The U.S. Army Had a Beard Contest In 1941, and These Are the Entries
In 1941, just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the men at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines had a beard contest. “The Unwritten Record,” a blog run by The National Archives, wrote about the recent find, saying the charming footage was “nestled among shots of city streets and training exercises.”
Maybe Beards Aren't Full of Poop Bacteria After All
Last week, the internet erupted with the news that beards, those beautiful things that hide men’s weak chins and childhood acne scars, are chock-full of something more than manliness—and that something is poop. For anyone either excited or horrified by this news (my immediate reaction was to go drag my bearded face…
Study Says Men's Beards Are Gross and Filled With Poop
Ah, beards. You either love them or hate them. For those of us that are pro-beard, it’s easy to find kindred spirits through all the facial hair-dedicated Tumblrs, Instagrams and OKCupid profiles proclaiming an undying love for faces full of fuzz. Now the beard-haters will have something to throw back at us. A recent…
Blessed Be; Oscar Isaac's Beard is Back
Here's a trailer for an upcoming cool-looking thriller about rich crazy guy who built a sexy robot who may be lying. It looks okay! The most important takeaway from it, however, is not the film, but the fact that the film's star Oscar Isaac's beard is back. And after the winter we've had, thank God.
Hot New Holiday Trend: Ornaments for Your Goddamned Beard
There's a new gift for the lumbersexual who has everything except something that'll make his face look like it's covered in strange metallic growths: Beard Baubles, which are Christmas tree ornaments for your beard.
Queen Takes Royal Prerogatives Too Far, Demands Harry Shave Sexy Beard
Terrible news out of the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth has gone too far. "Sources" tell the Express that her majesty has informed Prince Harry in no uncertain terms that she "intensely dislikes" whiskers and he is to shave his magnificently rakish polar-expeditionary beard "sooner rather than later."
Stupid Hipster Beards Are Ruining the Economy
Ok, stupid hipster beards and workplace stubble are not ruining the entire economy, per se (or we have yet to prove that they are). What they are doing, though, is causing razor sales to decline across the board; in 2013, men's shaving is expected to lose its dominance in men's grooming sales for the first time…
This Better Not Be the Beginning of the End for Beards
A piece in the Guardian asks "Have We Reached Peak Beard?" God, I hope not. I really hope not. I feel like beards and I have only just begun. If beards die out now Nicholas Sparks will have to write a book about how they were taken from me too soon, and then a major studio can make it into a motion picture starring…

