[DBursey]

So today I buzzed and shaved my face clean, after years of the goateed look. My wife has wanted me to do it for the longest. Now she can't stop smiling at me! I have to admit, I sure do look different. What a shock to see the old face under there!

I've heard stories of children freaking at the sight of their dad's clean-shaven mug after years of fur-faced fatherly familiarity. As I write this, I'm waiting for my 5-year old (five and a half as she'd remind you!) to arrive home from first day of school. I'm not sure whether she'll like the new, younger looking and more handsome (wife's opinion! ) dad or pine for the old. Will she laugh or cry?

Any of you guys have some beard losing experiences of note to pass along here? Is it high time we lost the beards?




edit: Should've posted in the Lounge

[Big Mac]

I'd say do what you think is best. Your daughter will adjust. I can remember a certain amount of shock when I first saw my dad without his mustache. It will be a bit of a shock to her at first, sure. But your daughter may even like you better without it because facial hair can tickle. If your wife is upbeat about the change, I bet she will be, too.

When I have a wife and kids (hopefully), they'll have to get used to my lazy shaving habits. Unless my wife protests, that is.

[demograph68]

Thread is worthless without before and after pix!!!

[Albert Pujols]

I shaved my peach fuzz mustache off once, I was in total shock of how white the skin above my lip was.

[ort888]

My facial hair is constantly changing, so it doesn't really shock people anymore. I usually grow it our for about a month or two then shave it all off.

Sometimes I'll groom it into some other shape, but usually I just grow it out 100% naturally (no grooming whatsoever).

[cwosigns]

My dad has always had a beard, and when he first shaved it (I was like two at the time) I was scared of him. Even worse, a couple years later both my parents had all their teeth pulled at the same time. Their faces were apparently GINORMOUS and my eleven-year-old sister had to take care of me until the swelling went down. Any time they came near me I screamed.

[Gossamer]

My sister hates it when I grow my goatee out, I usually try to stay clean-shaven for her.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

My sister hates it when I grow my goatee out, I usually try to stay clean-shaven for her.

[Insert incestuous joke here]

[finboy]

Originally Posted by DBursey

So today I buzzed and shaved my face clean, after years of the goateed look. My wife has wanted me to do it for the longest. Now she can't stop smiling at me! I have to admit, I sure do look different. What a shock to see the old face under there!

I've heard stories of children freaking at the sight of their dad's clean-shaven mug after years of fur-faced fatherly familiarity. As I write this, I'm waiting for my 5-year old (five and a half as she'd remind you!) to arrive home from first day of school. I'm not sure whether she'll like the new, younger looking and more handsome (wife's opinion! ) dad or pine for the old. Will she laugh or cry?

Any of you guys have some beard losing experiences of note to pass along here? Is it high time we lost the beards?




edit: Should've posted in the Lounge

I did this with my son after he was 8 months old and had only seen me for extended vacations at that time. He learned early to play with Daddy's beard, and now he still does (although it only grows out to the end of the day). He calls it scratchy. One of his first words, when he was really little.

He didn't seem to mind the shave.

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

My sister hates it when I grow my goatee out, I usually try to stay clean-shaven for her.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by lavar78

(Chafes her thighs)

[d4nth3m4n]

i shaved mine off when i was with danielle. she reminded me daily just how slack jawed i looked until it grew back.

she never knew i had a cleft chin until i shaved either.

[demograph68]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

My sister hates it when I grow my goatee out, I usually try to stay clean-shaven for her.

This thread is now about your strange relationship to your dominatrix sister.

[lavar78]

This thread is teh funny.

DTM has a cleft chin? Scary.

[baw]

Man, I read that as "Buzz off, "goat-sea" (Stupid keyword filter.)

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by lavar78

This thread is teh funny.

DTM has a cleft chin? Scary.

think it as a korean butt chin, as opposed to a puerto rican butt chin. it's subtle, more of a dimple even.

[olePigeon]

River: If the snow on the roof is too heavy, you see, the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
Book: River, please, why don't you come on out?
River: No! Can't. Too much hair.

[HackManDan]

My parents tell me when my dad shaved his mustache for police academy I rolled onto the floor laughing (I was 5). So you never know how a kid will react until they do.

HMD

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by demograph68

This thread is now about your strange relationship to your dominatrix sister.

We're close (she's two years younger) and she likes when she gets to come and hang out with me (at college!!) and we have fun. She actually a cool sister...she likes driving fast and video games. She my personal fashion consultant and she says I look like a dirtball if I let my goatee grow.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

My sister hates it when I grow my goatee out, I usually try to stay clean-shaven for her.

Does she reciprocate?

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Does she reciprocate?

That may be the most horrible thing I've read on here.


Therefore, it is both the most clever, and humorous as well.

[waxcrash]

I start growing a beard around October/November and keep it until around April/May. When I shave the beard, I keep a goatee. I do this every year to keep my face warm in the Winter.

[ghporter]

I've never worn a goatee-partly because so many other people do. I see far too many "men" who "shave" only to go through the motions, and their 1/2" of chin fuzz is the product of about six months of effort... This sort of guy really makes the goatee itself look pretty lame (not to mention himself).

I've had a full beard since late October 2004-the last time I shaved my whole face was the morning of my Air Force retirement ceremony. I've adjusted the shape of the beard, but mostly I keep in in the "full" range. I do trim it short, especially in the summer, but I keep the coverage pretty consistent.

[nredman]

Originally Posted by demograph68

Thread is worthless without before and after pix!!!

[Dork.]

I had a goatee since, oh, around 1995 or so. I decided to shave it once, and did not like the way my face looked at all, so I let it grow back. Then when my daughter was born and I went a week and a half without shaving, I decided to let it grow full, where it's been ever since. She may never see my chin again!

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by nredman

The funny thing is that I don't have any recent photos of me. Plenty of "before" pix, but no current ones.

[KeriVit]

My buddy shaved his goatee while on vacation once, he came back to work and was clean-shaven. I tried to compliment, like- hey cool. Cuz it looks wierd. But not bad. My co-worker looks at him and says "OMG, what did you do?!?!?"

He grew it back asap.

[Paco500]

I first grew facial hair in 1992 and had some form or another until a few months ago (usually the reliable goat, but ocassionally a full beard and when I was feeling saucy, a pirate mustache and soul patch configuration). Whe I moved to the UK this summer, no one else in my company had facial-hair outside of one older South African with a regimental looking waxed moustache. So it went. My five yoear ould son didn't really notice, but my two year old daughter was a bit freaked for a few days.

Oddest part of the whole exercise was that for the first time since my early teens I had acne where the beard used to be. It cleared up in about a week.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by ort888

My facial hair is constantly changing, so it doesn't really shock people anymore. I usually grow it our for about a month or two then shave it all off.

Sometimes I'll groom it into some other shape, but usually I just grow it out 100% naturally (no grooming whatsoever).

[Eriamjh]

The first time I saw the title of this thread, I thought it said "Buzz off, ******".