Why are beards seen as ugly?

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Everytime a celebrity (eg. Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal and so on) grows a beard, journalists instantly label it as ugly. What exactly makes it ugly? Beards are caused by testosterone and it so happens to be that shaving all the 30,000 hairs in your face is a time consuming and tedious affair.

So what precisely is it about beards that make them ugly?

I don't think beards are ugly but I don't like the long ZZ Top ones. Perhaps the celebrity watchers don't like them because they hide their face.

Dude would you want to kiss some other guy with a beard?

Thought not.
So why would you assume a woman would want to do the same?


I presume you are querying the attractiveness or ugliness of beards from a woman's perspective.

I'm not a woman myself, but it might be some subconscious idea that beards give an image of non-trustworthyness ; it looks like they have something to hide. Indeed many politicians are advised not to grow beards.
Some women might prefer to imagine a more 'pure' skin-touch experience when it comes to touch, kissing, caressing, than have some facial hair get in the way.

But a woman with a beard? Not for me. That's just my personal preference.

It sometimes considered to be a sign of bad cleanliness and untidiness

Baldness (in males) is also caused by too much testosterone and women loathe it.

Because the things that attract a woman to a man are much different from the things that attract a man to a woman. Would you want to date a girl with big, bulging muscles? No.

As for beards, I think it depends on the person. Some people look better with beards then others, and some girls like them, some girls don't.

From my experiences, I've found that there ARE lots of women who love bearded men. Of coarse, I go to art school so alot of girls I know go for the whole "hippie/hipster/grungy" look over the "gelled hair and spray tan" look.

What I find strange is when I grew a beard last year during vacation and returned to work, all the women universally loved it and and were disappointed when I shaved it. I took this advice to my dating profile and to my shock my profile views dropped almost to zero overnight and never recovered. The picture was literally identical except with the facial hair. It was a 'clean' beard too.

That's really terrible! I have no idea why the media does that! I try to stay away from pop media in general...it's so shallow. Case in point.

I just thought everyone had different preferences. I used to not like facial hair on men because I thought androgynous guys were hot, but my husband has a circle beard/goatee nowadays.

HockeyFan, maybe your views dropped because those women are reading too many celebrity news articles that tell them how ugly beards are!

I really disliked the trend of goatees a few years ago and I like beards if they look good, but never like goatees on anyone.

I have the same opinion about body hair on women. It grows there naturally and it's a pain in the butt to remove it. The only reason it's considered unattractive to keep your body hair is because our society agrees that it is.

lot's of women like beards.

beards give you power! i'm considering getting rid of mine but that would only happen if i cut my head hair too

I would kiss a man or a woman with a beard. I like body hair. The absence of it freaks me out.

This is not always true. I know a woman who chose her husband because he was bald - she said that meant he had high testosterone, and that would make him a great lover.

Because the liberal feminazi media wants to destroy masculinity and give men feelings and things like that.

Also shaving costs money to do, and makes razor and cosmetic producers money. Shaving was rare before safety razors obviously, but then once Gillette came out with the safety razor and WWI (where people had to shave because of lice) it became the trend, and there was money to be made from the trend. Same situation as diamonds, it was a simple case of convincing people they were cool, and in the case of diamond rings, convincing people that if their husband could not afford one he was a bum.

I try to keep a stubble as much as possible. Unfortunately, since I do not have an electric clipper, my only option is to shave once a week and spend one day with a clean (and boring) face.

My GF really gets on me for not shaving the old bush saying that it's "scratchy" to her & I can kinda see where she's coming from especially after really looking at some of my facebook photos.She doesn't seem to mind it too much if it's down to a goatee style though.