This is not my beard, yet.
I grew a beard 4 years ago. My kid doesn’t know what my face looks like. He’s probably better off.
I believed at the time that there would be a backlash over the “metro-sexual” movement in men’s style and that would lead hipsters to look for the opposite of metro sexual, and that look would be art-house/creative/philosopher and would require a beard.
I was somewhat correct. Beards had a short lived moment, and still do with those of us who realize that if it was good enough for Freud, Marx, Kyp Malone, and the Gambler Kenny Rogers - it’s good enough for us.
**Secret awesome fact about beards: people don’t recognize you if they haven’t seen you in a while, so you totally avoid those awkward moments at the store where you are forced to make uncomfortable conversation with people you don’t care enough about to keep in touch with. Fucking assholes.