With my silly beard I now look very like the dead Iranian President.

I've been a barber for 45 years and have some men ask me about grey beards and tell me their reason for growing them. My advice is to get rid of them completely, they are terribly ageing in nearly every case and nearly all men will look better without them, even much older gentlemen over seventy.

Who wants to look like an Iranian mullah? I agree, a very disturbing look for any western gentleman.

My classic/weekday/well groomed small beard is essentially to save time in the mornings (45 sec touch up).

And it's also gives my face a different dimension, which is altered at weekends. Who wants to look the same, all their lives?

Ayatollah King

Jeepers!

Shave it off Jonathan. I was shocked to see you embrace this look.

You could do what Noel Edmonds did and start dying your beard. If you look at him on TV when he was greying in his late 50's he looks older than he did a decade later with a splash of colour. But what an effort to keep doing that though. Easier to shave it off and shave regularly thereafter. Of course in Noel's case he always had the beard, I don't think he was ever clean shaven was he.

The only old fella who should keep his straggly grey beard is a certain red suited man who makes annual visits.

If you can grow it just a little longer, you can dye it with multicolour stripes and it will be just like the seventies, but upside down.

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