“Are we saving it? Locks of love?” he asks his adoring wife, who - by the way - is a saint for filming the whole time.įinally, nearly 20 minutes later, the moment of truth: It’s three minutes into the video before the big reveal when he finally takes his shirt off, and when he does, Cara reveals a thick, lush coat of body hair that looks like a dang football jersey.Īnd even then, it’s not until 13 minutes in before he gets on with the task at hand. (Although you still might want to skip around a bit.)įormer world beard champion Davin Cara (who filmed himself performing a similar ritual three years ago) says early on in the video that he knew he was different from the other kids, when - at a pool party following his eighth grade graduation at just 14 years old - his fellow students noticed the impressive amount of hair he already had growing on his back.Ĭara says he’s only shaved his chest and back one other time in his life, all the way back in high school, but is finally doing it again thanks to a “physique competition” he’s taking part in. And yet somehow, that 34 minutes manages to fly right by because of how goddamn engrossing it is. Let me state right off the bat here that I am well aware that this video is almost 34 minutes long, which seems like an oppressively long time for a YouTube video.
