Benjamin Law: Beard Envy

By Benjamin Law
Updated October 31 2014 - 10:13pm, first published 9:41pm
Ben Law could only dream of this sort of facial coverage. Photo: Supplied
Ben Law could only dream of this sort of facial coverage. Photo: Supplied

We were out the other night having dinner - me, my partner, our friend Meg - and it'd been a month since I started growing my facial hair as an experiment. My beard coverage is patchy at best and pops up on my face sporadically, like a series of low-lying Pacific islands vulnerable to climate change. But one day, fuelled by youthful courage (and insurmountable beard envy), I thought, "Screw it. Just grow it, Ben! Who cares what it looks like?"

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