Once you get older does the stubble style start to make you look like Homer Simpson or some stubborn old geezer who won't shave?
Once you get older does the stubble style start to make you look like Homer Simpson or some stubborn old geezer who won't shave?
I have several professors in their 30s and 40s who pull it off pretty well. It depends on the person and how well you keep it trimmed. A scraggly goat looks like shit regardless of age.
I also have professors with the stubble thing, they look fine like that.. But, I think, it depends on a lot of things. If you're a "business man," I think it's inappropriate.
Academics can get away with Merlin-like beards. Same with most of my engineering friends, all have unkept facial hair.
Personally, I'm lazy, "this isn't my beard, this is my laziness." I'm 23 and have a girlfriend who's obsessed with me.. I won't be trying very hard.
Just keep a close-cut neat beard. If you can't grow one, then just keep shaving.
George Clooney
I saw Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West" last night on cable...he was playing his most evil character ever, and he did the stubble thing very well...he was probably in his 50s.
Stubble is for wimps who won't commit. Grow the damn beard. Or better yet, grow a mighty stache. Twist the ends with wax.
professors don't count.
real world... not flying after mid 20s.
I'm 39 y.o., if I shave in the morning I'd have more than a shadow by 5 pm. When I was dating (married w/ kids now), I'd have to shave twice a day.
Now, I'm too lazy, and shave maybe once a week. If I wait any longer I usually start looking like a radical Islamic fundamentalist and start getting long suspicious stares in public as if I belong to Al-Qaeda.
Shaving sucks. But I have to do it since I'm a jr high teacher and don't want to freak out the kids.
You don't have to shave to be smooth