![]() ![]() That said, a good beard blows away a good mustache any day of the week. I happen to be a big fan of mustaches and in the past have sported one myself. Luckily, there’s an easy fix: “You can get a barber to do that,” says Gilman, “or, if you have a trimmer at home, you can take care of it yourself.Last week we brought you 20 undeniably awesome mustaches in movies. ![]() The worst part of bad beards, says Gilman, is the dreaded “neck beard.” While the photos of Letterman only reveal his new look from the front, Gilman speculates that there’s also a party in the back - and it needs to go. “If he just worked that through, it would bring all those wispy things down,” says Gilman. He says the tried-and-true product helps rid skin of itchiness and tames curls - and it’s got an amazing lime scent to boot. If trimming is too much work, Gilman recommends rubbing a beard cream through the stubble - his pick is Bluebeard’s Beard Saver. “It’s got an extremely round, Amish shape to it.”Įmbrace the beard cream. Or, if he’d prefer, Letterman could get it done professionally - “just to get rid of the flyaways and shape it a little more,” says Gilman. He likes the Andis Slimline Trimmer ($48), which is cordless, making it easy to use. “He could just tame that down with a pair of trimmers with a guard,” says Gilman. Here, Gilman reveals a few quick tricks for taming the stubble: ![]() Like he literally rolled out of bed with bedhead - and bedbeard.”įortunately, all hope is not lost. “It doesn’t look like he spent any time taking care of his hair, either. “He’s got the type of beard now where, if he had somebody take care of it, it would look great - if he spent any time on it,” says Michael Gilman, founder of the Washington, DC-based men’s spa the Grooming Lounge. Steve Granitz/WireImage & Brad Barket/ Comedy Centralīut in the meantime, the former late-night host could learn a thing or two about proper grooming. “He’s saying, ‘F–k all the image!’ ” Jon Stewart’s new beard is more restrained than David Letterman’s. “He’s letting himself be who he is,” says LaBier. He also commends Letterman and his fellow hosts for abandoning the rigidity of their past, saying it’s a lifestyle victory that’s contributing to their overall well-being. “They may return to shaving once they find more traction in whatever they’re going to do next,” explains LaBier. So when they leave their perches, usually to enormous fanfare, the retirees wake up and think, “Now I’m free, and I don’t have to do all that s–t I had to do.” Cue the unkempt beards, new clothes and new hobbies. and you need to deal with that in some way.” “That external role brings you external success and material success, but that’s often at the expense of the person you feel you are inside. “Who you really are is not that external role,” he explains. He adds that talk-show hosts in particular - being so visible, recognizable and obsessed over - are forced to fit into a very stuffy mold, often for decades. ![]() your creative capacity, parts of your personality you’ve kept under wraps.” “It does reflect, on a deeper level, a yearning to express dimensions of oneself. “A lot of those people feel very constrained within the roles that they become successful in,” says Douglas LaBier, director of the Center for Progressive Development. Why shed the cool, clean-cut, coat-and-tie look in exchange for hobo chic?Ĭonan O’Brien has also grown beards in between talk show gigs. Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert all rocked big facial hair when they left their chat shows. Growing a retirement beard is a common practice among late-night-talk-show hosts who have abandoned their desks for greener pastures. David Letterman shocked the world on Monday when he took to the streets of New York wearing baggy gray clothes and sporting an unwieldy new beard - looking like a bedraggled Tom Hanks in “Cast Away.” ![]()
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