Gen Z has brought back dumb '70s porn mustaches, and Millennials brought back gross scraggly Civil War beards. What ill-advised facial hair was Gen X responsible for? | TheaterFire

Gen Z has brought back dumb '70s porn mustaches, and Millennials brought back gross scraggly Civil War beards. What ill-advised facial hair was Gen X responsible for?

Posted by IchBinDurstig@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1280 comments

Oh, man, it's goatees, isn't it?

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thebronzeprince@reddit

Van Dyke. I’m holding onto it until I lose at least 20 more pounds, and minimize my weak chin

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404LeadsNotFound@reddit

It was supposed to be mutton chops, but I think they all skipped that.

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ComprehensivePeanut5@reddit

The soul patch. The goatee.

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thebronzeprince@reddit

Your mama has an interesting past, I see

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EddieKroman@reddit

Sorry, our generation is responsible for goatees. I hated them,

I tried to grow a beard when it started to become fashionable. It came in grey, white, blonde, red, and brown. With bald spots. I looked like a calico cat with mange.

Needless to say I’m still clean shaven.

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STYLIE@reddit

The goatee was what our elementary school principal had and you wouldn’t be caught dead with one of those giant beards or you’d look like the local scout master

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Connor51501@reddit

the goatee

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Extension_Chart2641@reddit

The soul patch 😂

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Different-Step-4600@reddit

Still got mine

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scope6262@reddit

Me too! And I’m keeping the soul patch.

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ProperBar4339@reddit

My husband still has his, too!

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HazelGinny@reddit

I can’t see a goatee and moustache as anything but a vagina with teeth. I hate them SO MUCH!!

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Dreemsi@reddit

Guilty

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don_teegee@reddit

Head shaved on one side and long in the front. That’s what I was sporting.

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harpejjist@reddit

Who is responsible for man buns?

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Full_Equipment_1958@reddit

Go fucking tees! A very worn out fashion for men.

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Itchy-Mechanic-1479@reddit

Men with pierced ears.

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freerangeXkid@reddit

No matter how long the trend continues I'm still always confused when I see a younger gen with a porn stache. It confounds me. The only three who pulled off the mustache even back then was Magnum PI, The Bandit, and my dad (a career Naval officer who my mom thought looked like Tom Selleck so he grew it out lol)

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monstermashslowdance@reddit

You forgot about firefighters.

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RandomWarthog79@reddit

Probably goatees. Thank god I can't grow facial hair. Putting aside the disgusting soup-strainer aspect, I dunno how you guys walk around with that shit on your face.

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PlanktonPlane5789@reddit

I rock a full beard and only shave my upper cheeks on the either side of my nose. Even then I just use clippers to get it "close enough", I rarely actually use a razor. I'm GenX but I only do it this way because shaving on a daily basis is a god-damned chore and who has time for that?! 🤣

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RandomWarthog79@reddit

To be fair, I hear that. If I had to shave more than once or twice a week, I'd probably have bearded up decades ago out of sheer laziness.

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phillyphilly19@reddit

So much facial hair hate here.

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bankrobbery@reddit

For real. Growing different kinds of facial hair is fun. So what?

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ejfordphd@reddit

I had some rockabilly mutton chops for an embarrassingly long time.

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DeadlyDannyRay@reddit

As did I because I was born in 1973.

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LlamaLlamaSomePajama@reddit

The soul patch

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rrooaaddiiee@reddit

I called it a 'blues chip' because it seemed a little cooler. It wasn't.

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MissGoldie71@reddit

We had a combination of the two. Plus men having perms.

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deluxeok@reddit

perms are back

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Revolutionary_Lie199@reddit

Sideburns

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wolfgeist@reddit

Goatees, especially the long ones, combined with the soul patch

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2nd2lastdragon@reddit

the mid-length sideburn was popular when 90210 aired

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levianan@reddit

This is worthy of every upvote.

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arno14@reddit

Ton Sur Ton sweat shirts. This was a big thing in Amsterdam in the 80’s. I believe it was a French brand.

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arno14@reddit

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sunblossom6868@reddit

Party in the back and business in the front!

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bbonerz@reddit

Finally nailed it after way too much scrolling.

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Lucky574-3867@reddit

I had a gen x boyfriend with a 70's porn mustache and it was adorable. Very clever of these kids to pull that one back out. Girls loved this guy. We dated &I would have wanted him forever but he wanted this girl who was crazy gifted and started her own computer company. He himself was a contractor pothead. Didn't matter to her. Unfortunately he fell victim to heroin chic and the heroin fillers gave him cancer.

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bbonerz@reddit

This sounds like a Black Mirror episode.

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thereverendpuck@reddit

The stupid thing is, the chin and mustache connection isn’t a goatee. It’s a van dyke. A goatee is just the hair on the chin.

Almost as dumb as mistaking actual fedoras (what Indiana Jones wore) and trilbies (what the m’lady cringelords wore).

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Ravenloff@reddit

Hey...you lost van dyke. I lost decimate and sentient. We just have to get past it.

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tomcat_tweaker@reddit

Decimate hurts. I'd also like to pour one out for penultimate.

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Ravenloff@reddit

Penultimate still means the same thing, no? Are the heathens using it instead of ultimate!?!

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tomcat_tweaker@reddit

Oh, yes. Penultimate means more ultimate now.

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Ravenloff@reddit

Shudder to imagine that coming up in a conversation with someone you thought was interesting up to to that point. Why, it would be like hearing then utter acrosst or irregardless, or, nay, even expecially...

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bbonerz@reddit

What

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Ravenloff@reddit

https://youtu.be/-WLwm5yNBEc?si=fK2-UZZdVAR5mnHn

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Silver_Breakfast7096@reddit

Joe Dirt has entered the chat. Along with his rare tail friend. Big hair mouse head.

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mjk67@reddit

A friend has had a soul patch for awhile. There are times I want to slap him silly

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GenXrules69@reddit

Did the soul patch a few months ago. I have had internal discussions

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Playful_Question538@reddit

Heading to shave the soul patch as we speak!

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Ravenloff@reddit

Goatees, no question.

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jjillf@reddit

Soul patch = “tinker pubes”

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Select-Pie6558@reddit

Mullets, “rat tail” in back

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Wakeful-dreamer@reddit

My boomer uncle still to this day wears a permed mullet. He's a white 70yo trying to look like Lionel Richie.

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jkepros@reddit

🤣

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the_real_Beavis999@reddit

During covid we had a zoom meeting and this guy at work shows up on screen with a Flanders mustache. I was laughing so hard, and glad I had my camera off. He still has it to this day. I see him in the office and have to bite my cheek not to laugh out loud. Don't know why it's just so funny..

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shadowstar36@reddit

I still rock a goatee. Have since the late 90s. Also had a mullet as a kid for a year or two (don't tell anyone, it was 1986/87 come on). Then had split part mid length hair and unbuttoned flannels. It was the early 90s.

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rando_calrissian79@reddit

This is similar to my hair journey. I also had a fauxhawk for a few years at the turn of the 90s). I still have a goatee because I don't like a full beard and my face looks really weird without facial hair (I'm bald too).

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redsfan-@reddit

It’s not a goatee it’s a Van Dyke, goatee is without a mustache

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Different-Try8882@reddit

The ‘shaved three days ago’ stubble.

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New-Possession-9248@reddit

I'm still rocking it

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boondoggler@reddit

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Critical_Purple_8600@reddit

I think I knew a guy who was a book keeper for this ugly tie dyed sweater company. NYC - mid-late 90s

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boondoggler@reddit

That was me

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Critical_Purple_8600@reddit

Steve?!

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shadowstar36@reddit

Anyone rember seeing kids with lightning bolts shaved in their hair (they must of been mellenials as I don't recall any friends with that.)

How about rat tails. There was mullets and then rat tails were just a small strand in the back.

What about the side shaved/undershave with long hair and pulled back in a ponytail? Seen a few of teens with those in the early 90s.

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AhrinEss@reddit

Yes, goatees and soul patches, but remember the RAT TAILS? 🤮

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JenLiv36@reddit

Oh those are back lol. I can’t believe it.

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adudeguyman@reddit

Every time I see somebody with a rat tail I want to sneak up behind them and snip it off and do them a favor

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Individual_Umpire969@reddit

I know someone whose girlfriend’s cat chewed off his rat tail during the night.

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adudeguyman@reddit

That cat is a hero

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augustwestgdtfb@reddit

goatees

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Oddfellow1five1@reddit

The fucking goatee; for dudes who can grow a real beard.

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BackJaded1891@reddit

I always loved goatees on men. Gives them the air of being trouble even if they arent.

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shadowstar36@reddit

I knew it worked for a reason... Although I really am trouble. My wife must like them too.

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periodmoustache@reddit

I think u meant "for dudes who CANT grow a real beard"

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Oddfellow1five1@reddit

Yes dammit. Thanks for catching that haha.

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OkString3194@reddit

Nose hairs

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BigNastyQ1994@reddit

ear hair would work as well

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AdEastern9303@reddit

Goatee. Back in like 1994, after getting back from a deployment, a bunch of us went on leave and went back to see our families for a week. Upon everyone’s return, we all met out at the bar. There were like 6 of us. One dude looks at all of us and says “would the real lead singer for The Smithereens” please stand up.

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SuspiciousTop3520@reddit

Chin straps 😆

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DummBee1805@reddit

Yeah the boy band manicured chin strap deserves a mention.

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AzureGriffon@reddit

My brother had one for a bit. Said he was “rockin’ an Amish”.

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RaisedEyebr0w@reddit

NGL - on the right face a chin strap can look pretty great.

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Cold_in_Lifes_Throes@reddit

Mullet unfortunately

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Ill_Painter5868@reddit

The Soul patch "ponytail" is the gen x facial hair final both

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PansophicNostradamus@reddit

Lamb chop side burns

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Tall-Yard-407@reddit

The soul patch/flavor saver.

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spinners_888@reddit

You stroked your goatee style beard when listening to trip hop

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sedwardcarr@reddit

Mutton Chops.

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NotDougMasters@reddit

I saw a definite genX’r rocking chops this morning. I’m quite sure it was unironically.

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Wurstb0t@reddit

I have full beard and sometimes think about mutton chops and then say, nah I don’t think so

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SugarMagnolia_75@reddit

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Ricochetpinecone@reddit

My husband had a soul patch when we met. LMAO, no. 🤣

That was immediately replaced by a full on beard. 🤌

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thecrowsallhateyou@reddit

I was about to post soul patch 🤣🤣🤣

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wstussyb@reddit

I was guilty of the gotee....I hate my chin, one night in 91 or 92 I was watching Married with children and behold it was the episode thay the son grew one. I was 16/17 so it took a couple weeks, around 46 I just went full beard. My chin has not been shaved since the night that episode premiered.

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anchises868@reddit

I keep a mustache and goatee (unconnected at the sides) when I don’t have a beard. I’ve shaved my chin exactly four times in the two decades since I got out of the Navy. The last time I did it was around the start of 2025 and each one of my kids (teenagers) told me I had to grow it back. My 19yo said I looked like an alien.

And so there may never be a fifth time.

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Dick7Powell@reddit

Guilty. Rocked the Amish chin beard for a long time.

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thisgirlnamedbree@reddit

For black men, flat tops. Like Kidd from Kidd N' Play. You could set a glass on top of his head.

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BaltimoreMayhem@reddit

That shit is still dope, for the brave.

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onedemtwodem@reddit

Soul patch

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The8thCorsair@reddit

Lot of people mentioning that. Is it soul patch and no other facial hair that everyone finds so objectionable?

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brazys@reddit

Guilty...had one in my late 20s- early 30s 😭

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Sissyface_210@reddit

Came here to say Soul Patch.... the Favor Savor...thought that they were cheesy at the time ( that opinion had Hardened over time!), but didn't stop me from dating a few dudes that had them 😂😜

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ActionableStupidity@reddit

flavor…

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hondo9999@reddit

Flavour-saver

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mrsroperscaftan@reddit

SOUL PATCH EEWWW

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Artistic-Degree-4593@reddit

I like goatees! Lol, everyone here is hating on them.

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smkultraa@reddit

My husband has a goatee and I love it lol. I prefer it to a full beard because it allows his chiseled jawline to shine. Rawr!

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Artistic-Degree-4593@reddit

Right? Lol

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Rude_Sir5964@reddit

I love a goatee. you know what they say: beards are just push-up bras for men

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SnappyDogDays@reddit

I love mine. Wife won't let me shave it off.

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buadach2@reddit

Mullets!

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Burlington-bloke@reddit

I had a goatee and a soul patch and I'm only 45😭

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Sea_Power_3594@reddit

Please don't bring the "goatie" back.

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mr_oof@reddit

Rat tails!

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linkmantaray@reddit

Most men I see with one are hanging on to when they had long hair while having an office job. I suppose they think it’s a little edgy, too.

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Lydelia_Moon@reddit

Those were terrible.

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jwezorek@reddit

there was a big sideburns craze around '92 that lasted pretty much the rest of the decade.

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one99uouttaurmind@reddit

Lamb chops!

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TractorFan247@reddit

I call them The Elvis.

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putdowntheinternet@reddit

Soul patch

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MountainSituation-i@reddit

Landing strip to give it the rightful douchy name.

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Lydelia_Moon@reddit

No. It's a soul patch. The landing strip is a strip of hair left from the top of the vulva to the top of the mons about an inch or so wide on women. 😂

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Whichammer@reddit

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Back_Meet_Knife@reddit

The Goatee. Made every guy’s face look like an anus.

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palmoyas@reddit

And a lot of people are still rocking it. I cringe every time I see it.

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Emotional_Mess261@reddit

Boomers. I’m a social worker who works with Vietnam veterans and married a boomer. I’ll say 93% of Vietnam vets rock the goatee. Guess younger GenXers brought it back

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theDagman@reddit

I blame Mirror Universe Mr. Spock. Everyone thought it was cool to go with the evil twin look.

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AdorableImportance71@reddit

Mullets

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StandingDave@reddit

I blame Morgan Wallen for all of this

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Cuzzin_Todd@reddit

This is obviously the answer. Even though I never had one and there are no (surviving) photos to prove otherwise.

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ShellyLovesTacos@reddit

Definitely the soul patch, although the goatee is definitely a close second.

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ZweitenMal@reddit

The Van Dyke and the soul patch.

My very Gen X ex hums and is currently sporting a handlebar mustache for some insane reason. It’s 2026, not 1880, Jason.

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Shango-s_Daughter@reddit

The handlebar is often popular with firefighters.

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wakattawakaranai@reddit

I feel like GenX and millennials have to fight it out (in "no, U!" style) over who was responsible for the handlebar stache and viking beard over the past 20 years, because it sure wasn't genZ doing that yet.

...in my circle I'll be honest it was GenX Rennies who led the charge. That Guy From LARP who was definitely born in the mid-70s like me.

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Zestyclose_Media_548@reddit

My 20 year old son has the mustache - I can’t say the p word in reference to my kid but his dad can and laughs every time.

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

Also have a 20 year old with a stache.

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Zestyclose_Media_548@reddit

Does yours also have baseball hair?

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Comesontoostrong@reddit

You can’t say porn in front of your adult child?

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Zestyclose_Media_548@reddit

Not what I said . I swear like a sailor and have no difficulty saying porn - I just don’t want to describe HIS mustache that way. I know he’s an adult in college and I mind my own business about all the things I need to. I just am not able to put those two words together when I’m talking about him.

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Practical_Clue_2707@reddit

I would. My 30 year old son and have that sort of picking relationship. I flat out something like my man, what’s with the porn stash? He would say something like mom don’t be gross. It’s not called that anymore.

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kimberletto@reddit

My 34 year old is sporting one. I think it’s kinda cool because it makes him look just like his cool great uncle!

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sedwardcarr@reddit

Mennonite Beard. I still wear one sometimes.

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pilfro@reddit

Style itself has hardly changed since 2000s. Watch a TV show like the office and see if Jim looks like someone from 20 years ago. Now look at difference between 1990 and 1985.
So if this generation is wearing the stache at least it's something different.

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Chance-Mycologist-94@reddit

Lamb chops

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FullMetal_55@reddit

definitely the soul patch... goatees are cool...

