It's time for Moustache March!

[miffy495]

My friend Cody is in a play pretty soon, and for his part he needs a moustache. The thing is, Cody is 20, blonde, and cannot grow facial hair to save his life. In an attempt to remedy this, his director forbid him to shave that area for 3 months before the show. This show is in early April, and so, as a sign of solidarity, a group of his drinking buddies/soccer teammates (myself included) have pledged to grow moustaches with him to be shaved off around the same time as the play ends its showings. We have decided that it is time to bring about the first annual (!) Moustache March celebration.

The rules are simple:

1. Moustaches only. Other forms of facial hair (with the possible exception of sideburns on a case by case basis) are considered cheating.

2. If your moustache is shaved before the end of the month, you owe all of those who did not shave a pint each.

The moustaches will remain on our faces until 'Stache Saturday, the first Saturday in April, when we will all go for the biggest, foamiest beers we can get for the sole purpose of having the head get stuck in our moustaches. We considered enlisting the help of several of our lady friends to judge a moustache competition, but determined that those who have beards already would have an unfair head start on those of us who have been clean shaven all our lives and have never tired growing any kind of facial hair before.

I'm also 20, (and the youngest in our group by an average of about 2 years) and would probably just end up with a massive neck-beard if I gave up shaving entirely, so I'm not quite sure how this 'stache thing is going to work out. I expect I'll look somewhat like I drive a windowless white van around school zones at 3:30pm every weekday. But this must be done. For SCIENCE!

...So why I am telling this to all of you? Well, why the hell not get more people involved in our incredibly stupid new annual tradition? I'm issuing an open invitation to any thumb who feels like participating. Moustache March does not discriminate. Any race, religion, or gender (if you can) is welcome to join. As I don't expect to see most of you face-to-face, the pint thing is waived. All you need to remember is: Moustaches only, no beards.

Here's a "before" photo of me. It's about a month and a half old. (also my facebook photo. Handy way to host images, that.) If people start to go for it, I'll post an after photo at the end of March so you can all see the new paedo-stache in all its (thin, ugly, whispy) glory. If there is a group snap taken at 'Stache Saturday (I doubt it, as most of us don't bother with cameras much) I'll throw that up here too.

[Salka]

Wait! I've got the perfect thing for this!

Oh, come on!

[twmac]

Damnit. Too lazy to shave or else you would be totally on as I'm travelling around eastern europe for the next month and have already amassed a large amount of facial hair.

[DanJW]

Please, please get a groupshot, with the foamy beer 'taches. I would join you but I would probably have to shave now to make it fair and I look weird when I'm clean-shaven.

[Ginger]

dude if he needs facial hair I can shave off some pubes and post them to him, then he can stick them on his face.

[Roderick]

Hey, that's pretty cool, cause during my holiday I decided to grow my stache/goatee again. I'm 24 and I can't grow a decent beard swim my way out of a barn. It is frustrating to no end (some days), and since in May I'm going to do a Mr. Godot cosplay (!!) I'm gonna start ow to weave me some facial hair.

Let's see how far I get this time (last attempt was a year ago). Pictures will follow in the weeks ahead.

[miffy495]

Right on. Though I have to say, as of right now, I'm failing spectacularly. I was worried I'd look paed-ish, instead I look like a fourteen year old with aspirations of one day becoming a paed. Not a good look. Add to this today's amateurish haircut that makes me look like the retarded brother Matt Damon keeps chained up in his attic and I'm very glad I already have a girl because there's no way in hell I could get anywhere with one looking like this.

[brkl]

I've been thinking of growing a goatee. I've worn a stubble for the past couple of months, but I'm getting a tired of it. No moustache, though. Actually, I'd love to grow something like what Johnny Depp is sporting right now, but one of my friends already has something close to that.

[BooJaka]

I'm in the middle of looking for a house to rent at the moment and a little while ago I decided not to shave until it was sorted as motivation to get it sorted as quickly as possible.

I sign the contracts next week so we'll see how bad it looks then

[JoannaDark]

this is all just too funny

[Roderick]

UPDATE: I've shaved off the area surrounding my goatee because nothing grows there anyway except fluff, and because I need to trim everything for my Godot cosplay. So, I must confess the moustache is gone as well and only my chinbeard remains. I'm sorry. But it's all so frustratingly slow and shitty =(

[DanJW]

this is all just too funny

Hey! Men's facial hair is serious business!

:oldman: :oldman:

[Thrik]

It's the end of March. ;

[miffy495]

True, unfortunately, the celebration that was supposed to be yesterday night got delayed due to one of the key members of the group having to travel to Ontario because his grandfather had a stroke. I shaved this morning, because otherwise my girlfriend refused to kiss me. I apologize, there will be no pictures. Though I will say that I looked like a complete tool. By the end of the month I looked like a wannabe cop. Bad news. There's a reason she wanted me to shave so bad.

[DanJW]

Lies! Photos or it all never happened! It was all a setup to an eleborate April Fools joke.

[miffy495]

Man, if it had been, it'd be one I was proud of. I also wouldn't have had to endure the endless mockery of my girlfriend and sister over the ugliness of my teen-'stache. Picks do not exist though. Beer, on the other hand, will. Just need to wait until Nathan gets back from Ontario.