A nice young man asked a question on a forum I post on about ‘who on this forum can grow a full beard and at what age could you?’ As I mention below, I couldn’t resist answering even though I’m pretty sure the question was for the guys on the forum…
Well, what happened was I watched an episode of Oprah several years ago in which the subject was about some random individual Women’s beauty secrets and one lady said she shaved her face every day because not only did it exfoliate pretty good but her foundation make-up went on much smoother and didn’t catch & clump in her face fuzz. I’m blonde, but I’m also Scandinavian so I have a bit more face fuzz, I guess or maybe I just thought I did. Anywho, I decided to do that because my upper lip blonde fuzz always collected foundation throughout the day and looked ‘moustachy’. Well, I shaved my fuzzy cheeks too and chin… So now I’m 40 and I have to keep it up because it grows back in at all angles and doesn’t lay correctly and orderly anymore and yes, even grows longer than it was and the last few years have also added a bonus of 2 very wiry chin hairs that I must continuously pluck and one recurring such hair on my chest that I guess is a benefit of age and hormones. I’ve also been told I have hairy arms for a girl as well. I leave it, (although both my girls shave everything but their ears) it’s blonde, it keeps my arms warm, it’s useful and I don’t wear foundation on my arms so it’s not a problem. So I guess my answer would be; even at my age I still haven’t grown a full beard, which is good, but give it another 20 years and I bet I’ll have a nice goatee, but I think they have pills for that now.
