Big Bushy Beard

Hello guys This week is a little bit special for, as of 2 days ago my beard was 1 year old so I now officially have a yeard. I’ve had a beard of one form or another for the last 10 years, usually I keep it fairly short and quite neat and tidy, occasionally changing styles and trying different looks. That is until last year when I took part in Decembeard to help raise funds for beating bowel cancer. I decided that instead of shave my beard off and grow it back for a month, I would keep my existing beard and not shave or trim or do anything other than wash and brush my beard for the whole month. At the time I had a beard that was a couple of inches long at the chin and tapered down to about 5mm long where my beard meets my hair, with my cheeks and lower neck completely clean shaven. It got to the last weekend of October and I did my usual weekend routine, I shaved my cheeks and neck then trimmed my beard to keep its length and shape nice and even. After I’d finished I dropped my razor in the bin intending on not shaving again until after Decembeard was over. Come January I knew that I had to keep my beard so I gave up shaving completely, it’s now exactly one year later and not once in the last 12 months has a razor touched my face. Apart from the occasional trim, to keep the moustache out of my mouth and stop the side burns from getting too bushy, I have have been growing this beard for an entire year and I feel that is something to be proud of.