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Pogonophobe Persoannly I love facial hair. DH has a great 'biker' style goatee beard. I don't think he suits being clean shaven. BUT - if you don't like them, that's OK. Just try NOT to think of fascists
You know i was just thinking this earlier - walked past a teenager/young man with longish red hair and beard to match. I thought he would look so much better without the beard and a bit of a haircut - i usually like red hair (lots in my family...) but it was all you saw iyswim...
My mum used to say "kissing a man without a moustache is like having a boiled egg without pepper"
Boak! (mainly because it was my mum)
But I don't mind some nice stubble - as long as it doesn't get too long. DP is crap at remembering to shave so if he's too beardy I send him off to have shave before he gets a snog.
YABU, but I agree with you. A small, neat, well-groomed goatee is just acceptable, but I find everything else a bit repellent. I would do everything in my power not to sit opposite someone with a beard/moustache at a restaurant or pub. I used to work with someone who had quite an unkempt beard/moustache and it was fairly stomach churning to watch him eat.
Weirdest of all IMO is a full beard without a moustache, it just looks so odd.
When DP has let it all grow too long (scruffy git), sometimes he shaves just the beard off then chases me round the house with just the tach, laughing maniacally.
I don't like beards and moustaches much....however , I do find that some men can look good with a beard or moustache.... however, my dh is NOT one of them, lol! He looks awful and I don't like the senstation when kissing him, when he has a beard... My dh looks about 20 years older then he is, when he wears a beard...he would love to wear one, but loves me enough not too....
DH usually has a goatee, but he shaves it off for summer, I hate kissing him "clean shaven" - this only lasts for about an hour after shaving then it's stubble city.
Love love love beards - am always trying to convince DH to let his grow which he occasionally does, but it always gets shaved off eventually as he says it makes him itchy.
Dh has a beard (relatively recent innovation - it started as a zit which was an excuse for not shaving for a week then went bloody rampant).
I absolutely fucking hate it. It is itchy & it might not be 'grubby' (dh v hurt at this suggestion & insists it is washed vigorously daily) but in my head it jolly well is.
I do admittedly have a pre-existing beard phobia - down to late dh1 who had some serious mental health issues, & whose beard was a fairly accurate barometer of them - when it started looking Catweazle-esque I knew I was in for a lively few weeks of dv & general manicness...
oh raven. would be beside myself if dh decided a beard was a good idea! yuk. tell him this is a non negotiable no no..... or at least if he wants to have sex ever again...
Dh has decided that me telling him how to look is a 'non negotiable no no'.
Also that my being freaked out by it is my problem not his. I suppose he's right. I know it's pathetic. But there's a little rogue bit of my brain that will insist on shouting 'Beard! Aaargh! Scary violent stranger who's taken over dh!'
I am hoping that eventually he will get bored with cultivating the face fungus. Meanwhile <sigh> he loves it, he thinks it looks great - actually, since I made him trim it like Robbie Rotten's pirate beard it is quite cool. Just not if you're his dw & cringing every time the horrible thing touches you...
