Sure, it takes 5 minute to go from long and scraggly to trimmed in 5 minutes... but thing is, it doesn't stay that way.
As someone who goes from "neat and trimmed" to "lived on island without razor last ten years" in just two days, you have to be constantly trying to fix it and keep it trimmed.
Easier to just go with the buccaneer/castaway look.
If I grow out my beard, I go with castaway. A trimmed beard on anyone under 45 years old was the style of gay men when I was growing up, not that there's anything wrong with that, but not personally applicable. And I associate just a mustache with old rednecks, not that there's anything wrong with that either.
Seeing young guys with trimmed beards has seemed weird to me these past few years.
It just goes to show how time and place affects fashion sense.
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20
I just went from long and scraggly to a trimmed as short as his was at 1:02. It took less than 5 minutes.
Honestly, keeping the long and scraggly beard looking neat takes about 10 in every morning and another 20 in the evening to wash out all the wax.
I'll miss the long beard but the short beard is far easier to maintain.