Facial Hair
Last night I was exhausted and went to bed around 8:30. Mike came in around 11:30 and began talking once it was obvious that he had woken me up.
"Do you notice anything different?" he asked me.
"I can't see," I replied. The lights were off and I wasn't wearing my glasses.
I could see him tilting his head from side to side, so I put my hand on his face a few times to see if I could feel anything different. "Nope," I said.
"I shaved!" he replied.
I felt his cheeks and sure enough, the bristle was gone. Mike usually has a goatee, but he also lets the hair on his cheeks go past stubble territory and into full beard land. I don't think that this is because he likes having a beard...I think he just doesn't care for shaving.
"Oh cool!" I said. I always think he looks so good after he's just shaved.
"You didn't feel to closely," he replied. "I shaved my beard."
"Wait...what? No you didn't," I said, feeling the ridge of hair still present along his jawline.
"Yes I did," he replied. "But I kept the mustache and the hair that goes along my jaw."
"You didn't," I said, gasping.
"I did," he replied.
"You're going to shave it off, right?" I asked.
"I don't know," he said. "I kind of like it. It's so Civil War."
Now, just so you can see, here is what Mike's facial hair usually looks like after he trims it up.
Here is what it looked like this morning.
He was a little sleepy when I took the photo, I think.
He did indeed shave it off. His mom is throwing a baby shower for me today and he would have to come at the end to see everyone, and I don't think he'd pull that on a day he had to see his mother. However, when he came out again this morning he showed me he had shaved everything off except the mustache.
I blurted out, "No," before I could think. I tried to backpedal, but was stuck between wanting him to be happy with his facial hair and not wanting him to walk around with a 1980s mustache. I asked if he really wanted to keep it but he just pouted and said, "Not today." He also said that I broke his mustache heart.
Sorry, Mike.
I suppose I should be grateful that he didn't grow it out enough to do that thing where he curls up the ends. That would have been awkward.
posted by Danulai @ 8:58 AM
4 Comments:
when boy was little (many moons ago) bran shaved off his facial fur. boy wouldn't go to him for a while, until he figured out that the clean shaven stranger was his dad.
Why do men have to be coerced into shaving? When they finally do, why do they insist on creating shapes and weird lines on their face? I don't do that with my legs! What's the deal?!
Can't wait to hear details of the shower. Do tell.
It's kind of rockabilly in addition to civil war. ;-)
"I suppose I should be grateful that he didn't grow it out enough to do that thing where he curls up the ends. That would have been awkward."
I believe the word you are looking for there is "awesome." That would have been awesome.
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