I know I’m late posting this (it happened on Thursday) but I had the mother of all oops.

As some of you may or may not know… I’ve been growing a beard. Yes I’ve had facial hair for a long time and I’ve had a Van Dyck (a moustache with a goatee) of late, but over the past month, I’ve decided to grow a full on beard. I thought it looked pretty good:

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And it was my plan to continue sporting the beard… that was until Thursday morning, when a series of shaving mishaps resulted in this unfortunate look:

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It started innocently enough… trimming up the lower part of my beard, under my neck. A small slip of the razor, and the right side was too high, no amount of trying to even it out would help. I realized I’d have to give up the beard… so I began to remove the beard and go back to my Van Dyck. I got out my clippers and trimmed down my cheeks, I outlined my goatee and cleaned up the edges of my moustache. While I was doing maintenance I decided the goatee could use a bit of trimming down, it was after all kinda long. I grabbed the attachment for the clipper and set it to 3, my normal length for my goatee and moustache. I took the first pass and realized… it was set to a ONE not a THREE! I shaved off the whole corner of my goatee.

Can you say…NOT HAPPY JAN!

So now faced with the death of my beard, the demise of my goatee, and the fact that I look like 70’s porn star with a moustache alone… I went clean shaven. I’m not happy at all with how I look. I really want my goatee back and now…

I won’t be shaving for a few weeks I can tell you that.