Have you ever felt genuinely sad after shaving your beard?

i can’t exactly empathize as i’m a girl, but i’m sure i would if i was a dude.

also, there’s this song beard lust that discusses the hardships and potential awesome of growing facial hair…

I don’t think sad is an emotion I’ve felt, moreso regret.
I keep a goatee most of the time, every time I shave it completely off I look at myself in the mirror and think “Good god, I look like I’m 14”. Depending on my hair’s length, it may be “Good god, I look like I’m 14 and an ugly girl”.

So it’s not an “aww I miss my beautiful facehair,” but rather “aww I miss looking like an adult man.”

@Sarcasm

This.

Seriously.

I look like a yuppie as it is; last thing I need is to look like a prepubescent yuppie.

I had shoulder-length hair back in March and then shaved my head down to the skin. I loved the new look, but there were times in the beginning there when I missed my luxurious mane.

I just shaved my head again tonight and I am sad because it freakin’ hurts.

My beard is too itchy and scratchy to grow it more than a week or two. I am always real happy to shave it off. I do, however, miss my mustache.

I grew my hair throughout college. I was the “guy with dreads.” All the way to mid back.
I had to cut it by myself when I started looking for work.
I still miss it sometimes.

You get attached to the hair and the feel of having it , when i shave only after i have been growing it for a year or so then i feel sad and wish i never did it . I had real long hair and a long beard , 2 years growth then i shaved it all off one morning at 3am . After getting up a few hours later i wondered why i would do such a drastic thing , luckily for me sadly for my wife i am never shaving again .

Nope. I grew one for about 3 months as part of my town’s Centennial celebration. I looked like a terrorist and felt dirty all the time. I shaved it off as soon as I could and did not miss it one bit – neither did my wife.

I have the opposite reaction actually. Whenever I get I haircut I get the same thing: Size 1 attachment so my hair is only millimeters long and I can feel my scalp. I detest letting my hair grow as it just feels disgusting to me(oily scalp). And it’s so tangly I can do nothing with it. As for face hair, clean shave all time time otherwise I look like some dirty douchebag.

The summers in L.A. are too damn hot for a beard, but the rest of the year its on & off. Longest I’ve kept a beard was about two years and I nearly always maintain a moustache, (not at the moment, tho). When I see my chin for the first time following a bearded period, if I keep the moustache my face looks a bit strange, but I’m OK with it. If I go all out and shave the moustache as well, my face looks very strange, I ask myself “why the fuck did I do that”, and yes, I’m a bit saddened, but only briefly.

I hate facial hair.

I think my husband would always have a beard, if it were up to him…but he says he gets to a point when he knows he shouldn’t have it anymore (for work) and it gets too hot.
He says he gets sad, mainly misses it. He likes the way it makes his face looks.

I used to have really long hair, was a little sad to cut it. I used to have a goatee but it itched like no other so I haven’t grown out my facial hair since.

Yup, a year ago I was finally able to grow a full beard from ear to ear and I had it coming in thick and luxurious. I wanted to grow it to ZZTop proportions and had a pretty good start on it.

Then I got this job with the security company and they don’t allow facial hair, except in the most conservative style (pencil thin mustache). I was sad to shave it off, and envious of people with thirty years growth on their chin. Scruffy beards look like crap, but a well kept beard is a thing of beauty.

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 the secret to keeping a beard from itching is to treat the beard like you would scalp hair. Daily shampooing and using a good quality creme rinse/conditioner will stop the worst of the itching.

I can’t remember, exactly, but I think I’ve had a completely shaven face for about a week or two since I first was able to grow a beard. I don’t think I’d feel sad after losing it, because I’d only shave it if I really, really wanted to. Also, if I didn’t like it, it would grow back in a week.

I always get a bit sad when my boyfriend shaves his, beards are just so gosh darn cute.

It makes me a sad moose when I finally have to shave my beard. Takes awhile to get used to not rubbing the old chin scruff. That, and the whole feeling breezes on your face again is weird.

I had about two months growth when living in Costa Rica, shaved it just before travelling through mexico and absolutely hated the look of my face! Ended up spending the first week hidden away in my hotel room until I had enough beard to function, haha