Exactly!

I admit that I sometimes have too little motivation to shave for a few days: I usually ‘max out’ at about three days. My hair, like me in general, is very pale: it takes a lot of growth before my ‘beard’ becomes properly ‘beardy’. Around three days is when the stubble starts to become properly visible.

But at about the two or three day mark I usually say ‘enough of this’ and shave it off before I actually have to do any beard maintenance. If those 10/10 guys in the TV shows were portrayed as properly lazy like me, they’d appear ‘clean shaven’ about 30% of the time (at least). But their team of stylists and makeup artists get their precision trimmers out and maintain the perfect growth in defiance of any proper in-character logic.

Maybe I just don’t understand how actual Hollywood males work. Perhaps 10/10 guys have some kind of genetic oddity that causes their beard to stop growing at precisely the ‘half-beard’ stage? This requires some kind of scientific research or something…