Ginger Beard

Ohyeah

I want to let my facial hair grow, however everytime I get a little bit of a beard going, me facial hair turns out to be quiet red.

The hair on me head is blackish, its defo not red anyway:eek:

I have heard that this is a common Irish lads prob. is that true, any advice about what to do?

I have tried shaving complete off and then letting grow long and then cutting back again. However still pretty red, especially when it gets caught in the light!!

thanks

AlmightyCushion

Maybe in this very rare circumstance the brotherhood would condone the use of hair dye. :eek:

mcauley

I feel your pain.....

This runs in my family.

Solution: Do not grow facial hair. Unfortunate but true.

spurious

It's supposedly a relic of Viking DNA.
I don't think you can do anything about it.

Zaph

It's something I'm also afflicted with. A good razor is the only solution I'm afraid.

AlmightyCushion

zaph wrote:

A good razor is the only solution I'm afraid.

Jaysus zaph, I know it's bad but there's no need to top yourself.

Zaph

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Jaysus zaph, I know it's bad but there's no need to top yourself.

Sometimes drastic situations require drastic measures....

jester77

I have the same problem as well. The first week of growth is grand but then for some peculiar reason it goes ginger.... but feck it, sure isn't it easier to put up with than having to constantly shave it :cool:

Proxy

Oi! I have a red beard (and red hair), its a little darker than my hair - whats wrong with it?! Shenanigans!

The Hill Billy

I know where you are coming from brother. The hair on my head is dark brown, but my beard is black on the left side, blonde stripe on right side of my chin & red on rest of the right side.

I've been wearing my multi-coloured beard with pride for almost 20 years now. A unicoloured (albeit) ginger beard shouldn't pose a problem.

Nevyn

It depends on how 'ard you are, you may be able to get away with a dimebag tribute.

nice1franko

I've blonde hair but a fairly ginger beard.

Some viking cnut must've interfered with my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandma. the fukcingbastard.

We all have our crosses to bear bother ohyeah

My attempt at a beard(been growing one for the last month) looks black normally but also appears red when the light shines on my face a certain way. What causes it!

jester77

Deleted User wrote:

My attempt at a beard(been growing one for the last month) looks black normally but also appears red when the light shines on my face a certain way. What causes it!

Must be something in the Guinness that causes it... it's the one thing we all have in common

Vegeta

Thaedydal wrote:

It depends on how 'ard you are, you may be able to get away with a dimebag tribute.

What a man, I have one of those guitars.

I also get the ginger beard

Slow Motion

I used to have this problem ! Fortuantely I went grey early on in life so I never had to worry about the stigma you face you poor ginger !

Jesus Wept

gingers make baby jebus cry :eek::eek::eek:

Slow Motion

The-Rigger wrote:

gingers make baby jebus cry :eek::eek::eek:

http://gingerkids.org/stats.html

Ohyeah

Wow! I really have touched on something here

like everyone else here, its ok for a little bit, but once it reaches a certain lenght it glistens read in the light. crazy!

I would like to keep it at the lenght where it kinda looks like the colour of my head hair, but I once I start shaving I feck it up and have to take it all off. I then I look so bare, and hairless like a dolphin

the 'women in me life' have said I look better with facial hair, and then when it gets a little long, laugh at the redness of it

anyways I am obvioulsy not going to dye it..but I would have expected a few home grown, historical 'cures'. like eating red meat...or extra spuds or something

PS I have nohing against red hair per se..I'd just like my head and face to match:o :rolleyes:

Jesus Wept

Ohyeah wrote:

Wow! I really have touched on something here

like everyone else here, its ok for a little bit, but once it reaches a certain lenght it glistens read in the light. crazy!

I would like to keep it at the lenght where it kinda looks like the colour of my head hair, but I once I start shaving I feck it up and have to take it all off. I then I look so bare, and hairless like a dolphin

the 'women in me life' have said I look better with facial hair, and then when it gets a little long, laugh at the redness of it

anyways I am obvioulsy not going to dye it..but I would have expected a few home grown, historical 'cures'. like eating red meat...or extra spuds or something

PS I have nohing against red hair per se..I'd just like my head and face to match:o :rolleyes:

maybe you should die your head hair ginger, liike the rest of you, you ginger. :eek:

Jesus Wept

Slow Motion wrote:

http://gingerkids.org/stats.html

God bless those brave little soulless bastards.

Slow Motion

The-Rigger wrote:

God bless those brave little soulless bastards.

4) Do Ginger Kids have Souls?

Unfortunately no, Ginger Kids are born without souls. A common misconception is that you need a soul to survive. This is completely false. Ginger Kids are people just like everyone else, even if they don’t have souls. Many Ginger Kids live happy, healthy, productive lives devoid of any sort of soul.

Classic

Zaph

Slow Motion wrote:

I used to have this problem ! Fortuantely I went grey early on in life so I never had to worry about the stigma you face you poor ginger !

Actually that's something I should have mentioned, my beard has more and more flecks of grey in it, particularly around the chin, so shortly I won't have to worry about it being ginger. I found a grey chest hair recently too, which was a little disturbing.

