Originally posted by ataraxis
Haha... oh damn... now I imagine you like that but with a huge long flowing gandalf/santa-esque beard that's graying.
Actually, it is a well trimmed Abe Lincoln style beard. I use the shallowest trimmer guide to keep the beard down to about a quarter of an inch... 5 or 6 millimeters. It would look better with a mustache, but I snorkel once in awhile and a mustache would break the seal of the diving mask.
But like the young man here, I keep my hair long, combed back, and my ears clear. I do cut it in the back a bit sooner than he does though, ... and I have learned to cut it myself.
I used to employ barbers and hair stylists, but as soon as I would find a good one, they would be discovered by a higher quality parlor and go off to a higher tier in their career, and leave me looking again for a stylist. And it is demoralizing to fall victim to a bad stylist. You know, I was told by one of the Ladies who used to do my hair, that the girls are often instructed to say "yeah, yeah" to whatever the customer asks for, but to give them the standard haircut irregardlessly. It is bad for the customer, and sad for the stylists who would wish to express themselves more creatively. But the Franchise Owners see it as a way of increasing turnaround velocity and profits... the capitalist pricks. So I learned to be dexterous with a pair of sissors and a mirror... and every morning when I shave around my beard, I reach back and shave the fur off the back of my neck.
Oh, a few years ago, my daughter was doing so well in college as a fairly talented mathematician that I decided to surprise her... so I shave my beard and let my moustache get bushy... and became an Albert Einstein look-alike (I was just a bit paunchy then, but now with my Catholicism-inspired fasts, I have slimmed down enough so that the Einstein look is no longer accessable. People tell me now that I look a bit like 'Doc' from the "Back to the Future" series of movies). As 'Albert Einstein', I visited her on Campus and both of us turned more than a few heads as we sauntered through the quads.
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