Hey guys. Do you hate shaving everyday? Well go ahead and throw away your razor. Why? Because
science says so.
Now men's facial hair might not seem like the most scientific of pursuits but if you
were wondering whether or not to go clean-shaven or to let it all hang out or maybe a little
bit of something in between, I've got some good news for you. You can save the time going
all clean-shaven because studies have found that the ladies like the beards. So there
was one study in the Journal of Marketing and Communication that was evaluating women's
perceptions of men with lovely beards like this and those who were clean-shaven and it
found that the gals rated the men with beards as more trustworthy and what they were doing
in the study was selling different items so apparently if you're a salesman and you also
want to date a woman, you should grow a beard. Who wouldn't trust a face that looks like
this? Now if you don't want to put in all the time and effort that it takes to grow
a full, lush beard, women also find stubble very, very sexy. According to yet another
study published in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences, heterosexual women
rated guys with beards as super hot, men with full stubble as super duper hot. In fact,
the guys with the stubble were the ones that the women said they'd most likely be to date
for the long term. And that's not it, there's more. There was a 2013 study out of Australia
that found that beard hair protects men from 90 to 95% of UV rays. So beards are attractive
to women, they make guys come across as more trustworthy especially if they're hawking
different kinds of products as was tested in that study and they protect the man's face
from UV ray damage. Now of course not all guys can grow full lush beards and I understand.
Let's take it down a notch to the mustache. Mustaches are a little bit trickier because
they are more prone to fashion whims. For instance in 1990 there was a study that came
out finding that men with mustaches were perceived better in job interviews compared to men who
came in totally clean-shaven. Let's call it 'The Magnum PI' effect. But as Tom Selleck
is not quite the sex icon he used to be 30 years ago, experts would tell you that you
might want to pay a little bit more attention to context if you're considering growing a
mustache. If you're living in Portland, Brooklyn or a liberal college town go for it, it will
go perfectly with your fixed gear bike. But if you want to be taken a little more seriously
mustaches might need to be reconsidered. Especially if you're going for something like a handlebar
or walrus and just don't ever, ever, ever do the Adolf. So to quickly recap, beards
are awesome, stubble, totally great, mustaches eh it depends which brings us to the goatee.
Scientifically speaking the goatee is the riskiest possible facial hair arrangement
that a man could choose. A recent study found that people tend to associate the shape of
a goatee with being completely, purely, totally evil. Now I realize that I'm sporting a bit
of a soul patch here, a derivative of the goatee but it's to drive home the point of
this study which found that there was something about the shape of a downward facing triangle
that really kind of creeped people out. So this should come as great news to guys who
shave every single day and are like, 'Oh, I wish I didn't have to shave every day.'
Well you don't. Beards are becoming a lot more acceptable in the work place, they're
in fashion, scientifically proven to get the ladies heads a-turning. So happy shaving,
or rather not shaving.