Highlights:
- Haircut and beard shape up
Lowlights:
- Feeling all the repercussions on all that thanksgiving food
The goal for next week: Get to the gym
With No-Shave November coming to a close I decided to the beard through the holidays. To get ready for the Christmas and Holiday party season I needed to get a haircut and for the first time, I was also going to need to get my beard cut and shaped. The usual story is that I don’t touch my razor at all for the month of November. As my jobs have been getting more and more professional, walking around with a raging neckbeard was not appropriate. I compromised and kept the neck nice and clean but left the length of the beard as long as it could grow out. This lead to some issues around my mouth, it became very hard to drink anything out of a cup without a straw. The liquid would just run out the sides of my mouth and down onto my shirt making a huge mess every sip. In the era of the war on plastic straws, I am most certainly not going to be carrying around a metal straw in my pocket all day every day.
The only choice was to get to the barber and let them do their magic. After my guy was done it felt like I had a whole new face. No hair would hit my lips or get in the way of my breathing or tickle my nostrils. The real mega moment though was when I had poured myself a nice big glass of ice water at home. It was an oddly refreshing feeling that I can only describe as one of the most comfortable drinks of all time. I had not realized how annoying drinking was when all the beard hair kept getting in the way my drinks.
For next year not only will I continue to condition from day one of growing out the beard but will also try and trim the edges as well to keep drinking from feeling like an impossible task.