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

Ghotees haven’t been cool in a long time friend.

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SmokedLimburger@reddit

I disagree. Mine hides 2 of my 3 chins and Constance almost nothing to maintain.

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Sarsmi@reddit

Constance

that autocorrect be wild

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SmokedLimburger@reddit

Sure is. Was supposed to be “Cost”

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sour_altoids@reddit

Soul patch 100x cooler than goatee

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bigtex_1008@reddit

Man buns are way more offensive to me than any facial hair.

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johnysmoke@reddit

Makes me want to commit violence every time I see one.

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sabreus@reddit

Millennials didn’t bring back facial hair it was already there. We perfected beard options. The gross beards is from a particular careless subculture.

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FlatSixFun@reddit

I kind of miss the hipster look. Not that I partook, I was 10-15 years too old for it. But it feels like the last time there was a cohesive fashion/style movement. Everything since has felt sloppy and lacking any kind of cohesion. Probably as the result of the fracturing of a monoculture. I’m sorry, but wearing sweatpants/pajamas/slippers out and about is not a good look.

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sabreus@reddit

Oh 100%… Its a bit sloppy to say the least lol

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Disastrous-Rhubarb-2@reddit

Totally goatees.

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aracauna@reddit

Goatees and sideburns.

Although it seems like as we aged, we either let the rest of the beard grow in or went clean shaven.

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pepe74@reddit

I didn't know what to do with my sideburns like 18 years ago when they were dying out so the easiest solution was to go full beard and not worry anymore.

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neetzer74@reddit

Mullets. And I’m seeing younger folks wearing them, much to my utter dismay

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bemenaker@reddit

My 7 year old rocks one

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KarmicWhiplash@reddit

That's on you!

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bemenaker@reddit

It was his sister that talked him into it. I tried to prevent this. He looks cute though

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

There’s someone I work with who has a mullet and a stupid looking mustache he looks like he got stuck in the 80s and would he right at home going to a GNR concert at a hockey arena. I always have go hold in a laugh every time I see him.

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WarpedCore@reddit

This made me laugh as I pictured a mullet on someone's face. I'm sure some younger generation will attempt it!

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lrpage1066@reddit

My first thought was the mullet and the rat tail. But the post was facial hair

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neetzer74@reddit

Whoops realized this asked about facial hair!

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curiousme123456@reddit

Goatees or the longer scraggly hair on guys. Of course there was the big hair on women. Go back to the 70’s they had their look to

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Constant_Coconut7562@reddit

Soul patch

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Phantomswan@reddit

I’ve had one since 2001

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perseidot@reddit

I’m so sorry. There’s help.

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jarofgoodness@reddit

Sideburns, goatee, and soul patch. All of which looked cool along with the clothes and hairstyles of the time. We did it right, the other generations were cheesy.

By the way a current micro trend is the half beard. This is like the Amish do where you shave your upper lip and neck, but leave a slight beard along the jawline. Looks cool.

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Adaminium@reddit

The C. Everatt Koop

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perseidot@reddit

Considering RFK, I’m nostalgic for old C. Everett.

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haydoselefantes@reddit

For all the latest medical poop

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Queasy-Finish676@reddit

Chin strap

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InsertRadnamehere@reddit

Does NOT look cool.

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SkyerKayJay1958@reddit

Kody Brown of Sister Wives has been sporting this for 10 years on TV

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ThrowawayAdvice1800@reddit

The soul patch. Very poor decision on my part.

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arlenroy@reddit

I refused to give mine up until a year ago, only facial hair not grey. Well, I grew a porn stache, so the patch with the stache ain't that bad a look. At least I hope not.

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buttfirstcoffee@reddit

Porn staches and hockey hair. The mullet might be in there as well

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Ambitious-Break4234@reddit

And Asymmetrical bobs

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BE33_Jim@reddit

The Karen

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one99uouttaurmind@reddit

Please no

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BE33_Jim@reddit

The short asymmetrical Bob is the Karen cut for sure. Like the Kate+8 lady.

Would the Rachel be GenX?

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Ambitious-Break4234@reddit

No. Like Ajai Sanders in A different World or Vanessa Huxtable in the Cosby Show. Or stacked like Spinderella

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perseidot@reddit

I can see both the Vanessa and the Rachel being viable contenders.

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one99uouttaurmind@reddit

Yes, the Rachel!

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

Gen Z also wants to bring back the tramp stamp.

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perseidot@reddit

Perhaps Gen X should start modeling what our generation’s tramp stamps look like now.

That might discourage Gen Z from getting them. 😂

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SuchDogeHodler@reddit

Does anyone remember rat-tails.

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QueenMabs_Makeup0126@reddit

I live in PA and they’re still seen here.

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gleefullystruckbycc@reddit

Also in Pa and yes, especially in central Pa where I live! Mullets have also come back around here too, very unfortunately.

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QueenMabs_Makeup0126@reddit

Yep, I’m in Central PA too! Mullets, mall rat hair, and rat tails never went out of style here.

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Brilliant-Ad8607@reddit

Having a rat tail gets you a free hot dog at Acrisure stadium during Steelers games. It would explain the tens of thousands of them there.

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NateNMaxsRobot@reddit

In high school, my brother rocked the Flock of Seagulls hairstyle with a rat tail.

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Puzzleheaded-Sun-390@reddit

Had a friend use his to meet girls. He would ask them to braid his rat tail, got phone numbers about 2/3 of the time.

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

And duck tails which I guess is now just a mullet

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mizzlefa@reddit

Mutton chop side burns

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lylaswancrafter@reddit

The point starches make me ill, I was born in the 70s and just hated facial hair

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throttledog@reddit

We had rat tails, fauxhawks, mohawks and mullets. And the zipperhead. Almost forgot the part in the middle and wings like Luke Skywalker. Zip-lines in fades started in the 80’s LA. My prediction, short mullets and wings again. Like Joe Dirt or Luke Skywalker for the new yoots

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

Totally had a mullet after I got out of the Army in 1987. I my defense, I was not alone!

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throttledog@reddit

I had a rough cowlicked Skywalker until 17 when a barber told me my part was on the right, and proceeded to change my hairstyle. I was po’d until an older cheerleader dragged me into a closet at a party two weeks later. A year later it was all shaved off in boot. Now that sucked but It grew back after 6 years😁

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

Yeah, I was in Ft Benning at 17. Hair, all but shaved off for 13 weeks. After that, I’d do a high and tight at least once a year. Otherwise, just regulation short.

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throttledog@reddit

Same we could go to a regulation cut at mos school but no one dared. In reserves I’d just barely get enough cut to pass inspection and let it grow for a month before needing another. I think i was imitating Vanilla Ice, who once asked me where I got my hair cut at a gas station in 88 in a suburb of Dallas.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

LOL….i was Infantry. No way to be a long haired hippie freak like that in my world 😂

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lefthandb1ack@reddit

Yoots?

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throttledog@reddit

Watch “My Cousin Vinny” 😂

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Strict_Emu5187@reddit

Rat tails!🤣🤣 I had one🤦🏼‍♀️

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Stucco_x@reddit

“I’ll advised”? Man. What’s wrong with facial hair? Grow that Civil War thing if you want. Life is too short to deny yourself such basic appearance matters. Just don’t be stinky.

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Sarsmi@reddit

Saw some nasty goatees in my time. My ex husband (who is an amazing person don't get me wrong) did a thing where he had a goatee, and he had the side hair going up towards where the moustache would be, but had no moustache. I don't know why. I never asked him, but it irked.

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Great-Tical-Returns@reddit

There was a bit about it in Orlando Portlandia. "Chin beards are OVER!"

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WildesWay@reddit

I don't think GenX had a facial hair thing, outside of peach fuzz mustaches. We brought in Feathered Hair (now called layered) for sure.

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Cautious_Agent4781@reddit

Goatee with a side of soul patch.

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Remmy555@reddit

God, how can they not know those mustaches look abominable?

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DifficultyNeat4520@reddit

That's why it's called a TRASH STASH.

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sfdsquid@reddit

Rat tails and mullets

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LordDarthAngst@reddit

I’m not sure about facial hair. We did have the mullet.

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kimberletto@reddit

I (59F) am rocking a mullet! Full disclosure: it’s only because I can’t afford a haircut. My hair has recently grown back after illness and medication, and it’s much thicker and curlier. I’d cut it myself but I don’t want to look like a poodle. Long story short, I must, in good conscience, reserve judgment on the mulleted ones walking around right now.

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Greenearthgirl87@reddit

I didn’t know anyone with a soul patch. I knew 4 people that wore sideburns, two were boomers, and two were born in the late years of the boomer age. I don’t know of any GenX with sideburns. The rat tail and mens perms/mullets are def GenX. I can see the mullet coming back in some way.

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Difficult-Sir-8117@reddit

It's already back. I see tons of younger guys with it now

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arno14@reddit

Mullets. We grew up right through the mullet years.

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Mtlkfn@reddit

Mullets have been pushing a moderate comeback.

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Temporary-Win4307@reddit

In some regions the mullet never left.

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

I read this as “religion”

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tinypill@reddit

I tried SO HARD to get my fiancé to grow a mullet during the pandemmy. “Come on, nobody is even gonna see it!!!” He refused. 😹

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Cold-Inside-6828@reddit

I’m rocking a mullet right now. Feels like I’ve come home.

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Mtlkfn@reddit

AWESOME!

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tjautobot11@reddit

Was at a kids baseball tournament last weekend and saw more mullets in one place than I could have imagined. And it’s the kids not even the parents. Though one kid had a perfect Kenny powers mullet.

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Mtlkfn@reddit

Yea, I noticed the exactly same at my kid's soccer matches. I guess these types of events are a decent bellwether.

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LiquidSoCrates@reddit

Mullet while riding a two stroke dirt bike in 1987? Take me back!!!

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thorneparke@reddit

I can smell the exhaust in the air...

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InevitableCodeRedo@reddit

Goatees. I rocked one for a big chunk of the 90's.

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Awkward-Put854@reddit

I don’t like those beards without a mustache. They’re weird.

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

I think by weird you mean Amish?

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wurmsalad@reddit

I was complaining about these mustaches the other day to my husband but millennial man buns and beards were awful in their own right

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

I love a mustache. I like a healthy man bun.

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Remarkable-Hawkeye@reddit

If the mullet comes back, that happened on our watch.

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

The mullet is back. It’s been back. It’s never leaving again.

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Blue4668@reddit

Too late

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Cyphermoon699@reddit

Oh, it's already back. My zoomer lashes technician finds them very attractive and shows me photos. 😂

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Sir_UlrichVonL@reddit

It’s been back. I see elementary age boys with mullets all the time.

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kperry1270@reddit

Goatees fo sho

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JohnyWhoops@reddit

Goatee is awesome, fight me.

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TheHappiestTeapot@reddit

I'm with you. Fight us.

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RefrigeratorFuture34@reddit

My husband is always experimenting with facial hair variations, and since he is balding, I support him having hair options where he can. Do it!

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

I'm good with goatees. Soul patches can fuck right off though.

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PickaDillDot@reddit

Been rocking one for 30 years, but boy did I start with some scraggly versions. Took me a bit before I landed on a "design" that fit my face.

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Admirable-Currency89@reddit

It's goatees.

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Narrow-Accident-1136@reddit

Goatee. I still wear one

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Z_Opinionator@reddit

I can guess which shorts you pair with that Goatee. What's your cargo? What's your freight?

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Narrow-Accident-1136@reddit

I don’t wear shorts that often. If I’m wearing them on a job site I wear cargo shorts but if it’s casual it’s just regular shorts

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SteakAffectionate833@reddit

But we invented the mullet. Greatest ever

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UsedHotDogWater@reddit

and rat tails. Just awful...

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unofficialguero90210@reddit

I don't know if they were ill-advised, they just WERE.... Jason Priestly's sideburns. Over one summer, it went from no one having sideburns, to everyone having sideburns.

The soul patch, I think, definitely qualifies as ill-advised

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Infamous-Course4019@reddit

The “Flavour Saver”

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DJFlorez@reddit

That soul patch. Dear lord.

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tacosandtheology@reddit

Younger Xers started the moustaches in the 90s....

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Sudden_Leadership800@reddit

Yeah, but then everyone older with a moustache started to get associated with paedophiles and it stopped

Same with shell suits and mullets

Not really sure why the trend has come back personally

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tacosandtheology@reddit

I've been at a college campus in NorCal since the 90s. I don't know if I ever saw a term without at last some student rockin' the 70s stache.

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largos7289@reddit

Dude the mullet, 90's was the goatee

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AboveGroundPoolQueen@reddit

I agree! I lived through the 80s. Goatee didn’t really start until the 90s. Maybe even a few years in.

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hypermark@reddit

I also lived through the 80s.

That shit was crazy.

Everybody wanted to know my name, bring the pain and pop the champagne.

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unabashedlyabashed@reddit

Sideburns. Also, that middle part bowl cut thing.

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Glitterbomb4274@reddit

Of the length of the sideburns in our youth was ridiculous. Lol

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IndgoViolet@reddit

Don't forget the dinky little ponytail guys used to wear at the nape of their necks. Like Wall Street traders wore them. So douchey.

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DevolvingSpud@reddit

Adult rat tails.

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MacaroonUpstairs7232@reddit

Side burns

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sweetmeats707@reddit

As a genx’er it has always been my commitment to never have a goatee. The cycle of douches stops here.

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Textiles_on_Main_St@reddit

It didn’t look good on anyone. I do a beard and have done a mustache but the goatee on me only saw a bathroom mirror. It looks terrible.

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MJGB714@reddit

Long sideburns

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Weak_Lettuce_9053@reddit

Goatees

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NeuroticaJonesTown@reddit

And their illegitimate love child, the chin landing strip. Good God, that was a terrible look.

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Timely-Youth-9074@reddit

Hitler mustache but for the crotch.

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EmmerdoesNOTrepme@reddit

Yep!!! This one!

(As opposed to the Chin-strap, which was the Millenials again!)

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Constant_Coconut7562@reddit

What about the monkey tail

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Squido85@reddit

No.... we're responsible for bringing back the VanDyke.....and mislabeling it the Goatee.

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eyeroll611@reddit

This is the answer

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BAMF2U@reddit

Rat tail is the answer

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Basic_Size7922@reddit

Soul patch. It can’t be the goatee.

I do hate the cop mustache. I work with a small branch of the military and every mustache looks like a porn stash to me. It’s not masculine either. Then they retire and try dumb shit like handle bars. In meetings they all touch and stroke their new beards like it’s a secret code. One combs it. Sometimes I’m afraid I rub my chin because eventually it’s made me crazy. Then I also do it just to get them to stop.

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chamrockblarneystone@reddit

To become a teacher in NY you have to film yourself teaching and mail it to the state. It’s a nightmare. I reccomend never watching it.

Anyway I got to see how annoying my thumb and forefinger beard rub must have been for my students.

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TexAzCowboy@reddit

Probably removing facial hair in order to look like little boys.

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OtterMumzy@reddit

Not facial hair but remember short hair with “the tail”? Even better bleached with peroxide. Boys and girls had them.

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Bookish_Kitty@reddit

Rat tails! My best friend (girl) had one for a while. It was… a choice.

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OtterMumzy@reddit

My boyfriend and I both had flock of seagulls short hair with tails in the back. My dad was not pleased

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colostomybagpiper@reddit

There was a girl in my photography class in 1984 who had a tail, and it was purple. Unlike every other person with a tail, she was super hot, the only person I ever saw that it ever looked good on. She looked like a punk rock pat benetar

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SLCIII@reddit

Rat tails and lighting bolts......the 80s and early 90s was a rad time to grow up 😂

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mndsm79@reddit

The chin strap. Chin strap and bleached tips.

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Psychlone23@reddit

It's not facial hair, but... the mullet.

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velexi125@reddit

Corn rows

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FAFO_Reporter@reddit

On white guys. Always white guys.

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jax9151210@reddit

Mutton chops were a thing I remember

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ZenRage@reddit

My ex BIL had mutton chops for a while.

I called him Chester A KickAss until he shaved them off.

