The Blooming unbearable beard Trend


While I was grazing the newspaper on a hot summer, an article on beards got my eyes. Only then I realized and observed all male population in my college had beard or a mustache or any sort of a facial hair. The next day when I was supposed to be on a video call with my age old friend, I cut the call seeing a stranger's face on my monitor screen. It suddenly strike me that it was none other than him. He looked unrecognizable having a beard which he didn't have the last time we met. Poor little guy, he had to introduce himself formally after seeing my reaction to his sudden transformation.
Long back ,I would mock the stupidity of the characters such as Ramachandra Murthy in film Thillu Mullu for being so dumb, not recognizing that Indran and Chandran were one and the same. Both the characters portrayed by Rajnikant had no much difference then a mustache.
But it's true ,that men go unrecognizable with a beard ,once you haven't seen them for so long.
Other time ,I was waiting in the coffee shop nearby for my mother to finish with her shopping. A man almost like Rubeus Hagrid emerged out of nowhere and sat beside me. He gradually turn towards me asking "Hai Bala ! I know you. Come on look at me you will get reminded of me!". I looked at him deeply . He again said " oh come on, go for a wild guess" ,giving me a feel of playing a rapid-fire round in a quiz game. Oh! for heaven's sake, there was no spot in his face that was worth enough to guess who he was. Fully covered with beard, only his long big nose ,his eyes, and a small patch around it was visible for me to figure out who he was. If I had to guess, the only thing I could correlate him with was that he would look like Osama Bin Laden without his mustache. This very thought, gave me a mild heart attack. Only after I saw Lakshmi maami, I recognized this man to be Ranga Mama,our nearest neighbor when we wear in Mylapore .
This beard trend not just made me go mad , but also made my younger brother Raju to act stupid. One day having read an article from a paper which stated that "80% of girls love men with beard",  I saw him   trying out my mother's hair grow oil to accelerate the growth of hair to have his first beard ever in life the very next moment. At this rate, I am telling you Gillette and other razor companies are going to run into a great loss, having some of our nearby salons​ already shut down due to lack of customers. Poor barbers!
Beard trend convenient or not ,proves to be a boon to debtors , thieves and frauds to go unrecognizable
. Beggars are  happy to see most of the people adopting their style nowadays. Sometimes even consulting them for the better bearding techniques.
It is the ideal time for shampoo companies to start the business. Not just because it's​ summer and people love taking periodic head baths, but for the growing beard trend which needs  washing and rinsing on either  side of your head doubling the usage of shampoo and oil.
Gone are those days when you will be selected in an interview , judging your personality and hygiene based on a clean shave. At Chennai summer, the guys with long beards needs to be given an award to have maintained a beard ,sweat ,dandruff and lice free. There were days when I would wonder ,why Jane loved Tarzan. Maybe because he was a wonder man who despite being in the jungle for several years, had a clean shave but a long hair. Who knows,perhaps he had a barber Pal who only shaves and doesn't encourage a haircut! It is high time that he and his creator had to observe the growing beard trend around the world.

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