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CwboyAtHeart
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since 2001-04-14

Posts 541
Selah, WA, USA

0 posted 2003-06-29 11:08 PM

To shave the sideburns or not to shave the sideburns?

      - Cody -

Note To Self:  If Pigs Can Fly, So Can I!!!

If someboy laughs at me, does that make me funny or just plain stupid?

Ron

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-05-19

Posts 8669
Michigan, US

1 posted 2003-06-29 11:46 PM

Technically, Cody, you don't shave sideburns.

Sideburns are trimmed. Faces are shaved.

CwboyAtHeart
Senior Member

since 2001-04-14

Posts 541
Selah, WA, USA

2 posted 2003-06-30 12:50 PM

-scratches my head-

But I shave the sideburns off of my face by shaving my face where my sideburns are...

      - Cody -

Note To Self:  If Pigs Can Fly, So Can I!!!

If someboy laughs at me, does that make me funny or just plain stupid?

Local Parasite

Member Elite

since 2001-11-05

Posts 2527
Transylconia, Winnipeg

3 posted 2003-06-30 01:12 AM

then those aren't sideburns, they're the sides of a beard.

weird huh? but I guess it all really matters where it's connected, at the chin, or at the hair... ??

Me? whenever I shave, I brush my hair behind my ears and shave all the way up to where my sideburns WOULD be... so I disagree with Ron.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

4 posted 2003-06-30 01:25 AM

Shave or trim just do it man!

Bonfirelight
Member

since 2003-06-19

Posts 85
London, England

5 posted 2003-06-30 03:29 AM

in England we call those Lamb or Mutton Chops.
And they rule!!

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2003-06-30 07:12 AM

If you're asking the question [even if it was phrased wrong...LOL] it's time!

Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

7 posted 2003-06-30 07:27 AM

If YOU like them then don't shave them off. It's only a dilemna when you are forced by others' opinions to change something you don't want changed. *s

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

8 posted 2003-06-30 07:46 AM

How bout a compromise...if you dont feel comfortable or are unsure how you will look without them ... then why not just try reshaping them ... trim/shave them so that they are thinner, you can leave them longer or take a little off the length. On a rounder shaped face a thinner longer sideburn will have a slimming effect.
That way you can get used to the change gradually if so needed.
My dad had "greaser" 50's sideburns for years..they became his trademark..
Be yourself.

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

9 posted 2003-06-30 10:22 AM

Oh, Cody....please shave them off. I looked and looked at your pic...and I could swear those "sideburns" were done with magic marker pen. Sorry. I think they called them in the old west days...muttonchops..seriously. hugs,Chris

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

10 posted 2003-06-30 04:09 PM

Seriously, those have got to go!!! What were you thinking???

Sincerely,

Susan C.

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

11 posted 2003-06-30 06:08 PM

...Just trim...

IcyFlamez89
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since 2003-02-14

Posts 292
Jersey City NJ

12 posted 2003-07-01 11:07 AM

Why don't you just go all out and let it alone, and maybe get a goatee while you're at it [get hard slap at the back of my head] ..I mean trim it! Shave it!! [gets nod of approval from a VERY blonde friend and gets another smack for the comment]

Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

13 posted 2003-07-01 01:46 PM

To trim, or not to trim: that is the question.
Or is it that to trim or not to trim is not the question, but in fact is but a plea,
to gaze upon and ponder this,
doth trim suppose a alteration, delineation,
or simply put, but just a trim.
What implications doth arise in answer to a question put, or question not, if but a ponder? I know not, and so I squander precious space as through here wander, and answer not the question pondered, as I know not of what I speak.

TasteOfOctober
Member

since 2003-06-24

Posts 94

14 posted 2003-07-02 01:21 PM

nice chops man. Mine are abotu that big only really long and curly. I say keep em. cause lets face it...chops are

The only difference between the creative and the conformists is that the creative will not be conquered and the conformists already are.

[This message has been edited by Ron (07-02-2003 05:24 PM).]

inot2B
Member Elite

since 2000-09-18

Posts 2205
Arkansas

15 posted 2003-07-02 01:44 PM

I like a man with sideburns that go to the middle of the ear or a little longer.
Cut the extra and then grow a moustache. I think a man looks dignified w/a moustache.

hush
Senior Member

since 2001-05-27

Posts 1653
Ohio, USA

16 posted 2003-07-03 01:45 AM

Bring 'em in a little closer to your ears... they go too far out into your cheeks.

But I do like chops.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

17 posted 2003-07-19 01:59 PM

LOL at this thread. What do YOU want to do? Don't listen to anyone else, except your girlfriend maybe.LOL

PoetryIsLife

Senior Member

since 2001-10-27

Posts 1763
...in my boxers...

18 posted 2003-07-19 03:04 PM

Shave man, shave 'em. I've grown my hair out these last few months, to where I can suck on it with my mouth (not that I do, though.) I love having the long hair, and I, too, like Brian, shave up to where my 'burns would be. I like gottees (sp), but think men generally look better with shaved 'burns.

~Titus

The few. The proud. The Marines.

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