Thread: Bearded straight shavers?

I had a beard till I got straight razors now a goatee and mustache. I have some of the salt coming in here and there more since we had our daughter.
I will probably shave completely when I'm more comfortable with the razors.
And I really want to shave my head with a straight razor. I did it the day after christmas with a disposable but my wife hated it.

I decided when my hair retreated from the norht, it would be time to let it advance from the south. The time has come and I've worn a beard for about a year. Now, I just shave my neck.

That works so go with it.

Jasper I also have a beard.
Lately I have been thinking that a little more dark hair in my beard might look better, LOL.
So now when I cut my hair and trim the beard down to size I put some color on it, I do that every 2 weeks.



Silver2

I've got a simple goatee, seeing how that's about all I can grow that's not bleach blond. I figure it'll help me with straights since I won't have to deal with that curve on the chin.

Fully bearded for about 20 yrs.
Dropped to a moustache & goatee stopping at the jaw line when I did BA respirator training last year.
Experimented for 3 weeks (before my str8 arrived) with being clean shaven. Didn't feel right to me and the wife & kids did not approve at all.
Back to the goatee and yep -the str8 makes straight edges much easier to control.
Best of both worlds, I am enjoying the str8 experience and all are happy that I have some facial hair back again.

Goatee for me whoopie!

Right now fairly full beard; I shave neck, upper cheeks, and under lower lip. Letting it grow out bushy & in Sept. will shave the chin for a muttonchops and handlebar look for a play I'll be in. An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley; set in 1912. My wife LOVES the beard! I've had it all off only 2x in about 30 years, both times to play John Adams in American Primitive by Wm. Gibson. The wife was the director, & really wanted the beard back right after the play ended. I remember once I shaved it all off after wearing it from age 19 to 25, and my father looked at me, shook his head, and said, "Too much face. Not enough happening."

I've sported a Vandyke (goatee and mustache) for most of my adult life - in fact, for a while I just shaved it of for the hottest months of the summer...but now I just keep it year round.

So much so, that as a small confession, I am TERRIBLE at straight shaving the chin and upper lip area...I guess practice really does make perfect (and the inverse is, by definition, equally true).

Mark

I wear a hollywoodian. I believe this to be the balance between shaving and a beard.