I just shaved off some of my 14 year old beard. I've had the mustache since I was 18 (shaving accident, when it healed, I had a mustache). I think it makes my face look thinner.
The Before picture wearing my new Tumwater Roughrider
Yes, you look much thinner. BTW, like the Tumwater Roughrider. I'm in the process of growing a Van Dyck, Named after the 18th century Dutch painter Antoon Van Dyck. Pic's to follow really soon, sooner than you think, which is like before you know it.
Say gents, has the goatee "gone with the wind" or is it still as popular as the past 8 or so years? What's the concensus for this style of facial hair today among the Fedora Lounge crowd?
I sort of prefer the unconnected mustache chin beard combo to the goatee. To my mind, the ultimate wearer of this style in all human history was New Orleans' own General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, particularity to one he sported later in life:
Although, in his prime he really sported more of a "soul patch"
Observe that as a young man, he had just a mustache, which just looks wrong (on him) in my opinion:
I'm sure it is indeed meant to suggest baddy. Satan is often depicted with a goatee--usually a nicely trimmed one like the chap above. This is preferable stylistically (IMO) to the untended bush (I use this word advisedly) which is reminiscent not so much of the Prince of Darkness as the folk Burt Reynolds had to kill in Deliverance. No offence meant to those who love a bush on their face...
That's pretty much the style I had recently (until my wife forced me to shave it off). I think it's a good look: very much a mid-20th century beatnik, poet, outsider beard.
I copied mine from the actor Roger Delgado (except that his was black and thick, mine was thin and grey).
I like the way the beards in this picture (from the film A Private's Progress) are used to show the contrast between Ian Carmichael's clean-shaven respectability and the war-avoiding artists.
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