Beard Liberation Front
Media Release 30th July
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Campaigners back Welsh First Minister’s ‘no beard trimming’ statement
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has backed a statement by Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on beard trimming in barbers and hairdressers.
Speaking on a radio programme on Wednesday Mr Drakeford said “Well, the first thing to say is our advice is that people shouldn’t get their beards trimmed’.
The campaigners say that the First Minister was making a very serious point that such close face to face activity as beard trimming by a barber is not sensible at the moment.
While beard trimming and pruning may encourage beard growth for now it should only be done by the beard wearer themselves.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the lockdown beard has been one of the developments of 2020. Of course there is pressure from pogonophobes to make people trim or shave their facial hair. The First Minister is quite right to rule this out and we hope he may at last decide to grow a beard himself to avoid the unnecessary activity of shaving.
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