> This goes out to all of you who have facial hair. If you don't have facial hair, you might still enjoy it.
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> I have found that my facial hair tends to grow in a specific direction, down and to the right. This causes the hair on the right of my face to seem longer, and as it grows, it covers the part of my chin directly beneath it, making it harder to shave there properly and allowing new hair to grow at the surface in that area. On days like today, when I trim all the long hair, my goatee seems all misshapen where the short hair underneath has grown in. I call this curving hair growth the "Goateeolis Effect", and I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this strange phenomenon. I also wonder if all of us in the northern hemisphere get it to the right and if southern hemisphere people get it to the left.
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> Consider this a survey of sorts, if you wish. I await your answers...
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> Don "Hee hee" Monkey

I'm sure the goateeolis effect depends somewhat on wind direction. And that, as has already been pointed out, depends on which hemisphere you live in.
Another possible cause of comma-shaped goatees is that facial hair is attracted to light. I can't prove this hypothesis, but if a goatee points toward a light source, that may be considered as evidence.
I've also noticed that nose hair tends to grow toward the light, but scalp hair does so only on women and younger males. Ear hair, which is usually found only on older males, also grows toward the light. Wart hair seems unaffected by light, wind, gravity, or anything else.
My final observation is that this is the silliest discussion on RinkWorks in recent months. I love it.
Howard