Re: I had enough of beards. PLease.. stop the madness.
Originally Posted by
GrantM
I'm not at all anti-hipster, but i did think we were past "peak beard" years ago.
Top-knot is about the only thing (imho @48) that looks really silly on a grown man.
Skinny jeans and tattoos aren't my thing at all, but hey go for it.
-g
The problem with my beard is that every time I shave it the stupid thing just comes back. And I'm too lazy to shave every day. Plus it'll be winter soon and the beard helps with temperature regulation when we dip into the high 60s. I'm only partly joking. I tell my wife every week that I'm going to shave it and then I get lazy and it's easier to just hit it with a trimmer for a minute.
I'm also not a fan of the top knot, but I'd give just about anything to have that as a stylistic option.
Joking aside, I've made a collection of independent style and lifestyle choices over the course of my life that may outwardly combine to give off the appearance of a hipster. But it just sort of happened that way. Fortunately I don't really care what others think of my "style." To me, the term hipster in a negative manner is more about people that take on the affectation of a certain subculture very deeply and in a very short period of time (and who are likely to shift again when there's a new "it" thing). Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's easy to see someone from the outside without knowing their history or motivations and label them a hipster. I'm a little sensitive to this as I get called a hipster somewhat frequently because of my tattoos, and it's always by someone that has no idea what the history or motivation is/was behind my decisions. This also starts getting into things like anthropology, which I know little to nothing about, so anything I say is just the ramblings of a bearded tattoo guy on the internet.
And back to joking, ever since the invention of the chinstrap beard we've been past peak beard and on the downslide.
PS - Google "Chinstrap Beard" and behold...
"I guess you're some weird relic of an obsolete age." - davids
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