/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Why would a stereotypical teenager have a beard?

why is google so lewd?

truNEETs are Japanese and Japanese seldom grow facial hair so no

I've tried in the past, but I can't grow a mustache very well. I look like an Amish man within a week if I don't shave.

Will rogaine help?

I can't grow a beard

Beards are gross and I couldn't grow facial hair if I tried.

ITT; Homosexuals, aftermaths of hormone replacement therapy, and 13 year old boys.

No. I like shaving. Like most things, since I have a lot of time, I've taken up a more traditional way of doing it. I use a double edged razor with shaving cream that you lather up and apply with a shaving brush. The brush I use now uses Boar hair, but eventually I want to get a nice Badger hair one. I also want to try shaving with a straight edge some time in the future.

>>8948831
Says the fag with the bara fetish

My beard is what helped me get my autism bucks.

Completely ungroomed, long hair, haven't shaved or trimmed in four years, looking like a young Richard Stallman. I think it helped the interview immensely. I'm not sure if I would have gotten it without that.

>>8948832
Any tips on shaving butt hair?

Beards look amazing when they're finished growing, but they look so awful during the growing process. I don't like looking in the mirror and feeling disgusted for months.

It's either totally clean shaven or mountain man. Anything in between is gross.

>>8948861
What about the Indiana Jones beard? It's sexy as fuck, and I'm not even gay. Whenever I grow one, I look like a Persian prince.

>>8948842
I don't shave my butt due to too much damn hair, but it can't hurt to run over longer hair with some kind of electric buzzers/clippers first to get it to a more shorter length for the razor. Compared to disposable/multiple blade razors, a double edged razor will hardly ever clog, and straight edge razors don't even clog. That will let you shave more hair quicker and more easily.

I have dark hair but a red beard, shit looks stupid.

>>8948832
seems cool, but I am too lazy for that I use a electric shaver.
Fast and easy.

>>8948867
>>8948865
>>8948864

Hair-mind

>>8948872
I just think it's really calming. In the summer too, there's aftershaves with eucalyptus and menthol, so they're really cooling to use. Smells good too.

And maybe it's just me, but I like things that have a certain margin of error and take a bit of skill/practice to get down.

>>8948864

The problem with scruff like that is that it makes ugly people look even uglier, but it makes good looking people even better looking. Something to do with facial structure. If you have a chubby face or a round face then it looks terrible, but it looks good on classically handsome chiseled faces.

The thing with mountain man facial hair is that it makes everyone look good. There is no man in the world that doesn't look good with a huge beard. It can even make fat men look handsome if the beard is big enough and nothing else in the world will do that.

>>8948887
Does that mean that I'm good-looking? Because it does fit me well.

>>8948887
>>8948892

Maybe. At least it means that you're probably not fat.

Look at Ryan Hurst from Sons of Anarchy, it's perfect example of this.

On the left he pretty much has that goofy down syndrome face fat guys tend to get and the scruff just makes it even worse, but add on that beard and suddenly he looks incredibly manly and handsome.

>>8948887
nigga i look like adrian paul

I can't grow a beard ;_;

>>8948832

Oh wow, so I'm not the only one who uses a DE razor.

What I use, in case you care:
Merkur 34C
Feather blades
D.R.Harris' Arlington soap
Black badger hair brush

>This thread is alive MUCH longer then my /jp/ related thread.

Janitors confirmed for having down syndrome.

>>8948935

Try a hair growth stimulant. I had a similar problem and I tried Rogaine and it seemed to activate all of my beard hairs which probably wouldn't have started growing until I was in my late 20s. Only downside is that my chest got really hairy too, even though I didn't apply anything there, but I guess that's manly.

I'm Hispanic, I can only grow a mustache that looks drawn on with a pencil. ;_;

Funny you should make such a thread, OP.

I am in the process of doing so as we speak.

Currently it is going fine, 1-month in and I already look extremely French.

Beards are itchy so I still shave every week or before I leave if I have to do something

I grow facial hair pretty fast and evenly but I'm waiting to turn 30 before I go for the full on wizardbeard. I'm looking forward to it. Men should go back to the days when not having a beard got you laughed at, this whole feminine male fad is getting old.

>>8948976

Sometimes I wonder if I have some hispanic blood in me. All of the beard parts grow (chin, neck, jaw, side burns) in very fast, but the mustache was always pencil thin. It looked so retarded. I'd spend the first month looking like Abraham Lincoln and then I looked like Abraham Lincoln's illegitimate hispanic son.

