The Beard Game!

Your beard is an accessory. It projects a vibe, a profound personality. Most of the Teens who are in their high school day’s looks at the idea of beard is as a symbol of Manhood. These kids desires to grow a perfect beard on their soft cheeks. They have been cute for too long now they want to be called Sexy, Macho, Hot. If a boy can see early signs of beard and mustache on his smooth face, he seeks pride in it. It makes him a ‘Man’ (maybe he is in a delusion that it will make him stud and girls will go crazy). 10 years back while I was in that same age, keeping a beard was associated with Bad practices. Villains, a bandit, thief were shown in TV shows & Movies with messy beards, as if all the bad people don’t like the idea of personal hygiene and keeping untrimmed beard looks bad-ass to them.

Every time when I had put forwarded my choice of keeping beard my mom used to yell at me and say that I would look like a goon if I grow beard. Back then a regular working class person in any profession would wake-up and clean shaves his whatever little stubble beard have grown in a day or two. It was an ideal grooming habit for so called ‘white collar Jobs‘ which every parent thrive for their child (pushing hard on studies was not enough so… let’s pressurize for the looks as well!). However a man was always allowed to have a Mustache, no one could ask to remove it.

Truly! It feels like the beard have managed to survive a bad phase. In its all glory beard is dominating men styling trends in today’s time. Beard grooming products like beard oils and shampoos were almost none exciting before 2015. Our heroes have well-trimmed beard in movies. CEOs and entrepreneurs are pulling off vigorous beard look. Major celebrities from entertainment business, Sports, Artists are hardly been seen in clean shave look. All of these have passively shaped the mentality of an average Indian person. I can’t pin point an accurate time which change the perception of keeping beard but a phenomena called “No Shave November” have contributed major part in it. No Shave November origin goes back to 2009 but it was Instagram which influenced the idea to the masses. Bread is so mainstream that a clean shaven person easily stands out in crowd of 100 men.