I think that lasted two months.

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Automatic_Project388@reddit

I was just going to suggest we bring those back. It’s not too late for us to out-douche GenZ. Pretty sure I could grow some luxurious mutton chops now.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

Goatee/soul patch

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Yeti_Urine@reddit

Soul patch 100% and I was guilty at one point.

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Globeblotter85@reddit

Percent of men who have facial hair that actually looks good is less than 10 percent, and that is being generous.

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Quick-Exercise4575@reddit

The flavor saver

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Unusual_Memory3133@reddit

Stop hating on facial hair.

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LassieDear@reddit

It wasn't the facial hair, it was the AquaNet we almost destroyed the atmosphere with

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adudeguyman@reddit

I know someone that has so much of a coding of aquanet on their furniture near where they sprayed it in their bedroom, that you could see it like a layer of clear coat that's gone bad on a car

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

I know I did my part, Aqua-Net purple can, FOR MY MOHAWK.

But this is about facial hair.

Goatee for life, MOWHAWK ON MY FACE!

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JR_RXO@reddit

The 5 o’clock shadow

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zuuzuu@reddit

I remember when Miami Vice was popular you could buy special razors designed to give you five o'clock shadow. 'Twas a silly time.

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adudeguyman@reddit

Were those the ones that had gaps across the blade? Or am I thinking of razors for people that have bad acne or something?

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vinegar@reddit

The Miami Device ! The electric razor I got for my birthday had a little trimmer on it, good enough for my sparse early fuzz

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zuuzuu@reddit

Was it really called that? I knew it existed but I couldn't recall the name. That's hilarious!

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TheSwedishEagle@reddit

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zoeybeattheraccoon@reddit

I still have this. But I'm bald so I need some facial hair.

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axl3ros3@reddit

Flavor savor and goatee

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anthrax9999@reddit

70s porn mustache was super popular in the 2000s with the hipster crowd too. Every dude in skinny jeans, a black T-shirt, and shaggy hair was rocking one.

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PeanutTimely6846@reddit

Well, for hair, in general, GenX did champion the mullet and really the soul-patch and/or the goatee goes well (?) with this hairstyle.

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Orchid_Starting7968@reddit

Yep, it's goatees.

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freakrocker@reddit

37

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JasonMaggini@reddit

In a row?

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adudeguyman@reddit

In a row?

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tommyalanson@reddit

Yeah, I’ve got a goatee (not a Van Dyke) still. It’s white now too. Whatever.

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Bubbasteed@reddit

Agreed, I shaved mine off and I didnt like it so it will stay there forever. Fuck everyone else.

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tommyalanson@reddit

Same, shaved and hated it.

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Neat-Brother-6570@reddit

Yep, same here, I have tried full beard but I always come back to goatee

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Kokodhem@reddit

Same.

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freakrocker@reddit

I haven’t cut my hair or beard since 2018. I look like a rich homeless person. People don’t even know how to rationalize it… is he crazy? Is he famous? What the hell am I even seeing here?

It’s amazing.

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tvmediaguy@reddit

Gen X here… I had 90210 Sideburns as did every cool Kid at the time.

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Orchid_Starting7968@reddit

Riiiiight, forgot about those, BH 90210 really popularized them!

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bgroins@reddit

I tried, but couldn't grow them. I was not a cool kid at the time.

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backwards_susej@reddit

Flavor saver.

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dfjdejulio@reddit

Was the mullet not ours?

(Not that I wear one. The older I get, the more I look like Gandalf. A few more years and I'll be ready to airbrush onto the side of a van.)

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primeweevil@reddit

LoL you looked like Che Guevara less fun brother.

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dfjdejulio@reddit

Huh. Might not be impossible. I am half Cuban. (Birth father was born there.)

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colostitute@reddit

I’ve got the mustache going and I’m digging it. A whole lot less work than a full beard.

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kebesenuef42@reddit

I've worn a mustache for decades because I I have a thin upper lip, and I got tired of cutting myself there when I shaved because of that.

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DXWNWARD@reddit

Not facial but It's gonna be the epic bush, someone that somehow got famous because people keep reacting positive and negative and making dumb people famous, will somehow bring back the epic bush. We're gonna see gorilla's somehow coated in vasecline, sitting on a 12 tog carpet while enjoying charcuterie that was cooked to feed 12 people. And it will be in vogue.

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tinypill@reddit

Bro what

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PardonMyNerdity@reddit

Soul patch.

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MrPrimalNumber@reddit

Heeeeey nooooow…

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dottiefred@reddit

Drei-Tage-Bart

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HomoRainbow480@reddit

Asshair?

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stevemm70@reddit

I was team goatee starting in about `98. I didn't shave during a weeklong vacation, and toward the end of the week my beard got itchy, so I turned it into a goatee. When the pandemic hit, I grew it out into a scruffy short beard and have kept it ever since. On one drunken night I talked about shaving it off and my wife (also drunk) commented that it might make my face look fatter. She doesn't remember the comment but I do, so the beard stays until I die.

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Kershiser22@reddit

Yeah, but goatees were cool.

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Original_Scholar_272@reddit

If a soul patch is “douchey”, then call me Mr. Massengill!

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sixwax@reddit

Right there with ya, brother.

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Requilem@reddit

I want to say mutton chops...

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Callsign_Frieque@reddit

I had a goatee for large parts of the years 1994-1998ish. The stereotypical 90s moustache & beard combo a la Dante Hicks in Clerks. That is the number one facial hair style that I think of for the 90s.

As a child, I used to wonder how people in the 70s thought styles like lambchop sideburns were cool. Now as I look back and cringe at my douchey goatee, I totally understand.

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yespuss@reddit

Flavor Saver. 😄

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SuperWasabi4766@reddit

Excuse me, I like the 70s porn staches!

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Alovingcynic@reddit

I hated long scraggly pube beards (see Spin Doctors).

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effugium1@reddit

My name’s MCA I got a beard like a billy goat

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DarlingTreeWitch@reddit

As long as it isn’t the man bun

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Fluid-Engine3578@reddit

I feel like GenX was heavily involved in making the goatee happen.

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interstellarboyz1013@reddit

Goatee

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Brilliant-Ad8607@reddit

Soul patch???

Thought it is a snatch patch

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trvlrad@reddit

*flavor saver

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Neat_Point1061@reddit

oh sheeeeet.... I never noticed it till now (probably because of my gen x eyeballs), but my HUSBAND HAS A SOUL PATCH.

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fingers@reddit

Divorce

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Legitimate-End-1346@reddit

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Genx brought back soul patches and goatees.

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McGeetheFree@reddit

Don’t forget the Mullette

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cromulenttapeworm@reddit

The extra e makes it fancy.

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Crafty_Calico@reddit

Gotta say it with an accent though!

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cromulenttapeworm@reddit

Yes. I assume this is the French spelling.

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AZJHawk@reddit

Goatees was my first thought.

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plexxer@reddit

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/J8QAAOSw~Vhj~~Af/s-l500.jpg

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Some of us are ugly, and might live in a hot state, like Texas. Full beard kills me in the summer. Goatee is my only option to not frighten anyone near me.

Taking away my options over here...

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AZJHawk@reddit

I live in AZ so I get it. But some of us have wives who call them Santa Claus when they try to grow any kind of facial hair, so we have to go clean-shaven.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Lol last time I shaved my beard off my wife threatened to leave me.

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AZJHawk@reddit

lol. She sounds like a keeper. The sad part for me is that I’m a very hairy guy who could absolutely grow a beautiful beard, but happy wife, happy life, so I scrape the torture device across my face every morning.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Braid your pubes one time and I guarantee she will never mention your beard again.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Oh my god haha!! Just thinking about that, I’m not sure which is worse torture!!

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AZJHawk@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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zabacam@reddit

Still have mine!

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domesticatedprimate@reddit

Yeah, like, what's all the hate for goatees here, man?? It's the only thing I can grow!!

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SkoobySnacs@reddit

Yeah. Goatees are all natural for some of us.

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DoubleDrummer@reddit

I live in the tropics.
Full beard is too much and I am not shaving it down to just the moustache, because … I’m not.

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discochris2@reddit

Same here!

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Efficient-Fold5548@reddit

I grew a full beard in the end... it got easier than maintaining the sides

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TumbleweedIll6245@reddit

Me too. It hides my butt chin 🤷

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Murashi@reddit

Also known as the face mullet.

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Weatherbeaster1993@reddit

Yep

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SergeantBeavis@reddit

That’s pretty much it.

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Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit

Matt Dillon level soul patches.

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phildoMahCrackin@reddit

spot on what i was going to say.

I can’t even look at pictures of me with my soul patch back in the day.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

I suppose the goatee?

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tultamunille@reddit

Man, these posts really bring out the douches!

I say rocket if you got it fly your freak flag brothers !

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

How did you forget the van dyke/goatee?

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Vandilbg@reddit

goatee?

We were all running around like the guy who just betrayed the crew in a sci-fi movie.

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Everybody wants to be Evil Spock

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frankiebenjy@reddit

Why was a goatee shorthand for evil alternate universe doppelgängers?

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Because it was sick as hell

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valkyrieramone@reddit

Time for that tiny long strand of plaited hair dangling down at the back of a short haircut again.

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ston3d_eye@reddit

The rat tail

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valkyrieramone@reddit

That’s it!

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0ZDad@reddit

The Rat Tail!!

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PeacekeeperAl@reddit

Okay so I have a giant porn moustache at the moment, but I've had all sorts of different types of beard and moustache it's fun. There's not a lot of options for a guy to alter his appearance. Tomorrow I might be clean shaven, or I might grow out. I tend towards the Zappa as I've grown older. Never done the Soul Patch.

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FlamingDragonfruit@reddit

Starburns

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tacos_for_algernon@reddit

Pop Pop!

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PutPuzzleheaded5337@reddit

Some dudes had ridiculously long sideburns.

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Ben_Frank_Lynn@reddit

And we looked fantastic!

Right? Mom?

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Ben_Frank_Lynn@reddit

I had long sideburns back in college during the early 2000s. I'll go with that as my answer.

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Europe_MMA@reddit

Pointed side burns or pencil beards like 2005

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External-Dude779@reddit

Soul patch

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PsychologicalLowe@reddit

Good to disguise/hide your herpes.

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myusernameiszane@reddit

The butt cut.

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wet_nib811@reddit

That’s are called a Korean Two Block now. 😂

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NMlibertine@reddit

If it offends you, look away

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GetUranus2Mars@reddit

Yeah my Dad had a moustache his whole life and he looked great with it. It makes me happy to see the younger folk with a 'stache!

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LMZN@reddit

Beards are natural, everything else is manicured.

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girlpaint@reddit

Goatee MF

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

Yeah, this was us. We took our lead from Maynard G Krebs for some dumb reason.

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pajerry@reddit

I always thought the goatee came along with the Bare Naked Ladies in the early 90s. I’d split my vote between rat tail and soul patch for the 80s.

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Rose_Beef@reddit

Can we get huge hair?

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ohthatsbrian@reddit

the rat tail.

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UltraMud@reddit

Any time I came across someone with a whaler (Abe Lincoln) beard, I considered it an act of violence. Assholes emancipating their mustaches.

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

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It’s the goatee. It was always the goatee.

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Technical_Chemistry8@reddit

Facial hair goals!

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Night-Thunder@reddit

Sideburns!

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Decent_Recover720@reddit

Sideburns were dead after the 1970s, but Luke Perry resurrected the sideburn in the late 80s on Beverly Hills 90210. In the 1990s, suddenly every Tom, Dick and Harry was sporting a goatee/van Dyke.

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Night-Thunder@reddit

I’m 50 and every single one of my guy friends who were my age or a bit older had the sideburns and or a goatee or a soul patch. It was ironic facial hair like the resurrected porn mustache of today. 😂

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Decent_Recover720@reddit

I'm 60. I didn't see sideburns really start coming back until the very late 80s or early 90s, whenever Luke Perry showed up with them on 90210. He was even credited by some magazine I read out of boredom as reintroducing sideburns and making them cool again. I still refuse to have sideburns. The 70s ruined sideburns for me. And plaid. And the color green.

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Night-Thunder@reddit

My brother still has them and they look terrible.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

I had a goatee for 25 years. I went full beard in 2019 and haven't looked back.

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Jeffe-69@reddit

Womb broom...

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snooplarue@reddit

Mullets. Everywhere...mullets.

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adudeguyman@reddit

I feel like the mullets were really started from the youngest of the Boomer generation. Gen x might have had them but the Boomers got them going.

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crystal-torch@reddit

The goatee! Either the actual one, just the chin or the one called a VanDyke, mustache connected to goatee. Both awful IMHO

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Miniscule_Platypus@reddit

Chris Cornell could pull off a Van Dyke, but that’s about it.

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wasabinski@reddit

Goatees and sideburns

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Lord_Archibald_IV@reddit

What is the scraggly civil war beard?

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HarryMcW@reddit

I call it a Taliban beard myself...

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Need4MoreTime@reddit

That or ZZTop beard.

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shastadakota@reddit

The guy, generally in my age bracket, who just stops caring how he looks, and just stops shaving. They will say that they have a beard, but they just gave up caring how they look and got lazy. They dont trim it or brush it or wash it, they just dont care anymore. I have vowed never to do that.

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iftheygivinitaway@reddit

I think the OP you responded to was answering Jeopardy style, in the form of a question. At least, that's what I prefer to believe.

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scotchybob@reddit

Well, if you define Gen X as '65 to '80 or so, then we could be blamed for mutton chops and giant Sam Elliot style mustaches. Fashion (if that's what we're calling it) is cyclical and there's really nothing new under the sun. It's just about recycling something from the past and combining it with something else in a different way. I was watching the lead singer from Interpol being interviewed at Coachella on YT yesterday and the interviewer guy was wearing a babushka scarf around his head and giant, combat style hiking boots. My wife walked into the room and said "well, that's a choice...." 🤣

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ResidentTurbulent647@reddit

The soul patch!!

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WaltonGogginsTeeth@reddit

Oh god, the worst. I still see people with that and cringe

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Trike117@reddit

Nothing we did will ever be as ugly as the Talibeard guys have today, nor the manbun that was a craze some years back.

Say what you like about mullets and soul patches, they don’t look half as dumb as those.

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Puckhead1973@reddit

I’m sorry, as a guy who rocked the shoulder length mullet with pride until the early nineties, the only dudes who look good in mullets are hockey players. The man bun is not nearly as bad, because in the end, it’s just long hair twisted up.

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dirtygreysocks@reddit

Girls are wearing high end, well cut, adorable mullets these days, and I kind of love them. The guys? Not so much. They never seem to elevate them past "I play hockey and my mom cut it".

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hairygorilla451@reddit

Mullet!

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EclecticLandlady@reddit

The mullet rightly belongs to those of us sporting them in the 80’s.

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browncoatfever@reddit

Not facial hair, but Gen Alpha for some ungodly reason brought back the fucking mullet. My wife teaches middle school, they are EVERYWHERE.

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iluvtupperware@reddit

5 O’Clock shadow

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tramplamps@reddit

The “Father Figure”

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krisvze@reddit

Shut your mouth! The Father Figure is still sexy af today!!!!!

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tramplamps@reddit

OH, I hard agree. Me in 8th grade knew every word of this song. My father was shaken his head, and I had no idea what i was talking about.

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IHadTacosYesterday@reddit

I wish I could grow one.... sadly, I end up with big bald patches in certain spots and it just doesn't work

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valathel@reddit

That was boomers in the Miami Vice style in the mid-1980s. Everyone i knew born in the late 50s through early 60s had it.

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dis690640450cc@reddit

The chin strap was another.

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TheZuckuss@reddit

My goatee never went away! I wouldn't have a chin if it weren't for my goat. I grow it out to a full beard every now and then (currently it's a beard), but usually just have the goatee for the summer.

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elphaba00@reddit

I inherited my dad's chin. My mom once said, "Thank God your dad can grow a beard to hide it"

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justonebiatch@reddit

It was definitely goatees …ugh

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jmerrilee@reddit

Also the rat tail. I rather liked the roman haircut look.

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rtduvall@reddit

Mutton chops.

