Regeneration

[digitaldiscipline]

Slightly inspired by the mockup series of before & after photos that were posted here, and because I am a vain, calendar-defying ass-basket who is stolidly flipping my impending 40th birthday off, this morning, I did what has become cloyingly termed (within the context of my relationship with CS[1]) "regenerate," to see how much difference a shave and a haircut (two bits) actually makes.







I joke that I can shave fifteen years off my face when I bother; I'm wondering whether or not throwing a baseball cap on might make it twenty.

[1] Invariably, when I do go all the way to clean-shaven[2], she jokes about checking my ID and wondering where my hot older brother went.
[2] Which is seldom, because I'm lazy, and clippered to a sixteenth of an inch or whatever is my default setting. I have every expectation to get weird looks and confusion when I walk into the office tomorrow on a par with showing up wearing pants.

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[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I think it's fun how you look progressively happier as you get more clean-shaven.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

That can be attributed to the fact that there is a large cup of coffee just out of frame that gor progressively more empty, and the last two were taken after a nice hot bath, the better to soften up my wickedly thick stubble[1].

[1] This is independently verified by professionals; there is/was an old-school barbershop by my office in New Orleans that the old codgers I worked with swore by[2], and he did the hot-lather, straight razor shave.... and had to strop the blade four times over the course of scything off two weeks' worth of my stubble.
[2] For both the quality of the barbering, and the fact that the hair stylist, his assistant, was flat-out gorgeous and very personable.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

and now the waxing, and fake tan :)

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'd rather get sun, frankly. I need the Vitamin D.

Having both waxed my eyebrows and seen The 40 Year Old Virgin, there is no fucking way I will wax my chest and back. I'll clipper them down about to what you see here (this is my recently-mown summer pelt; I wasn't going to go as far as the guy in that article to illustrate the point).

[ivy]

I don't understand why anyone waxes anything. Ow ow ow.

[thebigpants.livejournal.com]

Crap, you ain't kidding!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

My day-to-day look is usually images 2 - 3.

[http://users.livejournal.com/project_mayhem_/]

Yeah, I have similar results when I don't shave my cranium- it's not so much of a bald "spot" any more as more of a "region..." sorta like how Russia is a region in Asia.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

When you have our hairstyle, anything over 3/8 of an inch looks like denial or desperation. I typically mow mine down when it reaches around 1/4" and can visibly show having been slept on and where my numerous cowlicks would be (the transition from images 2 to 3, though it's occasionally a tad longer than 2).

[ivy]

Eh, it's an indicator that y'all have lots of testosterone. This is not a bad thing. [grin]

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I would love for this to be true, but my blood work sadly contradicts this assertion. (I get my T level checked next friday; after 21 months of T replacement therapy, I'm still barely above the threshhold for low normal, so I may investigate more assertive treatment protocols now that 40 has arrived)

[ivy]

That is pretty dramatic, though I think the increasingly smiling facial expression helps too, heh.

"Regenerate" totally cracked me up.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Part of it was being more awake, part was the hot bath :-)

[yelena-r0ssini.livejournal.com]

Still not ginger.