I shaved my beard off today. I have been growing one for the past three weeks to test out facial hair. That and to see if old friends that I hadn’t seen in a long time would still recognize me with that and the lack of glasses.
Anyway, during breakfast with the family I excused myself to go to the bathroom, shaved it off, and came back and entered the conversation. It then took them about ten minutes to notice it was gone. My mother just suddenly burst out saying “Your beard’s gone!” The others then clued in.
They claim that it is how they were used to seeing me, so it didn’t look strange.