Need to grow a beard and wear a turban

Newaglish

Good day to you beardified and behatted folk,

I will be attending a Sikh wedding in October, and in order to dress more "traditionally", it has been requested that I grow a beard, and wear a turban. The turban issue I will come back to you on in October, it's the beard I'm having issue with at the moment.

I've never had a beard before, never tried to grow one and haven't ever really gone for more than three or four days without shaving (eh, since my teens that is)

I've decided to go the next four weeks without shaving, and I'm going to see where I am at that stage. I'm worried however that:

1) I won't have "full-coverage" so to speak
2) My hair colour will vary from light > ginger > dark
3) I'm going to find the new-found fur irritating and itchy
4) My facial hair is always poker straight and very bristly

Any advice on the above? Word of support? Anyone know where I can get some sort of Regaine of Dimoxinyl for my face??

Cheers beards

monkeyfudge

The first growth probably won't be great. You may have to shave in 4 weeks time and start again for better growth.

At least that's how I found how things went down with my beard.

Newaglish

monkeyfudge wrote: »

The first growth probably won't be great. You may have to shave in 4 weeks time and start again for better growth.

At least that's how I found how things went down with my beard.

Shave the whole thing off? Or do you mean trim it down with an electric razor?

DeadSkin

Newaglish wrote: »

2) My hair colour will vary from light > ginger > dark

Why should this worry you?

Dord

it'll fill out and feel much better after a few weeks. just leave it grow.

o1s1n

monkeyfudge wrote: »

At least that's how I found how things went down with my beard.

That's because you were probably doing that when you were a teen and your beard was actually getting thicker due to the whole puberty thing.

Cutting a beard only makes it shorter.

OP just leave it grow for about a month. Then when you see what you have, try to shape it etc. It'll annoy you at first but you'll probably grow to love it

Steve_o

Dord wrote: »

it'll fill out and feel much better after a few weeks. just leave it grow.

Yup, it may itch for a few days, but that goes away! Good luck with your new beard!! ps. Once its fully grown, you'll find it hard to part with it!! Beards are great!

el_tiddlero

Steve_o wrote: »

it may itch for a few days, but that goes away!

I've always found that there's a few distinct stages of itching.. The first comes a mere 3/4 days into growth and seems terrible, get through that and then at 10-12 days the second wave of itchyness comes.. this is more intense, but lasts a shorter length of time.. finally, after about 24 days the third and most excrutiating stage of itching comes.. it's a real killer, but after that it's plain sailing..

Monkeyfudge;s suggestion is good, grow it for a month, shave it clean off and go again, you'll get a thicker growth second time round..

Hair is made of protein, so eat plenty of oily fish etc to get nice shining hair..

more tea vicar

Radovan Karadzic may be parting with his beard before his trial at the hague, and it may be up for sale as an item of interest once re-assembled into a wearable item.

The yanks were too keen to have Saddam Hussein's beard off, that they did not think to re-construct it as a historical piece, so no luck there.

I don't know whether any other recent despot's beards are housed, for sale or rent to the public, but I expect for the formal occasion of a wedding, any beard shop should be able to supply a decent beard for the job.