Preventing the homeless look
I have seen some friends try and grow some cool beards, but the main problem is the homeless look. Throw on some old clothes and push a shopping cart around and you are a genuine bum. Everyone wants to grow a sweet Jesus beard but nobody wants the homeless look. Here are a few tips that will help prevent you from creeping people out:
- Keep everything else well groomed. Keep your hair cut short, take a shower every day and wear clean clothes.
- Wear nice clothes. If you are trying not to scare people, put on some snazzy clothes to compensate for your scraggly beard. Don’t just throw on a blazer… Maybe a nice collard shirt (no holes or stains) or a good button-down.
- Iron your clothes. Wrinkled clothes make you look more homeless.
- After eating, check to see that half your lunch isn’t still in your beard. This is a dead give-away that proves you are clearly a bum.
The general idea is to do anything a bum wouldn’t do. Drive a fancy car, wear nice clothes and don’t walk around with a shopping cart full of all your possessions. Stay aware of your appearance and you won’t be scaring away all the girls.