You heard that right. A beard. roughed my face up pretty good last shave and decided to take a break for a few days. I'll probably shave, but this Paul Bunyon/lumberjack style beard is working out for me. Forgot how manly it made me look and feel. You guys know that manly feeling, when you're camping and you've just started a fire without a match or lighter. Or perhaps when you've just rebuilt and installed a carburetor(while not so popular today, I'm sure some of you old timers can remember) and the car fires up perfectly the first time. And with the feminization of Western-Society, the beard may be the last bastion of true manliness.
You sound like a good candidate for a goatee. Personally, if I go more than two days without a complete shave, I feel lousy
3 days and my family and friends are begging me to shave it off. I already look like a balding Sasquatch without adding to the image.
Personally, I preferr the clean shaved look. I like to be able to stroke my chin and feel nothing what so ever.
No no, a goatee has no mustache. Prepare for a facial hair lesson my friends- This is a Goatee. Notice the lack of mustache. http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~ericgriffin/Danny/goatee.jpg http://www.zackhample.com/photos/1996/zack_shea_goatee.jpg http://www.mrcloud.com/images/shaggy_tee.jpg The Soul Patch is a variation of the Goatee. http://www.fresnobeehive.com/opinion/upload/2006/07/soulpatch2.jpg (this one borders on being a chin strip) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/SteveVai_1.jpg/180px-SteveVai_1.jpg http://www.thefootnote.net/vol1/feb04/soul-patch.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/01/25/qa.mandel/mandel1.jpg The Van Dyke is the Goatee plus mustache. http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Vandyke Beard.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/454016431_e5f45cbb85_m.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1562719/2/istockphoto_1562719_i_m_still_here.jpg http://www.survivinggrady.com/beard1.jpg Oh and here's an insider... I'm 21 and I've had several ladies my age (you older fellas better read carefully :rofl ) tell me that Van Dyke's look nice, and that Goatees/Soul Patches look weird without the mustache. Van Dyke for the win! Ha, I've thought about the Van Dyke. But nah, it's all or nothing for me. If I'm growing a beard it's gonna be a full lumberjack style beard. A beard may not be a bad idea for the winter... hate being clean shaven on those sub-20 degree and very windy days. I like Steven Wright's(one of my fave comedians) beard- http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1549...7D9939C83F106493C0954462A0C445A5397277B4DC33E
I am now informed that I wear a Goatee. I use to think it was a mustache less goatee.....but i have now been informed
I usually stop shaving when all the leaves are off the trees, and start again when the tips of the branches turn green. But that was all before wetshaving.
I have no problem with a beard. I have had several. My problem is the in between period that is all itchy and irritating. I have had many, many forms of facial hair, having always dreaded the shave (the pre-DE wetshave days). I had a soul patch, goatee, Van dyke, mustache, mutton chops and a full beard. Of course, I played saxophone and harmonicas in a band, so outrageous facial hair was the order of the day, "cause the chicks digged it." (or so I allowed myself to believe). Life was such an easy game to play, wasn't it?
I have had two go-arounds with beards in my life, grown in part because I did not like shaving. The first was in my late teens and early twenties., back in the hairy seventies. Man, I shudder when I think of that. The second was in the mid-eighties, and I had that one for almost 10 years. I had completed a diet and had lost a bunch of weight and since I was changing the way I looked, the beard fit. I also hated shaving because I hacked up my face. When I decided to shave off the second beard, I went to a barber shop to have the barber trim down the beard to shave off. He asked if I wanted him to shave it and I said ok. He gave me an excellent shave, my first with a straight razor. I felt like a million coming out of that shop, which is sadly no longer in business. No, I don't like the feeling of stubble and I can't wait to get up and shave. Smooth, nick and irritation free. Life is good. I no longer have a beard screaming to get out.
You are mistaken Sir! That goat is obviously incognito for a super secret mission for "the brotherhood of the ruminants"!
Took a whif of Provence Sante this morning and it was settled... I shaved my future beard. It was a real good one too... reminds me why I like to stay clean shaven.
You can always grow it back, Kevin. Go for it! I grow a beard every winter. Have almost 6 weeks worth of growth now. And I still enjoy splashing on some bay rum, or some Aqua Velva in the morning. I really like traditional shaving, but I also like growing my traditional winter beard.