Pencil moustache guide

A Quick Guide to Mustaches Mustaches are the accessory that you can grow yourself, but having a good mustache takes more effort than you think. Facial hair grows slower than you might expect, so cultivating a full mustache can take months. Start with the right hair You need thick, full and dark facial hair in order to have an attractive moustache. Guys with sparse or blonde facial hair will never look good with a mustache. Mustache growing is made complicated by the fact that you may have gaps where your face will stubbornly refuse to grow hair, particularly if you are barely out of your teens. If one such patch is placed on or near your upper lip, your mustache choices are severely...

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The I Ching, one of the Five Classics of Confucian philosophy in China, speaks of facial hair as superfluous. “To devote care to it for its own sake, without regard for the inner content of which it is but an ornament, would bespeak a certain vanity.” While this might be faintly damning of mustaches, there is implicit another idea, that mustaches as ornaments can convey certain aspects of one’s inner nature. Consequently, if you are the kind of man to take the brave step of growing out a fabulous mustache, make sure that what inner nature you convey is not an inner nature of pure lameness. In order to avoid this woeful misstep, a man needs to think hard about the character of his mustache...

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