Should I shave the beard?

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Originally Posted by JM

Yeah dude, you should really consider cutting that hair. Your hair type doesn't work long like that. It looks like straw.



You are being really superficial about your looks. Is that the only way you can define yourself as a person? Is it so important that you don't look like everyone else? Someday you will become more comfortable with yourself, and just knowing that you are a unique individual will be enough.

If you think about it, you are not really making yourself more unique, you are just fitting in with a smaller (but still huge & homogenous) subculture.

Honestly, if the whole look wasn't just for attention you wouldn't have made this thread.

JM

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=/ The thread was a joke man. If the forth option didn't tip you off, I don't know what would have. Plus, I was poking fun at burgs thread when he made a poll for the same thing. I was actually going to do the opasite of whatever the highest vote was. This may have backfired on me though, as it seems like the highest vote was to keep it.

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Originally Posted by JM

You are being really superficial about your looks. Is that the only way you can define yourself as a person? Is it so important that you don't look like everyone else? Someday you will become more comfortable with yourself, and just knowing that you are a unique individual will be enough.

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For one, everyone is superfical about their looks. I'm not trying to be unique or set myself appart from the crowd. I liked the look of long hair on other people, and wanted to try that for myself. =/ I was tired of the spiked up hair prick look and I hated gelling my hair. For me to looking like pic 2 all the time, Id have to get a hair cut every weak, spend an hour on my hair and face ever day, and probably start waxing parts of my body. =/ that's not even bringing up what I'd have to spend on a nicer clothes.

That person isn't me. I look at that picture and I don't know that guy. You can read all you want to into me calling it a "prick look" and say I'm superfical, but I think spending 1 to 2 hours on my looks everyday, spending more money than I want on clothes, getting a hair cut every week, most likely getting waxed (I'm a harry guy) all so I can achieve a look I don't like, because others think it is better looking, is more superfical. Maybe what I'm go for doesn't work for me, but going for a look I don't like just because it does work rubs me the wrong way. Some things mean more to me than looking my best. Like doing what I want with myself, even if it doesn't allways work out.

Wow. Why grow your hair out all long when you look so good with it short? What a dumbass idea.

Edit: Keep the goatee. GOATEE.

Edit2: You might want to deep condition your hair when you CUT it. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

For one, everyone is superfical about their looks.

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Yeah, I thought that was the whole point...

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That person isn't me. I look at that picture and I don't know that guy. You can read all you want to into me calling it a "prick look" and say I'm superfical, but I think spending 1 to 2 hours on my looks everyday, spending more money than I want on clothes, getting a hair cut every week, most likely getting waxed (I'm a harry guy) all so I can achieve a look I don't like, because others think it is better looking, is more superfical. Maybe what I'm go for doesn't work for me, but going for a look I don't like just because it does work rubs me the wrong way. Some things mean more to me than looking my best. Like doing what I want with myself, even if it doesn't allways work out.

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I hear ya, man. I'm not a "showering" type guy myself. When will society leave me alone?

I agree with eveybody else, you were very atractive with short hair, especially second pic.
Id seriously consider keeping it short.
Long hair just doesnt suit you.
On a positve side the beards fine, just trim it a little!

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...chmentid=11431

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You look like MacReady (Kurt Russel's character) from The Thing.

He's in the same "look over the shoulder" pose as that famous bigfoot footage. You can see the resemblance.

IP, there is absolutely no way that short hair is more of a hassle than long hair. You could gel & comb your shorter hair 5 times in the ammount of time it takes to just dry your hair at the length it is now.

I love how to some people gell in the hair = lots of time spent messing with it.

I'm not trying to be a dick. I had long hair in high school & it was a much bigger pain than any short haircut I've ever had.

At the very least, if you keep the long hair, get some kind of products to make it look a little healthier. It seriously looks so brittle you could just snap it off.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

I hear ya, man. I'm not a "showering" type guy myself. When will society leave me alone?

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You should want to not smell for yourself Mzo. The things that cause you to smell bad can later effect your health. Also, smelling bad things should bother you.

I mean, this isn't only about girls here who will find the shorter hair more attractive. When there's an opening for a higher paying job, I think that the person taking interviews will consider someone that's clean cut much more than someone who looks like their hair has never been cut. There can be only one Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

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Originally Posted by JM

IP, there is absolutely no way that short hair is more of a hassle than long hair. You could gel & comb your shorter hair 5 times in the ammount of time it takes to just dry your hair at the length it is now.

I love how to some people gell in the hair = lots of time spent messing with it.

I'm not trying to be a dick. I had long hair in high school & it was a much bigger pain than any short haircut I've ever had.

At the very least, if you keep the long hair, get some kind of products to make it look a little healthier. It seriously looks so brittle you could just snap it off.

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Joking asside, I don't really know what the deal with the health of my hair is. I've always liked the look of long hair. So when I was in middle school I had it long to. It was a bit wild (because I was lazy kid and didn't do anything to control it) but it was healthy and shiney. =/ Now it breaks very easily, and the strands themselves are much thinner. Some might say I'm just getting older, but I'm 21. I shouldn't have shitty hair quality already. It improved after I stopped staying out and drinking heavily, but it is still preaty shitty. There may be something wrong with my health. =/ I try to not think about. The idea of some unknown thing killing me, isn't a pleasant one.

And yes the old look does take a bit more time. First I'd have to shave. I have to do that twice to get a shave worth anything. My facial hair grows in really thick, so even after two shaves there is still some grit :( Then I have to wash my hair, and condition, then gel. This has to be done seperate in the sink as I've already had a bath in the shower. Mind you if you are going to wear a Tshirt you have to put this on before you gel/spike, because you don't want gel on your Tshirt. This isn't even getting into the hair cair for the neck, which has to be done. You can't spike your hair then leave a small forest poking out of the front of your shirt. The look I have right now, wash and let air dry. Takes no time. I used to blow dry, but that was causing more damage than good. Might be the cause my hair looking like straw now.

That is one reason in a lot of the pics of my old hair cut it was ungelled. I hated having to do all that crap at 6 in the morning back in highschool, so I didn't.

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Originally Posted by Tones

I mean, this isn't only about girls here who will find the shorter hair more attractive. When there's an opening for a higher paying job, I think that the person taking interviews will consider someone that's clean cut much more than someone who looks like their hair has never been cut. There can be only one Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

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=/ I'm a computer Eng. Student. There tends to be two looks for computer nerds, clean cut to the point of being borring or like gandalf.