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Are you participating in No-Shave November?

Asked by Joker94 (8180points) November 1st, 2011

If anyone is unfamiliar with the event, Wikipedia provides a pretty solid description over here. Will you be observing this month? If so, how do you plan to fight the urge? This will be my first dedicated month, and I’m gonna try like hell to see it all the way through.

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Blackberry's avatar

No. I despise facial hair (on me). I don’t get way anyone likes it, but that’s just me.

WestRiverrat's avatar

I participate in No-Shave December to October, why should November be any different.

Joker94's avatar

@Blackberry Aw, not even for one month?
@KateTheGreat My girl!

KateTheGreat's avatar

@Joker94 Oh yeah, I’m going to be sooooo warm and cozy.

whitetigress's avatar

Naw, during the Fall/Winter here in San Diego the air gets mega dry. The oils on my face underneath the beard tend to “dandruff” up. No matter how much moisturizing soap I use, followed by lotion, or none of those.

Blackberry's avatar

@Joker94 Nope, I can’t even handle it for a few days.
@whitetigress Oh geez, I used to work with a guy that had a huge mustache, and he always had dry skin flakes in it.

fizzbanger's avatar

Hubby’s doing it… started 2 weeks early. He’s all beardy.

In the military, lots of guys do Mustache Movember. It’s pretty creepy.

Blackberry's avatar

@fizzbanger We call them “molestaches”. Whenever a ship goes on deployment, some men start growing mustaches for some reason.

Joker94's avatar

@whitetigress Yikes! I’m prepared to see that among my hairier friends this November..
@Blackberry Molestaches is probably one of the best things I’ve heard all day!

JilltheTooth's avatar

I’m with @KateTheGreat , I plan to participate. ;-)

AshLeigh's avatar

I’m not. Gross. >.<

Michael_Huntington's avatar

I don’t see how this can raise awareness for prostrate cancer…
And I can’t participate because I didn’t shave yesterday.

KateTheGreat's avatar

This song definitely makes the female NSN sound awesome.

Berserker's avatar

I wish I could grow a badass ZZ Top beard.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

No way, I can’t stand the feel of my legs rubbing on each other with stubble.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

Perhaps. In a previous discussion with @KateTheGreat, we decided that I should grow out my leg hair and she would pet me.

woodcutter's avatar

th hell is a prostrate?

wonderingwhy's avatar

I don’t know what it has to do with prostate cancer but they’re free to tap me as a ‘member by association’ seeing as I started growing the beard in for the winter back in September and’ve no plans to shave till April.

Joker94's avatar

@AshLeigh Aww, no fun!
@Michael_Huntington I have no idea either, actually..
@Symbeline I’m with you, dude!

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

No. I’m crossing my fingers that my husband doesn’t catch wind of this event.

bob_'s avatar

No, I will be taking part in I’m-keeping-my-job-by-not-looking-like-a-hobo November.

Berserker's avatar

@Joker94 Yeah. With a beard that massive, you could make braids and shit in it, and look like a Viking.

…make braids and shit in it

That is NOT what I meant.

AshLeigh's avatar

@Joker94… Having hairy legs when you wear skirts every single day isn’t very much fun either. >.<

Joker94's avatar

@Symbeline Lol! You could always pull a Blackbeard, and tie semi-burning lengths of rope into your beard!
@AshLeigh Touche, touche..

filmfann's avatar

I have had a neatly trimmed beard for 30 years.
I have considered shaving it off, along with shaving my head on New Years, then going a year without cutting anything. My concern is, should I die, that people think I lost my mind in the end, like Howard Hughes.

WestRiverrat's avatar

@filmfann who cares if people think you lost your mind. Howard had a lot of fun while convincing people he had lost his, way before he actually did.

filmfann's avatar

@WestRiverrat Even without the No Shave thing, I am constantly trying to convince people I haven’t skipped the groove.

WestRiverrat's avatar

@filmfann you would be surprised what you can get away with when everyone around you thinks you are a little bit crazy. Let them think you’ve lost your mind, you will know better.

judochop's avatar

I am participating this year. The last time I grew a beard was overseas. This time I am growing one because I want to. My beard also grows in all weird like but I live in Portland so no one notices.

woodcutter's avatar

Yeah what the hell, I think I may. Got a decent start already. I had the finger poke this fall and it’s in A-OK shape. Still don’t get how facial hair has any connection. Maybe a ribbon to pin to it? Do they have a prostate ribbon out yet? It’s as good a reason as any and I will stretch my shavers further.

YARNLADY's avatar

Every month is no-shave month for me. The very thought of dragging a sharp piece of steel across my soft, furry skin sounds disgusting.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

In fact, I think I’ll shave everyday to spite this slacktivism.

Ela's avatar

Gotta have it smooth. Can’t do it, sorry. I shave everyday because even the teeny-tinyiest bit-o-stubble makes me itchy and feel icky : (

Ponderer983's avatar

I guess the fact that I just went for a bikini wax negates that whole idea

rojo's avatar

I have been participating in the no-shave decade.

MRSHINYSHOES's avatar

No. I have to shave. I like the feeling and look of having a smooth sensual face, not the feel and look of a hedgehog’s back.

Moegitto's avatar

No shave November? I haven’t shave since Aug 17th…

martianspringtime's avatar

I shave/don’t shave whenever I feel like it. Sometimes I feel like having smooth legs, other times I just can’t be bothered. I just shaved my legs for the first time in weeks incidentally.

rojo's avatar

@martianspringtime I have often wondered why the legs are shaved. My wife says she does it because of how uncomfortable it is to regrow it back. I tried to talk my daughter out of it but peer pressure won out.

downtide's avatar

My partner’s had a beard for years. I can’t grow one at all (yet). Maybe next year.

ucme's avatar

I might turn the whole thing on it’s head & shave my pubes clean off, call it mow-member instead.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@ucme lmfao

So… if it’s No-Shave November… can I still get my eyebrows waxed? I prefer to not walk around town with what appears to be a squirrel above my eyes. The women in our family are cursed to be hairy bitches!

Facade's avatar

I never knew about this… Interesting, but no thanks.

DominicX's avatar

My facial hair is really half-assed and doesn’t turn into any form of attractive facial hair, so no, I will not be participating. :P

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