Stubble

A rant;

Here's another distressing phenomenon of our times - middle-aged men who, agonisingly impaled on the horns of the beard-or-no-beard dilemma, settle for the halfway house of stubble that's a little too long to be stubble but a good deal too short to be a beard. The result, gentlemen, is that you end up looking as scruffy and suspect as Charles Clark or the BBC's head razor dodger Mark Thompson - and you just can't wear a suit when your chin's in that state, not without looking like The Defendant. Combined (as it often is) with the all too popular cropped head, the effect is still more displeasing. I know the stubbly head is supposed to disguise a follicular challenge, but, in older, greyer men I contend that it is Not a Good Look. Think Magwich.
I wonder what Selena Dreamy has to say...

I often have the short stubble, or so-called 5 o'clock shadow. Frankly, I can't grow a beard, and I think I look better that way than clean-shaven... and technically, I suppose I am "middle-aged", but at the risk of being egotistical, I look 30-something, and can still pull off the look.

Pictured is the afore mentioned Mark Thompson. Is that a beard? Note quite, and it's too long for a shadow.. and the writer is correct, it's not a good look at all.



That's how it's done properly.. Of course, it helps to be Brad Pitt.. still, I keep it a bit shorter than that most times.

An annoying thing I've noticed about getting older. When your hair recedes, not all the hairs get the notice. You end up with one or two hairs that look like they are protruding out of your forehead, but that's only because of the retreat marched by the rest of your hair. They are a sign post of what things used to be like.

They must be executed with a razor.