I've had a goatee for a good few years now, and recently cut it off to see how I would look, in the vain hope there would be a Brad Pitt beater under the hair..
Well, I'd be lucky if the face that greeted me was a Peter Beardsley beater! Honestly, I looked like a bloody sex pest with the facial hair off, and was getting sick of the people around me looking at me in poorly-disguised shock whilst saying, "I'm sure we'll get used to it!"
Now, I resolved to grow the damned thing back as soon as I bloody could, but I'm one of these poor sods that take weeks to grow even a fine wisp of hair on my face. On my head? Man, I can grow that stuff like one of those kids toys where the plasticine comes out the toys scalp by revolving a handle, but on my chin I daren't put my head out of a moving car in case the wind rips it off..
So after about three weeks of wearing large brimmed baseball caps and looking like a mugger, it finally grew back to a close approximation of it's former self... But I'll carry the mental scars for years..