Head Shaving, Grooming & Care > Miscellaneous
Beards and bald heads
Michael:
You gotta do whatever you feel comfortable with. I think a goat and a shaved dome looks great! But Tow looks just as awsome ( we all secretly want the Gimli thing at some time or another!) Follow your heart!
BuzzKC:
Inspired by Slickdome! Had a goatee for 14 years, decided to change it up. I've been seeing a lot of this look lately, young and old.
Rob:
Hey Buzz: really like the full beard look O0 I love the way with a full beard that the hair just stops by the ears and gives way to a slick dome: its a cool look. 8) I'm getting inspired... O0
Mike:
I like the look of a goat and a bald head but like so many others my facial hair tends to grow in patches. I think I may try to grow some sort of facial hair just to see.
D.A.L.U.I.:
Well I had a lot of concerns about doing it. I started one in September while posted in Iowa, another in Brownsville and yet another in Houston, and then a couple of 4 day trials in December. I have a really nasty looking grey in my beard, think a pile of snow at the side of the road in the spring--really nasty looking. So I tried the Just for Men in the Houston trial. I followed advice to go lighter not darker and so Medium Brown was the choice. I found that at five days I could color the stubble. Only issue then is that a meaningful portion of the beard develops daily so I was applying it everyday generally to avoid "roots" issues. I've followed that plan this time too, beginning at the beginning of the Mardi Gras Parade season when everything here is a little crazy. I'm getting lots of compliments, even though I see it as thin and not the sort of beard I'd keep. I do have beard "experience"--a full beard during my mid-twenties for three years and it looked good especially trimmed out neat but full. Another two year full beard filled my mid thirties as my head started to seriously enter it's "maturity" and hair vanishing act. So here I am more than twenty years after the last one starting a goatee. I just couldn't figure how to end a full beard by the ears. I located www.beards.org and I got some good examples of full and goats. I'm going to stick this out 30 days at least--same rule as the dome--to see what an adolescent beard looks like. I like the look when seen from a distance--dressed for work it looks professional, and in many respects balances my looks IMO. It takes some of the attention from the dome so my whole face is considered.
I know that a fully mature growth takes at least two months :XX. I'll start trimming at 30 days if I don't ditch it at that point. I saw some examples at the beard.org site that looked like a next possible development of this chin mitten--widening out the base to the corner line of the jaw--I see if that works too if I keep this up. There is maintenance to consider--shampoo, conditioner and I've had to drag out the brush I retired in 2007. It's a good thing I don't throw things out, still had the shampoo, conditioner and brush :D :D :D Only had to buy the Just For Men, and it goes a long way. BTW, a touch of Just FM cleans up the eyebrows too from excessive grey, and I can trim them while I'm trimming the chin mitten. ;D ;D
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