Originally published on craneium.net

Current state of the face - Beardy:

Current beard state

Current Leaderboard: Beard-On 45 | Beard-Off 81

Detailed Breakdown link.

The Contest!

Whether you hate it or love it, my facial hair is on the chopping block for charity between now and the New Years holidays. Your CHARITABLE DONATION to the FrankWater charity will be the decider of the trajectory that my facial hair takes during the entire year of 2012. This all was spawned by my planned participation in the 2012 Rickshaw Run, a charity-fundraiser race. The final determination will be made at midnight the night of December 31st, the kickoff of the race event.

Your Dollars Vote on my Facial Hair in Three Easy Steps:

  1. Develop an opinion on how my face should look during the entire year of 2012.
  2. Visit this link to donate to the Frankwater charity. Back your opinion with some bucks!
  3. Indicate your preference for my face in the comment, or if you with to stay anonymous, email me and we can make other arrangements.

Beard History:

More than two years ago I embarked on a strange journey of facial hair in early 2009, I looked something like this a bit after the last shave:

Pre-beard

As it turns out, graduate school does strange things to people, and by the end of my Masters thesis, I was sporting what many refer to as a “Professor Beard”:

Professor Beard

Well, that came and went straight into “Barbarian”:

Barbarian

A few months later, scientific testing revealed that I had passed a level of beardyness most people refer to as “Unsavory”:

Unsavory

What does the future hold for my facial hair?

You decide here!