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Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Why do people on the internet think you don't have to shave if you have a beard? You're just shaving less area.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. When I was clean shaven, it was easy, I could just hold the shaver against the contours of my face.

Now, with a large beard, I only need to shave every one or two weeks, but it takes much longer to do so and is much trickier. I've got to sculpt and shape a mound of hair manually. And every day I still brush and oil it.

Clean or short shaven was actually less effort.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Ha, NSFW example but my God when people call the tight trimmed triangle a "natural bush" on women I laugh. It's more work to maintain than just about any other alternative.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I don't shave and I have a beard - once in a blue moon for a special occasion, I might trim it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Exactly, it's actually MORE work to shave with a beard because instead of just completely removing all of the hair and you have to shape it and make sure it's symmetrical.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Very variable, depending on style and your personal growth pattern. I have a small patch on each cheek that has to be cleaned off, but otherwise it doesn't require shaving. With a big beard you have to care for it like normal hair, though, with haircuts and products.

Buuut I do have the shave my whole head. Oh well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've (recently) stopped shaving entirely, but I use my trimmers to to a quick hackjob on the area I used to manually shave. so my facial hair care routine is about 5 minutes every 2 weeks or so, plus maybe 5 minutes a month to buzz my head. can't believe I used to spend that much time every couple of days to look like shit. now I still look like shit but have a few more minutes