Thread: Goatee almost went down the drain today!

When I used multi-bladed shaving carts or disposables I used to only shave as little as possible.

I shaved Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and kept the goatee as less I needed to shave. However once the goatee got a certain length is started to bother my face so I would every so often shave clean.

I have been studying Shakespeare lately and find this subject humorous.

With goatee mine wife does desire mine kisses
however may they be uncomfortable.

Thus goatee removed mine wife finds comfort in mine kisses
however lack of desire they may come.

She agrees with this assessment,
--Shoki

Originally Posted by knightwolf

I almost took the goatee off today. The wife would have killed me had it for 15 + yrs.

I know how you feel. My wife, though sometimes supportive of my shaving interests, will occasionally voice her disaproval of my lack of facial hair. It was, after all, what she was accustomed to in the early days.


Yes, my friends, this means from time to time I will sport facial hair of some sort, and sometimes even - gasp - a beard!

What we do for women, eh?

I have both a goatee and sideburns. Both seem to very in size depending on how my shaves are going. Sometimes when I am evening them out I go a little too far and end up having to trim the other side down. I have never gone so far as to shave my whole goatee, but I have accidentally taken a bit too much off a sideburn, and decided rather than try and even them out to just lop them off and let them grow back together.

I used to grow a full beard in the winter and a goatee for summer. When i shaved the full beard down to a goatee my wife would say it was like having a boyfriend for a few days till she got used to it.

I've shaved off my long-term Van Dyke twice now, and discovered what the full-face shavers already knew.

The area covered by a Van Dyke is the most sensitive skin on your entire face, and the most tricky to shave with a straight razor. I am very happy and confident everywhere else on my face, but when i took off the Van Dyke, I had a constant problem with irritation and nicks in that area. Partly, I think the decades of coverage simply left that skin super-sensitive. Maybe if I'd taken it slow over time it would have cleared up. This summer I might try again.

But just know that if you shave that off, you will be facing another challenge in your shaving technique.

And...I suggest you don't "shave" it off. Use barber clippers with no attachment to clipper it down as close as you can, and then shave it off. I suggest first using only a WTG pass. Do that only for maybe a week, then work on getting it shaved closer.

I did not know I was actually sporting a Van Dyke untill your post. I Always called it a goatee but now I see that it is only a goatee without the mustache. I actually googled it to see what a Van dyke was I had never heard that term. So Thanks for the unintentional lesson in Beard nomenclature.

When I hear Goatee I think Van Dyke.
When I hear Van Dyke I think Dick!