I don’t particularly want my new profile to have that meth chic look.

  • @SkyezOpen
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    The long gray beard says “biker in his 60s” but the smooth, (mostly) unblemished skin says “I just learned to drive.”

    Also if this is shortly after shaving, it might just be razor burn. It’s clearly been a while so your skin might just be angry and not used to blades.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      288 months ago

      I am an old fashioned guy in his 40s.

        • @qisope
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          198 months ago

          got that “just learned to ride a motorcycle in my 40s” look

          • Flying SquidOP
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            148 months ago

            I have never learned to ride a motorcycle. They scare me.

            • KillingTimeItself
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              158 months ago

              got that “about to have a midlife crisis and learn how to ride a motorcycle” look

              • Flying SquidOP
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                68 months ago

                You need to think less motorcycle and more 19th century president.

                • KillingTimeItself
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                  38 months ago

                  ah, so are we talking wright brothers “about to develop the airplane” looking fit?

  • @MataVatnik
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    568 months ago

    Ur not a flying squid u fucking liar

  • @kometes
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    528 months ago

    Seborrheic dermatitis. Cortisone cream to treat. I’ve had some luck with pyrithione zinc (active ingredient in most dandruff shampoos) soap to keep it from coming back.

    • @[email protected]
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      548 months ago

      Don’t listen to Big pharma just keep picking at it and make an open wound like GOD intended

    • @die444die
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      178 months ago

      I have this and it is exactly how mine looks too. It also clears up generally within a couple of days after I shave. I also get it on my scalp and on my sternum, which I think is common with it.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        Hate to break it to the OP, but keeping myself cleanly shaved has helped a lot with keeping it off the face. I still get it occasionally on my sternum like you.

        • @die444die
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          48 months ago

          Me too, but it hides under my beard so it’s not really visible anyway. It does occasionally itch, but not too bad. I like my beard more than I hate the dermatitis.

  • @PostnataleAbtreibung
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    368 months ago

    I‘d use Ketozolin shampoo regularly. This looks like tinea barbea.

    • teft
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      Definitely some form of fungal skin infection. If the ketoconazol shampoo doesn’t work talk to a skin doctor for some anitfungal pills. It’ll clear up in a few weeks.

    • @Mango
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      18 months ago

      I love tiny barbarians!

    • Flying SquidOP
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      898 months ago

      Because I like this look?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          518 months ago

          Look, I can’t keep up with you kids at my age.

      • @trolololol
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        68 months ago

        Lemmy, sing to us ace of spades!

        • Flying SquidOP
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          108 months ago

          I may be on Lemmy, but I could only hope to be Lemmy.

          If it helps though, despite it being 4/20, I’m drinking port.

    • @Pavidus
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      18 months ago

      I’ll tell ya the secret sauce. It’s so we can easily filter out people like you in public without having to start a conversation. I like what I like, and don’t give a shit what others find presentable.

      Sincerely,

      Some dude with non-standard head hair and facial hair.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      98 months ago

      I’d feel like I was cheating.

      • Timboflex
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        448 months ago

        Nah. You’re not photoshopping a six pack on yourself. You’re just removing a temporary mark that isn’t part of your regular look. It’s making the photo more representative of your true every day appearance.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          158 months ago

          I can see it that way, but I still don’t think it would feel right to me to do it. I’d rather have people see my flaws and if this is some long-lasting thing, if it’s there in a couple of days, I’ll use it in the profile picture.

          • @ChicoSuave
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            198 months ago

            That level of honesty is noble but unwarranted. It’s a profile pic that is supposed to be a “here’s my general appearance” and that’s just a temporary blemish. If it becomes a part of your personality, take another picture. It will give you time to adjust to whatever the skin is going to do.

            • KillingTimeItself
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              08 months ago

              if you don’t look like an utter piece of shit in your profile picture, people won’t be impressed when they meet with you IRL.

              Gotta keep up the game.

            • @[email protected]
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              08 months ago

              But if these blemishes turn up intermittently in different places, aren’t they a part of you in general? Yes, they might not be in that spot all the time, so “sure it’s fine to remove that because it’s not a permanent part of you” but if it keeps reoccurring, then I would argue that they’re a permanent part of you.

              I would still remove it, but simply because clear skin makes you look better. I wouldn’t try to explain this vanity away.

  • @taiyang
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    238 months ago

    Lean all in, wear an old civil war uniform (ideally Union but if you want some of that southern strange you could go Confederate) and work on your thousand mile stare. It’s like peacocking!

    It’ll attract someone. (But I won’t be held responsible for the type of someone).

    • Flying SquidOP
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      178 months ago

      I don’t know if my wife would want me attracting anyone, right or wrong.

      • @taiyang
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        168 months ago

        She into dudes from the 1800s? Profile pic still stands!

    • @SkyezOpen
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      38 months ago

      Ooh yeah, if it goes all the way up he could make a wicked general Burnside.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      28 months ago

      i’ve been told i’d look good in old war attire.

      I’m not sure how i feel about it, but at least im not the only one LMAO.

  • @[email protected]
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    198 months ago

    It looks like some sort of fungal infection to me. Watch the redness go away within 48 hours, now that that area gets sunlight.

  • GladiusB
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    198 months ago

    I have had a beard for years and shaved it awhile ago. Same thing. Goes away in a few days in the sun for me.

  • Nougat
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    188 months ago

    I have to admit that that is not at all what I imagined the bottom third of your face to look like.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      158 months ago

      Neither did my face, but it’s used to it.

      • Nougat
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        I seem to recall there was a kids’ game with faces split in three, and you could spin to make different ones with different parts? Don’t they have those on plastic barrels at some playgrounds?

        You should find one of those playgrounds, print this picture out, and stick it on one of the plastic barrels.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          18 months ago

          I used to have a book like that!

  • HeadfullofSoup
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    178 months ago

    If you use to have lot of flake it might be seborrheic dermatitis it’s mostly give a lot of weird yellow flake but if i shave the skin under the flake look like that

  • @Siethron
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    168 months ago

    At least you have a Chin when you shave.

    Some of us, not so lucky.