This is a side view of my new beard, the Electric Slide.

Okay, so, as I said before, I have a new beard.  For now I’m calling this style the Electric Slide.  Here’s a nice side-view of the beard.  You can see how it kind of slides down from the sideburns into a beard.  It’s a little hard to style because it’s curvy instead of straight lines, but so far I’m enjoying the new look. In fact, because it curves, it doesn’t even quite follow the jaw line.  You can see at the back, near the ear, how it’s specifically not squaring things off like any sane guy would do. One of the things that I kind of like about this beard is that it’s a bit different.  I’ve never seen anyone do it like that before.  (Maybe because it kind of goes against logic.)  Another thing I like about it is that at certain angles it looks, to me, more feminine … somehow.  Not that beards are.  But like, if a woman had to grow one… I mean when women style their eyebrows, they always curve them.  (Something I’ve been looking at a lot lately, for some reason.)  Women curve a lot.  In pretty much everything.  And in a lot of ways this beard is the same. Speaking of curved highly-styled eyebrows, I’ve been thinking of doing mine.  I mean I always style them a bit anyway.  Besides keeping the evil monobrow at bay, I also like to get rid of some of that extra fluff.  But lately I’ve been considering going with a thinner and curvier eyebrow.  I wonder how that’ll look on my male persona.  I’m thinking there are a lot of men that couldn’t pull it off.  That it’d look just weird on.  But I’m so … weird.  So maybe it’d look okay on me.  I dunno.  I’m a bit scared to try it.  It could take a while to grow back.  But I’ve been thinking about it… And then there’s my new hairstyle, which I call “Wet and Wild” and my wife calls “Rock Star”.  The idea basically came to me as I got out of the shower and looked at my towel-dried hair flinging every which way.  (My hair is so freaking crazy.)  I just mousse it up while it’s still damp and fling it every which way, rubbing the mousse in.  And then kind of guide bits here and there with my fingers.  It’s crazy.  I think it’s just another part of my male persona shifting more towards feminine. I guess since I can’t really let the woman inside me out completely, she’s finding ways to peak through more in my everyday life.  A pierced ear.  Long hair.  A blond streak in my hair.  A new hair style.  A new beard.  And possibly new eyebrows. It’s electric!

My new beard. What do you think?

So the wife and I sat down and brainstormed beards.  Armed with an eyeliner pencil, she draw on my face.  And then, trusting in her judgement, I did my best to shave it.  Which wasn’t easy because she involved a lot of curving instead of straight lines, something which a razor blade is just not good at.  You’d think quarter-length “styling” razors would exist by now, but if they do, I’ve never found one. Anywho, so here is the end result.  It wasn’t quite along the lines that I was thinking of myself, but then I just couldn’t decide on anything for myself.  So what the hey, I’ll give it a go and see if I like it or not.  At least it’s something different. It basically keeps the sideburns down through the chin line, but in a slow arcing curve that’s kind of hard to see from straight-on like in the picture.  It doesn’t connect to the mustache at all, but leaves one there for fun.  I’m not really sure what to call it, but at least it’s something I don’t see around.  I like uniqueness.  At least within reason. So what do you think?  Is this a style suited to my male persona?

This is the face behind the beard.

So I did something crazy.  I shaved off my beard.  Actually, it was in need of some fixing anyway, so I kind of needed to do something.  But so I shaved it off.  I’m going to let it grow back in and trim it back to being right.  That’ll take no time at all.   But in the mean time, I thought I’d give you a look at the face behind the beard. It probably goes to show that I suck when it comes to applying makeup.  Of course I only have my wife’s to use, and she doesn’t use any.  She’s one of those naturally beautiful women.  So she has almost no makeup to play with.  Would you believe she doesn’t even have any foundation?!  I had to use blush as a foundation just to help hide the facial hair stubble that’s always just below the surface.  I swear, even after I’ve just shaved I already look like I have a five ‘o clock shadow. But so anyway, my point is I didn’t really go overboard with makeup.  And I didn’t go overboard with shaping my eyebrows, because men don’t have pencil-thin eyebrows.  And my hairline is still a poster child for male-pattern-baldness.  So, ultimately, I’m still very masculine looking, even with pink lipstick, blush, and eyeliner. Could I ever pass for a woman?  I don’t know.  Hormone treatment (if I started it) would have to do an awful lot.  And I’m sure that I’d need feminization surgery on top of that just to even start to look like a woman.  Even then?  I dunno.  It’d take a lot. Some people can do it.  And some people can’t.  Or probably shouldn’t.  Genes are a tough thing to fight. But anyway, I just throught I’d give you a shot at seeing the face behind the beard.