Before & After
Jun. 21st, 2003 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jim_pApologies for the picture quality... Tam has the "real" digicam at the studio today, so I cobbled up a webcam for these:
Before:
After:
The latter face is a little rounder than I remember him last... which isn't surprising since he hasn't been seen since 1980. Yup, I started growing the beard as a college froshling. Trimmed it whenever it dragged in the soup but otherwise kept it part of me. Finally decided that the "real me" deserved a little "face time" for a while. May grow parts of it back, may not, I'll have to think about it...
Before:
After:
The latter face is a little rounder than I remember him last... which isn't surprising since he hasn't been seen since 1980. Yup, I started growing the beard as a college froshling. Trimmed it whenever it dragged in the soup but otherwise kept it part of me. Finally decided that the "real me" deserved a little "face time" for a while. May grow parts of it back, may not, I'll have to think about it...
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Date: 2003-06-20 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-20 11:25 pm (UTC)Originally I grew the beard partly out of laziness (I basically stopped shaving while on vacation) and partly out of a desire to look older (long history of being infantalized and belittled by parents and older siblings). Now that I'm plenty old enough all by myself I don't need help from a beard that has entirely too much grey in it :)
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Date: 2003-06-25 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-20 10:03 pm (UTC)You look fine, although different. Like way different, a totally different person! At least you don't have the serial killer image that my coworker ended up with!
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Date: 2003-06-20 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-20 11:30 pm (UTC)Let's just say I've been moving in a direction of being more true to myself lately... in some ways the beard was a "mask" I wore to conceal myself from the world. I figured I'd take it off for a while; eventually I may re-adopt it as an "accessory" rather than as a part of my identity.
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Date: 2003-06-20 11:13 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2003-06-20 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-21 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-22 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-22 11:55 pm (UTC)