For me, far too much gray hair and/or white hair shows these days when I let my beard grow out, so I’m strictly a mustache-only guy. Also, I think I look terrible completely clean-shaven, so my mustache is a must.
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(((Just to clarify: does that include my facial hair? If so, I’m going to have to ask both you and your cats to move out! And by the way, it’s over between us. Return my 8-track tapes to me. Grrrrrrr.))))
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I have a similar problem of an unappealing pattern. When I went for the full beard option after I left military service, I discovered the hard way that I not only have uneven and non-symmetrical growth on one side of my face where the mustache is supposed to connect to the beard, what does grow there is scraggly and unsightly. I never knew about it previously because I didn’t even have very much growing there at all when I entered military service at age 18, and beards/goatees/sideburns are not allowed per the grooming standards. I was well into my 30s when I first tried to grow a beard.
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