I've grown a mustache.

[jmattbassplaya]

You kinda look like Chris Cornell. I'd take his approach to facial hair if I were you.

[VeganThump]

Originally Posted by St Drogo

Ooh, mustaches are great! I was in the same situation as you, grew a mustache for fun, but it looked exquisite. I have actually always wanted a huge, majestic, vikinglike beard, but genetics is a cruel mistress; If I don't shave for a while a goatee develops, but my cheeks look like they're completely smooth, only a little smudgey. Being 27, I kinda recently lost hope for a miraculous mid-twenties growthspurt in hair. So I settled for a truckerstache and long sideburns.

Had to shave them since i'm looking for a job though. Missed it instantly, intently and eversince.

Yes! I love my sideburns and the mustache just ices the cake for me. I would love a huge beard myself but my job will not allow it, but they do allow mustaches and I'm taking full advantage!

[VeganThump]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

You kinda look like Chris Cornell. I'd take his approach to facial hair if I were you.

Whoa I've never heard that, he's pretty rad so Im cool with it. I actually look at him in a new light now after the PJ Twenty documentary, I thought how he spoke about Andy Wood was touching.

[St Drogo]

Originally Posted by VeganThump

Yes! I love my sideburns and the mustache just ices the cake for me. I would love a huge beard myself but my job will not allow it, but they do allow mustaches and I'm taking full advantage!

Good to hear it. Make no mistake: a fine mustache is advantageous to everyone who looks upon it as well.

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by ggoat!!!

Instant 70's pornstar.

Shut up!!!

I started growing this sweet stache when I was 11 years old! It really started to fill in nicely in my 30's.........

[VeganThump]

Frankly I would like to see a rebirth of the mustache. Not in the "ironic" way of hipsters, rather a genuine renaissance. The mustache has many, many styles and can be quite versatile really. The problem is, it's been maligned by pedophiles and creepsters and Hitler, so sadly it may never make a comeback.

[bassinplace]

This is having me mull around the idea as well. I've had a beard at different times, but nowadays it's too grey for me to be into it. Actually I always wanted to try the Zappa, but I figured it was too iconic.

[Bert Slide]

I think you look a little like this guy and he does alright!

[St Drogo]

Everything makes a comeback if you wait long enough. Granted, the hitler/chaplin style mustache might have a little worse of a stigma to work through though. But I think on the whole, pedophiles and creepers aren't judged on their facial hair choices.

I agree though. I hate the ironic mindset. Im of an age that when i grow a mustache because i sincerely want one, people seem to roll their eyes the moment i turn the corner, you know? 'what an annoying hipster. I bet he never uses a computer, only a typewriter'. That sorta thing.

Luckily, the blinding glory that is The Mustache shields me in testosterone, and their lack of faith ricochets of me, ping, pang, ping, like bullets.

[VeganThump]

[quote=Bert Slide;13864523]I think you look a little like this guy and he does alright!

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So now I can tell girls i look like Matthew Mcconaughey?

[Bert Slide]

[quote=VeganThump;13864597]

Originally Posted by Bert Slide

I think you look a little like this guy and he does alright!

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So now I can tell girls i look like Matthew Mcconaughey?

I don't know that I'd tell 'em that but I do know one piece of advice he gave in that movie that seems to relate:

"Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."

[VeganThump]

[quote=Bert Slide;13864684]

Originally Posted by VeganThump

I don't know that I'd tell 'em that but I do know one piece of advice he gave in that movie that seems to relate:

"Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."

Sage-like advice.

[Jeff K]

Originally Posted by VeganThump

Yeah I find myself bordering on looking like a hipster on occasion. I'm really unsure what to do with the sides. I like the idea of a handlebar mustache, but not completely rolled around, a la Rollie Fingers, but as you said, it's very hard to not look like a hipster, I wanna look badass, like a bare knuckle boxer!

Please, for the sake of everything that is good and holy, do NOT grow a handlebar mustache! IMO they make the wearer look like they're trying too hard to be cool...

[VeganThump]

Originally Posted by Jeff K

Please, for the sake of everything that is good and holy, do NOT grow a handlebar mustache! IMO they make the wearer look like they're trying too hard to be cool...

