How to grow a stubble beard

Facial hair, like scalp hair, grows in stages — and understanding it may help you maximize your beard–growing potential. A full beard can take 2 to 4 months to grow, as facial hair tends to grow between 0.3 and 0.5 millimeters (mm) every 24 hours. This works out to between one third and one half an inch per month.

The “Short stubble” beard is the #1 most attractive facial hair. It received an average rank of 2.6 with 80% ranking short stubble in the top 3, including 24% of respondents ranking short stubble as the #1 most attractive facial hair style. “Clean-shaven” was a close second as the most attractive facial hair style.

A flawlessly unkempt 5 o’clock shadow is around 1/8th of an inch (3 mm) in length. This usually represents 3 or 4 days of the average man’s hair growth. Meanwhile, heavy stubble can represent as much as a week’s worth of growth but after that, it can quickly venture into Boxed beard territory.

In general they found women rated beards higher for attractiveness compared with clean-shaven faces, particularly when judging potential for long-term rather than short-term relationships. In general, the results showed a mixed link between attractiveness and beardiness.

Note: A 10–day stubble in terms of length and the mm you are looking at between 4mm to 5mm. So you will get somewhat of a light to heavy stubble.

Sometimes for some people the beard / stubble looks too great. Particularly in creative professions, PR managers and professionals in research and science departments. When that person starts caressing that beard and makes an habit of showing it without reason then well – its truly unprofessional.

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For a 3–day stubble look, we suggest a length of 3mm. Add approximately 1mm to your guide for every extra days length you would like to achieve. Next, simply shave your cheeks and neck to remove unwanted hair, applying less pressure when nearing the outline of your beard.

Beard Grooming – The 3–day Stubble Beard / Scruff

The 3–day stubble beard, or scruff look, is a great way to get that manly rugged style without growing a full beard. With the All All Purpose Gillette STYLER, you can achieve this style and still look well-groomed.

Some of us like to have that designer stubble look; most electric razors have different trim settings while wet shave razors only have their one. While this takes some forethought, the clean cut of the hairs (see above image; wet is on the left) makes the stubble look much more crisp, rather than just unkept.

Panasonic Arc 3 ES8103S

It uses the same foils, blades and motor and it’s identical performance-wise. So my pick for a budget-friendly electric razor that also shaves close is another Panasonic, precisely the Arc 3 ES8103S.

An electric shaver will provide a close shave but not quite as close as a cartridge razor. 91% of those using an electric shaver prefer to be clean shaven, with 72% choosing foil over rotary.