A goatee is a versatile facial hair style that can fit many face shapes. However, to achieve the optimal effect for you and your face, you must understand how to groom a goatee properly to ensure it flatters perfectly.
An attractive goatee should look neat, and regular trimming will help it to retain its form.
Chin Hair
Most men have light facial hair, known as “peach fuzz,” while thicker and darker growth can occur due to hormonal fluctuations (hirsutism). Women may also experience this problem due to conditions like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which can lead to weight gain, irregular periods, acne breakouts, fertility problems, and excessive facial hair growth.
Appropriately grown goatees can add an elegant charm to any face and emphasize your jawline. There are various styles available; the Van Dyke goatee is named for 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck while Chin Puff mimics its class but with less facial hair under the mouth and has narrow lines of facial hair below.
Full goatees offer another striking style option, connecting mustache, soul patch, and chin hair into an elegant circle around your mouth for an eye-catching appearance. Regular grooming of this style is essential in maintaining crisp lines – an electric beard trimmer such as Brio Beardscape with zero blades is recommended to achieve this result.
Cheek Hair
Some styles, like the classic goatee and full beard, require intensive grooming and can lead to skin issues like itchiness or dryness if not correctly taken care of. Furthermore, parts of your face that define a beard grow slower with more sensitive skin than usual and could develop razor bumps or ingrown hairs if left neglected.
One solution to this dilemma is using a beard clipper or Zero-Blade to trim facial hair around the chin, helping you achieve shape without irritating your skin. Regularly applying beard oil or balm will keep facial hair healthy and moisturized.
For an enhanced formal look, pair your goatee with mustaches, soul patches, and goatees for a striking, swaggering look similar to celebrities like Kanye West, Brad Pitt, and Guy Fieri.
Mustache
At puberty, males typically start developing mustache hair due to increased androgen production, leading to thicker, darker, fuzzier mustaches on their upper lips. This phenomenon is usually exacerbated by increased androgen production, which stimulates more androgens and increases androgen hormone production, which causes thicker, darker, and fuzzier mustaches on men’s upper lips.
Mustaches have traditionally been seen as symbols of masculinity and strength; today, however, as society shifts the perceptions of what defines a man, men may find that showing off their mustaches less desirable than before.
Wahl trimmers make it easy to achieve any goatee style imaginable, and these styles include Chin Puffs (a small puff of facial hair growing below the lower lip), Landing Strips, Sparrows sported by Frank Zappa himself, and Full Goatees or Circle Beards that connect mustache and soul patch into a defined frame around your mouth.
Soul Patch
Soul patches are tiny tufts of hair that appear beneath your lip, usually growing out from underneath it and growing broader or narrower, depending on their position. Although they vary in width and style, all are regularly trimmed to look purposeful and intentional.
The style gained widespread acclaim during the 1950s and ’60s among jazz musicians, beatnik artists, and other counterculture members – Dizzy Gillespie was particularly well known for wearing this look known as jazz dab or dot beard.
While some individuals wear soul patches alone, most pair them with a goatee, which includes a mustache and chin hair. Maintaining your beard to complement the length of your soul patch will create the most flattering look; men with more extended soul patches can pair them with sideburns that taper at their upper ends for an unmistakably bold and confident appearance – regular trimming will keep them from growing wide or bushy.
