Ladies, if you like the look of a beard on a man, what length do you think looks best?

[Denninmi]

Inquiring minds need to know!

I've been experimenting. Absolutely nothing over about 1/3 of an inch on my face, I need to look clean and neat for work.

However, I keep trimming it shorter and shorter, and I like it better. Basically at the heavy stubble look now, 2.5 milimeters.

So, what looks good, a little five o'clock shadow? Light stubble? Santa? ZZ Top?

[littlemissmartypants]

1. To make a full assessment I would have to feel it, based on only looks...

http://www.beards.org/world.php

[Denninmi]

2. Almost all of those guys grow it far longer than mine.

I'm just a twitch beyond the Miami Vice stubble look of the 80's.

[hobbit709]

3. I never worried about what other people thought of my beard.

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[Denninmi]

4. Well, I don't really care what other guys think of it.

Ladies, OTOH.

[Jean Louise Finch]

5. Hard to go wrong...

...with the Eddie Vedder length.



Via http://acollectionofwellbehavedbeards.tumblr.com/ which might do you well.

[Denninmi]

6. Ah, but he desperately needs a haircut.

I guess it was called grunge for a reason.

[Jean Louise Finch]

8. Sacrilege!

There must be no hair cutting!

[Enrique]

7. nice

looks a bit like Chuck Todd.

[In_The_Wind]

20. *sigh*

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[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. Beyond stubble, but trimmed. No santa or ZZTop.

As long as you don't look like the north end of a southbound goat, as someone once said about Mitch Miller.

[silentwarrior]

10. Never used to go much on beards

HOw about a chris beard? The lead singer from Coldplay?

[Denninmi]

11. Chris Martin - pretty similar to mine.

I guess if the look works for GP someone may like mine as well.

[silentwarrior]

12. Ya never know,

there could be a Gwyneth just waiting for you

[NV Whino]

13. All or nothing. None of that fungus look.

Which, I believe is what you described as your current style.

And damn Don Johnson for starting that style.

[Chellee]

14. This one is very nice. Really, really good.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. gosh. yeah. that is the look.

[Auggie]

21. It helps to have George Clooney behind it

[Kali]

15. personally

I prefer just a mustache, but if a guy is going to do more I really don't like the stubble look. It either looks sloppy or contrived. not a fan. Not really into the old man rip van winkle/zz top look either. a neatly trimmed actual beard is fine.


my demographic is OLD so take that as you will

[undeterred]

16. Just below the navel.

Makes a man look wizened.

[frogmarch]

18. This!

Whether real or fake.

[marzipanni]

19. Not this

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I think the stubble look is indistinguishable from a three day drunk:

[Trailrider1951]

23. Well, I find that good looks coincide with a soft, silky texture

Maybe 1/2 to 1 inch in length, well trimmed around the mouth and neck. Five o'clock shadow and stubble will irritate your lady's skin in intimate moments. Santa has to keep his long to keep his neck warm at the North Pole and those frigid sleigh rides on Christmas Eve. ZZ Top, how do they keep from plucking those beards along with the guitar strings?

[7wo7rees]

24. Nothing beats a beard for winter weather.

[RedCloud]

25. I have had a beard even in high school.

Tremendous hirsute rights victory.

Sad to say as I am becoming a buzzard now a little patch is wearing thin.

At its zenith it was like the son-o-man's.

And now it is more like Sean Connery's...