Old Guys and the Goatee: What's up with that?

[QueBert]

While they're commonly referred to as one, when there's a top mustache part it's actually a Vandyke. Technically it's only a Goatee if there's no hair on the top lip.

 

[IronWing]

They used to be young guys with goatees, or more accurately, guys with cup-face.

 

[Gillbot]

Mine isn't a look, i'm just too fucking lazy to shave.

 

[DT4K]

I'm early 40's and have done the goatee off and on.
I don't have any gray hair, so I don't think it makes me look older, it just makes me look slightly less nerdy.
Plus the wife likes facial hair and I've never been able to grow a full beard. It's pretty thick in the goatee area, but very sparse further out on the sides of my face.

 

[Ventanni]

Its an attempt to distract attention from a fat face. Heavy-set younger guys do it too (and it fools no one).

In most, but not all cases, it's this.

Sorry guys, ya'll ain't foolin' anyone.

 

[alkemyst]

I've had a goatee a few times since I was in my mid 20s. I usually tire of it after a few months and start going clean shaven again.

Goatees are definitely better than the stupid mustache and beard fad that idiots are latching onto right now.

says the guy with Ron as his avatar.


Since grey hair is brought up....

I have had greys since I was about 20. Started in my eyebrows in a few hairs and my side of head.

Now it's well blended in my sides. A few on my chest here and there and some in my beard if I grow it out. My brows haven't changed...same hairs in my 20's are still the same greys in my 40's.

Some have actually asked if my hair is colored. I tell them no "It's just grey". I get told "It's a nice grey!"

Sadly on camera it doesn't show. My hair is lighter brown to dark blonde.

 

[alkemyst]

In most, but not all cases, it's this.

Sorry guys, ya'll ain't foolin' anyone.

You guys should post in the member pic thread for validation.

 

[squarecut1]

What is the typical trimmer length / level setting for a goatee? For example, the Walter White one linked in this thread earlier.

 

[manimal]

same here, but i think it's mostly a combination of trying to hide the ugly face and laziness in shaving

zis



I started wearing a full beard because my job used to have me wearing horrible spirit gum to give me a beard or stache. I started wearing the beard so they could just shave off what they dont need. Grew shoulder length hair for same reason. People used to call it the tenor mane.

 

[QueBert]

I think old dudes should rock whatever they like

 

[Fritzo]

I've got a soul patch now with a little pointy "Tony Stark" beard thing on the bottom. Not sure what that makes me.

 

[Leyawiin]

It was the style in the 1990s, so the guys you see wearing them now are the typical "can't let go of the old look" types. 25-30 years old in the 90s + 15-20 more years = middle age guy with a goatee. A lot of people get in a lifelong rut with their hairstyles/facial hair.

The same thing will probably happen with the current "stubble" look. All these twenty-something guys that have it now will hang onto it long after its out and you'll see these 50 year olds with gray half-assed stubbly beards. Then the clean shaven young guys will post a thread in this forum in 2040 asking what's up with all these middle-age guys with stubble.

 

[dbk]

i cant grow that that..so i have to shave everyday or else i look like a bum. i cant even sport a 5 o clock shadow (not uniform)..

 

[surfsatwerk]

I've got a soul patch now with a little pointy "Tony Stark" beard thing on the bottom. Not sure what that makes me.

Ironman

 

[mikeymikec]

While they're commonly referred to as one, when there's a top mustache part it's actually a Vandyke. Technically it's only a Goatee if there's no hair on the top lip.

I have one of these too for just over ten years (on and off, mostly on), since I was 23.

I had a bit of a baby face back then, so it helped put a few years on. I now am going grey and bald, so I shave my head.

 

[manimal]

I've got a soul patch now with a little pointy "Tony Stark" beard thing on the bottom. Not sure what that makes me.

musician

 

[Rhezuss]

It's an effective way to make a wide face look longer. Mens' faces tend to look wider as they age, as the jowls get more pronounced.

Yeah, I have a effing "moon face"...round and fairly large but nothing unproportionnal lol...

I have a beard permanent since 2005.

 

[soulcougher73]

Are you jelly you cant grow facial hair?

 

[HN]

Pat Morita was originally rejected for the role of Mr. Miyagi because they thought people would associate him with comedy (instead of the austere japanese master) due to his TV roles at the time.

So, he grew a goatee, added a japanese accent, and eventually got the role.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Why do once dudes hit like 45 they start to grow the goatee?

I'm not putting it down, just asking.

Yes you kind of are.

Is it a midlife crisis thing? Because it only makes them look older.

And the longest I go without shaving is a couple days because a lot of my facial hair comes in gray and I refuse to dye it.

Oops, didn't realize this was an older thread I already posted in.

 

[Squeetard]

When I started going bald I shaved my head. Grew a Goatee so I didn't look like Michael Stipe from REM.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Hides the double chin.

 

[Rhezuss]

Are you jelly you cant grow facial hair?

Lol wrong tense of the verb

 

[Fritzo]

musician

Ironman musician?

 

[Carson Dyle]

A friend of mine who recently turned forty and had worn a goatee all of his adult life, recently turned up wearing just a mustache. It's a classic porn-stache. I asked him why he got rid of the goatee and he replied "There was too much gray in it". So out of the frying pan, into the fire...