Outside from a fuzzy-avatar and a few polite one sided exchanges on Twitter we've never seen or heard of/from ShayCarl before... we never watched his show or looked up his vlogs (no use clicking on his personal site as it's still under construction), but we knew he was of the bearded persuasion and, what we thought to be, a friend to the beards... Last night, he proved us wrong and right all at the same time... with a few swift buzzes it was gone, a beard unadulterated between 7/23/2009 and 1/1/2010 (but been around since 2007 apprently); too beautiful to live, too young to die...
See above for a touching eulogy from STL Pixurs for the poor beard (which was 'lovingly' dubbed the 'beardtard'... smh), it takes some of the sting out of the bite; but conversely, it also grabs our bearded soul and strokes our mental beard with thought of 'what could have been'...
While we are not in the business of publicizing shaving and beardacide of any kind... we did want to show you the event from last night (see the segment below from blogtv.com, also #RIPBeardtard was trending on Twitter yesterday, toward the 2nd half of the broadcast ) for two big reasons...
1) Shay did a good job in showcasing different beard/stache styles throughout his shaving escapade:
- 7:30 -- First buzz into it
- 9:00 -- Full Goat with burns
- 10:30 -- Fu Manchu of sorts (+burns)
- 14:15 -- Horseshoe (or U) Stache
- 15:00 -- Creepy (pedo-looking) Stache
- 18:00-21:00 -- The final shave
2) What we really wanted you all to see (and hear) are the insecurities of a man without facial hair... this dude went from a confident head of the family, to a mewling baby asking his children, chat room fans, wife, god, whomever would listen for approval of his newly bald face. The mic overloading scream ShayCarl is known for mutated into a fearful purr at best and a girly cry at worst... this, fellow beardos, is the fate that awaits us all the day we choose to shave... and for the value of this PSA alone, he deserves a big thank you and deep appreciation from the bottom of our fully bearded heart... Now, GROW IT BACK!