Facial hair on guys, love it or hate it?

Early 50s straight male, I have had a goatee for as long as I can remember.
I keep it very trimmed and neat sometimes even shave down to stubble but
I have not shaved it off in 25 years or so and most women seem to really like it.
I have had a full beard only once and I don't think it looked bad at all but again
I kept it very neat.
Now that my hair is mostly grey I think I would like to grow it again just to see
how it looks now. Some older guys can really pull off the look of a well trimmed
grey beard.

The only guy who's facial hair I care about is my own. I hate shaving but know I don't look good in a beard and don't like how they feel, would love a way to easily have my facial hair permanently removed so I wouldn't have to shave every day.

It really depends on the man. Some look great in beards some don't. What I really dislike is when they have straggly scruffy beards. It looks like a unibomber, or that they just don't care. Or maybe cause that look usually covers their mouth and I can't read lips?

Late 30's guy here. I can't stand the itch of facial hair. Sometimes I wish I could... mine grows rather fast, and I have to shave twice a day to keep it smooth. Right now, for instance, I shaved at 8am; it's now going on 4pm, and my face feels like 120 grit sandpaper. Ugh.

Definitely depends on the guy, and how it is styled. There's a big gray area there. Plenty of women like 5 o' clock shadow and it's inevitible on pretty much most men anyway. When getting into true grown out beard territory though.. I guess as long as they are really well kept, clean, and not very long, I can tolerate it.

i prefer the clean shaven look... goatees are okay... but not the full out beard.

I love a guy with a stubbly beard or goatee, but no mustache. Only Burt Reynolds can wear a mustache correctly.

These are for my brothers living far far away.

I can't stand facial hair on anyone .

I'm assuming the title of this thread was casually phrased there, but it is a cause for concern regarding the beard discrimination. It's a double standard that some celebrities, fashion models, great historical figures, or some CEOs can grow nice beard and praised for it, yet other guys can be mocked or hated for the part of the facial feature. It's not like nose hair sticking out, we men can gloom it like the hair on top of our heads, it simply is not fair to male kind.

Facial hair on or off. Say we were talking about eyebrows, let's go one step further in this hypothetical and say we were talking about love/hate on women's eyebrows, would you consider this is socially acceptable to hear someone say that they hate your type of eyebrows? Hate it, hate the hair that grows above your eyes, I can't stand the look of the lady, this is just ugliest prejudice rearing its head out of whom says it.

We are talking about man's facial feature, I don't care if you botox the hell out of your face and get uglier, or your face get all wrinkled up for whatever reasons, we prefer to stay beautiful, maybe some of us can improve on it with plastic surgery, y'all go ahead and hate your own face or faces of someone you know, it doesn't bother me.

These kinda broad male bashing pisses me off, this is really dumb and unintelligent BS that needs to be stopped, exercise your brain matter please. As far as I'm concerned, this thread is as bad as hating on fat people. Someone being fat or having a beard, that's just descriptive and not judgmental, when we start talking about likes/dislikes/hate about these kind of physical attribute of someone, this just crosses the line of social acceptability.

Evaluations on male faces are fine to talk about, but not the beard! Because as I said before, many bearded guys are facing discrimination out there in the real world, from family members or at the place of employment, at a job interview etc... or from someone like you who are as superficial as they come.

P.S. Ain't nobody taking my manhood away from me, I will hate back the part of people's soul that is rotten eternally though.

I agree with you! It really depends on the certain guy and of course it seems funny for me growing a beard only in order to look more masculine because it's definetely not the main thing in such case
Personally I like to have facial hair, it looks cool and fits me greatly It looks like on this pic



It's the famous Van Dyke style, I like it the most of all among the other beard styles, here's more cool examples with it http://machohairstyles.com/best-van-dyke-beard/

I really love facial hair...on the right man (not every face can carry it off). And it must be groomed, kept neat and tidy, and within reason. (The 'mountain man', can't-be-bothered-to-trim-it, down-to-the waist beard is a huge turnoff.)

I think neatly trimmed beards are very attractive.

I guess it's a good thing I like my husband scraggly, because he has a 5 o'clock shadow by 2pm.

Figures the only women who seem to like beards or facial hair are online cause in real
life they hate it especially where I'm from.

I like beards if they fit the face and it's not on cavemen levels or dirty, not groomed looking. It's like with hair on the head, everyone like hair but it can look better or worse depending on the styling and if it looks unclean it's also not that great.

So I do love a nice beard and love a stubble too.

It's nice on guys but more attractive on the ladies.

Disclaimer: I'll be talking in generality, from a gentlemanly point of view, you keep your speech that may suck...try, less.

To straight women, please imagine shaving your eyebrows, you're gonna hate it but everybody else think that's just normal, you'll feel like the minority who's being judged. Dumbness, womanness, mass brainwashing, I don't know what it is. It's not all bad, if this thread were in women's support forum, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it. Y'all can think/say whatever you like, either way, either ways anybody answer this question to, the prejudicial expression in a free world is your disrespect to your own humanly rights. They call it men's grooming, corporate dress codes and some private schools enforce their own rules too, right?

I've read a story of a small mechanical shop or maybe it was a factory, one bearded guy protested the order to be clean shaven. I don't remember the exact story, somehow the rule changed and by next week, lots of male workers started growing beard. We also grow beard/a mustache for good causes too.

Some of you have morality issues as a person. Magazine talks about it, celebrities get scrutinized on/off private by their looks, political figures too, it's the hate that I hate. My former boss mocked and ordered me to shave my beard, when he said it, he used the name of Prince Shōtoku, this guy was on a 10,000 yen bill, a respectable historical figure everyone learned about at school.

A dumb fool wouldn't understand it. Not every men are the same, but when you talk, that's when we need to be fair and square, be polite about it. I'm not reading all posts, just try to be smart or you gone be wrecked.

Ugh I love facial hair on men. Not every guy looks great with it so it depends on the person.

While I think that different men can look good with different kinds of facial hair, I can tell you that my skin is super-sensitive and it just can't take kisses or rubs by skin with hair on it. My face immediately reddens and then becomes all puffy! Not real fun So, please, take that into consideration, gentlemen. Thank you.

I guess it depends on how much facial hair there is...I'm cool with it to an extent I suppose.

Hate it...

Ugh, honestly, I hate it. It feels so rough and it leaves rashes on my face. I told my fiance I'd still love him of course if he grew out facial hair, and I wouldn't stop him (big fan of choice), but that I might not be inclined to kiss him as much.

I honestly like a smooth face. The smoother, the better. He feels like he looks like a preteen when he shaves. He does look younger, but not by as much as he thinks.

ETA: Honestly, I think part of the reason I stayed single for so long is that millennial men seem to love their facial hair. They kind of look like mountain men these days... lol

Well, I have a beard that looks close to Grizzly Adams. Next stop ZZ Top, if I can live that long...