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I almost took the goatee off today. The wife would have killed me had it for 15 + yrs. Only been shaving for a month or so with a str8 But as I was cleaning up the sides the sound of the razor pinging through whiskers I just wanted to lop em all off its addicting. Alas I stopped and left clean straight lines but one of these days I tell ya.......:tameshigiri:
So any one else with a beard have to stop and think every time they shave?
I do believe that straight shaving has, so far, claimed the lives of many many sorts of facial hair. I can tell you for myself... I never really got to grow the mustache I wanted because the "call" of shaving it off is always too strong. My girlfriend is always happy to see the mustache disapear, though...
I've read several times here that many beards have been reduced to goatees and many goatees reduced to mustaches and many mustaches reduced to... nothing. :) You're not alone in wanting to shave more and more. It is just such a pleasurable experience.
I took my goatee of last month. I just thought to hell with it one day and mowed it off with the straight. So satisfying! I tell you, the feeling of the brush on the areas previously covered by the goatee while lathering for a second pass is truly awesome.
So sometimes I sport a goatee until I feel like a full on shave.
The same temptation got me to take off a mustache I had for many years. Never grew it back. The toughest whiskers on my mug are the knob of the chin and up the sides and underneath the chin for a few inches. So having a goatee will allow you to avoid the roughest parts but you have the chore of trimming around it all. I guess it is a tossup for which is preferable. If you like the goatee it is probably worth the trouble to groom it and avoid the trouble of shaving those iron whiskers. :hmmm:
I have a feeling it will succumb to my temptation as the weather gets warmer. Dang str8 razors I have never looked forward anxiously to shaving untill them. And this darn forum has not helped any. So I love and hate you all.
A couple of months ago I knocked off my goatee and left just a mustache. A couple of weeks after that I lopped off the 'stache. I've been letting them both grow back out, but I am sure I'll take them off again. It's fun taking off that much hair in one pass.
I had a long chinbeard(as in one-and-a-half times my fist long) with connected moustache. I first lobbed off the moustache to have more to shave. Then(2 weeks ago) I needed to get a job and took off the chinbeard as well. I still don't know whether I like it or not, but it is nice to (try to) shave my chin and feel the brush passing it.
I've been contemplating shaving off my goatee for several weeks now but like you, my wife has repeatedly asked me not to. Apparently I look like a 12 yr old when I do (I’m 40 yrs old!). I did that once before when she and I first started dating (6 yrs ago); everything was fine until we were in a restaurant and I was carded when ordering a beer and she wasn’t. As soon as the waitress left, my wife asked me to grow it back. I still may shave it because I would like to give it a shot and see how I do. I’ve only been using a ST8 for almost 2 months but it might be time…
Haakon
I had a goatee until a couple of weeks ago. Shaved it off to get a second job, which hasn't panned out yet. I'm thinking about growing it back, but it's been so long since I've been clean shaven I might hold off for a while. I look 10 years younger, and people who have known me for a few years got a shock seeing me without the goatee.
My technique for shaving my chin and lips are rusty, though they're slowly coming up to snuff.
I used to hate being clean shaven, but due to some volunteer responsibilities I had to be. I like what I do but many times thought of quitting. Now I want to shave twice a day.
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by knightwolf
Yes, my friends, this means from time to time I will sport facial hair of some sort, and sometimes even - gasp - a beard! :dropjaw:
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.:shrug: 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.:beer1:
When I hear Goatee I think Van Dyke.
When I hear Van Dyke I think Dick!