Fifty Plus (50+) - How many 50+ men have the ubiquitous graying goatee?

Is it more than 50%? And how long have you had one (a goatee, not a graying goatee) if you do?

Is it more than 50%? And how long have you had one (a goatee, not a graying goatee) if you do?

Had a full beard for 40 years or so- and it is not greying-It is grey

Not I. I've worn a full beard since 1983...never shaved it off during that time.
Used to be brown, now it's white. Yes, I'll beat you to it...at least once each winter some
poor misguided little child mistakes me for that other fat jolly guy !!!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Full set here too, nice and grey

Cranky ....do they mistake you for me? ( insert lots of smilies here cos mine don't work)

I get the same from kids every December

george

I try to maintain a 1 day stubble (Don Johnson cut) which on an old guy is grey and is just enough to keep little kids and their mothers away from me when I go shopping.

Full, white and had it since the 60's. While it was busy turning from brown to white, it's distant cousins on the top of my head were busy dying and jumping ship. While all this is going on, new relatives are sprouting in new spots .. like my ears. Probably more than you wanted to know, but ain't the golden years grand.

Full beard that began as peach fuzz in high school about 37 years ago. It has been with me almost constantly from the time it started growing. Maybe 6 months cumulative clean shaven during that time. I have had a goatee a few times along the way, but never stayed with it for long. Too much maintenance.

My beard started out blond and turned brown. Now it seems to be a mixture of equal parts brown, black, gray and white.

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This thread is useless without PICS!
:eek: :rolleyes: :D

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/GonzoDawg/bicycles/MTB%20racing/warmcloseup.jpg

If I had a goatee, it would be graying to white just like the hairs of my head.

I refuse to grow a beard, it would slow me down too much :)

Actually, I just find them too uncomfortable. Although I do like the idea of having a full beard cut the same length as my hair - use the same clippers andjust buzz the whole head.

I'd bet there are more shaved heads than goatees...

I voted, "I would, but I would scare the children"... being a middle-aged Italian woman, I'm waxing facial hair off at an alarming speed.

Clean shaven, balding - cut short, greying.

I do like the way Steve Jobs keeps his beard. It compliments his balding. I just have never wanted to fiddle around trimming a full beard continually. Maybe one day I will.

http://mentalhygiene.com/index.php/2006/08/

FWIW, Steve is having health problems as you can see from the two photos. Hopefully, he is ok.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x40/TWLBA/Texmexjpig.jpg

I grew the gootee to compensate for my lack of a chin. This photo is about three years old. It's a bit grayer now.

My beard has undergone various metamorphoses since my late 20s, including an unfortunate Lincolnesque beard-sans-'stache phase that made me look like an Amish refugee. I went goatee about 18 years ago when it was still nice and black.

I have a long chin so without the fuzz I look a bit like Stan Laurel. So I'll just have to make my peace with being a walking cliché.

Hm...that is something about Steve Jobs. Even though I'm a Mac user I haven't paid much attention lately.

It would be wrong to cover up my classic good looks.:p

I had a full beard, which eventually got grey, for 30 years or so. Now the requisite goatee.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/tomfrady/fadecircle.png

I've had a moustache since, almost, childhood. Last few goatees I've grown I come out looking like a grizzled old coot (fit in well, here) and my students laugh, point, draw pictures of me.....just isn't worth it.

Has anybody noticed, those that still need to go to a barbershop, how over the years the hair falling onto the apron in front of you has gone from dark to increasingly gray. For me, it's been a life-clock. At one time it was all black. In terms of color, pubic hair has been my most faithful and steadfast friend over the years...

I've had a beard since my college days, and probably a decade ago switched over to a goatee because I thought it was more interesting. Been that way ever since. At first the graying was interpreted as a sign of distinction, and then it was simply old age. My hair has been graying for a LONG time; the good news is I still have most of it and probably always will. I've tried going clipless (oops, I mean beardless) and hate the shaving too much!

http://www.pbase.com/digitalgee/image/60554372/medium.jpg

My husband has a gray goatee. He often threatens to shave it off because it tickles him, and he thinks it makes him look like a criminal, LOL.

When I shaved off my full beard I was suddenly 10 years younger. Just a thought ...

I am sporting a beard that I keep trimmed short. Someone referred to it as salt and pepper, although there is more salt than pepper. If you feel the need to see pictures...you can find some in Beverly's thread titled "Louis and Beverly do XOBA".

I've had my 1/2" beard since the mid 80's. It is now turning mostly grey. I'm only 52 but it gets me senior discounts at the ice cream shop. I refuse to shave it, or trim it to a goatee because so many others have goatees and I'm a rebel.

When I shaved off my full beard I was suddenly 10 years younger. Just a thought ...

That USED to work for me too.Now it's kind of a wash.

Got one myself. My hair has no gray, but my beard gives me away. I'd shave, but my wife likes it.

So, all we have heard about are the 50+ men. Are any of the 50+ women sporting gray goatees?

Okay, yeah I do.

Gotta a problem with that?

And I did not even bother growing a goatee until it was well and truly Grey.

I mean I could have... my hair started turning when I was around Twenty Five.

I guess that means I was pre-destined to be a 50+er.

