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The Beard Challenge

  • 20-12-2008 03:32AM
    #1
    reggiethefirst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭


    I have taken up a challenge with my friend, I am not to shave for 1 year. It's week 8 now and It's about an inch long, except for my upper lip, which decides it will grow feck all. It just looks a bit weird having not much of a 'tache. I've always wanted a beard and now I have an excuse. It'll be Castro style when the next 44 weeks are over.
    So, what's the longest anyone here has grown a beard?


Comments

  • #2
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Your first beard will grow out a bit scraggly... you really need get the first one out of the way before moving on to a proper beard.

    Are you not allowed trim it at all? Could end up being a bit biblical.


  • #3
    Edwardius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    Growing since the start of march. I trim the tache regularly and it's ok from a practical point of view...

    Edit: forgot to mention, it looks fantastic!


  • #4
    reggiethefirst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭reggiethefirst


    Nope, not allowed trim even. Does look a big scraggly, hence being referred to as pube-face by the friend in question. I want to see how far i can go with this until I get annoyed some night and shave it.


  • #5
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    You didnt watch Knocked Up recently by any chance did you?


  • #6
    Edwardius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    reggiethefirst wrote: »
    Nope, not allowed trim even. Does look a big scraggly, hence being referred to as pube-face by the friend in question. I want to see how far i can go with this until I get annoyed some night and shave it.

    surely you can trim the tache?!

    Edit: if not, prepare to wave goodbye to many foodstuffs from the fourth month


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  • #7
    reggiethefirst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭reggiethefirst


    Archimedes wrote: »
    You didnt watch Knocked Up recently by any chance did you?

    I didn't, he did and keeps referencing it with regard to my face. My sister hasn't either, but amazingly came up with minge-face on her own.

    I Can't really grow much of a tash so that end shouldn't really be a problem, but we'll see. Someone suggested that I take a pic of myself everyday and make a video of it.


  • #8
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Well there's not much you can do... A first beard will always look like total ass I'm afraid.

    I was never great at mustache growing myself, but as the beard gets longer it should all start to jell together.


  • #9
    reggiethefirst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭reggiethefirst


    Ah well, at least it's stopped itching.


  • #10
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    reggiethefirst wrote: »
    Ah well, at least it's stopped itching.

    Oh there's waves of itchiness...


  • #11
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    have my first beard, although did scupture it last week, the sections cut out are starting to grow back now, but not sure i could have the patience to shave it all off and start again


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  • #12
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    reggiethefirst wrote: »
    I have taken up a challenge with my friend, I am not to shave for 1 year. It's week 8 now and It's about an inch long, except for my upper lip, which decides it will grow feck all. It just looks a bit weird having not much of a 'tache. I've always wanted a beard and now I have an excuse. It'll be Castro style when the next 44 weeks are over.
    So, what's the longest anyone here has grown a beard?

    The longest I've grown without trimming is about 6 months, although I trimmed the moustache towards the end. Kept it going for another few months until I shaved it all off again. :p I'm weird like that. :o


  • #13
    reggiethefirst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭reggiethefirst


    I really want to see what it's like when the year is up, I have a feeling it's going to be rubbish, but epically rubbish.


  • #14
    podger456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭podger456


    18 months - 'bout a foot long. had to tend to the tash and locks etc though, and even at that was really looking like a bum, so hope you got a job that doesn't mind that. Also after a few inches it will be coated with soup, curry, butter or whatever whenever you eat, so you will be washing it a few times a day! got to the stage with me that I was spending more time maintaining it than I was saving by not shaving, so it had to go.


  • #15
    Edwardius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    Aye, it's a bid odd when homeless folk say hello rather than asking for cash.


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