Who is this man?
Last night I shaved off my husband's goatee.
This might not seem like a big deal to most of you, but we've been together for 9 1/2 years, and I've never actually seen his face.
We have talked many times over the years about shaving it off, but we never got around to actually doing it.
It was always "I can't believe we are living together and I've never actually seen your face" or "I can't believe we are engaged and I've never actually seen your face" or "I can't believe we are married and I've never actually seen your face".
You get the idea.
So I guess now that I'm carrying this man's baby, I wanted to make sure he wasn't hiding anything from me under that wiry mass of hair.
So, last night we bit the bullet.
To say I was freaked out would be an understatement.
Here is the before:
Here it is after I shaved off the bottom part so that he could have a porn star mustache for a few minutes:
This was the point where I started to get REALLY freaked out.
This is pretty much how my face looked for the rest of the shaving:
Quite possibly the best picture ever taken of me.
This is about a fifth of the hair that came off his face:
Here is the after picture in which the husband looks stoned because his family has some weird genetic mutation which makes it virtually impossible for them to keep their eyes open for pictures:
Here is a closeup:
He's going to close shave it today (I just used the electric clipper last night) so we can get the full effect.
Then, he's immediately going to start the process of growing it back so that I stop rocking back and forth and mumbling to myself.
Comments
Well, I can say one thing.
Those lips that look totally kissable (if you don't mind me saying) haven't changed with the loss of hair.
Posted by: Aimee | November 20, 2006 12:14 PM
Ooooh handsome!!
Posted by: whoorl | November 20, 2006 02:58 PM
Well, actually, not that I have a vote or whatnot, I think he looks totally hotter without the facial hair.
(notice I said "hotTER," and you have to say that with a Freddie 'Boom Boom' Washington twang; he's awfully cute either way)
Posted by: candace | November 20, 2006 03:03 PM
awww... he does look hawter. and young.
Posted by: samantha | November 20, 2006 03:37 PM
I have known you BOTH a long time, and i have never seen EITHER of those faces.
Posted by: New Blue Shoe | November 20, 2006 04:04 PM
Either way, you have one good looking man. :)
Posted by: southernfriedgirl | November 20, 2006 04:28 PM
Dude, he's gorgeous either way and you know it. :P
Posted by: Fuzzball | November 20, 2006 04:47 PM
He looks much younger. And more model like.
Posted by: Stephanie | November 20, 2006 05:19 PM
Thank you, I needed that laugh - it looks great both ways!
Posted by: Duchess | November 20, 2006 05:43 PM
He looks years younger! He's cute either way but if not having his beard makes you makes that face then for the baby's sake maybe he'd better hurry up and grow it back! ;0)
Posted by: platypus | November 20, 2006 07:13 PM
I shaved off my beard a year ago, not as a momentous thing but just "Hey, I'm bored - I wonder what this would look like?" I came downstairs, tapped my wife on the shoulder, and she said "Oh, no. No. Nonononono."
Evidently, I look just a bit too much like my dad to go without a bread. She's still shuddering convulsively.
Posted by: Nilbo | November 20, 2006 09:25 PM
That would be "go without a BEARD". Not bread. I go without bread all the time.
Posted by: Nilbo | November 20, 2006 09:26 PM
Ooh la la! He's hawt with or without the goatee!
Posted by: Tanya | November 20, 2006 11:34 PM
I think you were just worried about having a tiny goateed baby.
Posted by: G | November 21, 2006 10:59 AM
I'm usually all about the facial hair, but I actually think he looks better without it. Huz on the other hand? Must.Have.A.Goatee. Or else.
Posted by: victoria winters | November 21, 2006 11:40 AM
wow. he looks totally younger without it. i understand though. my husband's had a goatee for YEARS.
Posted by: Sarcomical | November 21, 2006 01:01 PM
My SO just went thru this with me. You see, he accidentally shaved off his beard. Accidentally? Why yes. Set the beard trimmer to 1 instead of 7 and took off half the 'stache. The rest? She had to go, too. So I saw my husband's face for the first time ever (together 9 years). He, too, looked much younger. But the maintenance was too much. He's growing it back.
Posted by: Alyce | November 21, 2006 02:29 PM
He needs to rock that 5 o'clock shadow every day. Rawr! Tell him that when even lesbians are saying he's hot without the facial hair.. dude is HOT! :-) Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by: Charlotte | November 21, 2006 06:40 PM
Heh heh heh heh, I TOTALLY understand the look on your face here.
I'm sure I've told you before about the time my ex shaved off his moustache without INFORMING me first...I'd never seen his nekkid face, ever. He came into the bedroom as I was waking up (without my glasses on), and I looked up and shrieked, thinking his little brother was walking in on me naked. He laughed his fool ass off about that for days and days...
Dr. Torrie does look younger, and very cute, without the facial fur, but I vote for it to come back. He looks awesome in a goatee.
(Oh, hey - I picked up a photography mag yesterday, and whose picture do you think I saw in a Nikon ad, hmmmmmmm? You go, girl!)
Posted by: Bucky Four-Eyes | November 22, 2006 12:46 AM
I love Jordan naked faced! I've known him for 9 1/2 years too so I've never seen the lower portion of the face (although he was like 12 when we met). I need to see this in person. This is better than when my mom said cooter.
Posted by: Andra | November 27, 2006 04:07 PM
If he was gay,I'd jump all over him!
Those lips! Yummm
Posted by: Omar | November 29, 2006 06:03 AM
he's a baby!
Posted by: Annejelynn | November 30, 2006 01:28 PM