Thread: The Ratty Mustache Blues

Well, I'm a tad over 3 weeks in and the stash is doing well. If I were still in the military it would require trimming to be in regs but as a civilian stash, it's still a bit coarse and not near long enough to do anything cool with. In another month or so, I suspect it will be to the long enough to be a PITA but too short to handlebar stage. I'm shooting for a respectable handlebar by 01 November 12. Since most of the pepper has migrated from my salt and pepper moustache, some Just for Men, made it look a bit fuller and I no longer pass for a bald Wilford Brimley. I'll never cut off a good handlebar again!

Hang in there man!

My stache starts going into handlebar length about 1 month into growth. Couldnt grow a mustache for 28 years, not boy is it making up for it in spades....

Hang in there. Mine is at about the three month mark and is finally looking like a proper handlebar.

I'm unmarried, so I'm a bit cautious about facial hair. I'd love to have a good handlebar, but would that be a hindrance to my love life?

Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

I'm unmarried, so I'm a bit cautious about facial hair. I'd love to have a good handlebar, but would that be a hindrance to my love life?

Not if she is in to retro..... Besides, let's get real here.......you shave with a straight razor and are already a little wierd.... Why not make the rest of the jump?

Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

I'm unmarried, so I'm a bit cautious about facial hair. I'd love to have a good handlebar, but would that be a hindrance to my love life?

You might also find a large well styled handlebar will be a great converstation starter too. Bottom line is some women really dig face hair, others are willing to tolerate it on the right man and still others absolutely will not tolerate it on any man. For me, I wouldn't have a rich supermodel that's so anal retentive and such a control freak that she's in the last category. No, my wife isn't crazy about huge handlebars but I'm just so damn charming otherwise that she'll put up with me in spite of my uncoventional taste in face hair. If I was single, I'd not only sport the most gianormous handlebar possible, I'd wear this t-shirt out in public just to cull the heard of snotty wenches with no damn sense of humor

But maybe that's just me, joke'em if they can't take a ...well you know.

My wife has never seen me without one. My upper lip has been covered since 1987. LOL

I'm not often without my flavor saver. My wife and I got married in 1983, it normally takes here about 10-12 years to convince me to cut it off. When I was on active duty I'd also bail the stash for PME (schools). I'm normally clean shaven no more that 3-4 months before the stash comes back. Total time sans moustache in the last 30 years (probably not more than 10 months). The lovely Mrs. GI really digs when I chop off the stash but I think she knows I hate not having a moustache so she says nothing when I grow it back.

I really like having a mustache. I don't like the process of growing it - let's admit it, guys: there is a pre-pubescent quality to a growing mustach that is trully ridiculous... But it certainly does grow on you. A well trimmed mustache is always a show of character. Which character it is the judgment of the beholder.
My wife trully dislikes my mustache. She does tolerate it when I grow one, but always fights me very hard over it. Because I like her more than the mustache, I let her win the fight. But when the mustache is gone, the sideburns seem to grow more and more. I mean... a man needs facial hair of some sort, right?