I have had a very cleanly trimmed goatee for about 3 years now, with the rest of my facial hair always properly shaved.
However, I have been very sick with the flu for the past 2 weeks, and haven't shaved once in that time span. So, now I have an extremely unruly goatee, and a semi-thick beard over the rest of my face. And not those nice, doctor-looking beards that are shaved around the edges and well trimmed, but those nasty "hair is growing near my eyelids and down my chest!" kinda beards. It's kinda nasty.
I wanna go back to normal tonight, but I don't have an electric trimmer to shorten the hair before shaving, and if I just start shaving with the hair this long, many pieces are gonna rip out and i'll get nasty razor burn, which is worse than this irritating beard.
So.... what to do? Wax? Let it grow until it hits the floor?
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Shower as hot as you can stand right before you start shaving and make sure the blade is very wet.
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thank goodness doctor gordon weaver is here
quick hand him a crowbar
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I thought about that, but the whole point of this is not to avoid pain... I can handle the pain. It's about not looking like a schlump, and if my face gets all razor-burny, it won't make me look any better than a massive beard.
I'm looking for a way to avoid the razor-burn so I'll look all nice and sleek again.
I like the trimming with scissors, though. That might work.
Goatee's are awesome. The ladies love 'em. It tickles 'em.
Do it the way i suggested and use cold cold cold water to rinse your razor. I've shaved two full beards that way with little ill effect.
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no it doesn't
they are scratchy
also having a goatee full of femenine secretions is no fun
It makes SOME people look like douche-bags, I agree. It all depends on the person, the head, the haircut, etc. Everyone has a style that looks good on them, and it doesn't mean it will look good on others. Example: Brad Pitt looks good with tons of stubble on his face, but I look like a loser without a job if I go all stubbly.
I have never had a negative word said about my goatee, and have had lots of compliments telling me it looks good with my face and haircut. So, until someone I care about tells me otherwise, it stays.
Plus, it's fun to stroke it in times of intense thought!
perhaps for some
i'm so proud that it looks like this after a week's growth, it's like i'm a real grown up now or something
one day he shaved it off.
he looked 12.
it was hilarious.
he was upset that nobody said anything about it while he was at work. i told him that was because nobody knew who the fuck he was.
Pretty much the first thing I thought.
i never go anywhere so i don't really care too much about shaving though
It could always become about that.
Be a leader... Take initiative!
I wish I could offer the OP advice, but this pretty much sums up my problem in a way.
When I grow facial hair I dont look older...I just look like a little kid with a moustache. (Note- Im 20 years old)
It is enough that my friends don't recognize me because they think Im some kind of sideshow escapee
"See the Amazing Mustache-ioed Boy!"
Take a hot shower and wash your face
Go slowly with short strokes and rinse off the blade after every stroke
do you have those twelve hairs sticking out of your chin that you lovingly stroke sometimes
my brother has that for months at a time and seriously i just want to hold him down and pull them all out one by one
goatees....
and i have slightly less than the terrible stache that the greasy kids keep
and fuzzy sideburns
also neckfuzz
A year or so ago, he shaved them both off.
Then he grew them back, because he looked really weird without them.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
it's one of the few perks of being a teenager
what a weak username...
I have the opposite problem. My hair grows in every typical facial-hair spot quickly and thickly: My entire neck, my entire mouth and sideburns, and my cheeks all the way up to just below my eyes. So, if I don't stay on top of it (shave every day), it gets out of hand very fast, so you can imagine what 2 weeks of no shaving has done to my poor face. I look like those grizzled lumberjacks, only I'm a programmer, so I'm not nearly as strong or manly as they are.
Man, when I was a kid, I would have killed to have facial hair like this. I used to go into the bathroom and desperately search my face for any hints of incoming facial hair. Now, I would kill to NOT have facial hair.
Also, I shaved my goatee once, and I looked positively silly, even though I spent 20 years of my life without one and looked fine. Maybe I would have readjusted had I given it a decent chance, but it looked so odd after having one for 3 years that I just had to let it re-grow.
I always just shave right after a shower.
Is it really that great with the cream?
Well, atleast my username is based around a bad-ass Firefly captain from the distance future, rather than a viscous, poisonous liquid used to remove pubic hair and dried poop from public shower drains. Not to even mention that Liquid Plumber is far superior to Drano.
For what? Your lifeless, thankless existence that serves only to remove unwanted things from peoples lives, and then be discarded via blistering hot water into a dark abyss, never to be heard from or cared about again?
carry on.