Beard Champion Jack Passion on Growing a Healthy Beard Fast
Whether you’re gearing up for Movember, preparing to be
Gandalf for Halloween, or just testing the limits of your own
physiology, it pays to know how to grow a beard in a hurry. Two-time
World Beard and Mustache Champion Jack Passion knows how to do this
better than anyone. We tapped him for some tips on growing a healthy
beard as quickly as possible.
Don’t be fooled by his appearance:
Jack Passion is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill urban woodsman. This guy has some serious facial hair-growing cred. The author of
“The Facial Hair Handbook” and and star of IFC’s
Whisker Wars
won first prize for his beard at the 2007 and 2009 World Beard and
Moustache Championships. He’s also one of the most prominent subjects of
Morgan Spurlock’s recent documentary, “Mansome.”
What we admire about Passion (in addition to “Big Red,” as he
affectionately refers to his beard) is how he champions the beard as an
earnest and natural expression of masculinity and health in an age when
it seems facial hair is under constant siege by the forces of irony. In
our hour-long conversation, the self-proclaimed “advocate for men
finding and being themselves through something as simple as facial
hair,” transitioned smoothly from abstract concepts to the brass tacks
of cultivating a championship beard. Here’s how he frames the task: “You
have to optimize both offense and defense,” he says. “You grow great
facial hair and then you take care of it. The bad news is that for every
man there exists a maximum genetic growth rate. The good news is that
no one is at his potential.” Here are Passion’s tips for growing a
healthy and lustrous beard in a hurry.
Focus on Health
“In cave man days, hair was a sign that you were nutritionally up to
par, that you had shelter, were sleeping. If you were healthy on the
inside, then you could grow nice hair. If you optimize your health, then
you’ll grow great beard hair.”
Take Your Vitamins
“I used to take B complex vitamins and a few others, but that was
like six or seven vitamins a day. It was expensive and time consuming.
Now I take two
VitaBeard
with breakfast. It is a wonder drug. There was a time in body building
when they started taking steroids. And the sport was changed. I feel
that VitaBeard has changed competitive facial hair growing.”
Put Your Beard on a Diet
“Hair, even though it’s dead, it’s basically protein wrapped in fat.
It’s like little bacon-wrapped hot dogs. So lots of protein is very
important. Lots of fat is very important. In terms of reaching your
maximum potential, you need healthy testosterone levels, and those are
aided by saturated fat. Eggs and animal fat are great, as long as
they’re grass fed or organic. On other end, sugar, or anything that
behaves like it, grows very weak hair.”
Exercise like a ‘Savage Beast’
“I like squats because they are a full body exercise. Squats
basically make testosterone. It’s the savage beast exercise. Cardio is
very important too. All of the vitamins you’re taking and food and
protein—they get to your hair and skin and face through your blood, so
you need good circulation. The times when I’ve been lifting weights and
trail running are the times when I’ve basically been a beard-growing
machine.”
Hit the Sack
“If you lift weights and you are trying to build muscle, that muscle
is built while you’re asleep. Sleep is a time of regeneration and
generation. When I was in college, my beard always grew faster during
summer, and I think that’s because I was sleeping better, and sleeping
more.”
Shampoo and Protect
As for facial hair care—that’s the defensive part of this game. Your
hair is naturally designed to protect itself with fat oil coating. If
I’m going to be out in the wind on a sailboat or in a pool that is
chlorinated, I’ll put in a lightweight oil like
jojoba or
grape seed oil, to supplement my natural oils. I shampoo most days with a small amount of very weak shampoo. I recommend
Grandpa’s Pine Tar Soap.”
Gear Up for Competition
“I want to arrive at a beard competition and walk around as if I’ve
already won. Preparing for that psychology is what I do. And I do that
by looking good and feeling good. I think that’s why we groom in the
first place.”
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