Beard of the Week VIII
I am continually amazed at the search strings people submit to Google that bring those searchers for knowledge to this blog — both that such frequently odd and unexpected search strings would show me so much Google favor, and that people would even think to ask such things.
Recently, someone reached a beard of the week posting by searching* for "beard styles and ideas". I hope they found something to spark the imagination; if not, give me a few more weeks, months, years, and we'll have some additional styles.
There are at least as many beard styles — not to mention colors! — as there are men, and each of those men can trim his beard in countless ways, so the number of styles may seem be infinite but, alas, it is only finite. However, that's still a really big number. Should one try to develop a beard classification scheme? Surely it appeals to the architect personality in me, not to menion my anal-retentive side, but I'm not sure there would be a point to it. On the other hand, if someone paid me….
Isaac tends to prefer the full beard on men: let it grow naturally and see it at it's most pristine and beautiful. I like a full beard, certainly, but I'm also delighted to see all the varieties of van Dyke variants that people come up with, partiularly the younger crowd. We'll surely see more examples as we go.
Perhaps it's all a matter of mood and the day; somedays I prefer Italian-style gardens, some days I prefer French-style gardens — then at times nothing but an English-style cottage garden will be just the thing.
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*Along about the same time, someone else searched for "goatee without the mustache" and no doubt got an eyeful of my curmudgeonly carrying-on about how a van Dyke beard without the mustache is a goatee.