Thread: Goatee almost went down the drain today!

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.......
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.

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.