Facial Hair Fashions for Women?
If there are two little words that can strike terror into the heart of any woman, it's these:
Facial hair.
Not on our men. We like facial hair on our men. Five o clock shadow can be sexy on a guy. A goatee can be sexy. On a guy.
We don't mind seeing this stuff on our men. Seeing it on the face we see in the bathroom mirror every morning can be surreal.
I looked up facial hair on the internet. I had NO IDEA there were so many styles of beards and moustaches! So far I've counted 74 STYLES OF FACIAL HAIR! Everything from five-o-clock shadows to bushrangers, which are wild long full face beards accompanied by moustaches and sideburns. You want handlebars? Vandykes? Fu manchus? How about Dalis, Door-knockers or Don Littles? Everyone's heard of a goatee, but have you ever seen a marooned hulihee?
All of which gives me hope.
If I can't win the battle against facial hair, maybe I can at least name it something interesting.
I went back over the men's styles looking for anything that sounded vaguely feminine, but I came up short. Almost every style there sounds really masculine, like The Iron Jaw or Viking beard, for instance.
I don't know. Seems to me if I'm going to adopt an actual style for my facial hair, I want it to sound airy. Enticing. Pretty, even.
Like The Velvet Fuzz. Or The Butterfly Wing. Or The Chiffon. Something that implies a little texture without going overboard with the testosterone.
Although there was one style on the men's list that sounded kinda fashionable. It was The French Fork. But I don't recommend it. I wore one for a month before giving up and calling an electrologist. When she answered the phone, I said "I'd like to have a French Fork removed from my chin." She told me to dial 911.
Facial hair.
Not on our men. We like facial hair on our men. Five o clock shadow can be sexy on a guy. A goatee can be sexy. On a guy.
We don't mind seeing this stuff on our men. Seeing it on the face we see in the bathroom mirror every morning can be surreal.
I looked up facial hair on the internet. I had NO IDEA there were so many styles of beards and moustaches! So far I've counted 74 STYLES OF FACIAL HAIR! Everything from five-o-clock shadows to bushrangers, which are wild long full face beards accompanied by moustaches and sideburns. You want handlebars? Vandykes? Fu manchus? How about Dalis, Door-knockers or Don Littles? Everyone's heard of a goatee, but have you ever seen a marooned hulihee?
All of which gives me hope.
If I can't win the battle against facial hair, maybe I can at least name it something interesting.
I went back over the men's styles looking for anything that sounded vaguely feminine, but I came up short. Almost every style there sounds really masculine, like The Iron Jaw or Viking beard, for instance.
I don't know. Seems to me if I'm going to adopt an actual style for my facial hair, I want it to sound airy. Enticing. Pretty, even.
Like The Velvet Fuzz. Or The Butterfly Wing. Or The Chiffon. Something that implies a little texture without going overboard with the testosterone.
Although there was one style on the men's list that sounded kinda fashionable. It was The French Fork. But I don't recommend it. I wore one for a month before giving up and calling an electrologist. When she answered the phone, I said "I'd like to have a French Fork removed from my chin." She told me to dial 911.
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