From bearded back to clean shaven

After sporting a full beard for close to a year, I decided to shave it off this week. Here are my observations on what I was missing out on when bearded.

1) Exfoliation: I have dry skin, and the skin under my beard was very dry regardless of all the beard oil I would use. Shaving my face daily was instrumental at keeping my skin exfoliated and in good shape.

2) Meditation: My morning shaving ritual was my daily meditation, something that I found helped gather my thoughts and keep my focused. It's nice to have that routine back.

3) Faceturbation: No further explanation required.

Wise words and welcome back!

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Well personally speaking, its all about the faceterbating for me. But just like they said would happen, now I’ve got hair growing on the palms of my hands. :rant:

Lol. Welcome back. I never thought about how a beard might have kept a face dry!

Glad to see you around again. Happy shaving!

This post echoes every reason I shave now.

No photos? Welcome back.

Here you go:

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Somethings different between the photos... It's your shirt, isnt it???

you look thinner without the beard.

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Originally Posted by RezDog

you look thinner without the beard.

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And Younger Also :tu

I did much the same for the start of Movember this year, albeit with a 3-4 month beard rather than a full year. I can 100% relate to your experience! I think I am also sleeping better now that my evening ritual has returned.

Excellent, did the same myself about 2 months ago, off came the goatee.

Like hoping back on the shaving learning curve, but lots of fun shaving the entire face.

Should be a challenge here, if you shave with a straight, you gotta take it all off and have a clean shaven face for a couple of shaves. If you can't do a full face shave, you're missing out and lacking some blade skills IMO.

I've let the goatee grow and more beard grow back a few times, just to have the fun of plowing it all off again.

First time I did the entire face thing, figured it would be easy peasey, no chance, was much harder than it looked.

Followed Willi's video, he makes it look a lot easier than it is, but I'm a master now, upper lip became much easier than getting a squeaky clean chin, but everyone should give it a go.

My man Willi (who was a member here, might still be), who inspired me on this journey, along with an old member Jack who kept a daily diary, those were the days......

He made it look so, so easy.....:rofl2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q4IRoaJH34

I love that video.