no, do not colour it. that inevitably looks fakeroo on men.
speaking as one who has had grey in his beard for twenty years, and is now 80% white at the chin (ie since I was seven years younger than you are now), you can handle the mature look.
do not, under any circumstances, colour it.
you and I have complementary chin issues - mine is like unto joe clark, yours is like unto brian mulroney. in both cases, they NEED a beard to modify them. so no, do NOT shave the whole thing off (or even go down to just a moustache - your upper-lip hair is so blond/white that it often disappears in photographs, eg the user icon on this post)
I'd strongly counsel against colouring your facial hair.
a friend of mine, now 63, had naturally chestnut-brown hair, and had 2-3" hair and full beard when I was dating him back in the 80s. He's now gone mostly grey, and buzzed his hair to 1/4". Facial hair is down to a moustache, which he colours. badly. apparently with black shoe-polish. He looks like Groucho Marx. "softening the grey" has not been kind to him.
did I mention that I think colouring facial hair in any way would be an error?
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Date: 2010-02-19 03:54 pm (UTC)speaking as one who has had grey in his beard for twenty years, and is now 80% white at the chin (ie since I was seven years younger than you are now), you can handle the mature look.
do not, under any circumstances, colour it.
you and I have complementary chin issues - mine is like unto joe clark, yours is like unto brian mulroney. in both cases, they NEED a beard to modify them. so no, do NOT shave the whole thing off (or even go down to just a moustache - your upper-lip hair is so blond/white that it often disappears in photographs, eg the user icon on this post)
I'd strongly counsel against colouring your facial hair.
a friend of mine, now 63, had naturally chestnut-brown hair, and had 2-3" hair and full beard when I was dating him back in the 80s. He's now gone mostly grey, and buzzed his hair to 1/4". Facial hair is down to a moustache, which he colours. badly. apparently with black shoe-polish. He looks like Groucho Marx. "softening the grey" has not been kind to him.
did I mention that I think colouring facial hair in any way would be an error?