{"id":23120,"date":"2022-05-31T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/31\/navy-approves-beards-if-youre-no-longer-in-the-navy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:14:18","slug":"navy-approves-beards-if-youre-no-longer-in-the-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/05\/31\/navy-approves-beards-if-youre-no-longer-in-the-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy approves beards \u2026 if you\u2019re no longer in the Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Navy has approved beards for sailors<\/a> in uniform! There\u2019s just one catch. The sailors have to be retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service also has approved several other uniform policy changes<\/a> designed to make life better for women, including making hosiery optional when wearing skirts or slacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retired sailors are now permitted to have facial hair while wearing Navy uniforms for authorized ceremonial events, the service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFacial hair must be neatly groomed and be in keeping with a professional appearance,\u201d the Navy said in a new naval administrative message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The update comes months after the Navy adjusted its beard policy for active sailors affected by razor bumps, officially known as pseudofolliculitis barbae, or PFB, so that those sailors could not be booted if treatments didn\u2019t work, among other policy adjustments. But sailors undergoing treatment plans must still obtain temporary waivers every three months, or as prescribed by an attending military medical care provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who have curly facial hair are more likely to develop the condition when shaving, and the condition is found in up to 60 percent of Black men, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology.<\/p>\n\n\n