beard log! - the real blog! it's looking like a good start. as pointed out above, patience is key because the first time is always the toughest. especially getting through the itchy phase where you can't really think about anything except getting the woolly muskrat off your face.

first time for me it took about 3 months for me to grow enough facial hair for me to call it a beard (and another couple before other people would refer to it a such), but it does seem to speed up every time. Everyone's different of course, but I shave mine off every once in awhile and can now go from clean shaven to completely scraggly in about a week, and after a couple of weeks it's pretty darn full.