My moustache is dumb.

Flint • Oct 20, 2008 1:09 am
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).
Stress Puppy • Oct 20, 2008 1:16 am
I always thought they were called Chinstrap beards. But apparently the Abe Lincoln style is called a Donegal or a Chin Curtain.
Flint • Oct 20, 2008 1:18 am
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.
lookout123 • Oct 20, 2008 1:32 am
I think your moustache is your best feature.
Sundae • Oct 20, 2008 5:23 am
I think we need a picture. And then a vote.
classicman • Oct 20, 2008 8:39 am
I agree with Sundae
footfootfoot • Oct 20, 2008 9:01 am
I don't think your moustache is dumb; it speaks volumes about you.
SteveDallas • Oct 20, 2008 9:26 am
My moustache is dumb.

Mine is too.. I've given up trying to teach it to read. It just wants to drink and watch TV Land.
glatt • Oct 20, 2008 9:28 am
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.
Sundae • Oct 20, 2008 10:12 am
Here we are.
Amish Abe...
footfootfoot • Oct 20, 2008 11:24 am
footfootfoot;495563 wrote:
I don't think your moustache is dumb; it speaks volumes about you.



PM Shawnee123 to explain it to you.
LabRat • Oct 20, 2008 11:41 am
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.
Sundae • Oct 20, 2008 11:43 am
LabRat;495594 wrote:
Just long enough so that it's soft, but not so long it collects things.

Like Star Wars action figures?
LabRat • Oct 20, 2008 11:45 am
::snort::
lumberjim • Oct 20, 2008 12:22 pm
lose the beard while you're at it. It makes you look manky.
Clodfobble • Oct 20, 2008 12:26 pm
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.
classicman • Oct 20, 2008 12:56 pm
Too complicated to describe?
Treasenuak • Oct 20, 2008 1:00 pm
muttonchops??
Clodfobble • Oct 20, 2008 1:10 pm
Nah, muttonchops are just the cheeks, like Mr. Asimov down there. I'm talking about this other thing:
LabRat • Oct 20, 2008 1:24 pm
Goofy looking.

Someone needs to teach him how to properly hang a towel too.
footfootfoot • Oct 20, 2008 4:25 pm
Yeah and close the door when you're in the bathroom!
Sundae • Oct 20, 2008 4:31 pm
And look at me when I'm talking to you!
Cicero • Oct 20, 2008 5:07 pm
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/
Flint • Oct 20, 2008 9:36 pm
Clodfobble;495623 wrote:
I'm talking about this other thing:

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.
monster • Oct 20, 2008 9:45 pm
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monster • Oct 20, 2008 9:47 pm
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.
monster • Oct 20, 2008 9:50 pm
another version

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classicman • Oct 20, 2008 9:59 pm
LOL - "The Mighty El Insecto :lol2:
dar512 • Oct 20, 2008 10:02 pm
Flint - I like the Donegal. I'd say to keep it that way.
Beest • Oct 20, 2008 10:02 pm
my 'style' is Navy Cut
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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.
Scriveyn • Oct 21, 2008 10:39 am
Pusillanimous bunch! - Go for the full design!
Cicero • Oct 21, 2008 10:45 am
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.wordpress.com/2007/11/sam-elliott_paul-wender.jpg
Sundae • Oct 21, 2008 10:53 am
Scriveyn;495852 wrote:
Pusillanimous bunch! - Go for the full design!

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!"
Flint • Oct 21, 2008 7:36 pm
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.
Cicero • Oct 21, 2008 7:43 pm
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
Flint • Oct 21, 2008 8:01 pm
Yeah, that's what I felt like. That's Mike Judge, btw.
footfootfoot • Oct 21, 2008 8:35 pm
One of my top ten all time movies. Great scene.
Griff • Oct 21, 2008 8:52 pm
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?
lumberjim • Oct 21, 2008 9:18 pm
go with the Sparta, Griff
Griff • Oct 21, 2008 9:21 pm
I'm not furry enough, unless Biden's hair guy could...
Urbane Guerrilla • Oct 21, 2008 9:28 pm
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.
Undertoad • Oct 21, 2008 11:51 pm
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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.
Flint • Oct 21, 2008 11:55 pm
I tried to grow my moustache during my two-weeks notice. I know exactly what you mean.
dar512 • Oct 21, 2008 11:57 pm
Flint;496125 wrote:
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.
Undertoad • Oct 21, 2008 11:57 pm
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.
Aliantha • Oct 22, 2008 12:14 am
I'm not sure about mine. Do you think it looks dumb?

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SteveDallas • Oct 22, 2008 12:52 pm
UT, why shave it for the pit band?
HungLikeJesus • Oct 22, 2008 1:16 pm
Everyone seems to be overlooking the neck beard.
dar512 • Oct 22, 2008 1:21 pm
Aliantha;496132 wrote:
I'm not sure about mine. Do you think it looks dumb?

Sorry, Ali. I don't think that's a good look for you.
Undertoad • Oct 22, 2008 2:06 pm
Cos, well, we're on stage, not in an actual pit.
dar512 • Oct 22, 2008 2:16 pm
My bass teacher is in the pit for Turn of the Century here at the Goodman. Word is that Rachel York is "homina homina".
SteveDallas • Oct 22, 2008 3:49 pm
Undertoad;496314 wrote:
Cos, well, we're on stage, not in an actual pit.

So? I still say that's no reason to get rid of it. (Unless you just want to.)
TheMercenary • Oct 23, 2008 6:24 am
The charts on page 2 does not have my style. I have a Modified OC Chopper look.