It is forbidden to shave even when it is not the omer. In the early 1900s many bochurim succumbed to this serious disease because they feared that since most of the girls were already influenced by the haskala they would not marry bochurim with beards. The Chofetz Chaim responded that a bochur should not worry that the girl will not marry him because of his beard, because if she will not marry him it must be she is not his basheret. Because it can not be that a person would be required to do an aveirah in order to marry his basheret, and would be deprived of his basheret for keeping torah and mitzvos.
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