Beards are beards, you know? You can grow them out, you can shave them off completely, or you can have them stay a certain length depending upon how you like your appearance. However, there are pros and cons to everything.
Beards are great for the most part. But some things about them are just not cool. In fact ,they’re bad enough to make you want to shave them right off. Here are some of those reasons.
Why shaving off your beard is the best thing you can do.
Beards are giant blobs of hair. Of course they get itchy. Have you ever tilted your head downwards and felt a few sharp bristles poke at your skin? It’s the beard, unless you’ve been smuggling needles in your stache. That much hair is sure to accumulate heat as well, and make you itch. You know what else heat does to you? It makes you irritable. The next time you find yourself being unreasonably angry with the world, it could be your beard’s fault. You’re not supposed to take that sort of stress.
The heat brings sweat, and the warm, moist conditions that form close to your skin thanks to your beard are like luxury suites to bacteria. Don’t be surprised if you find your skin breaking out in pimples or some other sort of bumps under your mane. Washing your beard and drying it out completely doesn’t guarantee not having pimples or infections either. Plus, if the skin gets really bad, your doctor might need to shave your beard off to take a closer look. So why not get rid of it yourself?
Contrary to what people think, growing a beard and maintaining it costs you. A lot. You can’t just walk around with an unkempt mane. Bed beard is a fashion disaster. You need to wash your facial hair just like hair on your head. You need to oil it, gel it, style it, trim it, condition it, make sure the skin underneath is healthy. If you’re keeping a beard to save money on shaving product, the best you’ll be able to come up with are hobo beards. It’s not the kind that attracts the ladies, my man.
