Shaving related poll

[Pat Kelly]

As the years and styles have gone by so has my choice of facial hair.
Did the moustache to the fu-manchu thing. Had a full "ZZ Top" length beard for a while (it takes a while). Well-trimmed full beard. Had the mutton-chops for a short (very short) time.
For the last 17 years been clean-shaven. It seems to have knocked 10 years off my appearance, or so I'm told. Maybe it's my childish behavior. So now I usually shave 5 days a week.

[tommystinson]

I shave my head right along with my face. I'm getting a little thin on top, so why fight it? It took a little while to get used to the mirror image thing when shaving my head, but it's pretty easy now. I'm pretty lazy about it, I only shave 3-4 times a week.

[bulleteer]

Got the beard, had it for 25 yrs.. Not long though, keep it groomed and neat. A comprimise for the wife. She will leave me if I shave it. Seriously! Good thing about it, it helps with the classic look when I ride the Royal Enfield.

[D. P. Larmee]

I work out of the house, but travel for work a few time a month. My rule is to shave on the road,but let it grow while on stints at home. Seems to work pretty well.

[dmac82]

I'm with tommystinson, why fight it when it's gone from the top and thin on the sides, feels better to just keep it shaved.

But I did keep my fumanchu to keep swmbo happy.

[BLUEJEEPLAB]

I'll be going the 'Shave the Whole Thing" route (gonna keep the "stache" though" when the reat of the follicles give up. Probably be 5 or 6 years the way things are going. We have Male Pattern Baldness on one side, Receding Hairline on the other, Guess who has both?

[Czekus21]

Was a full beard for many years but then kenny rogers shaved his cheaks and went with a goatee. Figured I'd do the same. either way it goes I'm still in the dog house. SWMBO doesn't like face hair so no matter what I wear she just deals with it.

[Yamaniac]

It takes me so dang long to grow a beard, but since I started my own work and quit the suit and tie thing, I have let it grow out. Keep it neat though. Kind of an Abe Lincoln or Amish look

[rickmcdougald]

Only when it's "Beard Season"!

I start the full beard when the threat of frost looms large - usually mid October. About the middle of march - it's GOES.
'just enough time to let it grow on ya', then I "2-tired" of it. Yuk, yuk!
(I'm starting to have that GRAY PROBLEM, TOO! AAaack!)

Hey! Is this right?

Gray is a color.
Grey is a "colour".

[TopCatGr58]

In the gray zone!

Well,

Grey/gray really isn't a color, it's the absence of color, otherwise known as a shade! It's a mix of black and white, again both considered shades. I know white "LIGHT" is comprised of all of the colors of the spectrum, but we're talking about pigments, not light!
T.C.

[xs650mike]

Shades of meaning...

Originally posted by TopCatGr58
Well,

Grey/gray really isn't a color, it's the absence of color, otherwise known as a shade! It's a mix of black and white, again both considered shades. I know white "LIGHT" is comprised of all of the colors of the spectrum, but we're talking about pigments, not light!
T.C.

Gray (grey)'s not a color (colour)? Sheesh TC, you're nitpicky and technical enough to be British! Think I'll sip a cuppa Earl Grey and contemplate this shade of meaning.

[Wildkat]

Re: In the gray zone!

Originally posted by TopCatGr58
Well,

Grey/gray really isn't a color, it's the absence of color, otherwise known as a shade! It's a mix of black and white, again both considered shades. I know white "LIGHT" is comprised of all of the colors of the spectrum, but we're talking about pigments, not light!
T.C.

Actually, TC, even pigments, if true pigments, will create white... you have to have an extremely high quality of paint (for this example) though as most are tainted in some way.
Easier just to go and buy white...

[TopCatGr58]

A "Kat" of a different color!

Hey Kat,

I hate to differ here, but pigments obsorb all the other wavelengths of light when White light is shined onto them, Xcept the color you see, which is reflected back to your eyes!

SO....mixing different colored pigments, like red, blue, yellow, together will result in the color brown, which obsorbs light from red/blue/yellow, and reflects small amounts thus appearing very dark in color and brightness.

BLACK pigment obsorbs all colors, and reflects very little light, hence its dark appearance, whereas white pigment reflects all colors and therefore most light, and appears very bright!

Light is an additive process, just take a very close look at your TV screen with a static image, like the weather channel, and look at what would be white like the letters/numbers, and you'll see that they are actually made up of very bright colored phosphors of red/green/blue, and when veiwed from a far enough distance, those three colors of LIGHT combine to form white light!

Pigments are a subtractive process, and so when combining them, the results are darker colors than the individual ones!
T.C.

[Wildkat]

Good Heavens!!

I do believe you are right... and if I didn't... at least you sound VERY convincing.

I'm going to crawl back into my art book and do a little more reading and a little less looking at the pictures.

Obviously, if I have any questions... I'll be coming to you.

[xs650mike]

Pigment colors

Have to say TC is right, I used to work in a paint factory and tinted a lot of paint. Once you overshoot a color far enough when tinting, it's impossible to bring it back, it just gets muddier and muddier. Some effects when tinting are counter intuitive such as when you add yellow to black it will look like a dirty green. In fact there are only 2 pigments used to make that good ol' Army color, olive drab. One is lampblack (carbon) and the other is yellow iron oxide. Both are very cheap pigments and yellow oxide has the added advantage of rust proofing just like red oxide (commonly used in primers) does. There is also a blue oxide of iron. All of these oxides of iron (rust, if you will), many shades from yellow to orange to red to to brown to blue, are what you might call "dirty" or "earthy" colors as opposed to say a clean red like toluidine or bon maroon. Red or brown oxides are what people think of as "boxcar red" which was commonly used by railroads for its cheapness and durability. Oxide colors do not fade from sunlight.

If I was to paint a motorcycle red, it would be toluidine red, a bright clean color like a Ferrari or Ducati.

My '81 XS650H Special II is factory painted what Yamaha called "Indigo" but it's actually blue iron oxide or "prussian blue". (True indigo is almost black.) I don't find the bike's color attractive since it's a dirty color not a bright clean blue. The bike was left exposed to the elements for a few years and shows heavy weathering (the clear coat is shot) but from looking under the tank and badges it's evident that the paint's color hasn't faded in the slightest which is characteristic of oxide pigments.