The beard was once an emblem of virility. Worn by Darwin, Da Vinci, Lincoln and Santa Claus, face fluff has been synonymous with energy and intelligence all through historical past.
Then it grew to become linked with laziness. A wall of disgrace. A supply of concern or worse – hipsterdom.
Jimmy Niggles, proprietor of Australia’s costliest beard (at present valued at one million {dollars}) and founding ambassador and CEO of Beard Season is at present altering that.
Beard Season is a charity which inspires males to develop their beards to boost consciousness for pores and skin checks.
Like many firms (not to mention not-for-profits), within the present state of affairs, Beard Season has been hit onerous by this yr’s financial and social crises.
However not one to have a look at the glass half empty, Jimmy lately took to Instagram to get Australia’s tackle the course Beard Season ought to take this yr. One possibility raised was for males to develop their beards just a little earlier this yr (Beard Season is often in winter).
Seeing this, DMARGE bought in contact to ask: how? Extra particularly: how does one recover from that ‘appears shit and is type of itchy’ stage, about three weeks in?
Are there any hacks to jump-starting your follicular providing so it doesn’t appear to be teenage bumfluff?
“Mate push by,” Jimmy instructed us. “The itchiness is your pores and skin working its manner again to its pure state.”
“Realising that it doesn’t must be tortured/shaved each morning and may nestle in amongst a thicket of wonderful face fur, it can get higher after a month or so and issues like pimples, rashes and redness will all be a factor of the previous.”
As for the aesthetic, Jimmy had an important piece of recommendation for anybody with a stubbornly adolescent beard: “On the appears aspect of issues, your beard is like your fingerprint. No two are the identical. So take delight in its growth and don’t beat your self up about it not trying like another person’s.”
By way of upkeep, Jimmy says you possibly can “shave their neckline and tops of their cheeks till it thickens up,” to make it look higher faster. However watch out to not over do it “otherwise you’ll find yourself with some pace stripes or a goatee” he instructed us.
Jimmy then instructed us, “if I wasn’t on this #MillionDollarBeard mission, and if it wasn’t winter, I’d most likely, usually choose to have a shorter beard.” The perfect size? For Jimmy that’s “about 2-4cm.”
What about naming it? Is that bizarre? “This can be a slippery slope,” Jimmy instructed us. “I’ve heard of individuals giving names to their physique components, fingers and so forth which may get slightly difficult. It’s greatest to think about your beard as an extension of your self. Like with the ability to see your personal aura.”
“Take care of it. Take delight in it. However don’t speak to it except it’s lengthy sufficient to fold your Australian sun shades into it. Solely then (and just for shock facetime calls – to your precise greatest pal) can a beard be personified.”