My moustache is dumb.
 

I'm shaving it off tonight. I tried growing it out, for the "full beard" effect, but I just don't like it. It looks scuzzy. And it's scratchy.

I can handle the Amish/Abe Lincoln jokes that go along with a moustache-less beard. FYI: it's a Donegal beard (i.e. like a leprechaun).

I always thought they were called Chinstrap beards. But apparently the Abe Lincoln style is called a Donegal or a Chin Curtain.

A chinstrap is like... if you're in an R & B video.

A chinstrap is thin (sideburn-width) all the way across.
A Donegal is a full beard... without a moustache.

I think your moustache is your best feature.

I think we need a picture. And then a vote.

I agree with Sundae

I don't think your moustache is dumb; it speaks volumes about you.

Mine is too.. I've given up trying to teach it to read. It just wants to drink and watch TV Land.

Back when I had a beard, my mustache was the weak link. It just never got a thick as I would have liked. As much as I didn't like it, I wasn't willing to shave it off and do the Abe Lincoln.

Here we are.
Amish Abe...

PM Shawnee123 to explain it to you.

When Red and I were dating, he had a nice thick moustache. He grew it back in high school, to cover a scar from a split upper lip. I liked it. At one point while trimming it, he accidently nicked it badly enough that he had to shave it totally off and regrow it. I told him never ever, under any circumstances shave it off again.

Fast forward about 9 years. He decided he wants to be clean shaven for awhile and see how that goes. I told him to go ahead, but was not real excited about it. Whoa! Hello! I told him never ever, under any circumstances grow it back again. :lol:

Don't ask me what changed, but I like him much better without it now. He's been that way now for 3 years maybe?

My personal favorite look on him though is a trimmed goatee, :heartpump . Just long enough so that it's soft, but not so long it collects things.

Like Star Wars action figures?

::snort::

lose the beard while you're at it. It makes you look manky.

What's it called when the moustache stays, but the chin gets shaved, so the beard goes down the cheeks but then does a quick jump up over the lip? Another Civil War style.

Too complicated to describe?

muttonchops??

Nah, muttonchops are just the cheeks, like Mr. Asimov down there. I'm talking about this other thing:

Goofy looking.

Someone needs to teach him how to properly hang a towel too.

Yeah and close the door when you're in the bathroom!

And look at me when I'm talking to you!

Huh, I am of the opposite opinion here. I don't like the really thin sideburns that are angular, and lengthy, expanding towards the mouth. They are supposed to look modern and sporty, but I think they make guys look like a douchebag. What is that on your cheek? It's a right angle? Let's shave it sport. You don't look progressive, you look stupid. :) I can't find a photo of the look I'm talking about, but I hate it. Oh here's one...and the skinnier the line the more I dislike it:

http://www.fotosearch.com/UNY002/u12300426/

That's the Southern Rocker (I just made that up), i.e. Allman Brothers etc.

And it's not goofy. It lets people know you are a bad-ass, and a gentleman.

Anybody who wears that style of facial hair is guaranteed to call women ma'am.

beest's style isn't on there though. Closest is short boxed, but he shaves his cheeks more (:eek: ;lol:)

Apparently, he has a mole on his chin, but I've only ever seen it in pictures from his childhood. We've been together 19 years.

another version

http://www.bikeiowa.com/uploads/arti...beardtypes.png

LOL - "The Mighty El Insecto :lol2:

Flint - I like the Donegal. I'd say to keep it that way.

my 'style' is Navy Cut
http://www.rnmuseumshop.co.uk/acatalog/art_players.jpg

My uncle was in the Navy has this beard and was apparently in charge of deciding if young jacks bum fluff was good enough to be called a beard and could stay (after seeking permission they had one week to grow it out as much as possible). My dad worked for Players and would win prizes for looking like the Navy Cut sailor.

Pusillanimous bunch! - Go for the full design!

This guy seems to pull it off every time...Not sure how he does it. Why is he still hot with his 'stache? I don't like moustache's!?!

http://neckerchiefvalhalla.files.wor...aul-wender.jpg

Ding ding ding! Five syllable word in post, you get a prize.

Like this chap, who is so manly, other men can only wear a shadow of his hat.
"I got a prize for being the biggest cock!"

I tried growing a moustache (and thus, "full" beard) as an experiment, I gave it time to grow in thicken up, but ultimately, every time I saw myself in the mirror I thought I looked like a scumbag. I shaved the 'stache and I'm feelin' fine now. My face just isn't suited to it. Aesthetically, a Donegal beard is what works best for me.

For me, facial hair is to enhance a man's facial proportions. The design shouldn't be arbitrary--it should be there to compliment the underlying bone structure etc.

Maybe it has to do with my Celtic heritage... I don't know. But a Donegal is what works best for me, design-wise.

Well as long as you don't look like a Denny's night manager with a 'stache, I'd say you are doing fine....Kind of like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXHPqj3NcI

Yeah, that's what I felt like. That's Mike Judge, btw.

One of my top ten all time movies. Great scene.

I've been running a Van Dyke out there for quit a while. I'm thinking of going back to the soul patch, but maybe I should shop around a little first?

go with the Sparta, Griff

I'm not furry enough, unless Biden's hair guy could...

Mine is long enough to be soft, wax into handlebars for a George V/Tsar Nikolas III ensemble with the beard, and the wife likes me all fuzzy. It's also long enough to eat if I'm careless biting into a sandwich -- the waxing helps in that department.

I can't do a goatee -- face shape is all wrong. A wide vandyke is workable and harmonizes with the 'stache in a seventeenth-century mode.

http://cellar.org/2008/furry.jpg

I'm growing a rally beard. Actually this is two weeks worth: I shave it for the first interview, or Oct. 31 when my Godspell pit band run begins. I'm hoping it looks less like crap before then, so I can keep it.

I tried to grow my moustache during my two-weeks notice. I know exactly what you mean.

Ah! That 'splains it. Two weeks is not enough. Unless you're Hairy Harry.

Yeah.. this is the point where you wish there was some sort of Acme hair growing tonic so you could just spread it on the area and immediately be "done".

Although I don't envy the guys who can grow one overnight.

I'm not sure about mine. Do you think it looks dumb?

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UT, why shave it for the pit band?

Everyone seems to be overlooking the neck beard.

Sorry, Ali. I don't think that's a good look for you.

Cos, well, we're on stage, not in an actual pit.

My bass teacher is in the pit for Turn of the Century here at the Goodman. Word is that Rachel York is "homina homina".

So? I still say that's no reason to get rid of it. (Unless you just want to.)

The charts on page 2 does not have my style. I have a Modified OC Chopper look.