• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    Beards? My hair starts at the top of my head and ends at my toe knuckles. My beard hair goes up to my cheek bones, down to the underside of my jaw and entirely down my neck to connect to my chest hair. I have to regularly shave my neck, shape and trim my beard.

    I mean, I like my facial hair just fine, I just wish I didn’t have random solid white patches where my body decided to quit due to stress on me.

    I’d really rather shoot myself than deal with grooming my face in general but I’d rather limit the parts I have to shave if I must.

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    I don’t have a connector in the middle.

    It just gets whispy and scraggly. It does not grow in.

    Soft boi lyf. 🫡

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    My beard is even fuller than the one on the left. No bald patches around the soul patch and no thinning on the cheeks or sideburns. You better believe I’ve rocked that shit every day since I was 20. It’s one of the few things I don’t take for granted.

    When I initially grew it, I was a supervisor at a supermarket. After the beard, it was shocking how often people would accept my verdict on returns and such compared to before.

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    I have pretty much exactly McGregor’s beard in this pic. I never realized it could be the object of beardly ambitions, and I never seriously considered the distress of a man who isn’t able to have the beard he wants. Thanks for the new point of view…

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      I’m in my mid forties, I have the beard growing ability of a 13 year old girl. I would fucking love to be able to grow a thick, bushy beard. But alas.

      Guess my massive wang makes up for it.

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        Let’s trade. I resigned myself to my beard (shaving irritates my skin so much that I stopped bothering), but I never really wanted it. Though I’m not sure if I’ll like my face beardless after so many years … I got quite a bit older and fatter.

        Keep the wang, tho.

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        If it helps, I can’t stop growing a thick bushy beard, but it gets itchy, and the individual hairs are so coarse it’s like steel wool. Rasps the skin off my lips if I’m a day late in trimming.

        And now in my early 40s it’s growing out my nose and ears too (and I can see the first signs of those crazy eyebrow beards old men get). Sometimes a loose nose hair gets up between by nose and my throat, and it’s like flossing your sinuses with a cheese wire.

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          I got the best of both worlds. Incredibly thick hair, but just sparse, with cheeks largely uncovered and full beard at neck. I use real razor blades, because they’re the onyl thing that cuts without nicking me, but they still tug like shit because they’re so thick.

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    I couldn’t grow a beard until my mid thirties. Don’t be discouraged if you’re younger and don’t have full growth yet.

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    Everyone on my dad’s side has nice thick full heads of hair. My grandfather on my mom’s side was bald. Guess how I ended up….

  • FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world
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    Actually you can use minoxidil on the face and get more beard hair, beards aren’t effected by amgrogenic alopecia so it stays when you stop applying minoxidil

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      Is there something that does the reverse? I’m not personally a fan of the look and feel of facial hair (for myself that is), and I find it annoying having to shave all the time only for the hair to come right back before too long.

    • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE

      Now I’ve just gotta find where I can fucking get it and how much it is.

      • omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Just buy generic on Amazon or whatever. It does take a good amount of time before you see results. I’ve been doing it for a year and have considerably more facial hair now than before, but it was 3-6 months before I saw any difference

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            It works by increasing blood flow to the area that you apply the medicine to. As the blood flow increases it slowly starts to stimulate hair growth in previously dormant hair follicles, but it’s a slow process. At about 3 months I started to notice new small fine new hairs coming in. At 6 months those small hairs had grown into longer, larger hairs, and at the same time new small fine hairs were forming underneath them. At a year, most of the patches that had no hair in them before now have a pretty decent amount of hair and you can’t really tell they used to be completely bare. It’s a long process