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…
Fucking genetics
Submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
wow. so it’s long enough to pass for a beard
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Let’s trade. I resigned myself to my beard (shaving irritates my skin so much that I stopped bothering), but I never actually 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.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 months ago
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.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
On the flip side, now it’s easier to be a twink :3
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, my beard comes in thicker than Obi-Wan’s. Now I have the joy of lasering it all off, yay 🙃 lol
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2 months ago
My facial hair doesn’t connect at each side of my mouth, so I literally have a beard and moustache as opposed to just a “beard”. It sucks
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sprry but using Pedro Pascal as the “bad facial hair” example?? Are you nuts???
FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
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
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
the stuff that prevents hair loss? seriously?
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 months ago
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.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I tried it for several months, but I saw no change.
candyman337@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Minoxidil can cause heart palpitations so that’s not the best idea, that can get the oil in your eyes, mouth, and cuts
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 months ago
THANK YOU! I’m slowly getting a widow’s peak and desperately want the full Riker beard before I lose my hairline. I’ll see if can get some of that stuff!
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wouldn’t finasteride also work? Or is that more for the hairline?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Finasteride only really effects hair on the scalp, since beard hairs isn’t effected by the chemical that finasteride protects against.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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….
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
With a hairy ass?
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 months ago
My dad is bald at the back, my maternal grandfather was bald at the front. As a result I’m what’s called bald as fuck. Thick beard though.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah, I knew we needed to look at hair.
Mother’s-father is always the indicator. (Morfar?)
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 months ago
Poor and heart broken, a former shell of yourself?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know the genetics of beards, but that’s how the genetics of the penis goes. Your mom’s side of the family determines the shape and length because the X chromosome encodes it, and the Y only activates it. Nature has a sense of humor, doesn’t it.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That is the sexiest thing I’ve ever heard
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think I grew mine out before 20, but it’s stayed on because it absolutely made me look older.
I tried clean shaven a few times since and I end up looking like I’m 16 again. No thanks.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Men with any amount of facial hair is sexy.
I like men. I like hair.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t have a connector in the middle.
It just gets whispy and scraggly. It does not grow in.
Soft boi lyf. 🫡
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Huh.
Well of course I know that beard on the left!
It’s on me!
Same length and growth pattern, was actually going to trim it a bit this weekend, but uh, despite my head hair being basically the same as Ewan’s (color, waviness), my main jaw line and sideburns and jet black like Pedro, as are my eyebrows… but my moustache is about the same color as Ewan’s.
… So clearly what that means is I as attractive as both of them combined =p hahaha! /s
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have been rocking Obi-wan beard for the past 20 years, my wife probably wouldn’t recognise me without it. Mine is just darker brown.
Yes, it’s great. I just got to occasionally trim it but I can go for months without touching it and it just… Works. Till the moustache gets too much in my mouth.
Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Blame Tylenol
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is me, except replace the second photo with Robin Williams in Jumanji after he comes out of the game.
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Okay
Image
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perfection
DBT@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could achieve the one in the left with some grooming then, yea?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, the hairs don’t cooperate. If I cut away all the curly strands that stick out, I have no beard.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can work with that. I got a shitty lower heavy beard that doesn’t connect my mustache correctly.
On the sides of my lips it just won’t grow. You can hopefully trim yours down to get dapper.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
My moustache only grows on the sides of my lips lmao
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel you. I have to let the far sides of my mustache grow out longer than the rest so they bridge the gap to the beard.