But I’ll keep my long, salt and pepper foot long beard thank you very much.

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Simple-Desk4943@reddit

Ya, definitely the chops, I kept mine for years. They even kept me from joining the military. I asked the recruiter if I could keep them, and he said no. If he’d said yes I would have been in.

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bobroscopcoltrane@reddit

Let’s not forget the sideburn/mutton chops era. Actually, let’s.

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PhoenixDusk101@reddit

We had the greatest facial hair of all time.

Designer stubble. The best of both worlds. no need to shave down to the skin, and still looked liked you had a beard.

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Moon_Child720@reddit

Yes, the stubble. Miami Vice really made that a thing.

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PhoenixDusk101@reddit

I was going to post a photo of Don as well. I liked the Miami Vice look for the night clubs.

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PinkyLeopard2922@reddit

A Wham song came up on my Spotify and I was waxing nostalgic about my schoolgirl crush on him. My daughter was like, who? I pulled up a few photos and she said. "Ohhhhhh. I can see why you liked him." High praise from a Gen Z.

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PhoenixDusk101@reddit

That's a good photo of him with his designer stubble and highlighted quaff. My fave look, glad your daughter appreciated the look too.

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Subject-Ad-8055@reddit

He was so good looking even straight guys were like huuuummmm

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Sufficient_Focus4174@reddit

Yeah, goats, and sidebuo

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work-n-lurk@reddit

Luke Perry's Sideburn were big news

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Sufficient_Focus4174@reddit

The greatest burns to ever side.

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Irondanzilla@reddit

Sideburns to the bottom of the ear.

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LongjumpingContext95@reddit

With help from Brandon and Dillon

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Massive-Ant5650@reddit

Soul patch 🤣 oh those were hilarious

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flyingfish_roe@reddit

Soul patch

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vegas_wasteland_2077@reddit

Goatee was the rage in the 90’s college scene.

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vegas_wasteland_2077@reddit

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Similar to these two.

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hookahsmokingladybug@reddit

Please not goatees-never understood why men want to make their mouths look like vaginas

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Flying-LabRat3108@reddit

Cause some use them for such 🤷🏽

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Farfromcivilization@reddit

Stupid goatees.

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sdia1965@reddit

The soul patch

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aschapm@reddit

I think muttonchops are overdue

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duck_butter@reddit

Don't forget the mullet.

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MrBlahg@reddit

I think Gen Jones gets that abomination.

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m0_n0n_0n0_0m@reddit

Excuse me, I'm a millennial and I was rocking a porn stash before Gen Z even knew what a pube was.

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s_schadenfreude@reddit

Yup, goatee for sure. With or without the accompanying 'stash. I had the latter and I remember my Dad telling me I looked like an Amish farmer.

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jeffsket@reddit

Goatee

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beelucyfer@reddit

It’s a Van dyke but yeah. That.

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WarpedCore@reddit

Goatees, the soul patch, the stupid skinny line beards and sideburns.

Goatees will be the next thing to come back.

Some of these kids are growing really bad mustaches.

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IHadTacosYesterday@reddit

Goatees will be the next thing to come back.

Never left for me, lol...

Actually, I started doing the Goatee thing really late in life. A buddy of mine was talking about how he uses his goatee to hide his double chin. I have a bit of a double chin problem too. No matter how in shape and fit I am, I still have this gobble gobble thing under my chin. Not too bad, but certainly not the most attractive thing. I grew a goatee to try it out and it hid my double chin perfectly, lol

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thebrandoninator@reddit

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KarenCT@reddit

The goatee for sure.

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knt1229@reddit

The bald head. I think the comb over and the George Jefferson died with Gen X. Thank goodness!

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Puzzleheaded_Bad6461@reddit

I've always thought about buzzing my head and leaving some strands and comb it over for a couple days

maybe with an eyebrow pencil moustache. And a smoking jacket. Cravat, maybe?

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knt1229@reddit

You should do it. Then, post a picture. 😂😂😂😂

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xblackbird_00x@reddit

‘76 here…..Had sideburns in high school, then a goatee in my 20’s early 30’s and now a full beard to this current day.

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iftheygivinitaway@reddit

'73. Ditto

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mr77@reddit

Sideburns and soul patches

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FlopShanoobie@reddit

Goatees, soul patches, and mutton chops.

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Von_Quixote@reddit

Mutton Chops.

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StreetCarp665@reddit

Goatees or soul patches.

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SoloSkeptik@reddit

This is the real answer, but for-sure the fucking goatee.

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Goldielocks711@reddit

My Gen X eyes still think a goatee is attractive.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Me too. I’m 53F and I’ve always thought a goatee was more attractive on a guy than a full beard. Perhaps because my first boyfriend had a goatee (my dad only had a moustache), but who really knows.

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BlurryBigfoot74@reddit

When I was on Tinder I met a girl who just got out of prison (didn't know till later) and she always wanted me to wear a goatee and I think about that a lot.

Then one day I was parked across the street at a hospital when the shift change happened and every guard that went in and came out had a goatee.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Wow. I have a few thoughts about that. I can’t think we, collectively speaking, are or were, any more susceptible to peer pressure than anybody other generation. It’s always been there and it always will be. This, of course, doesn’t account for social media, obviously.

But every guard with a goatee is crazy. I wonder if it was a bet or ‘let’s see who has the best’ or something like that.

Did your ex-flame ever see these guys? That might explain why she was so insistent on her wanting you to grow a goatee haha!

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In this woman’s opinion, if it’s blowing in the breeze: it’s too fucking long! Although George Michael didn’t have a goatee, the length of his scruff was ‘perfetto!’

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BlurryBigfoot74@reddit

I don't think she saw a guard but I know she really liked one in particular. He also had a bald head and she vaguely made a suggestion to shave my head once. I have a full head of hair in my early 50s and I feel lucky so that suggestion seemed wild.

It was about 10-11 guards coming in and out and every single one had a goatee. I thought it was hilarious.

She wasn't really an ex flame, we went on a few dates. It became obvious she struggled with alcohol and I didn't want to carry that weight. Dating at our age can be rough, everyone has baggage but I'd at least like matching luggage.

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throttledog@reddit

I was told nothing says poser like a jinky, tiny soul patch when I had one so many times I’d be surprised if it did come back. Others I knew would get teased too

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Still_Patience_1707@reddit

The soul patch.

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Tbagts@reddit

Aka

The flavor saver

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Helpful_Lie2613@reddit

Or the Cool Youth Pastor

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Tbagts@reddit

Like Pastor Tad, he turns the chair around backwards and sits where he's straddling the backrest

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Helpful_Lie2613@reddit

Ooo, he's sitting informally like us. Let's hear what he has to say!

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Tbagts@reddit

I've been thinking about this for like 20 years-

If you ever listen to a casual, off the cuff prayer from those dudes, (sort of general white evangelical Christians in the last 20 years) you might notice that they use "just" a lot as in

"Lord, we just ask that..."

It's weird. I think it's a way to minimize what they're asking for, like to let Jesus know that what they're asking for is not really too much, It's not going to be too much work for Jesus, it's basically like the least he could do.

It's weird, but it's super common once you start looking for it.

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Maleficent_State7033@reddit

Is that you SHJ? 🤣

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boola_boola_boola@reddit

Goatee

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tramplamps@reddit

The Proto-Mullet that was featured atop the heads of any members of the boy band, New Kids on the Block.
If you look up any photos of these 5 guys, between 1989-1991, and then look at a young man now, between the ages of 15-22, the likelihood that he will have a similar hairstyle that one of the members of NKTOB had is highly likely.
But you will ask yourself, are these modern day men’s hairdos Hanging as Tough as The Boys from Boston claimed to be?

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HackedCylon@reddit

Soul patch was a Millennial thing. GenX was mullets and Van Dykes.

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Timely-Youth-9074@reddit

Soul patches were around in the early 1990’s.

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HackedCylon@reddit

First soul patch (or "reverse Hitler" as my friend's mother called it) that I remember seeing was in '97.

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oldschool_potato@reddit

Soul patches were the 60s & 70s hippies, so late boomer thing. So we’re mutton chops. Millennials picked up all that as well. We were goatees.

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wolfysworld@reddit

Were rat tails a Gen X thing?

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chadbert1977@reddit

I'm trying to talk my wife into letting me grow a rat tail when I retire (I'm mostly bald, so the rat tail would be my only hair)

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wolfysworld@reddit

I’m going to support you on this if you promise to post a picture once it’s done!

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accountofmountzuma@reddit

Yes! lol. Ew.

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wolfysworld@reddit

I thought so but didn’t want it to be true 😂

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Dangerous-Cause1964@reddit

Yes

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tomcatx2@reddit

When we were in jr high school.

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Smittles@reddit

Soul patches were definitely a Gen X thing.

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TheGyattFather@reddit

Trent Lane from Daria

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IL_Lyph@reddit

Chin straps 🤣🤣

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niff007@reddit

Wrong. Younger Gen X with the long ass beard and millenials with the cop/porn stache.

Don't forget about 90s sideburns

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tambor333@reddit

With very few exceptions I've worn a Van Dyke beard since 1990. Quite honestly I feel naked without it. Sorry about that chief.

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WordleFan88@reddit

My wife and kids get freaked out when I shave mine .

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4shore_always@reddit

goatee

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Abject_Elevator5461@reddit

See Dante in Clerks.

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PizzaDog33@reddit

Side burns

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WordleFan88@reddit

Facial hair? Yeah that was the least of our offences.....we brought the mullet back from the middle ages.

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LickemupQ@reddit

Honestly I’m stunned the big mustache made a comeback. There’s honestly only 3 people in the last 50 years who rocked a mustache and genuinely looked good with it and those 3 are Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot and Kurt Russell. Everyone else looks ridiculous.

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j3xperience@reddit

I will not stand for this Ron Swanson erasure! Justice will be had! Nick Offerman looks like something's missing when he doesn't have the mustache.

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Normal-Guy196@reddit

Magnum PI Tom Selleck mustache and yes I had one

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rosesforthemonsters@reddit

My husband did, too. When he graduated from high school. I swear he grew that mustache out just so he wouldn't get carded at bars when he was underage. LOL

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Zestyclose-Feeling@reddit

Spoken like a man that cant grow a beard! They always hate on guys with them.

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ImmediateBug2@reddit

This whole situation.

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Ichgebibble@reddit

Goatees with mustaches.

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skeletor69420@reddit

hopefully not the sideburns

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hold--the--line@reddit

Rat tails?

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MistrBiggie@reddit

That isn't facial hair

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PrinceofSneks@reddit

It’s kinda the back of the face!

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Folkenhellfang@reddit

Here to say soul patch, but you beat me to it.

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Morbos1000@reddit

Goatees, but with people claiming what they have isn't technically a goatee

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RMDVanilaGorila@reddit

We’re known for grunge so it would have to be the goatee

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Not_High_Maintenance@reddit

What is a soul patch?

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Ok_Mammoth5292@reddit

That little tuft between the bottom lip and chin

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bunnyuncle@reddit

No one wants to bring back goatees

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ConfidentRecover3343@reddit

Jeez, my frickin' son, he is 27 and refuses to get rid of the goatee. I hate facial hair, it's just nasty.

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Kadavermarch@reddit

Tell him to clean it, or you won't give him kisses.

But seriously, here's some expression you can use to make him rethink his decision. https://urbanthesaurus.org/synonyms/goatee
I like toilet seat.

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ConfidentRecover3343@reddit

I love this. 😂

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fifilachat@reddit

Beards 🤮

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Kadavermarch@reddit

Goatees are alive and well, they're not going anywhere. I don't think you're allowed to drive a motorcycle or be a bouncer at a casino without one. They're also claimed to be great at hiding a non-existing chin.

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dogfacedponyboy@reddit

Yes, plenty of GenXers are still rocking what we call the goatee (but it’s really a van dyke). I felt really old two years ago when a fellow GenX told me that my “goatee” was out of style. It was my “summer cut” and I would do full beard in the winter.. Now I rock a short beard all year long. I miss the “goatee” :-)

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FoundationCareful662@reddit

Grey facial hair

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bogeypro@reddit

I feel attacked. Its justified. But damn.

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brownmtn@reddit

Sideburns.

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UnicornSheets@reddit

Boston chimes in…

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NibblesWoodaway@reddit

Rat tails

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FadingOptimist-25@reddit

One of the Gen Z YouTubers I watch has an awful porn stash. Ugh.

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oflowz@reddit

Why are people here naming hairstyles?

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Ellavemia@reddit

Everyone here is AI now.

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Teaselkakanui@reddit

I know, right? People are odd.

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unclejoe1917@reddit

Fucking goatees.

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indrid_cold@reddit

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Sanjomo@reddit

The goatee

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amybpdx@reddit

Chin straps.... I mean, goatees.

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BloodyEyeGames@reddit

Goatees are not chin straps. Chin straps are these guys

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Best_Detective_2533@reddit

Goatee. Age 60. Had it since I was 20.

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PhilL77au@reddit

The last time I tried shaving mine off the wife and kids wouldn't come near me.

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loki03xlh@reddit

I shaved mine off once and my wife told me I looked like a fucking polititian!

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stonymessenger@reddit

My friend shaved his off 20 years ago and his 4 year old daughter screamed, ran away and started crying. He grew it back and has had the goat since. Mine comes and goes depending on my mood.

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NoNamesLeft600@reddit

I shaved off my beard when my daughter was 4 also. After trimming it down first with scissors, all of the hair went into the garbage can next to the sink. When my daughter discovered it she came running out of the bathroom crying "Mommy, daddy threw away his beard!"

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lostinexiletohere@reddit

My wife basically threatened a divorce or death if I ever shaved mine off (shaved it super close during covid)

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lostinexiletohere@reddit

I had a goatee from 1991 on. Never was able to grow a decent beard though. Then last year I had to do chemo and radiation so lost a lot of my already thinning hair but my beard is now somehow better than Grizzly Adam's

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BadHairDay-1@reddit

Um.. What's a porn mustache?

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Ianthin1@reddit

Google Benson Boone. That's a porn stache.

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storm_the_castle@reddit

so.... Tom Selleck caterpillar moustache is not a porn 'stache?

Asking for a friend...

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savedbytheblood72@reddit

My mother in law

Loves Tom Selleck , Burt Reynolds stache.

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Ianthin1@reddit

Hmm... Might be getting into semantics with that one.

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BadHairDay-1@reddit

Thank you.

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MichaSound@reddit

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BadHairDay-1@reddit

I fuckin forgot about that turd.

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BelgarathMTH@reddit

Did you know that's the same actor who played Master Chief in "Halo"?

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litterboxhero@reddit

I thought it was the guy who played Nick Sobatka in The Wire.

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BadHairDay-1@reddit

Idk what halo is.

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alwaysforgettingmyun@reddit

I also had forgotten all about the soul patch and am now frankly annoyed that I remember it. Wtf was that about?

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MadicalRadical@reddit

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oi_that_nander@reddit

As a 46 year old woman I'm still traumatized by goatees

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StrangestOfPlaces44@reddit

The good thing about goatees are you can immediately know who is evil when you walk into a room

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addctd2badideas@reddit

Plus the weird Roman/N*** salute.

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Finneagan@reddit

Soul patch or mutton chops

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tylerokc@reddit

Soul patch.

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addctd2badideas@reddit

I had this for a while in the 00s. It looked ridiculous.

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twot@reddit

I had a boyfriend with a weak chin and he explained that is why he would not shave it off)))

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Braided soul patches

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shinyappyrobin@reddit

Muttonchop sideburns please.

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addctd2badideas@reddit

We all need more Chester A. Arthurs in our facial hair.

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MissDisplaced@reddit

Goatees were a thing for many years. And just long hair in general for men, starting in the 80s

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UnlimitedScarcity@reddit

Starting in the 60s

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MissDisplaced@reddit

True. I guess I was thinking the hair metal 80s

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missmelissa13@reddit

Soul patch.

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Dizzy_Garlic_6388@reddit

All the nu metal facial hair styles!

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GoatBnB@reddit

Sideburns. 90210.

