The quest for every beard type

http://www.dyers.org/blog/beards/beard-types/

by aycangulez • 16 years ago

84 30 16 years ago

kadavy• 16 years ago

Grow a beard. It will change your life.

jkaufman• 16 years ago

My friends and I did a "Beard-tober" a year ago -- no shaving for the entire month of October. It didn't change my life - I just looked like a guy with a light colored and somewhat patchy beard.

kirubakaran• 16 years ago

Open source beard?

NIL8• 16 years ago

Try growing one for a minimum of six months. It takes dedication and courage. At the very least, it's a great social experiment. You'll encounter prejudice, admiration, and endless hours of fun like the guy in the link!

aerique• 16 years ago

I can grow a solid beard but the itching of it drives me nuts after two or three weeks. Probably related to other skin problems :-(

rue• 16 years ago

This man can really grow a beard, well done!

Most men only have one or two styles they could pull off and unfortunately it takes a while to find the right one…I suspect that's a big reason why many won't even try. A light beard isn't usually too great, either, but you can always dye it and use an eyebrow pen to retouch inbetween treatments.

biot• 16 years ago

I suspect the trick is to grow a big unruly beard and then plan how you're going to cut it. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get almost a dozen styles out of one beard simply by trimming a little, taking a picture, then trimming a little more until you get to the next style, and so on until the last picture might be the soul patch. With enough planning (and the right genetics) you could do all of his styles in 2011.

bdr3• 16 years ago

There are a couple interesting math problems in there.

sophacles2• 16 years ago

I can confirm this with experience! Well, not the every one of his styles in a year part... but at vainer points in my life done the "go mountain-man" approach, followed by many rapid changes in style (one every week for months one year).

I still use the basic technique when switching from a clean state to a bearded state - it si much easier to shape a beard than grow a shaped beard.

Advanced variations on the technique do exist however. I recently went from a van-dyke to what the article calls "the hollywood". However, to appropriately do this I needed to grow out the jaw portion of the beard. So to do this had to take it in phases:

1. stubble out for 2 weeks to get enough base

2. shave to a pattern similar to what the article calls "Rap Industry Standard", but with thicker lines and a full van-dyke at the mouth end.

3. Let it fill in towards the front, keeping the line from sideburns to jaw trimmed short. Also slowly widen the jawline part near the goatee -- a triangle will eventually form.

4. Using a razor, disconnect the sideburns and properly shape the rest.

nhebb• 16 years ago

I'd love to grow all these beards, but unfortunately I have the facial-hair-growing capability of Ethan Hawke (except I had enough sense to give it up when it didn't pan out).

CWIZO• 16 years ago

Yeah ... it saddens me that the only thing I could muster is the "The Pencil", and even that would look funny on me. Oh well, at 24 I guess it's time I accept that I won't be able to grow a beard :)

pmjordan• 16 years ago

My facial hair is somewhat denser now at 26 than it was when I was 24. No idea how common this is, though.

Bud• 16 years ago

Don't get too bummed yet. Lots of guys can grow a better beard at 30 than at 24.

wyclif• 16 years ago

Curious: how old is this? I hate it when there's no date on blog posts.

blhack• 16 years ago

There is a date under every post, and he updates it every time he gets a new beard.

TamDenholm• 16 years ago

Sadly i'm one of these guys: http://i.imgur.com/0xdmt.jpg

rufugee• 16 years ago

Ah yes...I've had this cycle going consistently for years. I'm currently in the perseverance phase...again...

shrikant• 16 years ago

Ordered by trustworthiness: http://i.imgur.com/PHmF5.jpg

bravura• 16 years ago

I've always said that with great power comes great responsibility.

Most people, if they were capable of growing these amazing moustaches, they would already be dictator of a small nation.

Not Jonathan E. Dyer. No, this man uses his beard growing skills for the benefit of science and humanity at large.

Groxx• 16 years ago

I do believe this qualifies for "epic". Amazing spread. And awesome job on the "Federation Standard", I got a huge Star Trek vibe immediately.

smogzer2• 16 years ago

Smogzer's method for "How to see yourself in every beard type" :

1) Grow a huge beard. 2) Put yourself in a comfortable and repeatable pose, i.e. fixate a point in space, shoulders back, make sure you are able to repeat the position you are in. 3) pick 1-5 camera poses around you. 4) with your huge beard take pictures from every camera position in various lighting settings, or have a friend do it. 5) shave, standing in place if it has to. 6) take pictures again. 7) with photoshop or gimp overlay the beard picture on top of the beardless one and delete and clone parts of your beard ! 8) since this is hacker news, the post would not be complete if you do not: 8.1) create a startup from it ;)

smogzer2• 16 years ago

Also check the article "image based shaving" for an algorithm for beard removal: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/imageshaving/

itg• 16 years ago

Don't forget this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081dHOYY6IE

The quest for every beard type

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