Head Shaving, Grooming & Care > Miscellaneous
Facial hair
Professor Melon:
; Ahoy! I've worn facial hair [at first a goatee, then a full beard, and, after adopting the bald look, a goatee again] since 1964, when I began graduate school. Wearing it was problematic during the Viet Nam era. Except for cities on both coasts, it was generally regarded as a leftist political statement, especially in the mid-west and South. Professionals, politicians, businessmen, the whole middle class, were all de rigueur clean-shaven. Only orthodox Jews, certain unAmerican ethnics, monks, mad scientists, and sailors on long voyages wore beards. Hold-overs from before the war, such as bandleaders and ageing actors, could get away with moustaches. I grew my goatee because I got tired of raping the supersensitive skin on my chin and jawline, and because I have a weak chin. My father's advice not to wear any facial hair proved right: my future inlaws--from Michigan--regarded the marriage of their daughter to a bearded man with suspicion and loathing. This was richly ironic because I come from a politically conservation Catholic family; we have voted Republican in every election, except that of JFK. When I decided to go baldy, I just spontaneously chopped the beard down to a goatee. One of the frequent comments I get now is that the new style makes me look younger--good news at 64. Like many of you, I have found that the goatee works better with the chrome dome than the beard, although the skin-problem has returned and I may go back to the beard. Thankfully, facial hair is no longer associated with subversive antiAmerican sentiment, viz. Gov. Corzine, innumerable academics, policemen, even servicemen. Certain heads look better shaved than others; and certain chins look better covered with hair than others. It's a matter of putting nature and aesthetics together; and requires a degree of honest objectivity. Professor Melon
PigPen:
I've had my goatee off and on for about 10 years now. I personally feel that I have too much of a baby face to be clean shaven...with or without hair. Wife found some old pics yesterday when I was still keeping a full head of hair and had just trimmed my goatee. She made the comment that she liked more hair on my head and less on my face. Told her to get used to the way it is now. It's not likely to change anytime soon.
wpruitt:
I have not yet shaved - but the day is approaching fast since Mother Nature is rapidly relieving me of my hair. No facial hair ... yet. Many of you guys get jokes about having to grow it on your face since you cannot grow it elsewhere!
PigPen:
Yeah but that's ok, because they're just jealous!!!
Razor X:
--- Quote from: wpruitt on November 26, 2006, 12:57:39 PM ---I have not yet shaved - but the day is approaching fast since Mother Nature is rapidly relieving me of my hair. No facial hair ... yet. Many of you guys get jokes about having to grow it on your face since you cannot grow it elsewhere!
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OK, so here's what you need to do: start growing a goatee now, and make a commitment to shave your head when it's grown in. That gives you a week or two to prepare to be bald.
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