# A white goatee

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677 "2010-10-01T00:29:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/1 "2010-10-01T00:29:04Z")

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Is there any way I can safely bleach my goatee white? I don’t mean blond, I mean pure white. It’s currently gray, and from a distance it just blends in with my skin. I don’t know what would be safe to use around my mouth and nose.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/2 "2010-10-01T01:09:25Z")

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I don’t know what to use, but professional wrestlers do it all the time.

Thinking it over, that may not be a guarantee of safety either. But the bleached blond wrestlers often went totally white, without additional coloring.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/3 "2010-10-01T03:34:15Z")

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Don’t use Liquid Paper. I’ve heard it’s carcinogenic.

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**Author:** ![wbeaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/439d5e/32.png) [@wbeaty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wbeaty)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/4 "2010-10-01T07:22:45Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Is there any way I can safely bleach my goatee white? I don’t mean blond, I mean pure white. It’s currently gray, and from a distance it just blends in with my skin. I don’t know what would be safe to use around my mouth and nose.

Buck up and enter the lions’ den: consult with the professionals at the hair salon down the street.

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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/5 "2010-10-01T12:24:30Z")

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> [@wbeaty](#):
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> Buck up and enter the lions’ den: consult with the professionals at the hair salon down the street.

This.

You know the term “little blue-haired old ladies?” Comes from unskilled attempts at adding just enough blue dying to gray hair to get it white. Ask a professional, you don’t want to be some kind of anti-smurf.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-white-goatee/555677/6 "2010-10-01T18:43:37Z")

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> [@rainy](#):
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> Ask a professional, you don’t want to be some kind of anti-smurf.

I’ve been anti-smurf for decades. You don’t have to be blue!