Attempt at growing Facial Hair

Two weeks ago I decided to try to grow a little facial hair.

I'm half Polish, so facial hair is not in my genes. (On the flipside though, my brother has enough hair on his chin to grow a brillo factory.) Usually I only need to shave every other day.

So on the morning of July 5th, I decided I wasn't going to shave for a while.

On July 14th, I took a few pictures after work. 1, and no soul patch.

It became itchy and I was noticing a few ingrown hairs here and there but it wasn't too uncomfortable even with the 100 degree weather and near-90 percent humidity.

This morning on 7/22 I shaved it off, but not before a few 17-day pics. 1, 2, 3.

My facial hair follicles are too unevenly and sparsely spaced to get a full beard - or even mustache - and it took me 17 days to grow a bit less than 5/16ths of an inch of facial hair.

Post-shower hand-reeking-of-shaving-cream pics 1, 2, 3

As an aside, I know I've been told I kind of resemble Tobey McGuire sometimes, and this one reinforces that a little. I also never realized how busted my nose looks from a looking-up forward angle so I probably will avoid sticking my nose in the air when talking to people.

I may try again this winter. We'll see.