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xxbrawndoxx@reddit

Late 70s Gen Xer I had every facial hair fad in the 90s chops, soul patch, Goatee with and without the stashe, even a long chin only goat like dimebag

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bigfancydelta@reddit

Goatees and Soul patches for sure!

'81 model here, and I rocked big mutton chops in HS (beards, mustaches, etc weren't allowed). From the '00s - late '10s I rocked the goatee, chops, and at times a mohawk. In the covid times I grew a full beard, and since then I will go between that and goatee + chops.

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Expensive_Rhubarb_87@reddit

Staunch Gen X. (73).

Have had the full mustache and goatee since I was 19. I’m 53 now. I honestly don’t remember what I look like in the mirror without it.

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Darth_Bane-0078@reddit

Gen X 1971, I too have a goatee since the 90's. Cut it off a few years ago and my kids hated it!

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Fluffy-Structure-368@reddit

Goatees with side burns.

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Napoleon_B@reddit

Hey now! It helps to visually elongate my oval face!

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Street_Barracuda1657@reddit

Now it’s helping to cover the cheek droop.

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Napoleon_B@reddit

Not me vigorously applying lotion to my neck to slow that down!!

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InsignificantOP@reddit

Is it Stewie oval? If not it's pretty long already

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Key-Contest-2879@reddit

I feel like I invented that look! I was the first among my friend to go with the shaved head/goatee in the early 90’s.

Of course I was the first to lose my hair (gone at 22…sob 😂).

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thesfb123@reddit

It’s the soul patch, and I’m sad to say I have photos of me with all the way up to 2010 smh

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air621@reddit

Yep. Goatee. But the moustache to chin beard is actually called a Van Dyke. The goatee is just the chin beard. Which was prevalent too and worse than a Van Dyke. Which I wore for far too long through the 90s. And yes, the soul patch was the worst. Especially when guys grew just a long soul patch

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Ted_Rid@reddit

Oh, whaddaya know. Turns out I used to sometimes do a Van Dyke. Always thought it was a goatee.

Truth be told, it was when I was too lazy to shave fully, coz the bristles are that much tougher in that area. So I'd do a half shave and leave the tough part for another day. Then it might stick around for a fortnight.

Never a style choice, pure laziness. Also maybe coz there were enough around it didn't seem like I was trying to do a thing?

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Not_a_fan_of_me@reddit

Let me just start with this: mullets aren’t facial hair. Learn to read, people. It has to be the soul patch/goatee variant. The flavor saver was as prominent as flannel in the early 90’s.

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PilotKnob@reddit

The young (male, mostly) airline pilots all have their cute little 'staches. We call them "The Doogies" at our airline. It's really tempting to say "What's up, Goose?!" when you pass them in the hall.

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chatterwrack@reddit

Mullet

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c0pp3rdrag0n@reddit

I had a mullet and a soul patch

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halfbakedelf@reddit

That's my pick

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Robviously-duh@reddit

started growing a winter beard in the mid 80's... became permanent in the mid 90's (per demand of the wife) haven't seen my own face in over 30 years.. lol.. but rocked the mustache and sideburns back in the day

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

Chin strap

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SIGMONICUS@reddit

Goatee

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LameGretzsky@reddit

Traded mullets for goatees. There must be balance in the Douche.

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HAL_9000_V2@reddit

Soul patch?

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MaximumJones@reddit

Is anyone serious going to try to claim with a straight face that Chris Cornell did not absolutely rock the goatee/soul patch?

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

My god! That face! Those eyes! That hair! That voice! We women (and I’m sure some men) were powerless to resist.

Glorious is right.

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Lilredh4iredgrl@reddit

He. Was. Glorious. Rest easy, Chris.

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TheVioletEmpire@reddit

My favorite voice from that era. RIP

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Known-Intern5013@reddit

It helps to be Chris Cornell. The goatee/patch did not look nearly as good on us mere mortals.

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dontwannaparticpate@reddit

Yeah we had these back in the 90s and 2010’s. I don’t think they ever truly go away.

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Kowpie75@reddit

Rat tails

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RedditSkippy@reddit

Gotta be the soul patch.

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Low_Cook_5235@reddit

My husband had one when we met that I called The Shaggie. As in Scooby do.

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enriquesensei@reddit

Not facial hair but I’ve seen mullets more often recently.

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Jinn71@reddit

I immediately thought of the mullet as well

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GraceGreenview@reddit

Chops

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yayayagilliganhell@reddit

All of it because we're that good

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bigg_beef@reddit

Goatees

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CountHonorius@reddit

Juice mops, lol (goatees)

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ToneSenior7156@reddit

My husband still has a soul patch, lol. I don’t even see it anymore, we’ve been married 25 years.

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sevenselevens@reddit

I worked with a guy who let his soul patch get … long? fluffy? It was very silky. He once told me “you have no idea what I can do with this thing” and I 🤮

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johntwoods@reddit

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ToneSenior7156@reddit

Someone else had to tell me it was on his face. That’s the nice thing about being married long time, you don’t really look at each other. I don’t need to get Botox and he can do whatever facial hair he wants.

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johntwoods@reddit

In my eyes, my wife can do no wrong. She's the best.

We've been married for 10 years, but if I was single and went the soul patch route, I would divorce myself. Whatever that looks like.

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cjhreeder3@reddit

Goatees for sure.

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jenninupland@reddit

And the flavor savor soul patch

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chasseur_de_cols@reddit

Everyone mentioning goatees and Van Dykes, but for me it’s the 90210 sideburns. Since it was the onlt facial hair I could grow well, I rocked those mutton chops all through the 90s. I still cut them pretty low but they’re much more tame than 30 years ago.

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rochvegas5@reddit

i loved my sideburns in middle school. I loved them so much that I grew a beard

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loganverse@reddit

The flavor saver (eww, but also; guilty), goatee, and sideburns.

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Weird-Ninja8827@reddit

It's the goatee. We all looked like record store clerks for awhile there.

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Interesting-Rich-524@reddit

As someone who can only grow a goatee, I just stay clean shaven.

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temerairevm@reddit

The goatee is like “I’m going to go to the effort to shave only the parts that don’t scratch you when you kiss me”. My husband stopped doing it when I told him it was turning him into an inconsiderate cactus.

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0the0Entertainment0@reddit

What you are saying is that muttenchops will bring me all the womens?

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aaronwcampbell@reddit

Oh yeah, what woman wouldn't want to muckle on to a meaty pair of mutton chops?

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kanrad@reddit

The Amish churn more than butter.

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PinkFloydBoxSet@reddit

I might legitimately change my username to Inconsiderate Cactus.

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abousono@reddit

At least he isn’t a belligerent succulent.

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TonightSheComes@reddit

I had a Van Dyke because I couldn’t grow a full beard in my 20s. It wasn’t from lack of trying.

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Obwyn@reddit

I've had sideburns since I was 18. I had a goatee from 19-27 and would still have one if I was allowed to, but my agency doesn't allow goatees and doesn't allow beards without a shaver waiver from a dermatologist.

A couple years ago I decided to grow out my 'stache after being on vacation for a couple weeks. I usually grow my goatee back out when I'm off that long, but that time I decided to keep the 'stache. It looks good on me and my wife likes it so it stayed. I don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks about it.

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DenverBowie@reddit

Sounds like you work for nerds.

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Obwyn@reddit

No, just The Man

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DenverBowie@reddit

Well, I wish you freedom on your terms and your timeline.... but SOON!

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KungFuGiftShop@reddit

Flavor Saver

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Known-Intern5013@reddit

A comedian I can’t remember from the 90s had a bit about how disgusting that name was (for the uninitiated, it’s another name for soul patch). The punchline was:

“Do you want the soup, sir?

“No thanks, I’ll just have some hot water.”

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Mach5Driver@reddit

I (elder Gen-X) STILL have my goatee (I have a receding chin). Sorry, but it looks good on me and MANY men, IMO. The soul patch--yeah, always thought it looked douchey, LOL.

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Fr4nzJosef@reddit

For awhile I had some solid Franz Josef mutton chops.

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NEKRomantik_Nurse@reddit

Dude, a guy with mutton chops could get away with anything in my book lol

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LurkMcGurt666@reddit

Same. Grew them way too long. I’d tell people I’m the drummer from Kentucky Headhunters

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PinkFloydBoxSet@reddit

I'm glad we got to the point someone mentioned the soul patch. Because that thing was worse than the Hitler stashes that currently serving and an alarming number of vets still fucking have.

I can't wait til humans evolve enough that facial hair doesn't exist anymore because very few men have it right.

No that scraggly ass shit doesn't make you look like a viking warrior and you will never be Tom Selleck. Get a razor and shave.

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SumthingBrewing@reddit

I’ve gone through all the facial hair phases. I’m guilt. Goatee, soul patch, homeless looking long beard. Never a mustache though. I know I can’t pull that off.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the best facial hair is a neatly trimmed beard. I like mine slightly full, but trimmed so that it’s a consistent length. And for god’s sake, shave your cheeks, lower neck and ears! And I color mine with Just For Men since it’s have random pops of white bursting through. When the white is more consistent I might let it go. But coloring (not too dark!) definitely knocks 10 years off my face.

90% of men look better with a reasonable beard, especially as we age.

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ziggy_santo5@reddit

pencil thin goatees

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Status_Entrepreneur4@reddit

Yep that was my cringiest look for sure for a few years back in the day

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ziggy_santo5@reddit

same!

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Constant_Ad9136@reddit

Feel like this was written by a boomer to piss people off

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grrgrrtigergrr@reddit

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_Happy_Camper@reddit

WTF it’s a soul patch?

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TheRododo@reddit

It's that little patch of hair on your lower lip that looks like your mustache was sneezed below your mouth.

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MichaSound@reddit

Excellent description

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sktoev@reddit

Designer stubble

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USMCLee@reddit

This would be my answer as well.

Knowing exactly how far in advance to shave in order to have just the right amount of stubble for a big date.

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Outrageous-Ad-9635@reddit

I’m pretty sure this one is entirely on George Michael.

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icthruu74@reddit

Or Don Johnson. That look spawned razors designed to create that 5 o’clock shadow look.

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mafuman@reddit

The Miami device

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EvilDan69@reddit

wait, that's out of date? Not fashionable anymore? Damn! :P No reason.

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TinyMachine6735@reddit

Don Johnson did it first!

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TheHoodieConnoisseur@reddit

…is what we wish we’d be remember for, but alas OP is right. It’s either the goatee or the soul patch.

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PsychologicalOwl608@reddit

Soul patch. Flavor Saver.

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Dangerboy73@reddit

Womb broom

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TheDandyWarhol@reddit

Beaver teaser.

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gangofone978@reddit

Definitely the goatee and the soul patch for good measure:

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I_Owe_Suzanner@reddit

Goatee - the official facial hair of entry level sales guys.

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wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha@reddit

Mullet

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TXtogo@reddit

Stubble, we did stubble. George Michaels etc.

I stay clean shaven except for some stubble when I want to stubble

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Gen X is definitely the goatee, followed by the soul patch. Can confirm, had a goatee in college. Now I have a trimmed beard, because I have to shave my head.

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xantub@reddit

I don't think anything is inherently "dumb". Each generation has things that are "cool" and "dumb". If you ask people in the 1800s what they think about 1990s' styles they'd probably say it's the dumbest thing ever. So I don't mind styles coming and going, and I certainly don't judge anybody about what they chose to do with their hair or beard or mustaches, I'm a very "live and let live" guy that way.

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Kindly-Might-1879@reddit

At age 55 I’m finally thinking that the torn up jeans look is actually kinda cool. Maybe I’ll actually get some (or cut up my own jeans now).

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theartofutility@reddit

I really hope this isn't what awaits me in 5 years: a newly found fascination with torn jeans 😂

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Andyman1973@reddit

Not goatees, Dad was rocking a rock star worthy goatee in the late ‘60s, before he shipped off to Vietnam.

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Batman_From_Dions@reddit

Thin, pointy, "landing strip" looking soul patch.

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Alternative-Meaning4@reddit

Ugh the goatee that will never go away.Lots of Gen X men were clean shaven, which I always found to be an attractive look.

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TinyMachine6735@reddit

ACHSHUALLY, what you are referring to as a goatee is technically called a "Van Dyke."

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CableSufficient2788@reddit

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boybrian@reddit

This is true. But we did refer to them as goatees anyway.

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Unfair-Attitude-7400@reddit

2008 Brooklyn hipsters were required to have the mustache in question in order to be issued a fixie bicycle or they had to have it tattooed on their finger.

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shitpostsuperpac@reddit

Having lived through both the grunge-fad and hipster-fad, they were basically the same thing.

Young people growing up in a country that rewards lying and commercialized imitations of meaning searching for something authentic.

It’s no surprise that hairstyles, facial hair, music, and thrift store clothing were a central component. They are free or inexpensive ways to express oneself.

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Nicky2Nuts@reddit

Chinstraps.

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Embarrassed-Cause250@reddit

The mullet! We were bad!

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MuddyPig168@reddit

Oh, god….and how many douchebags thought the mullet was cool after “Achey Breaky Heart” hit the charts?

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GargleDeezKosherNutz@reddit

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DesertDwellerrrr@reddit

soul patch

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MuffinTrucker@reddit

The mullet. Wasn’t cool then. Ain’t cool now

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

It was cool then, what the fuck are you talking about?

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MuffinTrucker@reddit

Nah

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lacunha@reddit

It’s kinda cool now.

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crustytheclerk1@reddit

Was cool back then too. Iva Davies' mullet down to the small of his back was an inspiration to us all!

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Volskil@reddit

No it still looks horrible. Always has, always will.

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Captainj2001@reddit

Goatee or soul patch

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Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

I believe there was a moment where a lot of guys had sole patches, from the 50’s/60’s beatnik.

Also at a different point we had pencil thin beards, but IDT that was something we brought back.

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

I worked with a guy in the early 00’s whose nicknames started out as “jockstrap”, and changed to “chinstrap”when our foreman said it was offensive.

Everyone eventually settled on “Jock” but he was only ok with it because he tried to get people to pronounce it with a thin French accent like he was Jacques Cousteau.

“Not jock. Zaahhuuck”

He never shaved, so I give him props for never caving in, but it was goofy as fuck.

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throttledog@reddit

Had a patch in the early 00’s. More people I knew told me it looked weird or dumb than I was ready for. It was gone in a week. Only my mohawk had a shorter run

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Tim-oBedlam@reddit

Goatees. Which look better than the lumberjack beards popular a few years back.

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someone447@reddit

Since I don't have hair on my head, I need it to be somewhere.

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Comfortable_Sea634@reddit

I still float between beard and goatee...all gray, of course 😂

Couldn't grow a beard to save my life until I was in my late 30s

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

Soul patches

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IWantTheLastSlice@reddit

We called those flavor savers

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Pho_King_A@reddit

Taint brush

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TelUmor@reddit

Goatees

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Failed-Sympathy@reddit

Side burns

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Fabulous_Permit5276@reddit

I have a legit ZZ Top beard if that counts

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WasLeftUnsupervised@reddit

Do you have a New York brim and a gold tooth displayed?

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Fabulous_Permit5276@reddit

I don’t know what a NY brim is. But sadly no gold tooth

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Subbacterium@reddit

Soul patch

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I had the porn 'stache before it was cool (literally shaved it like twice ever, so was sporting something of a scraggly one even first year of high school) and a goatee a few times. Never the soul patch and frankly mine doesn't really grow out (and the chin beard never fully met the mustache, there's just like this line around my lower lip that only grows in these fine little hairs.)

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Commercial-Novel-786@reddit

I call the Z beard wearers "loaferjacks" or "lumberquacks" because they couldn't break a wooden pencil much less cut down atree.

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Meatpuppy@reddit

I had a goatee. Looking back at pictures I look like I should have been on a list in an FBI database.

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

Now you probably are. Seriously if there is a photo online anywhere, it’s part of your file.

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Meatpuppy@reddit

True!

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MadGriZ@reddit

The girl6 big hair of the 80s was the bouffant of the 50s taken to the extreme and the guys with big teased hair were glam of the early 70s replicates.

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Bromodrosis@reddit

I Love me some big hair. With the claw in front? Yup.

