Playing with Facial Hair

[Voisi1ev]

I shaved a van dyke off like 6-weeks ago. Low range got a ton better over night. Shaving sucks though, I don't have a lot of serious playing over the summer, so it is coming back until the fall.

[emcallaway]

Personally, my playing needs all the help it can get! Even if it was only psychological, it'd still be worth it to me.

In the case of painful stubble, it's very much worth it as it's one fewer thing to distract me.

[Donn]

See!? It isn't worth it! It might be a win some of the time, but if you use the wrong foam or an old blade or something, look out.

I do take a nick out of my mustache, if I think of it, right at the center of the upper lip, where last year I had a short little mustache hair go on a violent rampage during a concert, ended up rather bloody.

[Toobist]

After seeing this pic years ago, I shaved above my lip and below while keeping my beard/moustache. It seemed to work pretty okay for the fine musician on the left in the pic.