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billwill
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I'm 20 years old and I just can't grow facial hair. Even if I don't shave for two weeks, the best I get is this patchiness on my jaw that looks absolutely terrible.
Is it going to be like this forever, or does facial hair sometimes kick in really late?
Is it going to be like this forever, or does facial hair sometimes kick in really late?
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some people just don't have good facial hair for a long time, or ever. i have a coworker with an excellent beard who was only able to finally grow one successfully when he hit his forties.
basically try it every once in a while, but be prepared to wait for some time.
Keep shaving regularly, and then on the 1st of January each year, stop shaving for a week. If you grow a solid scruff, congratulations, bearding is now an option. If not, keep shaving for another year.
That's just how it works.
Seriously, it's different for everyone.
I was able to grow a solid Goatee at like 17, but it wasn't until I was about 23 that I could do a full beard.
Yup.
Just, count your savings on razors and shaving cream OP. As a dude that started shaving in grade 8 having heavy facial hair isn't all that thrilling.
Also, obligatory Penny Arcade comic, and one of my favorites in the archive:
Its all about genes, man.
No kidding. I'm sure Corvus can attest to this - living near Surrey I had a lot of East Indian friends, and the number of guys I knew who were growing moustaches since they were sixteen and beards not long after...too many to count.
Turned out pretty well for me, I started growing a decent goatee right around my first year of university when I was 17 or so and a full on beard a year later. My beard grows pretty fast - within 36 hours and I look pretty rugged after a week. Thank god, I would look like a twelve year old if I didn't have my beard.
There's absolutely no way to change it up, you gotta take the hand you're dealt genetically. You're no less of a man if you can't, though I'm sure you secretly know that
My brother, who is apparantly half goat, can grow a carpet from beard to belly-button, and gets a five o-clock shadow at noon. I am not kidding, if he's got the bidness at four, he's shaving again at 3. I always get a kick out of it, because my five o'clock shadow comes in at about the three day mark. Just one less thing I have to do in the morning.
and yet my dad can grow a beard overnight
it's just in the genes, although by about 30-35, almost every man can grow a respectable beard, there's is really nothing you can do to speed it up
I mean, my face combines the elfin beauty of ... an elf... with the wild growth of a caveman... but... don't worry about whether or not you can get a beard. Seriously. Most real jobs in the adult world would recommend you shave!
couldn't grow much beyond a mustache and chin beard to save my life and was bare as the dickens on my chest
one year later I sport a rockin' full beard (although it takes a solid three weeks for it to look nice) and for some reason my chest hair has kicked itself into overdrive
I think I just caught a hiccup during puberty that lasted four or five years and then began again, who knows
don't despair!
I just take it as a fair trade for not having back hair.
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Seeing my friends use up razor blades like crazy makes me somewhat glad I only need to shave my chin every 4 days or so though. Those things are expensive.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
When I first started growing my goatee, it took like a month to grow in properly. You may just be patchy to start and need to get some length to have the hairs, I dunno, 'layer' properly.
Then again, you may be a woman. Look in your pants, what do you see?
I looked like I was twelve until I was about 25, then I finally started being able to grow a beard. But now I've come to a realization that mine will only grow about 3 inches long, and then it just stops. It also comes in way thicker right underneath the top of my jawbones.
This!
I have it the other way round. If I'm to attend something after work wanting to look sharp I have to shave before going as the morning shave does not really cut it. Oh, what I could do with all the time spend and for that matter all the money spend as well.
Sometimes it's nice to go 3 days without shaving without looking like you're Jim Morrison.
Relish in the fact you don't have to shave so much. Before I hit the all of a sudden "holy shit" phase of my facial hair, I love the fact I could go 3-4 days without shaving. Now I'm pissed because I have to shave everyday. Ugh.
Oh and my beard didn't start coming in until 26.
My roomate didn't start actually growing full facial hair (and chest hair) until he was around 23-24
My strange mix of Scots, German and Dutch genes has somehow contributed to creating a beast whose facial hair grows in fire-engine red (even though my hair is brown-bordering-on-black) and stays rigid even after the stubble face. It never, ever curls. I look like an Irish porcupine is dry-humping my mouth if I don't shave regularly.
Fuck beards, who needs 'em.
Facial hair is incredibly difficult to predict, it seems. I'm almost 19 and in the past year my facial hair has only really just started to properly come in, and even now I can still only grow a barely passable chinstrap and a nearly transparent moustache. Some people I know (who are a year younger than I am) have been able to grow full beards since they were 15.
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Now, I always keep my chin-goatee and sideburns in, and have to shave my mustache. But my cheeks and the jawline don't grow in well so I keep those shaved clean, along with keep my throat clear of stray dark hairs.
I couldn't grow anything when I was 20, I'm 23 now and have to shave pretty much every day if I want to stay smooth. I know a couple of guys who took until their mid 20's to grow full on beards.
When ever I see people say if you don't have facial hair by 20 you won't get any I remember that I haven't seen any middle aged guys who can't grow facial hair. Pretty much every guy must get there at some point.
Also, seconding shaving sucks. Now I have to do it regularly I hate it.
My beard is a part time logger and crabber and is sometimes known to run into burning buildings to save the runts of the litter of every animal. What's your clean shaven face done today? Get all gussied up with fancy lathery creams in an effort to make you feel man-pretty?
You'll get used to it around the time that ear hair starts coming in; which should be around the time you have to start getting prostate exams.
Then you will truly know what it is to be a man.
But I'm sure looking like something Puss in Boots coughed up has its y-chromosome enhancing perks too.
Actually, you do need the genes. I don't have nose hair even though the rest of my family does, and I never will. Every time people give me those trimmer+nose clipper packs for Christmas, I have to give away the nose trimmer part because it's uttery useless for me :P I am permanently nose-bald.