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Spidergawd68@reddit

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Significant-Part8936@reddit

I'm still a sucker for a nice goatee or a soul patch/mustache combo

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Pre3Chorded@reddit

Side burns

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Jew-zilla@reddit

My sideburns were so long in high school, people started calling me Neil Young.

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219_Infinity@reddit

long ass sideburns

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

I feel like 70s and 80s did too

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

Millennials rocked those as well. The whole "hipster" phase.

I didn't grow my muttonchops until 2006 or so, and they lasted about a year.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Guilty. I'd gladly rock them again but I don't need to add any more to the grey display.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Gen X, yours is goatees and soul patches for sure. I think beards are a Xennial doing because it’s the younger people doing the Ted Lasso 70s porn stache.

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JimTheJerseyGuy@reddit

Who needs facial hair when you’re rocking the most awesome mullet imaginable!

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Coconut-bird@reddit

Gen Z has brought that one back and paired it with a 70s porn stache.

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hippiechick725@reddit

Damn that’s nasty 😆

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Maverick-Mav@reddit

They call it a mullet and mo. I was seriously shocked to see this in this day and age.

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JimTheJerseyGuy@reddit

Party in the front AND the back!

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brendhano@reddit

the goatee has a stranglehold on the 90's.

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ChanceTheGardenerrr@reddit

Whatever

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Fudloe@reddit

The only correct response.

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OGWeedKiller@reddit

Pfft. We had mustaches in 6th grade, the last generation that looked like todays grandparents when we graduated...

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Fudloe@reddit

Fuckin-A.

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PandaHombre92055@reddit

The chin strap.

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Fudloe@reddit

Still shocked by the existence of this trend.

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Fudloe@reddit

I've had a full beard almost consistently since high school, around '85.

Interspersed with an ill-advised long soul patch episode and a few bouts of an imperial and goatee in the fashion-backward 90's.

However, I haven't shaved nor trimmed in 30 years. And my gross, scraggly Civil War beard, just like my dad had in the 60's & 70's scored me my honey of 11 years who is way outta my league. So...

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CowboyNeale@reddit

70s porn stache and side burns were big in the second half of the 90s.

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AnyDamnThingWillDo@reddit

Some serious Boomer vibe coming off this post.

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

Yeah, agree cranky old boomer Karen energy.

Do not like it.

Let people do whatever, it’s their choices, they have to live with it. We had enough of that attitude thrown on us, break the cycle.

No one has to perfectly recreate the boomer lifecycle.

God damn it stop, turning into them. Be the cool chill old people, for once in a generation.

“Whatever” the fuck out of these dumbass “get off my lawn and get a hair cut” posts or just admit you’re a fuckwit boomer who’s trying to pretend they’re young and go post this crap with your minions memes on boOkFaCe.

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BlueProcess@reddit

Yeah it's disturbing how some Xers are going full boomer. You do not represent me lol

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kynaturists@reddit

I’ve been rocking the porn stache since the 80’s. Your mom never complained.

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Maverick-Mav@reddit

Classic

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rainbikr@reddit

We did the long sideburns, too. I was watching an old Conan clip and he got in on it briefly

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Fabulousmo@reddit

I dunno but the other day I saw a Gen Z with a rat tail and I blacked out for a second

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Hollayo@reddit

To our ever lasting shame, the soul patch.

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Status_Iron_3706@reddit

Van dyke? Goatee?

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Old-Lengthiness656@reddit

The flavor-saver.

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tomNJUSA@reddit

Nothing. We are the perfect generation in all aspects of life, grooming, fashion and general coolness.

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InsuranceJerk@reddit

90210 sideburns

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shiny1988@reddit

I liked those sideburns.

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BottleAgreeable7981@reddit

But those sideburns aren't spongeworthy.

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open_road_toad@reddit

Goatee and soul patch. Also the chin puff.

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HausuGeist@reddit

Deployment beard

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Frosty-Bat-5904@reddit

The flavor saver

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Iam-WinstonSmith@reddit

Goatee?

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Repulsive-Carpet9400@reddit

Well, I'm the oldest of 5 kids. Technically, I'm a boomer but all of my siblings are considered Gen X.

What's commonly called a "Goatee" is really a "Van Dyke." The goatee is without the mustache.

I digress.

Every single one of my sisters' boyfriends had a Van Dyke. I couldn't tell them apart. They all looked the same. I thought it was some kind of club.

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CrumblinEmpire@reddit

Yes. We wanted the beatnik look, but a couple years later every baseball player had the goatee, so it took the shine right off our shoes.

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ToddPundley@reddit

Ahh yes the Jack McDowell special.

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SuburbanBushwacker@reddit

it was. nowerdays it would be called a ‘support group’

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HouseMouseMidWest@reddit

Don’t forget the bowl cut.

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deepasleep@reddit

I thought we were the first significant victims of the bowl cut? I know I had one as a young kid, but it wasn’t something I actively chose.

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ToddPundley@reddit

Pretty sure Silent Generation (and very late Greatest Generation) got stuck with the original bowl cut during the Depression.

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MeinePerle@reddit

Was it the Mary Lou Retton cut or was that another gymnast?

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throttledog@reddit

That was NOT our fault or choice! 🤷‍♂️😂 Started as soon as sharp knives came along. Mom pulled out the soup bowl like her parents and their parents. When it no longer fit and I was finally taken to my first barbershop at around 10 I thought I’d joined the cool kids club but I was still freak and geek. 🤓🎱

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HoochShippe@reddit

The rat tail

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FirefighterTrue296@reddit

Rocked them all at one time or another and proud of it.

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Subject-Ad-8055@reddit

Being that i still have a full head of hair, im grown it out and bring back the 80s metal hair!!! 😂

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No_Salt5374@reddit

Same. I'm in a rock band also

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JohnVonachen@reddit

Doctor strange style facial hair that screams, sorcerer supreme or, balloon animal expert.

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okmister1@reddit

Gen X was guilty of Mullets. Who remembers the facial hair?

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zoso4evr@reddit

Soul patch for sure

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mannypdesign@reddit

Chin straps

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optimal-gold976@reddit

Yea, the ‘90’s chinstrap and sole patches were pretty bad.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

I did the bald and goatee thing in the aughts. When I made the switch, I was consulting in DC in a building where I was one of 3 white people who worked there.

On seeing me one of the guys I worked with (peer to boss level) said, “Hey, hey, hey! Whatever it was, we didn’t mean it!” The implication was that I now looked like I was about to kill everyone. On the other hand, the ladies liked it — a lot. Maybe because I now looked dangerous.

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CeeTheWorld2023@reddit

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Lostinpurplehaze@reddit

I grew a goatee in the early 90's. Every time I shaved my beard in the decades after people wouldn't notice, and the girls i hung out with said I looked weird without. Still (grey)bearded to this day.

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funktopus@reddit

Same.

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laksaman72@reddit

Time to grow one back, with grey highlights

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crashin70@reddit

Since when did Gen x give a crap on someone else wore or did not wear? You sure you people are in the correct sub?

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Rosetti@reddit

Oh yes, the mighty Gen X, famous for not judging anyone by their appearance or any other factor.

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

Flared sideburns with a goatee or soul patch, no mustache. I rocked that look well into the 2010s. Nowadays if you see someone with flared sideburns 9 times out of 10 they're about to ask you to pick a card, any card.

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monkey-kong666@reddit

Goatees. They straddled all aspects of culture, from bogans/trailer park (stone cold Steve Austin) grunge bands (Chris Cornell, layne staley etc) to movie stars (Brad Pitt).

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firetomherman@reddit

Oh man mid to late 90's I grew my hair out and grew a stupid goatee on the bottom of my chin with no mustache. Brother made fun of me all the time and he should have. Getting my haircut was the best thing ever lol.

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YouMustBeJoking888@reddit

The goatee refuses to die on men of a certain age. I hate them and cannot believe they've lasted this long.

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OginiAyotnom@reddit

Maynard G. Krebs was my inspiration to grow one.

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

Werk!

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fluentInPotato@reddit

Well, my goatee is way sexier than the double chin behind it.

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LeeHarveyEnfield@reddit

Are you me?

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xannieh666@reddit

I love a good goatee! Hubby looks good in his!

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AcanthocephalaDue715@reddit

I’ve had my goatee for 16 years

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Chance-Sun-9103@reddit

I waver back and forth between full beard and goatee. oh Lord I remember how proud I was when I grew my first chin hairs

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Setsuna00XN@reddit

Mutton chops with a mullet. Definitely a Gen X travesty.

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Yeah, I went there. But who else can represent Gen X the best besides Joe Dirt?😁😜

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

Its pronounced deer-tay

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StrongExternal8955@reddit

Still better than brocolli head.

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TheSwedishEagle@reddit

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Kikstartmyhart@reddit

Dang!

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UnhappyReason5452@reddit

The soul patch and goatees.

Some GX still rock em.

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W0gg0@reddit

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UnhappyReason5452@reddit

They work for some people. I prefer a full beard nowadays or I’d still have the soul patch.

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Automatic-Nature6025@reddit

Chinstraps

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BlueProcess@reddit

I think that was more of a Xellennial thing

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distreszed@reddit

stupid goatees (gen X here).

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DimensionX@reddit

I'm pretty sure a lot of were sporting the gotee in the 90s, otherwise known as the face vagina.

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throttledog@reddit

They also make a large round head look thinner by giving the face more chin but that doesn’t work when you look like George Kastanza. The look like basketballs with a sideways vaginer

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OldManThumbs@reddit

Bald head and goatee so you look like an armpit with eyebrows!

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RedLily08@reddit

Why do you care what others are doing with their bodies? I thought Gen X was supposed to be the generation of people who were more open minded and didn't care what others did. Focus on yourself

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Fruitcrackers99@reddit

Calm down.

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Zantheus@reddit

Grunge hair.

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Apprehensive_Judge_5@reddit

Plus grunge scruff. That combined the look of dirty hair with a dirty face.

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jeroboamj@reddit

The stupid "jazz dot" right below the lower lip too

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Uranus_Hz@reddit

The “Soul patch” was a thing in the 70s, so boomer.

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jeroboamj@reddit

Thats right I don't know where I got jazz dot.yewh wait, I do. It was called that on a stupid episode of new newlyweds game. Some guy called it that and how his wife hated his. Ugh

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LazyDramaLlama68@reddit

I think it was called a "soul patch". Either way it looked like someone had a dirt smudge below their lip. Stupid then, stupid now

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Dramatic_Side_856@reddit

Buzzcuts and long sideburns?

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bodhidharma132001@reddit

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uncivil_society@reddit

I totally had a soul patch back then, and for more years I care to admit. I thought it was great.

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HeyDugeeeee@reddit

I'm currently sporting the 'raving street bum beard' - it doesn't appear to be catching on.

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uncivil_society@reddit

I too am a member of this most illustrious collection of ranting homeless style facial haired folk. Preach on, brother!

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sinistar2000@reddit

It totally has. For one other person at least:)

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HeyDugeeeee@reddit

I feel seen.

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Serg_Molotov@reddit

Welcome to the club, we meet under the bridge on Thursdays.

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Mr_Guavo@reddit

The goatee minus the moustache.

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DubLParaDidL@reddit

That's actually a goatee - what most call a goatee is a van dyke

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

I've had a goatee, a Van Dyke, and an old Dutch. Now it's just a regular beard.

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

TIL

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Waratail@reddit

Eeeeeuw!

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Average_Random_Bitch@reddit

I advocated mightily for the mohawk.

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zuuzuu@reddit

On your face?

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

Could a mustache could be considered a face mohawk?

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themodefanatic@reddit

I’m 50M. Gen x. And I sport a Mohawk everyday !!!!

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jsamuraij@reddit

Rad 🤘

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Small_Consequence_00@reddit

I hate the new pornstaches. And they're not even being ironic.

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

They don't even know what irony is

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MemoryHot@reddit

Omg omg so gross did anybody else ever hear ppl call the soul patch a “flavour saver” ? 🤮

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wetwater@reddit

My brother did as a teen, until he called it that in front of our mother. He got smacked upside the head and was forced to shave it off.

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humble-meercat@reddit

Hahaha totally. And it’s so gross.

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Coolnamesarehard@reddit

Yep, heard that a long time ago.

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wh7751@reddit

Lower lip 'stash. It was a Southern Rock thing.

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scarletOwilde@reddit

Designer “stubble”.

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handturkey42@reddit

Been sporting mutton chops off and on since 95. The best style ever, full stop

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zoeybeattheraccoon@reddit

At different points I had sideburns, a goatee and a soul patch.

I'm least apologetic for the sideburns. They were dope. I remember going into a bookstore and heard some girl mutter under her breath to a co-worker, "who does he think he is, Elvis?"

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CharismaticAlbino@reddit

God I love good muttonchops

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stefanica@reddit

Yes! On the right guy they are so hot.

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oldg17@reddit

Goatee with soul patch

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Jensen1994@reddit

Goatees and sideburns.

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Night-Thunder@reddit

The only answer!

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patroklus68@reddit

I believe the soul patch was also known as “the lady-pleaser”

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muffsnake@reddit

Aka - The flavor saver

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Akira75@reddit

Mullets

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SuburbanBushwacker@reddit

in london in the 90’s it was Tennis Ball - whole head No.1 or No.2. often worn with a roll neck under a ralph lauren oxford and a ball cap. Jason Statham was a well known practitioner

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Speshal__@reddit

I see the mullet is making a comeback......jaysus.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Chinstrap beards

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TJCharter@reddit

I think that was more millinials in the early 2000's

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I'm Gen X and had one in about '95. Maybe I was just ahead of my time.

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mltrout715@reddit

I personally applaud the return of the pornstach.

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unicornhunter202@reddit

Handlebar mustache.

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Dakotasunsets@reddit

Sam Elliot, that you?

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vinegar@reddit

Yeah I had a goatee for a while in 92-93. I let laziness take over and I’ve had a beard for thirty years.

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GrumpySnarf@reddit

The bowl cut with the rat tail in the back.

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Silly-Power@reddit

What about those douchy beard lines that mostly fat guys had because they thought it made it look like they had a jawline.

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AcanthocephalaDue715@reddit

The chinstrap

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Silly-Power@reddit

Thank you, I had forgotten what it was called.

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tuenthe463@reddit

Dylan and Brandon sideburns

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angelwild327@reddit

Mutton chops

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DullNeedleworker3447@reddit

Big ol sideburns

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thaaag@reddit

Nah that's boomer style - my dad was rocking them in the 70s.

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SunshineAlways@reddit

Everything comes back. It’s the cir-cle of liiiiiife.

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ahamasmi@reddit

Indeed. And Bell Bottoms.

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Currency-Substantial@reddit

True but most of us came to our senses after awhile. I blame 90210.

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Grobbekee@reddit

I basically looked like Rick Astley till 40. Then full beard.

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Vast_Ad7490@reddit

Wait, who are the guys that walk around with partial facial hair looking like they went in for a shave & had to make a quick exit after the moustache was eliminated, then forgot they have a lopsided face now? They shouldn't be out in the wild. I know they aren't Gen X, cuz that's what I am.

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toihanonkiwa@reddit

Quarter of century ago I stopped givin the final fuck I had left and let it all grow out as it comes.

Turned out my natural state of being hair-wise, was and still is, a goatee/fu manchu and long hair on a topknot but bolding from the fronttop.

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treble-n-bass@reddit

topknot but bolding from the fronttop

Uh, ... dude ... what???

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Jorge-Esqueleto@reddit

The mullet?

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zuuzuu@reddit

I can't even imagine what a facial hair version of a mullet would look like. Please...don't show me. I'd rather not know.

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MisterNighttime@reddit

Super long mutton chops but clean shaven around the mouth and chin?

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AcanthocephalaDue715@reddit

The Martin Van Buren

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Jorge-Esqueleto@reddit

That's the one.

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zuuzuu@reddit

Why would you put that in my head!?!

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One-Row-8400@reddit

The side burns

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dapala1@reddit

The soul patch was big. What that brought back though? Or just a lame new thing.

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pjdubbya@reddit

I had a girlfriend at the time that insisted I grow one of those. I was like "nup". and never did.

