Clean-shaven here.

I had a beard for about a year and a half. I'd shampoo the thing every day or two, but it was still getting itchy. Tried several types of shampoo, but it still didn't help much.

Then, one morning at breakfast, having pancakes, the third time I managed to drizzle maple syrup into it, I said, "Okay, that's IT!!" and I shaved it off.

No wonder it was itchy. My skin was all red. Took a few days for the redness to go away.

I did keep the moustache, however.

A year and a half later, at work, my boss looked at me funny and asked, "When did you grow the moustache?"

She hadn't even noticed that I'd kept the moustache after shaving the beard a year and a half before.

Don Firth