>>8948958
I've got a 34c as well. Always wondered what it would be like if I had gotten one with a longer handle. This has been fine though. I don't find myself using any part of the handle other than the top though, so I guess it's alright. I use Wilkinson blades (available at Wal-Mart and cheap, they do the job) with regular Proraso soap, usually with Gilette aftershave lotion. I heard Feathers were really really sharp, you like them?

I'll get a Badger brush one of these days...

>>8948994

IIRC, it was Alexander the Great that popularised a clean shaved face. Before that, a shaved face was the sign of a coward (at least in Greece), but he made his soldiers shave their beard off so that it couldn't be grabbed and pulled on in combat.

The more you know...

>>8948979
Only when I turned about 19 did the hair start growing higher up on my cheeks. My chest started getting hairy around 14-15, a year or two after my belly started getting hairy. I wish my tummy weren't so hairy. Looks kind of gross when it gets really long and semen gets stuck in it and it's embarrassing.

>>8948994

>Men should go back to the days when not having a beard got you laughed at, this whole feminine male fad is getting old.

I think it's starting to come back actually, at least in the west.

Just look at Hollywood. Scruff has become the new universal look for almost every male actor and more and more are starting to go towards increasingly thicker beards.

I think the war has helped start the trend. Male fashion has always followed the military to some degree. When you think of manliness the first thought that usually comes to mind is the military and for a long time that meant clean shaven and short hair, but beard growth has become more and more common in this latest war and the image of a special forces soldier with a beard or a soldier in the desert with scruff has almost become iconic. Hollywood followed that to some degree, probably because of all the war movies that have been streaming out, and now facial hair is making a mainstream resurgence.

>>8949005

I was amazed by how short the handle was when I first got mine, but I'm pretty sure that's the standard size.

Unfortunately, nowhere in my country seems to sell DE razor blades, so I have to buy mine online. It's not so bad though, I got my current supply of Feather blades from eBay, which cost me £15 for 50 blades (damn cheap compared to disposable/cartridge razors which sell for about £7 for 5 blades here).

The only other blades I've used are Astras, but I wasn't overly fond of them. They were alright, but I seem to get a much better shave with Feathers... although I've cut myself with them quite a few times out of carelessness.

>>8948994

>Beards are itchy

Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?

>>8948867

I'm the opposite. I have dirty blonde coloured hair, but my eyebrows and facial hair are black.

I've been thinking about growing out a beard.

I hate being treated like a child. Someone came here a few weeks ago to repair something, he was probably around my age, and he kept calling me "bud"

It was very annoying. I know it's because I'm shy, but I hate being treated like I'm seven years younger than I am. If I had a beard then maybe people would treat me differently.

>>8949036
are you retarded?
you see one picture, and one medal of honor cover, and everyone in the army has a beard.

that is not true.

>>8949061
I think the longer it grows the less itchy it is

>>8949106
I found the bud thing with the reactionpic funnier than I should have. I'm usually cleanshaven but nobody calls me pet names like that, although sometimes black guys near my age call me sir for some reason.

>>8949106
What's wrong with that? Do you also have a problem when women call you things like 'sweetheart' or 'darling'? It's just a placeholder for your name. They've gotta call you something. Maybe he thought you were younger by how you acted.

>>8949106
calm down, bud

>>8949166
owned

>>8949136

>Maybe he thought you were younger by how you acted.

That's the problem. There's nothing insulting about the word itself and it's not like he offended me, but I hate giving off this impression that I'm considerably younger than I really am. Bud is just one of those words you only say to someone that you think is much younger than you, same with pal, buddy, etc. I think bro or man are words that you say to someone who you think is within your age group, but I can't think of a time that anyone has ever called me that.

I don't have a young looking face and I'm not short so I don't think it's that. As far as my personality I can't imagine that I give off a strong impression one way or the other since I'm so quiet, but maybe the shyness is perceived as child-like. I figure that maybe a beard will make the shyness seem more manly and less timid.

To answer your question though, I'd feel weird if a girl called me that. Terms of intimacy like that are reserved for children, people that you're dating/married to, or something an elderly woman can call any man who is 20 years younger than her. If a girl that I barely know called me sweetheart then I would think that she sees me as a child.

>>8949204
hey pup
calm down

>>8949204

Cool your engines, chief. Come on, little man, there's a warm glass of milk over here with your name on it.

I think it's time for your nap, bud, you're getting pretty upset.

>>8949220
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>>8949166

This feels like Thanksgiving.

>>8949204
I don't have any problem with what people call me...