At present, my big sticking point is Maths Teacher Syndrome, or in layman's terms, Shaving Up To The Glasses' Arm.
Consider:
Immediately, this image unsettles. You look up this face and you see cheek, cheek, cheek, then glasses arm, then oh! Suddenly there's hair. There's no easing in, there's no crossover zone, there's no smooth transitioning of the facial districts. This makes the subject difficult to trust. What other abrasive tendencies does he have?As a gifted mathematician/scientist it hurts to say this, but this is the result of the annoying logical maths side of the brain having too much say. He wants neat shapes and no grey area.
The artistic brain, the one who loves school plays and dance recitals, he actually is more inclined to get it right. He celebrates aesthetics, and welcomes cross-over and grey area in his life. Let's now consider our dance recital brain shaver, and how he gets it right:
Trustworthy, calming, dependable. You can almost overlook his recital tendencies, resting assured in his shaving technique.
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These men should take the pragmatic, yet soothing approach of growing the sideburns down into the extremely manly beard, removing any hint of unsightly juxtaposition. Follow the hair down one cheek, toward the chin and around the mouth, then return with the symmetric burn ascending the other cheek. Reassured at seeing that exemplar of man and beard, you feel calm and at peace.
You are at one with the world of facial hair.
Good point, though a lot of men struggle with a beard. The cheek distict is notorious for patchiness and bare patches. But your heart is in the right place.
And nice use of comment deletion.. it makes my blog seem edgy and controversial. Thanks.
The cheek patchiness can be combatted by using the lesser known technique of the "Craig David beard". Which involves a very thin beard line around the face, minimizing the chance of being affected by the hairless patch.
I'm trying to find a technical term for it, but neither wikipedia or Facial Hair Styles has an accurate description of my beard.
It is basically a circle-beard/chinstrap combo.
I choose to call it the Wide Craig David.
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You know that you can delete the comment entirely, so it doesn't show up at all right? Then you aren't left with unsightly cruft. Of course, going for that grungy, devil-may-care look on your blog may require you to just leave it there.
yep, that's why I'm leaving it there. I'm too tuff to care.
I prefer the term 'emaciated abe lincoln' for that beard. I sported one once.
Mine surrounds the mouth though, so it's not a Lincoln, which has no moustache.
'Lincoln-the college years'?
Nice :)
The "Maths cut" is as much to do with not having hair / glasses arm interface issues. Take it from a girl who has glasses and has several times gone through this annoyance when growing hair out from a short cut.
i understand that, but sometimes we need to suffer for our art.
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