Slow Motion

zaph wrote:

I found a grey chest hair recently too, which was a little disturbing.

Could be worse ! Could be ginger ! And it will be no consolation to you to tell you that the grey keeps going south !

Jesus Wept

zaph wrote:

Actually that's something I should have mentioned, my beard has more and more flecks of grey in it, particularly around the chin, so shortly I won't have to worry about it being ginger. I found a grey chest hair recently too, which was a little disturbing.

Well at least it wasn't ginger, it hasn't spread that far, I think you should consult an expert on it, perhaps the spread can be stopped.

In the mean time, to take your mind off it, you could join a club or go travelling. (consider moving this to PI).

Zaph

Yeah, I'm aware of the southward migration, but thankfully that hasn't happened yet.

Thanks for the advice Brother Rigger, mentioning the grey chest hair is probably the closest I'll ever come to posting "a problem" on PI so I'd have missed out on the sage advice that's given over there.

trout

Fupp it all ... grow the beard anyway. In time you will find that natural spillage from your beer, curries, pizza, slavering drool, and nicotine stains will join up with the grey hair of wisdom and completely conceal the ginger. It's not a fuppin' beauty contest!

By the way OP ... do you read books ?

legspin

My father had this (before he went grey) and he passed it on to me with spades. There are four shades in my facial hair. I am going grey now and so it won't matter soon enough but my beards always went from darkish brown near my hair, through dark red around my neck, a lighter red on my cheeks and almost blond around my nose and chin. I mainly have just the goatee these days and that is now going more grey than anything but if I don't shave for a few days the other shades are still there

If you want a beard or 'tache do it. If it noticable and not personally embaressesing, why care.

Dirk Gently

I get the ginger streak on the left side of me chin too after the second week of growth

usually can maintain the black chin if I give it a quick once over with the head shaver every few days on number two but this may seem to much like grooming to some of you lads. Compromises must be made though in the battle against rouge ginger hairs. Always get frustrated though and shave it all off, let it grow rough again till the gingers appear, get the head shaver out and number 2 the gingers for a week or so and then I end up clean shaven again. / cycle repeats indefinitely.

The bloke I work with gave up in his battle against the ginger chin hairs and has allowed the rouges to ethnically cleanse his darker hairs to the point where he now looks like grounds keeper Willie with long brown head hair. Vigilance must be kept at all times to avoid this from happening.

Slow Motion

Things are getting a little militant over in AH !

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=53615090&postcount=11

nice1franko

My own personal favorite:

(note: must be said casually to ginger person whilst on the topic of some book)

franko: hmmm, hmmm. very good book alright... do you read much?
ginger: yeah a good bit.
franko: have you read "Pubes"?
ginger: emm, no
franko: are ye sure about that?

edit-
other peoples: aaaahaaahahahahaa
ginger: you're a fukcing cnut franko
franko: *chuckles*

edit edit- little do they know of my dark secret: my own beard goes ginger shhhhh

mikep

This reminds me of something my grandfather once said to my ol' man who like me has the ginger beard problem...

When my dad came home from college with the new ginger growth my grandfather remarked " Whats on your face is like the business end of a foxy whore!"

Nice!

nice1franko

Wise words from your grand pappy, brother mike. Wise words indeed.

Ciaran B

A friend of mine is also a victim of the OPs affliction but after he’d let the beard grow for a while his proper colour would take over. We came to the conclusion that his body was just trying to expel any trace of ginger from it.

muboop1

im cursed with the gnger beard...but only turns ginger when its a certain length, so i can get a few days of stubble out of it then i wake up one morning n im red!
source of much abuse with the lads as im to lasy to shave!

Archeron

Hill Billy wrote:

I know where you are coming from brother. The hair on my head is dark brown, but my beard is black on the left side, blonde stripe on right side of my chin & red on rest of the right side.

I've been wearing my multi-coloured beard with pride for almost 20 years now. A unicoloured (albeit) ginger beard shouldn't pose a problem.

aah, another multi color here. When I was a nipper, my hair was as red as satans foreskin, but over time went from red to brown to really dark brown, almost black. When the sun hits me though, I develop a big roundy blonde patch on the back of my head. If I do grow face fuzz, its still a weird sparkly red colour with blond bits in it, and the odd really dark black hair that sticks out a mile.

I wonder if this is why people sometimes point and laugh at me?

popebenny16

Well, my beard is ginger, but its not surprising, as me hair is also ginger. Although there is a white hair on my chin.

Laters.

GhostInTheRuins

I've got the same problem too, dark brown hair but facial hair is reddish. You cant really notice it until it grows to about 1cm long and it only affects the bit under the chin, sideburns and tache are normal. Weirdness I tells ya

Thrill

Jaysus, thank goodness I'm not alone in having this affliction.The ginger stuff appears on me auld chin if i don't shave for a couple of days. It is accompanied by a bit of gray also.

Judging from these posts there seems to be no cure for this condition. I hope that somewhere they're are scientists working hard to find a cure.