>I advocate for reasonable well-kept beards. Your keyword is 'well-kept.' --Beards are great, I wore different versions of facial hair throughout my earlier life. I think it's actually more work to maintain a good beard than it is to just shave though. Now that I'm a little older I shave, but only maybe about twice a week. Maybe when I get super-old I'll just let it go and have a long, grey/white unmaintained beard.