Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?

  • Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Could be recency bias, could be that fashion is a cycle that repeats and old fashions are rediscovered. Could be laziness because at some point it becomes easier to trim a beard once every month than shave everyday.

    Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.

    It also looks more interesting than a vanilla clean shave, imo. People might be looking to stand out for that reason.

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        8 months ago

        Same. I shaved mine a while back and my best friend was blunt - “You look better with the beard”.

        Righto. Beard it is.

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          8 months ago

          Same here. I used to shave my head and face but recently I went through a period of over-work and didn’t have time to shave. Everyone told me I looked better with hair and beard, including the wife. So hair and beard it is then

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      8 months ago

      Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.

      Pili multigemini…

      I might have fucked up the order, but it means “multiple twin hairs”. Like, where just one hair should grow out of your skin, you have multiples.

      If you let it just grow, you’re fine. But if you shave it’s very easy for it to be ingrown because the “hole” the hairs come thru was only meant for one hair.

      When I was in the military and had to shave every day it was horrible. I don’t know if shaving makes more grow, but I’d have stubble thicker than mechanical pencil lead, and when I’d pluck it I’d find out it was 3-5 hairs attached to the same “root”. One of those becoming ingrown is a huge hassle.

      With a beard, it’ll just shed normally or come out when I comb it. The problem is when you shave and the hair bunch has to keep pushing thru the skin over and over.