like Santa I shaved it off. The mole is more preferable, vain or what?

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Rosie has got facial hair too, she was such a wonderful friend, how we miss her still.
 
Marie5656 said:
From the female perspective...I grow a few of those obnoxious post-meno chin hairs some of us tend to get. A little lotion and a swipe with a disposable razor does the trick.
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....when you look down to brush a stray hair off your lapel but discover it's still firmly attached to your chin.....<sigh>

....when the hair on your head is replaced by the hair on your upper lip......<even more regretful sigh>
 
feywon said:
Had to laugh at last sentence. When i told doctor i would not be continuing HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) they put me on when diagnosed as fully menopausal they tried to scare me into it by talking about facial hair on Post menopausal women. i said i'd take my chances considering the uncomfortable side effects of the HRT on me.

Much to Doctors surprise (several since then then have assumed i was on HRT) i not only did not get any significant facial hair growth, my body hair slowly diminished. Once every year or two i get a single pure white hair on chin or left cheek, always same two spots. i pluck it and am good for long time before one comes back. i can live with that.

For the record when younger i always liked the look of facial hair on men, tho sometimes mustaches tickled and beards (especially when short stubbly) were scratchy. But i always felt that just as with our/women's style/grooming choices it was up to the man how much facial hair he wanted and how he styled it---unattractiveness was linked to low levels of cleanliness.
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I have never been on HRT, I'm 74 and still get hot flushes. I have NO leg hair, minimal body hair elsewhere, and get 2-3 hairs a month on my chin, which I simply yank out. Its all good.
 

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