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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE:Beards and hair
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2020
Time: 6:28:16 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 320495
Parent ID: 320492
Thread ID: 320475
I grow mine out all year long and haven't trimmed it at all for about 3 or 4 years now. It's now down to the bottom of my chest and is all white, although half the time I wear it in a braid that makes it look not so wild. My daughter hates it when I do that, she's a lot like her late mother, prefers to see me looking like a true mountain man instead. Yet others like it braided - and you're right, most women don't like beards on their men, for whatever reasons. I really believe that more than half the men who shave, do so to shut up their mates. Yet I was always lucky, both my wives and my one girlfriend (well, just one girlfriend in my later years anyway) all liked beards on men. So no, it isn't all women who hate beards, especially in this old hippie town where I live, as most men here have beards and most of them have ladies, too. But as far as I go (and I pissed off a dude or 2 here the last time I stated this, be it a few years ago), all men should have a beard, to me it's feminine looking for a guy to be clean shaven, as men are suppose to have facial hair while woman of course aren't. But with my beard all white and long, the little boy next door kept calling me "Dumbledore", or a wizard for a good year or so. Nothing against Richard Harris, as I always liked him, but my beard isn't that long, so I told the boy to stop calling me that, and today he just calls me "gramps", since that's what what my grandson calls me (yet I prefer "grandpa").
Yet with my white beard, my hair on top of my head and down my shoulders, is still all black! It just won't turn grey, or white. But my dad was this way with his black hair at this age too, so I guess it's all genetics. When he passed away at 87, he still had salt and pepper hair. Yet I'd love to have white hair up on top; I think it would look cool. Only thing with my hair and my old age is that the hair on my head has almost totally stopped growing. My last haircut was back when my grandson was 5, and he's 19 now. I kept telling the wife to cut his hair since he never had a haircut before and I wanted one for myself, too. That was how she was, a licensed hairdresser - and real good at it, yet she almost never would cut my hair since she was into the long hair hippie look on men. But my preteen grandson couldn't grow a beard of course and was looking like a pretty little girl with his long hair - and he was about to start school. So on the day of my last haircut, I put his hair in a braid - and mine too, and demanded haircuts for the two of us (and this wasn't the first time in over 30 years living with her that I had to do this to my own hair and then demand she cut off the braid). So we both had our braids cut off on that day, and our little Cooper finally looked like a little boy. With his then totally golden blond hair back then (it's been dark brown and short now, since he hit his teens), he had one of those Dutch-boy haircuts for the rest of his preteen years. But the funny thing was, last fall, I got my daughter to clean out an old cabinet in the kitchen (since she always bitched about it being so cluttered)- and deep inside there she found in a paper bag, my and Cooper's old cutoff braids from that day that I got grandma to cut them off. That was a surprise, as I didn't know Sue kept them and that they were still around (she passed away in '11). It was funny seeing Coop's reaction: "My hair was never that long, or that blond!" I then got out old photos of him as a 4 and 5 year old to prove it was his hair, and then he at least remembered his blond hair days.
But getting back to why I started to write about my own hair, is that back when I was young, if I had went 14 years without a haircut (never went more than a year on average) - my hair would had been down to my feet! Yet today, 14 years since my last haircut, it's barely down to the middle of my back, and really not even that long. It just don't grow at all any longer, which is fine with me.... yet my white beard still grows.... why is that?
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