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DarthGuber@reddit

I had one as well. I have a weak chin tho so it looked like a fur tongue.

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dapala1@reddit

Yeah I thought it looked okay. Was told to just go clean shaven or grow a beard. I've done both ever since.

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JoeMomma755@reddit

90210 Sideburns

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jabaturd@reddit

Not sure if we can claim all of Glamrock since it was boomers putting it on, while we were consumers.

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unloosedcoin@reddit

Oof. I have a long grey goatie and a mohawk I can comb down to look professional.

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EdTNuttyB@reddit

Brazilian and landing strips… oh wait, FACIAL hair.

Never mind.

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Recent_Permit2653@reddit

LOL I thought of Gen z moustaches more as the perps I saw as a kid watching COPS in the early 90s. The hats and moustaches…just make me think of that.

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

Pretty sure a mustache was a requirement to be a law enforcement officer back then

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nrith@reddit

Mohawks.

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Egg_Gurl@reddit

Look, my 1990 blue mohawk was amazing.

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dapala1@reddit

Birdman!

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spiritsandspinners@reddit

I'm pretty sure mohawks are evergreen across every generation since punk rock began.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Your head must be strangely shaped.

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kenjinyc@reddit

lol we are the bad haircut generation. I own my David Cassidy, then mullet, then rat tail. What glorious hair choices we had.

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hankenator1@reddit

Spiked hair and the rat tail.

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zuuzuu@reddit

Though usually not on people's faces.

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hankenator1@reddit

Neither is a a mullet or long hair but that has been mentioned several times.

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MarkDavid04@reddit

Goatees for sure!

But a few years back, I rocked the handlebars... Fun but short-lived 😂

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noneyanoseybidness@reddit

I’ve had a handlebar since the late 80’s. It has a mind of its own.

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Ricekake33@reddit

The soul patch. Oof

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Uberutang@reddit

Mutton chops

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MulletofLegend@reddit

The goatee. In 91 and 92, I think almost every dude I knew grew one, or at least tried.

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LynxLynx555@reddit

Mullet

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RuprectGern@reddit

either the goatee or its photographic negative the soul patch.

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weedtrek@reddit

Goatee

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fattires@reddit

The soul patch, accompanied by a tribal tattoo and a shark tooth necklace.

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BitNorthOfForty@reddit

or a puka shell necklace 🐚

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burner-throw_away@reddit

No, the shark tooth necklace was bitchin’.! The others, yeah, lame.

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Individual-Army811@reddit

And white framed sunglasses

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fattires@reddit

Hmm, sounds like something a soul patch wearing tribal tatted person would say.

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erocetc@reddit

For a moment there we brought back big band and swing music. The next gen will probably bring back jinco jeans.

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Kumquat_conniption@reddit

Jnco jeans are back baby!!!

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MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit

I think it’s already happening

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erino3120@reddit

Flavor saver

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heffel77@reddit

Gen X brought back the “haven’t shaved in a week” and long hair thing.

Or dyeing hair with koolaid.. that was popular…

But, the main thing was scruff and long hair

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Away-Quantity928@reddit

Soul Patch aka the ball tickler.

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ionchannels@reddit

Also man bun

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heffel77@reddit

Nah man buns are a millennial thing.

Having long hair in the 70-90’s could still get you called queer but it’s whatever. We did it anyway.

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EryktheDead@reddit

So bad, and don’t forget we’re responsible for the Mullet

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77evens@reddit

Mullets.

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SoloSkeptik@reddit

A mullet isn't facial hair.

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Significant_Ruin4870@reddit

Still a hirsutal crime.

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valw@reddit

Oh God.

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Goldielocks711@reddit

Mullet

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armblessed@reddit

I guess mullets were so bad, Gen-X pretends it never happened.

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Shineenoona@reddit

80’s hair is all I’m going to say

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valw@reddit

I wish big hair and aquanet came back!

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WasabiZone13@reddit

Common sense

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shankthedog@reddit

Goatee

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peacefinder@reddit

We brought back long hair on men.

It’s about the only thing where I’ve ever been ahead of the trend

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Silver-Bobcat672@reddit

Honestly, Gen X was best known for hair on the HEAD, not face!

We were all about BIG hair for the gals and long hair for the guys. Aqua Net was a girl's best friend! (Probably a guy's too.)

Don't believe me? Look at any 80s high school yearbook or any rock band and tell me I'm wrong. Everyone wanted to be David Lee Roth, and many almost were.

It was a great time to be high and alive. Sigh.

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Affectionate_Pace823@reddit

Mullet

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Upper_Guava5067@reddit

I really wish that the clean shaven look came back for men. Just my preference, of course.

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Puzzleheaded_Bad6461@reddit

I am NOT a beard fan

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Heavy-Interaction548@reddit

I agree. All this face hair makes a man look dirty and homeless.

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Hungry-Treacle8493@reddit

Good thing at our ages most men don’t care. Shaving sucks and irritates the hell out of most men’s faces.

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Heavy-Interaction548@reddit

That's because you're not using the right product and/or blade.

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Upper_Guava5067@reddit

Yes, I have heard that before.

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

Hey I have a home.

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Heavy-Interaction548@reddit

I said LOOKS homeless. READ.

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Upper_Guava5067@reddit

Clean shaved is ok. I can't say that is makes a man look dirty and homeless.. It's just a preference for me.

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redbanner1@reddit

I can't have no hair at all on my fat head.

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magster823@reddit

The goatee disdain makes me sad. My husband is still rocking his for half the year (he grows in a beard for the cold months) and it's still sexy as hell to me. I would never put them in the same category as scraggly beards and mullets. :(

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

I'm not really getting the goatee hate either, unless it's the beard without the mustache.

Without the 'stache you look a bit incomplete, like you tried but were satisfied with the participation trophy.

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magster823@reddit

Hilarious description! That's the Van Dyke, which can only be pulled off by a select few.

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Smittles@reddit

Soul patches and neck beards.

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Explorerofuniverses@reddit

Weren’t neck beards after Gen X, I don’t remember too many people having those.

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Smittles@reddit

I guess I’m referring to OG neck beards, which were prominent in the software engineering world as early as ‘98, when those Millennials were still hatching out of middle and high school.

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Explorerofuniverses@reddit

I guess I missed that - thank god 🤣

Only guys I had ever seen that in were the OG D&D heavy set guys lol

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whitemamba24xx@reddit

Thunder 👄

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Different-Bag-8217@reddit

Fu man chew… the under lip fuzzzzzsss

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vin4thewin@reddit

Two-day beard growth, or baby stubble.

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

Where's a good mutton chop when you need one?

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Doc-Milsap@reddit

The older I get, the longer my beard gets. I did scruff in the 90’s. I never shaved, just used a trimmer. Then, about 15 years ago, I stopped with the trimmer and just used beard scissors to keep it cleaned up. I was clean shaven once when my daughter was born, but that was the last time.

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crazyditzydiva@reddit

Can’t wait for Gen A to bring back caveman beards and mustaches because they can’t afford razor blades and shaving cream.

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kevtay1969@reddit

I’ve had a beard since 1986 (summer between sophomore junior), and it never was a thin scraggly beard. Full grown. Still have the beard all this time.

I shaved it for my wedding day and wife asked me to grow it back. Had one all these years except for 2-3 weeks in May of 1992.

Don’t care who has one or not. For me it’s just who I am.

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rotomangler@reddit

The mullet is distinctly Gen X. I proudly wore one in the 80s

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Dazzling-Bear3942@reddit

The question is what did Gen X bring back though. I think its the beatnik look of the goatee amd little beard and also the 60s mod shag haircuts.

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damnyankeeintexas@reddit

Honestly we GenX men should be rocking some sort of goatee, chin beard or full beard to hid are old ass sagging chin flesh.

I had to shave mine for Covid, so I could wear an N95 for work. It was awful. My wife cried, my dogs growled at me me and I left for work . Do not recommend

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Yeah, I look like Mr Potato Head without a beard or at least a goatee

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losthiker68@reddit

I am balding with the remaining hair very short, but I have a lovely gray chin-beard down to my collar bone.

In winter, I'm in flannel and a beanie. That's when my wife started calling me Grunge Gandalf

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damnyankeeintexas@reddit

That’s awesome. I loled

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swordrat720@reddit

I’ve had a full beard for most of the last 25 years. I had to go clean shaved for work when my daughter was around 4 and son around 2. They both screamed and cried when they saw me with no facial hair. My daughter: you sound like daddy, but you don’t look like daddy. sob. My son: what did you do with my dadddieeeeee? *sob

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False-Decision630@reddit

Soul patch and door knockers.

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Giant_Devil@reddit

I had a goatee from like 1993 to around 2014, at which point I just grew out the rest of my beard. I trim it down every month or so but I haven't been clean shaven in years.

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Cleverironicusername@reddit

I still have sideburns.

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gramma-space-marine@reddit

My husband had the best sideburns when we met ::sigh::

We were watching a show together with a character called Starburns who had star shaped sideburns and I was so bummed he couldn’t rock them.

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Uranus_Hz@reddit

He has a name. It’s Alex Osborne.

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gramma-space-marine@reddit

Omg I love you for this

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posaune123@reddit

My condolences

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flyingatlightspeed@reddit

Rat tails, I was so proud of mine! 🤣

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Disassociated_Assoc@reddit

24 hour to 4 day old 5-o’clock shadow. I hate shaving, so it never gets done on the weekend and rarely on vacations. I hate the feeling of a beard more though.

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TurboGrafx16Bit@reddit

Same here it's not like I enjoy shaving but I hate too much facial hair worse

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bradco@reddit

I was in the military for 24 years, I'm retired now and don't like shaving. On the other hand, I hate it when my beard is growing out because my beard hair is coarse as shit. So I shave on Sunday, that's it just Sunday as it's the perfect length. I'm not shaving all the time but also it's not too long for my safety razor to handle.

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blumpkinator2000@reddit

Goatee for sure.

I flip back and forth between a full beard, pornstache, and currently a goatee. Soul patch is a no-no, just looked tragic on me.

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TakkataMSF@reddit

Mutton chops! I mean I tried. It didn't take. I still cut my beard down to a stubble. Otherwise too much gray shows.

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TurboGrafx16Bit@reddit

Yeah to me a beard makes you look older than you are don't know why anyone wants to look like an old grandpa. I'm clean shaved most of the time 50 years old on my grandpa and people say I don't look old enough to be a grandpa. I say thank you for the compliment 🙂

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

The 5 O’clock shadow

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

He smelled of 3 day old beeeeerrrrr

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GhoulWrangler206@reddit

My man looked at me and said why are you here?

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MurderedRemains@reddit

I said, I'm charming, I'm dashing, I'm rental car bashing.

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

Lol. I love you guys.

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stereohalo@reddit

My man turned to me and said why are you here?

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red_dirt_ranger@reddit

Soul patch

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Bokononfoma@reddit

Ding Ding Ding!

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DPax_23@reddit

My mid-90s muttonchops were hideous.

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Ozmorty@reddit

Glorious. You spelt glorious wrong. Mine remain glorious.

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Purist1975@reddit

All of them are better than a weird baby face on an adult man.

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Mr_Guavo@reddit

Are you taliban? lol

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Purist1975@reddit

You looka like a virgin.

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Mr_Guavo@reddit

lol!

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Purist1975@reddit

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TankApprehensive3053@reddit

Horseshoe mustache.

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expectations_low12@reddit

Fu Manchu!

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TankApprehensive3053@reddit

Fu Manchu is basically same but extends longer down past chin.

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TurboGrafx16Bit@reddit

Tell me facial hair is disgusting I'm 50 and never had a beard or mustache or goatee basically shave every other day. Just got a free bird pretty nice

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

I wore a “Ryker“ from Star Trek for a couple of years in the late 90’s. I also wore a blazer with a collarless white shirt. Looking back I went way too “The Ghost and Misses Muir”.

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Toobefaaaaaiirrr@reddit

Sideburn/ mutton chop/ gotee

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Eman_Asiti@reddit

Loooooong Sideburns

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cosp85classic@reddit

No, that was a 70s thing first.

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wezelboy@reddit

My first wife asked me to grow one. I did, but I fucking hated it.

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DHarp74@reddit

Goatees.

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Stump303@reddit

I have had a porn star for years. We did bring back mutton chops

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DTFChiChis@reddit

I love chops

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accountofmountzuma@reddit

Ooo me too

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MissRepresent@reddit

My brother has a soul patch, in true gen x fashion 🤣

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Altruistic-Target-67@reddit

Dreadlocks on white people

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IchBinDurstig@reddit (OP)

That was the worst, but it's not facial hair.

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Altruistic-Target-67@reddit

Oh right - yeah soul patches and skinny mustaches

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run_squid_run@reddit

Designs shaved in our hair. In 1989 I had a Batman symbol in the back of my head. Later I had my football jersey number

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accountofmountzuma@reddit

And the shaved freaking eyebrows slash!!!!

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No_Astronomer8774@reddit

Came here to say

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djshimon@reddit

Soul patch, yuck.

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sweetsourpus@reddit

Goatee!

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builtinamplifier@reddit

Both are millennial trends that have been around for at least 15 years or more

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Wactout@reddit

It’s definitely goatees.

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Troublemonkey36@reddit

Well everyone says goatee. But that’s not the correct word. It’s circle beard. A goatee was not the dominant facial hair thing of GenX. It was circle beard!

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Dewey_Coxxx@reddit

Never heard of a circle beard. A goatee is just beard, a vandyke is beard and mustache.

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Troublemonkey36@reddit

A circle beard is mustache and beard connected and the beard is in a circle (really more of an an oval), and is not present on the back of the jaw. This is the style that Gen X brought out of hibernation and were wearing everywhere.

A Van Dyke is when the beard and mustache do not connect and the beard part is more a triangle.

A goatee is just the triangle or hair hanging from under the lip and over the chin. And that’s it. Sometimes it’s smaller, sometimes larger. It was not that popular in the nineties or by Gen X in general. But it did show up a bit more with Gen X than some other generations .

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SunBelly@reddit

Goatee is correct. The classic goatee is a chin beard with no mustache. There are goatee styles that can also be circle beards, but not all. Most are chin beard only or detached chin beard and mustache. Chin beard only goatee is the one most of us are referring to because it fits the cringe premise of the thread - particularly long goatees.

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Troublemonkey36@reddit

Well that’s not the one that was very popular in the nineties. And most folks here probably think it’s the circle beard. It’s a very common mistake. Very few people wore goatees in the nineties. Many wore the circle beard.

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Elon_Musks_Colon@reddit

Soul Patch

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CobaltSky@reddit

The flavor savor.

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Tappadeeassa@reddit

The facial hair of choice for the sensitive man who went to open poetry night.

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gyrekat@reddit

Came to say this!

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McSmackthe1st@reddit

Mohawks, Mullets and Goatees.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

What is it with the mowhawks? This is a post about facial hair. I'm already getting shit on for my beard, leave the hair out of it!

Kidding, I haven't been able to grow a mowhawk for like 2 decades because I went bald.

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crone_Andre3000@reddit

sideburns

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Organic_Tradition_94@reddit

I miss my mutton chops. But my chin really appreciates my beard.

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

I have acne scars from my teen years. I wear a beard and don’t even have to worry about it.

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eyeballburger@reddit

Soul patch, goatee and skinny eyebrows for chicks.

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_hufflebuff@reddit

Ah yes, the sperm-brow. I fell victim to the over plucking trend in high school. Sadly, my eyebrows have never fully recovered. Some scars are permanent 😞

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eyeballburger@reddit

My sister has to draw hers on now. 😬

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Tinyberzerker@reddit

We all plucked the eyebrows too much and they never grew back! 😭

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Positive_Use_1308@reddit

Goatee, carved square

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NoOil535@reddit

Mullet ring a bell?

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Hungry-Treacle8493@reddit

Those are back as well.

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

Yeah, but not like they were back in the day

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g0mphi@reddit

3 day stubble

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GodEmperorLeto462@reddit

Goatee's were common for most of Gen X in their 20's and thirties.

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DoubleDrummer@reddit

Still have my goatee.
I will die with my goatee.

