As we get deeper into the holiday season, we here at Build-a-Beard encourage you to endorse our petition(official petition not included) for support of facial fluff for all mankind (we take the ‘man’ part seriously)… This year, please consider making growing a BEARD your failed New Year Resolution.
Due to this cynicism, we always have to stand up, recognize and support those brethren that are indeed fighting the good fight, sticking to it and following up/following through. So... Hello, unkempt, mega beard that's been around since January 1st, 2009, and the 20 y/o NYU student, with interests in Stockholm, that you are attached to. We salute you!
Do we even need any words? Are any additional talking points necessary? We will just like to say... Wow, where have you been all my word-processing life!?!!
Being on the road in lovely Pasadena, California over the weekend, we sought the opportunity to post the inaugural Build-A-Beard’s west coast excursion photo-bonanza extravaganza. With the Pasadena population hovering around 150k, how could we not find enough of our own to result in a pictorial?
This centerfold (named such because the photos being centered, duh) includes a dozen of hairy, warm-blooded and open minded gents who don’t need much introductions. Some are passing through; others are permanent residents of the City of Roses, but all of them are out and about getting down with their facial fluff all around town.
While the order was informally determined by perceived overall surface area and length, please do not look at this as a ranking, rather only as a salute. This first shot, found on the campus of Caltech, represents an idealistic view of our kin: Integrity, Creativity, Tenacity...
As a side note, through this exercise we have found that there is no better ice breaker than asking strange men to take a cellphone photo of their chin... our results of this endeavor are below.
Thank you all for participating... rock on, and keep on rocking those kickin' styles!
Do you want to send us your own facial hair hunting excursions? We would love to hear from you! Tweet at us or comment your hairy heart out.
Dear Beardos, heed my word... While we are winning the battle of facial hair adoption, we are losing the war of beards vs mustaches vs goatees.
Wahl Clipper Corp.has crunched the numbers and did the math (Shocker 101: a beard trimmer maker putting out a study on facial hair growth) and here are theirresults:
64 millionproud men nationwide sport facial hair for at least part of the year (YAY!). The goatee tops the facial hair ranks with25 million(really?). The mustaches cashed in on17 millionmen (and god knows how many women)… but our favorite, the beard, only mustered13 millionbrave souls this year...
So gents, what are we doing wrong?! You have to ask yourself, are you with us or against us? This guys gets it, and is ready to rumble… are you?
While watching The Phillies come back late last night against The L.A. Dodgers for a 3-1 series lead, I couldn't help, but notice that when the Dodgers put in Hong-Chih Kuo as their relief pitcher - The Phillies wasted no time during the next inning. Philly saw the smooth, baby-faced L.A. pitcher and raised it.... via Chan Ho Park and his sweet beard!
I am in love with the band Bear In Heaven, and I have hoped against hope that this band, with their drone-inflected Manchester sound (dronechester? WRITE THIS DOWN. DRONECHESTER. B-A-B CAME UP WITH IT!), would warrant a post here.
Well, bless my biscuits:
Cut, print, beard it-this is indeed a BAND OF BEARDS!
