Get Your Beard on Boys! Hairy and Loving It
LOVE it or hate it, the beard is back.
Young men are forsaking the clean-shaven look, three-day-growth and goatee in favour of the full-bodied, take-no-prisoners facial growth popular with our viking ancestors and bush rangers.
The Urban Dictionary defines a beard as this: "The single most manly, and great thing a man can do.
To have a beard is to be a true man.
If you have a beard, show it off proudly, and enjoy the satisfaction of the envy in the eyes of people around you who don't have beards.
If you don't have a beard, grow one." And if the girls don't like it, the lads don't care.
But the girls do seem to like it.
Twenty-one-year old James Loose, The Gympie Times' new weekend sports photographer, has a beard Ned Kelly would be proud of.
He has been growing this particular beard for six months.
It isn't his first, he says.
And it won't be his last.
What does James love about it? It's "something different".
Does it get the girls in? He shrugs his shoulders and gives a noncommittal smile.
THE Queensland Cancer Council is calling all Gympie region men to "get their beard on" as it launches its latest fundraising campaign, Beard150, for Men's Health Week.
Beard150 calls on more than 150 men to grow a beard and raise funds for men's cancers over 150 days, in the hope of raising more than $150,000.
More than 13,400 Queensland men will be diagnosed with cancer this year alone - almost 4000 with prostate cancer, 1800 with melanoma and 1600 with bowel cancer.
Cancer Council spokeswoman Katie Clift says Beard150 is a unique fundraising campaign making the most of the trend of the moment - beards. …
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