Peak beard

Not soon enough. I'm tired of seeing these hair toilets all around.

He’s hot!

they'll stay around. How else do we counter ISIS and Taliban?

The 20-somethings in NYC show no signs of giving this up.

Several years into the trend, the boys that can't grow beards have largely given up. The ones who can are still sporting lush, full beards, albeit more neatly trimmed than a couple of years ago. And the aging hipsters who started it all have moved on into muttonchops, handlebar mustaches, and all sorts of other elaborate growths.

Ginger beard

Will Piccadilly weepers be the next hot trend?

Love beards, not real long beards, but reasonably kept beards. So manly and sexy.

I find beards and most forms of body hair gross. Give me a smooth, waxed, or shaved chest any day. Also, shave the armpit hair and the arms and legs, and if I see more than a Hitler stache for pubes, then it's thumbs down.

^Pedo alert

I've been told repeatedly that lack of facial hair in Flyover: "gayface".

These are the idiots who still shave everything off beneath the neck.

You should note that many of our women still dress and groom like Stevie Nicks - 1980s vintage.

The vogue for lumber jack beards might dissipate this year but the fact of the decade is—

Beards are Mainstream for the Hottest Men!

Not until the economy recovers- there is a correlation between a bad economy and beards.

Yes, R12, this is what men were wearing when the bad economy struck in 1930.

I tried growing a lumberjack beard myself but it was fucking tedious. My skin wasn't too happy about being constantly covered in hair and it was a bitch to wash my face in the sink. You pretty much have to take a shower if you want to get the beard clean. And all that fucking hair getting into mouth while eating. Yikes. I lasted around 6 months until I decided that's enough. Big beards can look super cool but they are just too much work.

How did it look tho R14? Did you get the thick beard you wanted?

I don't think the correlation's between the economy and a man's beard but more so a woman's hair. The theory I heard once is that it costs more money to upkeep a short haircut and equally so hair beyond a certain length. Before anyone chimes in with a picture of flapper girls, etc, I'll point out something that I learned from my grandmother - women's hair in the 1920s and 1930s wasn't really that short. Look at a picture of a woman with Marcel waves - you need to have a certain hair-length to pull that off.

I keep a fade most of the time because I hate shaving and it’s bad for your skin. Just look at some of the older guys you know that shave once a day.

The lumberjack beard is a hipster things. It will go out of style eventually, just like everything else.

David Letterman's is just freaky. I watched a little of his interview with Obama. It is like he can't even turn his head from left to right (I'm guessing since it would get messed up and he is on TV with it and they have probably sprayed it with hair spray.)

[quote]How did it look tho [R14]? Did you get the thick beard you wanted?

It wasn't as thick as I wanted it to be and tbh I'm not sure if I can ever reach a beard as thick as the guy in OP. Still, it was a nice experiment to try it.

I hate it when they’re on some fat guy. You can see day old food and sauce drippings. Gross.

Depends on the guy... depends on the beard.

On principle I enjoy body hair... so I'm into hairy legs, hairy arms, hairy chests... and yes, facial hair. I'll naturally gravitate to the bearded... it's just how it goes. But not every beard looks great on every man.

The man in OP's post can get it though. He's beautiful, and that beard is perfect. Not too wild, not too manicured. Handsome guy.

It was too pubic in texture and color. Plus, I found out I have vertical streaks of silver on my chin. I am part badger.

This comes up every few months now... yet the beards will not go away.

agreed

beards is grosssss

[quote]This comes up every few months now... yet the beards will not go away.

It's because it's fucking hair.

It’s hipster Jesus.

It’s my experience that people who dislike beards sing an entirely different tune after they’ve been thorougly snogged by a bearded man. TACTILITY!

They look good on some but not others... and way too many "others" have beards.

not soon enough, OP.

It’s going to be hilarious when these people’s kids or grandkids see the pictures of Daddy or Gramps as a young man with a long flowing beard.

Whenever I’ve seen pictures of guys from the 1800’s with those long beards and muttonchops, I always wondered why they thought that looked good. A lot of them were young, handsome guys and the beards made them look much older. And fatter sometimes. But those pictures are all black and white so they don’t seem real in a way. It’s hard to imagine what they looked like.

Now we get to see all these beards on live men walking down the street, and I have to admit, some of them are really striking. And some are just too pretentious and hipster-ish to me.

So were those young guys in the 1800’s the pretentious hipsters of their day? Probably. They called them dandies back then.

I went to the casino this weekend and every guy had a beard of some sort. It's a flyover state, so most of the guys were fit-fat. They look like garden gnomes.

R30 Some of those in 'the 1800s' may have been dandies. And some followed the full beard look because they thought it made them look wise like Michelangelo's statue of Moses.

Beards are masculine as a rule. Most guys could use another dose of masculinity - and most gay guys could REALLY use that dose. If you are sexy /masculine and wear one (gay or straight) - it is effortless and you look hotter with it. If you are nelly/bitchy/queeny and are trying to pose - it does look a bit ridiculous actually. The right man can pull if off, the wrong one can not. Whatever the case - be hygienic and bathe daily please. The lumberjack look is one thing; the smell is not.

Now that everyone has done the beard thing, let's all just move on.

As long as the carpet doesn't match the drapes

Gay men spent 20 years emasculated by the scourge of AIDS (it's not a coincidence that "shaved & hairless" became the gay norm EXACTLY when AIDS appeared, and facial hair & musclebears returned once modern meds capable of suppressing HIV effectively cured AIDS (albeit not HIV itself).

In OP's pic I can see toast crumbs, insects and spermatozoa in that mess on his face.

I'm not sure that is the timeline - r36. Tons of poz guys started growing beards to camouflage the facial wasting from the earlier meds.

How can this trend be at its peak when this delicious young men gives pleasure —surely— to all who gaze upon him?

Big bushy beards are already over. Now it's only the flyovers doing it. Closely cropped or scruff is in now. Beards have already started looking dated.

Still a thing in NYC

The 1800's beard fad lasted about 50 years (1850's to 1900's), so this modern day one may have another 30 to 40 years to go.