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It’s getting up on spring folks, and you know what that means: my five month old beard is getting closer and closer to it’s annual shearing. While contemplating what fate holds for my poor beard this year, I decided to see just how many of the beard types that I could personally check off from my Chart of Facial Hair Types.
I really thought that I had nothing left but a Mr. T style beard / Mohawk combo, so I was surprised (and a little disappointed) to find that I still have a ways to go before I will be wandering the streets pitying fools.
If you want to check out all nineteen (out of thirty-four) of my recorded facial hair types, head on over to my newly dedicated Beard Type Quest Page.
Then, come back and let me know if you have a favorite from years past or if there’s a beard type that you’d like to see added this year.
UNGH.
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I really don’t care which of the beard type requirements you fulfill – because I know it’s going to rock.
But I’ve just gotta say, in the picture of your Van Dyke, you look hardcore to the max!
You look like the kind of person that would just walk up and punch somebody in the face for no reason and then just walk off calmly like it’s an ordinary thing as they tried to figure out what the heck just happened.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hey, thanks. People are going to start thinking that I’m ghost writing your comments again.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Awesome post! I love the beard Quest page. I grew my beard out a few times and aways had to trim in down into something funky before the final “clean shave”. Of course now it comes in mostly gray, so i’ve dropped the whole growing the beard out for a while
May 17th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Jon, fun idea! You should add the Badass beard.
A trim beard, medium to narrow width, connected to sideburns and trim moustache…(Be brave now, Jonny)
with a shaved head.
With a badass pair of sunglasses & boots and the right badass jacket, people will clear a path for you. Waitresses will chat you up.
I used to be a mild-mannered writer with noticably thinning hair. Now I’m a badass.
Badass better.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Love the beard chart. Fits nicely on the back of my shaving mirror.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
hi ! I live in Paris. Now I have got all the hints to start growing a full beard. I go on vacation at the end of July on the French riviera and then in Italy. Of course I will just leave behind my razor and shaving cream, wHatever my boy friend thinks about it. If you could just encourage me to stick for a month at not relapsing in shaving off my stubs! so long
June 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
A’hoy matey! You are my new hero and your beards look funny and awsome at the same time! :] Keep em coming ye ole scallywag!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Philippe, are you the Philippe (married to Marie Claude) whom I met in Russia in 1975 and whom my wife Georgene and I visited a few years later in your apartment in Paris? We are contemplating a trip to France next year and would love to see you. Please write. Thanks.
Canfield
December 24th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
aww man, you missed out my favourite – the chinstrap beard! Basically a thin (almost an inch wide I guess) strip of hair that runs from the sideburn at one side, down along the edge of the jaw to the chin and then back up the other side, sans moustache.