Now a moustache: I've had those forever, but; I met the little woman (running for cover) one Week when I had shaved it off to give the old mug a rest. It was Ten Years before SWMBO let me grow it back (or I put my foot down.. can't remember..).

First a soul patch appeared and met with SWMBO's approval. From there it was just a matter of sneaking the rest of the *ahem* package back on the canvas so to speak.

Long story short: I'm not sure she cares that much anymore. Is that a good thing? Probably not.

I need a beer.

;)

I have worn a full beard, trimmed to about 1.5 to 2 cm length, for 36 years. For the past few years I admit to fortnightly use of a beard-and-mustache dye because my facial hair is graying faster than the rest.

I've had a beard since my college days, and probably a decade ago switched over to a goatee because I thought it was more interesting. Been that way ever since. At first the graying was interpreted as a sign of distinction, and then it was simply old age. My hair has been graying for a LONG time; the good news is I still have most of it and probably always will. I've tried going clipless (oops, I mean beardless) and hate the shaving too much!

http://www.pbase.com/digitalgee/image/60554372/medium.jpg

I understand all that. But why are you so small and so black and what is that horrible thing your a crawling on?

WHy battle ingrown hairs if you can have outgrown hairs?

Another woman who does not want to scar the kids.
I did have this conversation with a four year old once:

HER: Why is some of your hair white?
ME: I really don't know.
HER: I know. Maybe it is just because you are getting old.

I understand all that. But why are you so small and so black and what is that horrible thing your a crawling on?

:fight:

I've been bearded for nearly thirty years though I went down from the full beard to the goatee about 8 years ago. I was nearly all gray by my mid thirties , so the beard was graying almost at inception .

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I've been sporting the look for just a little over a year now. Took the plunge when I did a face-plant after being hit by a pickup truck back on April 30, 2006. I had stitches on my chin and my upper lip was pretty messed up for a while and I couldn't shave. There's still scarring in both places. The moustache covers the lip while the goatee covers the one on my chin. My wife and kids decided they liked it and I haven't shaved it off yet.

My mustache makes it hard to drink from a glass. Is that just me? I try to keep my face shaved, but I don't try hard enough. Right now I have about three weeks growth which will be a ***** to remove when I get around to it.

I've had a mustache forever, it seems. Mrs SKT and I started dating 30 years ago and she's never seen my lip. Keeps saying something about "Grounds for divorce" so I just leave that one alone. A few years ago, I added a goat -it had color then- and whacked it off after a couple of years and then, after a year of that, grew it back, with less color. I've had it ever since. I don't grow a great beard -must be the Indian ancestry- but 3 years ago, I added some sideburns and something along the jaw line. After some care and feeding, it looks pretty good but I wouldn't write home about it. I've been thinking of going back to a goatee. Oh, and sometimes, I color it :eek:

My work requires that I wear a breathing mask. No goatees allowed.

Does this count?

In terms of color, pubic hair has been my most faithful and steadfast friend over the years...

Like I said before, this thread is useless without PICS! :eek: :D

Tee hee...

Used to wear braids in my beard in the 70's. I cannot wear a beard where I work. I have to be able to don respiratory protection at a moments notice. I am also on the fire and rescue squad and breathing apparatus is required. If I could sport facial hair it would be full face. Not the little goatee. Just sayin, if you can grow the hair grow it, all of it.

Like I said before, this thread is useless without PICS! :eek: :D

Tee hee...

And like I said before, sometimes CrossChain offers just a little TMI!!! :D

Being one who is among the facial-hair challenged, I tried to grow a goatee many years ago. It never filled in properly and one of my niecelettes, as a small child, remarked to my face, that it made me look like a goat. End of the goatee experiment.

No beard, but when I bought a fishing license several months ago at the state G & F off ice she put down under hair color GREY! I was a bit shocked about that but got a laugh out of it.
This evening I bought a fishing license at an Indian reserve 40 miles south of here and the young native American girl looked at me about three times and wrote something down. I was curious but didn't look at it till I was out in the car where I gave it to my wife to look! She laughed half the way home till I begged her to tell me and threatened to make her walk home! This time - - SILVER!
So if I had a goatee I guess it would be SILVER!

I've been sporting the look for just a little over a year now. Took the plunge when I did a face-plant after being hit by a pickup truck back on April 30, 2006. I had stitches on my chin and my upper lip was pretty messed up for a while and I couldn't shave. There's still scarring in both places. The moustache covers the lip while the goatee covers the one on my chin. My wife and kids decided they liked it and I haven't shaved it off yet.

Here is a pic of two handsome guys one with goatee and the other without. SteveE and I at Peets...I am on the right - no goatee.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/rallen94402/RichStevePeetsSmall.jpg

http://images.photos.walmart.com/232323232%7Ffp34%3Dot%3E2328%3D52%3C%3D%3B56%3DXROQDF%3E232367786%3A54%3Aot1lsi

Even when I had a mustache, my chin was clean shaven. Now, the mustache is gone, too.

EDIT: Photo added.

http://www.spinnerbaker.com/bud/images/nimbus1.jpg

Use to wear a beard in winter. Once is started going white I gave it up, just not a good look on me.

A picture, FWIW. Taken sometime prior to April of this year. Hm... amazing how paunchy I look.

http://home.comcast.net/~96omi/Happy_Guy.jpg

No goatee, no grey either.