Yeah i agree, but there are different types of handlebar mustaches. I wouldn't get all super curly, I'd go much more subtle, more like an upward swoop, kinda like the Pringles man.

Handlebar mustaches comie in all shapes and sizes, watch and learn...

http://youtu.be/uKcH9dXkzR4

[Bloodhammer]

Originally Posted by St Drogo

Ooh, mustaches are great! I was in the same situation as you, grew a mustache for fun, but it looked exquisite. I have actually always wanted a huge, majestic, vikinglike beard, but genetics is a cruel mistress; If I don't shave for a while a goatee develops, but my cheeks look like they're completely smooth, only a little smudgey. Being 27, I kinda recently lost hope for a miraculous mid-twenties growthspurt in hair. So I settled for a truckerstache and long sideburns.

So you went for the King Diamond look?

Originally Posted by St Drogo

Everything makes a comeback if you wait long enough. Granted, the hitler/chaplin style mustache might have a little worse of a stigma to work through though. But I think on the whole, pedophiles and creepers aren't judged on their facial hair choices.

I agree though. I hate the ironic mindset. Im of an age that when i grow a mustache because i sincerely want one, people seem to roll their eyes the moment i turn the corner, you know? 'what an annoying hipster. I bet he never uses a computer, only a typewriter'. That sorta thing.

Stupid hipsters ruin everything. Luckily, I grew out of my Captain Morgan/Three Musketeers look before they all started making fun of handlebar mustaches. (Being "ironic" is making fun, right?) Now I rock a short beard/van Dyke type look instead of a slick goatee and handlebars.

Originally Posted by St Drogo

Luckily, the blinding glory that is The Mustache shields me in testosterone, and their lack of faith ricochets of me, ping, pang, ping, like bullets.

ROFLMAO!!!! Someone should DEFINITELY sig this!

[VeganThump]

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

So you went for the King Diamond look?

Man that is a great look, I think I wanna grow my sideburns longer now.

[St Drogo]

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

So you went for the King Diamond look?

Something like that. Only with a handlebarmustache. And miles more handsome, of course. Earrings are accurate, though.

Edit: No wait, I just found out a handlebar is something different than what I meant. I used to have more of a Hulk Hogan stache. Not sure what tha's called. Handlebars do look cool, but seem a bit high maintenance

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

Stupid hipsters ruin everything. Luckily, I grew out of my Captain Morgan/Three Musketeers look before they all started making fun of handlebar mustaches. (Being "ironic" is making fun, right?) Now I rock a short beard/van Dyke type look instead of a slick goatee and handlebars.

Yeah man! We were doin' it before it was cool to do it before it was cool!

[cheezewiz]

Originally Posted by VeganThump

I'm 31 years old and a pretty "hip" guy, for lack of a better term. Recently, I've grown mustache, it started as a joke to mess with my girlfriend but honestly, I've started to really become fond of it. At first it was a struggle, like the first 4-6 weeks of growing it in, people in my life REALLY seemed to take issue with it and that caused me to doubt myself, but I knew I had to persevere and see it through, and man am I glad I did. I find that it's making me act differently, like more mature I guess. I feel kind of distinguished and more knowledgable about the ways of life. Also I've found that my mustache commands a certain level of respect that wasn't necessarily there before. It seems like people are taking me more seriously now, particularly at work. It's an odd thing for a man my age to wear a mustache, I don't see it too often, most guys wearing a mustache seem to me to be at least on the other side of their 40's. I dunno, maybe I'm just being dumb, but either way, I like my mustache and I just may keep it around for a while.

That was my favorite episode of Drake and Josh too.

[VeganThump]

Originally Posted by cheezewiz

That was my favorite episode of Drake and Josh too.

Lol, never really watched that show, due to the fact that it came out when I was in my twenties, I was more of a Salute Your Shorts and Hey Dude kid, but after re-reading my OP, I can picture those dopey looking kids from Drake and Josh with mustaches haha.

[cheezewiz]

I'm WAY older than you, but I had to watch it with my kids. The episode where Josh tried to grow a stache was comedy gold.