Matricians: Show Yourselves!

[ASR]

I think it'd be interesting to grow a mustache, but honestly I much prefer being clean-shaven.

I'm too short to pull off a mustache or beard correctly.

[Chron]

The mustache makes you look almost like a physics professor.

Can't really see facial hair working for you, either.

[Johncarllos]

I promised more pics of my shaven face.

Too bad I'm ugly.

Maybe some later-er.
Every time I'm on here to take a picture, I'm not wearing a shirt.

[Mikero]

I hate people with ironic mustaches.

[ASR]

What about people with iron-on mustaches?

Every time I'm on here to take a picture, I'm not wearing a shirt.

WE DON'T MIND

[Mikero]

That's OK.

Not great, but I can deal.

The best is people with iron-man mustaches.

[ASR]

How about... Iron Man with a mustache?

[Mikero]

That's what I meant.

[Johncarllos]

Growing back

[Mikero]

You're an air traffic controller now?

[Chron]

He's one of those work-at-home tech support guys, I'm sure of it.

[Johncarllos]

I was on Skype with my Mom.

Trying to sell her some ShamWOW.

[ASR]

"DID YOU CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR COMPUTER IS TURNED ON"

"OKAY GOOD"

[preventerWIND]

Nice going John, now you're only known as the "fat Preventer". You better grow that back real quick y'hear!?

I'm serious, I don't actually like it.

[Johncarllos]

I'M GROWING IT BACK AS FAST AS I CAN!

[preventerWIND]

NO EXCUSE.

HOP TO IT.

[Lunchebox]

Oh hey, while I was on vacation, I got sick, and missed a day of work, so my boss didn't schedule me for most of this week.

So now I haven't shaved a few days.

[ASR]

You look like a fiery latino that don't take no ##### from nobody.

[Lunchebox]

Why thank you.

[Chron]

You remind me of some western movie hero I saw once.
Go get a brown overcoat and some cap gun revolvers and pretend to be a cowboy.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Man, I wish my beard grew fast...

I've been working on this goatee for months and all it is is some piece of hair coming out of my chin.

[preventerWIND]

I'm gonna be honest V, your facial hair looks like a pube stache.

Even though I can barely grow anything, it don't look like pubes.

[AlexThePenguin]

Best advice: Shave it frequently.

It'll come back thicker, fuller and more quickly.

[preventerWIND]

Best advice: Shave it frequently.

It'll come back thicker, fuller and more quickly.

She speaks the truth.

It's what I do, and I have a layer of hair that dances in the light. And that's the only way you can see it. Blond facial hair suuuuuucks.

[AlexThePenguin]

Get some beard dye and mess with people.

[preventerWIND]

HAH. My brother tried that couple years ago, he dyed his beard thing and it actually dyed the skin under his beard. He looked like an idiot for a week.

And while blond facial hair is annoying to grow, it'll be worth it, since it'll look great when it's full grown.

[AlexThePenguin]

Ahahahaha, nice.

Petroleum jelly and precision brushes help when dying hair.

[preventerWIND]

I'm glad he didn't know that, it made the entire family chuckle.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Best advice: Shave it frequently.

It'll come back thicker, fuller and more quickly.

That's just a coincidence, isn't it?

[Slugkid]

Actually, no. It's the same with all kinds of hair, I think.
Like, you know how some old people have really long and ugly ear hair, and some don't? It's most likely because the ones that do had cut their ear hair during their younger days, and it grew more in legth and stength.
...
...Why do I know this?

[Chron]

Best advice: Shave it frequently.

It'll come back thicker, fuller and more quickly.

That's just a coincidence, isn't it?

Yes. It's a common myth with no scientific basis whatsoever.
A beard takes until the mid-to-late 20's to fully mature, and your genetics will dictate which bits you get.

I couldn't grow a proper goatee & stache until recently, since the bits on the side that connect them hadn't grown in yet. It just takes time.

[AlexThePenguin]

No scientific basis? Seriously?

Because I've definitely noticed that shaving tends to make hairs darker and thicker, and they grow more quickly the more you shave them.

[Chron]

Seriously.
It's just lopping off the dead bits on the end. The follicles themselves only respond to hormones, not the stimuli generated by shaving, as shaving is not a natural process and therefore would not be a bio-trigger from hormonal release.

You notice this because you are still young and your follicles are still developing.

[AlexThePenguin]

So, it has nothing to do with how often I've shaved off layers of skin by accident?

[Chron]

That would actually be detrimental to the process somewhat, I might think.

[AlexThePenguin]

I've got weird skin, apparently.

I've got places where the skin was at one point completely rubbed off where hair grows through the scar tissue.

[Lunchebox]

Best advice: Shave it frequently.

It'll come back thicker, fuller and more quickly.

Old wives tale, to get teenage boys to shave their disgusting neckbeards.

[AlexThePenguin]

Cut hair does grow more quickly. I know that for fact.

[White Shadow]

No scientific basis? Seriously?

Because I've definitely noticed that shaving tends to make hairs darker and thicker, and they grow more quickly the more you shave them.

Hair is conic in form. Cut the thin top of a hair and what first grows back is the thicker base.

Secondly not all hairs startet growing at the same time. Shaving brings them down to the same level and when they have grown a bit again it'll look like there's more.

As for blond beards: Eyeliner. Seriously. Used to apply it before my goatee darkened and still use it for stage make-up

[Johncarllos]

Just for Men works great too.

[Mikero]

The only actual change to the hair shaving does other than making it short (obviously) is making it sharp.

Which is annoying if your hair naturally curls because the combo of sharp and curly hair makes it real easy for hair to cut it's way back under your skin; Ingrown hairs. It's the reason I only use 1 blade when I shave (when using 3 or 4 the shave is way too close to avoid ingrown hairs).

Shaving only in one direction can also condition the hair to grow a certain way (changing the "grain"), which is minor but it helps a lot to keep ingrown hairs away.

I've got weird skin, apparently.

I've got places where the skin was at one point completely rubbed off where hair grows through the scar tissue.

Yeah I have burn scars on my arms and hair grows through, which is interesting because I'd heard hair doesn't grow in scar tissue. These were real down to the white meat burns too, not like "ouchie I burnded myself ooh oh".

[Johncarllos]

Reminds me of House of Leaves.
Johnny Truant had burns all up and down his arms.

[ASR]

And they never #####ing say why.

[preventerWIND]

I went back in time and took this photo to try and beat that baby picture Mike posted, the one with the "Don't Worry Be Happy" shirt.

[ASR]

...that hat!

[preventerWIND]

Is cooooool?

[Mikero]

Cool and all but it doesn't beat mine, and I've also got a baby-Mike-with-a-wicked-hat picture ready to fire.

[preventerWIND]

That's too bad, I could be totally ready for this if I had the same pic as above, just the special tricycle+sunglasses edition. And we all know kick ass trikes and shades are the ultimate add ons when it comes to baby pics.

[Mikero]

I have one of me playing in snow that will burn ya and melt your heart.

I also have one of me holding a coconut in Barbados BAM BOOM BAM ultimate cool.
Lawyered.

[preventerWIND]

That coconut one sounds like a real challenge for the one of baby Steve in dragon-costume and crying. And by challenge I mean not a challenge at all.