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.
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.
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 ;)
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).
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 :)
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.
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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.
[+] [-] rue|15 years ago|reply
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.
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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 ;)
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