Growing a goatee

[Grizzly907]

Any tips on growing a nice looking goatee that isn't too big or too small. Thanks

[Razor X]

Stop shaving your upper lip and chin and wait about a month.

[Grizzly907]

Stop shaving your upper lip and chin and wait about a month.

I have one already. I am going to lop it off and start fresh. Ill let it grow a little wider. It will take about two weeks. I grow hair fast lol. What setting do you trim yours at on the trimmer if I may ask?

[Razor X]

#4 on the coated and# 3 on the mustache.  Don't shave it all off, just let it get a little wider. It wil be a faster process.

[Peacemaker]

The 90's called, they want their goatee back. Seriously though as a member of Beard Team USA I can tell you it all depends on the shape of your head. You don't want a goatee if you have a round face, try a longer beard to make your face look longer and slimmer. There are so many different types for different shaped heads. Something that looks good on one person won't look good on the other.  Goatees are pretty old school though and seem pretty dorky.

[Grizzly907]

Goatees will never go out of style.

[Razor X]

Goatees are pretty old school though and seem pretty dorky.

Sez who?  

You'll find out one day that what is really dorky is constantly chasing the latest trend simply because people who are 10 or more years younger than you are doing it.   

[Peacemaker]

Goatees are pretty old school though and seem pretty dorky.

Sez who?  

You'll find out one day that what is really dorky is constantly chasing the latest trend simply because people who are 10 or more years younger than you are doing it.   

I hear what you're saying, I still dig skinny ties and plaid 

[Chavster]

Goatees are pretty old school though and seem pretty dorky.

Hmmm. If you'll pardon me for saying so, thats probably not the wisest of things to say on a forum where a large percentage of the users have a goatee. Free speech is one thing, and expression of thought is one thing. Tact is another.

FWIW, from my own perspective, I dont give a flying you-know-what about whether they're dorky or hip. I have a goatee because (perhaps mistakenly), I think it improves my appearance, and because I like the way it looks (and feels), and because it makes me feel good. I like grooming it, I like nurturing it. Unfortunately I cant say what its done for my sex life (if anything) because my memory doesn't go back that far.

And at running the risk of paying yet another man yet another compliment, if you take a look at Razor X - who is, IMO, incredibly handsome and sporting one of the best goatees I've seen - could you actually call his look, or his goatee, 'old school' or 'dorky'?. I dont see much wrong with Grizzly either, or any of the other guys wearing a goatee. Myself included.

I have zero idea what Beard Team USA is, but perhaps you should reconsider your level of membership. And if you still like skinny ties and plaid, then I'm sure the Laverne & Shirley forum would welcome you with open arms, just as this forum does.

[Mikekoz13]

Well here you go.............   http://beardteamusa.org/

Yeah... those guys on the opening page of that website certainly look so much better with their 1909 mustaches than we do with our goatees. What was I thinking? I need to get to Wally World and get some mustache wax apparently. HA!!!!


If you think goatees are out you need to look around. A LOT of men are wearing them these days.

[Mikekoz13]

And if you still like skinny ties and plaid, then I'm sure the Laverne & Shirley forum would welcome you with open arms, just as this forum does.

Now that's funny!! 

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Goatees are not out at all--in fact facial hair in all varieties, full, "mountain man" long and short goatees abound around here and most places I travel in the states.  I think goatees are particularly popular because many guys who don't have the general density to do a really nice full beard whether long or trimmed up neatly opt for a goatee because more guys have the density concentrated in that area.  With the smooth scalp it helps avoid an appearance of "too much skin!"

[Chavster]

OMG, they could have used some better pictures for their home page. Most of those guys look like they're waiting for a role in the next Sherlock Holmes movie.

What I have, which is technically a Van Dyke rather than a goatee, is certainly not out of fashion, here there or anywhere. The amount of men I see wearing them is astronomical. I travel a lot, and no matter where I go, I see plenty of them.

Sherlock Holmes moustaches on the other hand, they're probably a little more rare

p.s. how do you guys over there spell the thing we spell 'moustache'. Mustache?

[Mikekoz13]

From dictionary.com....

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mustache


Apparently either is correct.

[Chavster]

Thanks

You're like a one-man links library! 


*note to self: must remember to google (etc) more often*