I gotta Beard question

[Blades]

Ok..so here my question..1 few times a year I try to grow a small beard (Goat T) for the hek of it...
But after a few weeks it gets REALLY itchy and when I trim it it really doesnt look right..or even..yet both sides are evenly matched..looks like patches here and there when I wish it was fuller..unless it takes a few months and patience?

B

 

[James_uk]

you looking for a simple asnwer? don't grow a goatee.lol

 

[Pig Cat]

Re: Goat T question

It probably depends on individuals. I grew one a few years ago. Oh dear, I think it was just over eleven years ago now. Seems like yesterday. I didn't have a problem with growing one but Mrs PC (then fiance PC) was not impressed. I think I kept it for about three months. A friend quipped that I looked like a French porn director, which of course I took as a compliment, but in the end it had to go or the engagement would have been broken off. :roll:

Actually, looking back it was probably my habit of stroking my goatee in a James Khan of Dragons Den fashion that was really its downfall. :twisted:

 

[antdad]

YOU NEED GOATEESAVER!!! never thought I'd ever say that.

 

[Canuck]

Time is the answer.

I've grown "tour" moustaches before when serving overseas in hot places and they are always slightly daft and patchy looking for the first 2 weeks, then just a bit untidy for the next 2 weeks, until full luxuriousness comes in after about a month and a half or more. You need to let some length of hair grow to fill in any gaps. After about 2 months I'm putting Vinny to shame, after 4 months I'm embarrassing Charles Manson. Then it needs good trimmage!

Quick fix goatees and taches really never set the world on fire. They need 2 months to fill out properly.

 

[Blades]

Ok..all shaved off..man that feels good!... :lol:

Thnx for your advice guys..nice story PC!

Blades

 

[JohnnyO]

I always found that any growth greater than the statutory pencil moustache kinda spoiled the ideal rakish, nudge - nudge, wink - wink personna which the young fillies of my (sadly bygone) day found so irresistible.

JohnnyO. (Where's the caddish smiliey then ? ). :?

 

[moodymick]

Ok..so here my question..1 few times a year I try to grow a small beard (Goat T) for the hek of it...
But after a few weeks it gets REALLY itchy and when I trim it it really doesnt look right..or even..yet both sides are evenly matched..looks like patches here and there when I wish it was fuller..unless it takes a few months and patience?

B

According to the author of Sharp Practice - that wasn't a goatee, a goatee is the tuft of hair grown on the point of the chin in a Billy Goat Gruff / Pan /Satan-esque stylee.

I think what you had was what is commonly known as a tw*t.

 

[ebilpirate]

I always found that any growth greater than the statutory pencil moustache kinda spoiled the ideal rakish, nudge - nudge, wink - wink personna which the young fillies of my (sadly bygone) day found so irresistible.

JohnnyO. (Where's the caddish smiliey then ? ). :?

I favour the super thin errol flynn / gomez style tasch for those occasional facial furniture changes.

The wife hates it but I quite like the sleazy look, add bit of the old red tub Brylcream and I look rather spiffing.

Within a few days of growing one I get this strange urge to travel about in a 1930's car, wear a cape and tie fawning damsels to train tracks.

 

[JohnnyO]

Erm, you've maybe taken that just a wee shade too far now ?????

JohnnyO.

 

[IanM]

I have heard that type of beard referred to at the "Euro Gay Beard". I have no idea why.

Ian

 

[Boab]

you see it everywhere in the U, S of A. The obligatory baseball cap completes the look they are all striving for.

 

[joe mcclaine]

I always sport some kind of face furniture.

As I've got no hair on my head I think it is important to have another way of changing my look without a trip to the barbers.

Over the past 5 years I've sported;
Goatee - the 'usual' interpretation as per Blades' pic
The 'Hey Gringo' droopy mexican-looking tache
Soul patch
The Horseshoe (Paul Snr - American Chopper)
Hulk Hogan as above but dyed blonde!!!
Friendly Mutton Chops (Flashman)
Handlebar (Charlie Bronson)

The Colonel loves me with some kind of tache/beard - says I look too young without. Too young? Bless 'er.

The only advice I can give is to treat it like normal hair - wash/shampoo when needed and give it at least two months before deciding if it is for you.

Love the comments I get. Just last week a fella in a branch of 'Game' said - "I bet you get this all the time ... but your moustache is awesome".

... not in a gay way, though.

Well, perhaps.

 

[Canuck]

give it at least two months

+1.

Are you still sporting the full "Charles Bronson" by the way? (the UK inmate Charles, not the oscar winning actor). I always picture you like this: