It won't make you look younger but can it avoid making you look older?

Fellow greybeards, I'm having a dilemma. I keep a short full-face beard, number 2 on the OneBlade trimmer, cheeks and neck kept clean shaven. Like my hair the beard is mostly grey. (See my profile pic)

I'm not deluding myself by thinking that shaving the beard will make me look younger. I think that healthy habits (and maybe good cosmetic surgery) are the only really effective methods for taking years off your appearance.

However I do wonder if presenting all that grey face-forward makes me look older when I present myself in video meetings? Is putting all that grey "in your face" when we meet online emphasizing my age?

I'd like to say to hell with it, accept my age and respect my experience or get lost. But in the corporate world ageism is real and I'd like to minimize its effect in my professional interactions.

What do you think? Does getting rid of that face-forward grey avoid making a man look older on camera or is it insignificant when there's already grey hair and a receding hairline in the picture?

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