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beerdeer101@reddit

Hear hear

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swordrat720@reddit

I used to have a goatee. I still do, but I used to, too.

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g0mphi@reddit

"most?"

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timfinn1972@reddit

Goatee bald head black outdated band t shirt.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Bro, I'm right here.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

I'm 53, worked my whole life, why are you attacking me?

I'm not a walking stereotype because everyone else copied me.

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Sithstress_@reddit

Don’t forget dirty hands like you haven’t washed them in a week. Lol

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bowlwoman@reddit

So you know my husband? 🤣

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downadarkallie@reddit

Thin, thin eyebrows. Plucked beyond repair.

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Mockingbird_1234@reddit

I regret this so deeply

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plantyjen@reddit

Oof, same! But we all wanted to look like the Love’s Baby Soft model. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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PDX_Weim_Lover@reddit

Mine haven't been seen since the 90s.

God, I miss them...

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lurk3141592653589793@reddit

I will rock my goatee until my dying day! Hahaha

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Damn right. Also, last time I shaved it off my wife threatened to leave me. Facial hair does wonders when you're ugly.

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Inc-Roid@reddit

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expectations_low12@reddit

Still love a nice goatee!

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Leothegolden@reddit

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Maleficent-Courage48@reddit

Eh, it's kinda like an el Camino, ya either love them or hate them.

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CrushTheRebellion@reddit

Those 90210 long 70s side burns were pretty popular in the 90s too.

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DerDutchman1350@reddit

The David Silver

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IWNCGTA@reddit

Oh no, those were Dylan McKay sideburns. Hot.

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

Side burns

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Wide_Breadfruit_2217@reddit

Jerri Curl. So much sliminess on the bus seats

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socialmediaignorant@reddit

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brandonsarkis@reddit

The goatee in all its forms. I had one and it makes me want to vomit. 😂

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Maybe you should have washed it more often?

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Wurfelrolle@reddit

That idiotic growing a goatee to 6-10 inches, then twisting it really thin and putting in a few beads.

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LunaPolaris@reddit

Or braiding it! lmao

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Jokes on you, I never learned how to braid. I just tape the beads on like Cap'n Lou with his rubber bands.

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

The Go Tee

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DustyRailz@reddit

The chin-strap... unfortunately

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DTFChiChis@reddit

Soul patch

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asianjohnnydepp@reddit

Flavor Savor

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RedDog7051@reddit

Womb Broom!

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lando-hockey@reddit

The barbed wire bicep tattoo was a complement to the goatee. I had the latter. Skipped the ink.

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JulsTiger10@reddit

Muttonchops!!

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Right, that's it! The 'chops are coming back.

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likeittight_@reddit

So much cooler than anything since….

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WinnerAwkward480@reddit

I could grow a mustache like Sam Elliot , yet not much of beard till my early 40's . And then it was like they switched Full beard in couple weeks , and mustache is kinda sparse. 🤷‍♂️

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mybluecouch@reddit

Neck beard. 😬

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lostroustabout42@reddit

Side burns

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lando-hockey@reddit

Whoa! I totally forgot about my sideburns!

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alwayssearching117@reddit

The guys my age all jumped on the guy perm bandwagon. It wasn't pretty!

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Lafleur_111@reddit

Flavour savers.

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bc90210@reddit

Soul Patch 💯.

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human5398246@reddit

Sideburns?

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bernardfarquart@reddit

Don’t talk shit about my goatee

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linecookdaddy@reddit

The moustache-less goatee

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

First one to accurately answer the question. It looks like your face is going bald.

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linecookdaddy@reddit

Otherwise known as the smashmouth

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tabj1974@reddit

The old face mullet

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YellowOnline@reddit

I had a goatee around 2000

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hawgs911@reddit

Wait... I still have a goatee

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tincan-veteran@reddit

Goatees and soul patches.

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Either-Cake-892@reddit

Soul patch

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muy-feliz@reddit

My husband is trying to relive his glory days by bringing this back. It’s the only hair that’s not graying!

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SargonTheAkkadian@reddit

I had a goatee, but that’s exactly why I now have a soul patch. Everything else is white.

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

As Cher in Clueless said of the goatee, “chin pubes.”

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Dollbeau@reddit

Yep, one of the only ones in my peers who didn't Rock-D-Chin-Goat!

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Plus-Pomegranate8045@reddit

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JuliusSeizuresalad@reddit

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LunaPolaris@reddit

Whoo! Thought I was having an acid flashback for a second there.

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Bob_Ricigliano_@reddit

Goatee is the answer

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lasorciereviolette@reddit

Soul patch

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BurtRogain@reddit

My soul patch metamorphosed into a full beard when it was ready.

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JoeN0t5ur3@reddit

Yeah this and the Goatee. We have to own those

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LightFlaky2329@reddit

This OMG those were the worst

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justplainjon@reddit

Mullets!

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medisamurai@reddit

when did you have a mullet on your face?

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Blue_Henri@reddit

Total personal question bordering on kink shaming.

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Odd_Praline181@reddit

Goatees. Only GenX have goatees. Younger generations aren't even growing them ironically.

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zombie_overlord@reddit

Mine will only grow in a goatee pattern. Usually I'm free of facial hair, but occasionally I grow one out of sheer laziness.

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ThirdSunRising@reddit

We were the goatee people

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

We are the goatee people. Ftfy.

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fenwyk@reddit

Don't be jealous.

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Ancient-Cow-1038@reddit

One nation under a goatee.

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Egg_Gurl@reddit

Guilty. Also, stop criticizing me!

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kpaddler@reddit

Goatees and vandykes.

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Blue_Henri@reddit

For a split second I had to think what a vandyke was because I had the Prince Albert in my head (figuratively).

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Signal_Transition664@reddit

Goatee’s. Ugh.

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FuckYouNotHappening@reddit

Not facial hair, per se, but I remember boys and men wearing their hair longer than they did in the 80’s.

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jasno-@reddit

Uhh.. the 70's porn mustache never went out of style, it looked cool in the 70's, it looks cool now. I'm glad to see more men with awesome mustaches.

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posaune123@reddit

It wasn't cool and it will never be cool outside of a 70's SNL sketch

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jasno-@reddit

HARD DISAGREE.

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grinder_girl@reddit

I just want everybody to know the first time I read this it read “ 70s porn” that was all and I was like noooo but whyyy??

Like how much damage can they actually do 🫠

I’m glad I misread though. Carry on. 😂🫶🏻🙏🤗

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Independent_Yak_9128@reddit

The rat tail pure 80’s GenX

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lacunha@reddit

Can confirm.

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Deer-in-Motion@reddit

I had what I guess is called a circle beard.

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CrazyBitchCatLady@reddit

This is the answer.

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phalangepatella@reddit

Goatees for sure. I rock the full beard now, but my lips / chin area hasn’t seen daylight since the 90’s.

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ShartlesAndJames@reddit

soul patch

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must_eye@reddit

Flavor savors

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ZestfullyStank@reddit

Aka the soul patch

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Acecarpenter@reddit

The womb broom??

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WokeAssMessiah@reddit

Goatees 100%

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Efficient-Fold5548@reddit

Goatee for sure

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GenXPowaah@reddit

The Smooth Face w/ Soul Patch

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metacholia@reddit

We had a sideburn thing going on for a while

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likeittight_@reddit

What do you mean “had”

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bluealien78@reddit

The soul patch.

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beermaker@reddit

Soul patch and grunge goatee.

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Routine_Guitar_5519@reddit

Chops, soul patch, bowl cut.

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BloodyBarbieBrains@reddit

Soul patches and goatees.

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Saint909@reddit

100% Soul patches I just thought were lame.

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CDubs_94@reddit

Fauxhawk

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suzepie@reddit

Not facial hair.

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Ok-Escape-8376@reddit

Soul patch

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Valuable_Bluebird334@reddit

Came here to write this

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peteofaustralia@reddit

Yes, it's goatees.

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The_Ruby_Rabbit@reddit

The unkempt goatee.

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VelvetElvis@reddit

Ironic Mullets

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SnazzleZazzle@reddit

How about the mullet? I recall seeing a lot of that in the 80’

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wheresbill@reddit

Rocking the goatee as we speak

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Igmuhota@reddit

Even heading into my 60s, I still go through mini-phases where I’m positive I will look great with a goatee. So I of course grow it out, aaannndd…

Nope. Still look like an idiot. Off it goes… until the next time.

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NoReally_ImSerious@reddit

Today I learned men:goatees::women:bangs

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goingloopy@reddit

There’s some truth to this. Except that bangs take way longer to grow out, especially if you say “I’m growing out my bangs” out loud. Before that, I felt like I had to trim them every day. Growing them out took at least a year and cutting my hair shorter to match them.

And if you’re a woman in perimenopause, you START growing a fucking goatee while the hair on your head is not growing.

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justpuddingonhairs@reddit

Sideburns and weird goatees, sometimes with braids and beads in them.

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EmmerdoesNOTrepme@reddit

Also, the Chin Strip & "Lower-lip Puff"

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TimeLine_DR_Dev@reddit

The goatee

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glenbrick@reddit

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NoCoGuy1620@reddit

Goatees, flavor savers and sideburns. Had all at one time or another. 😁👍

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jeroboamj@reddit

Goatees and mutton chops

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EmmerdoesNOTrepme@reddit

Goatees & the Chin-strip!

Mutton Chops were the young end of the Baby Boom.

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crossstitchbeotch@reddit

skinny eyebrows

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j1j2h1h2@reddit

Yes! I had Brooke Shields brows before the 90s. I overdid the tweezing and they never grew back.

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coci222@reddit

The Flavor Saver

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ziperhead944@reddit

Wait... you have hair?

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heldaway@reddit

IDK I love a sexy mustachioed hombre 👨🏻

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ZZoMBiEXIII@reddit

We already get blamed for the mullet and the aqua-net hairdos of the 80's, do we NEED to take accountability for anything else?

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RobsHereAgain@reddit

Grey hair lol

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Deer-in-Motion@reddit

I had a Van Dyke in the early 2000s.

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Pristine_Frame_2066@reddit

Goatees. You’re welcome.

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Illustrious_Stick_57@reddit

With a Caesar haircut.

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enamoured_artichoke@reddit

The mullet

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scottiepippen13@reddit

Mullets and goatees

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keja1978@reddit

Designer stubble. And goatees 🙄

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ktappe@reddit

Designer stubble is the answer.

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Playful_Ad9949@reddit

It was bad. I thought I was never a victim, but recently found photos with both goatee and sideburns…

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MsAddams999@reddit

We were the ones who colored our hair neon shades first and all the shaved sides and that we did that first. Plus guys wearing makeup and nail polish that was us too. All that stuff that the kids think is so fresh we did it first.

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Environmental-End691@reddit

Shaved sides were a thing in europe & uk before, during, & after WW1. I did it in the 90's, but we were far from first.

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Informal-Chemical-79@reddit

Sideburns

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Chad_Hooper@reddit

I gotta say that we can’t completely take credit for the soul patch. My uncle, born in the 30s and a veteran of Vietnam, was sporting one throughout the late 70s/early 80s. Much to the chagrin of his mother/my Granny.

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Altruistic-Panda-697@reddit

That soul patch seems to have originated with the beatniks

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Chad_Hooper@reddit

That lines up with the times. I don’t know if he was ever a beatnik or if he might have served with some in the military. He’s unfortunately long gone now, so I can’t ask him about it.

It does make me wonder how much more I could have learned from him if he had lived just another few years.

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OwlRare9948@reddit

Soul Patches...

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FibreOptician@reddit

Flavour saver

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Commisceo@reddit

Can we claim the mullet?

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Shot-Squirrel3483@reddit

Gen Z.

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AUCE05@reddit

No tattoos and dressing professional will be edgy and going against the crowd.

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Bec-o-Bec@reddit

I went to see an aging punk band w my boyfriend last summer. The entire crowd was GenX dudes with greying goatees.

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Skottyx@reddit

My ex wife told me that my goatee made me look like Satan, so of course I kept it lol

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SeparateCzechs@reddit

The Vandyck

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octopus_serenader@reddit

Rat tail.

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Wrong_Pen6179@reddit

Not your face but I came looking for this comment!

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Dead_Inside50@reddit

The goatee

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CousinBarnabas1967@reddit

Have we forgotten the chin-strap beard? Sported by the late Steve Harwell (RIP) of Smash Mouth who was born in 1967.

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respondwithevidence@reddit

Face mullets, AJA goatees.

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evermica@reddit

Three-days-since-shaved scruff.

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medisamurai@reddit

id say goatees with sideburns.

im growing the sideburns out again. not full chops but close to the bottom of ear lobes.

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TheFrontierzman@reddit

Goatee

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blackbird24601@reddit

mullets

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Bec-o-Bec@reddit

The rugby player style mullet in particular. Thought Id hate it but it looks cute on my nephew

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medisamurai@reddit

on your face?

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Brick_Mason_@reddit

Neckbeards?

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ubiquity75@reddit

The goatee, obviously.

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LastCookie3448@reddit

Soul patch. Eww.

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

Goatee. I still rock one .

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bluecyanic@reddit

Rat tail

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Significant-Sky9431@reddit

Yeah the goatee. But frankly, back in the day, clean-shaven was cool. I still go that way. It depends i guess on your facial structure...

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Ok_Echo_6528@reddit

The soul patch

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Preference_Artistic@reddit

Omg just about to make a comment about that atrociousity.

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drunkbettie@reddit

Definitely this one.

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Pewpew-OuttaMyWaay@reddit

The flavour saver

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cugamer@reddit

My goatee still looks fly.

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domesticatedprimate@reddit

Nobody has ever once commented negatively on my goatee.

The fact that I would rip their head off has nothing to do with it! No sirree! /s

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dewihafta@reddit

For a white guy…

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Kent_Kong@reddit

Hairdresser dreadlocks and the flavour saver hair thing that some dudes grew under their bottom lip.

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hashalanche@reddit

Soul Patch. WTF is up with those? So you can’t grow a proper beard, totally fine! Can’t grow a proper mustache, also totally fine! Letting your under-lip hair grow long? F’n weird. Just clean shave like the rest of us.

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daydreamersunion@reddit

Goatees and huge sideburns. Everytime I try a goatee it just makes me look like an aging Dante from Clerks. Sigh.

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Panem-et-circenses25@reddit

I’m not even supposed to be here today

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IDunnoNuthinMr@reddit

Goatee in the front. Rat tail in the back.

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RTVGP@reddit

Not sure they “brought it back” but a lot of my HS classmates rocked a mullet!

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CountryMaleficent439@reddit

That's not facial hair. Just bad judgement.

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Ok-Juggernaut-353@reddit

The achey breaky big mistakey

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CountryMaleficent439@reddit

Thanks for the chuckle.

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Additional_Rest7044@reddit

Chin beard with no mustache and the soul patch

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aunt_cranky@reddit

Probably the "soul patch" or VanDyke.
Guys who couldn't grow beards just let their hair get weird and grow a soul patch.

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conselyea@reddit

Sideburns. Mohawks.

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conselyea@reddit

Sideburns With mohawks.

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conselyea@reddit

White dreadlocks

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DeauxDeaux@reddit

Mullets and goatee.

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R67H@reddit

Van Dykes and goatees. I even sported one for a bit before I grew a proper beard.

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jakexcited45@reddit

Nothing. We have outgrown porn.

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MoonageDayscream@reddit

The sideburns Adam Ant had- the pointy ones.

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UnpredictableMike@reddit

I had a goatee for maybe 3 minutes, and realized I looked like a henchman in a B movie and shaved it off

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energy528@reddit

Goat

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Live_Past_8978@reddit

First it was 90210 sideburns

Then the Chino from Deftones goatee

I may be guilty of both of these

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FreshKangaroo6965@reddit

Mullet and that let it happen again last year

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Worth-Luck7118@reddit

The 5 o'clock shadow a la Don Johnson! LOL

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Elon_Musks_Colon@reddit

Mullets.

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sheepslinky@reddit

I've always had a pornstache. I thought that was us...

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ConsultantForLife@reddit

It wasn't me. I've had measurable facial hair exactly once in 52 years and it was for a halloween costume.

Shaved that Nov 1st that year.