6 month mustache

My 6 month handlebar mustache

Tomorrow I consider to be my 6 month anniversary of the beginning of my mustache which I am celebrating with this photograph.  As I have mentioned before, I started from a closely cropped goatee so I can only guess as to how old the mustache really is and I did not attempt to convert it into a handlebar until the end of May, 2013.

My Three Monthstache

My mustache at three months

If May 10 is the day that I consider to be the start of my mustache, this is how it looks at three months of age. 

Today I used clubman on the center and Firehouse Wacky Tacky on the tips.  When I couldn't get the tips exactly how I wanted, I used glue stick.

Many searches online say that somewhere between three and four months are needed to grow a full handlebar.  If that is the case, I have arrived.

For comparison purposes, here are is how it looked one and two months ago:

One month ago at two months of age

Two months ago at one month of age.

Clubman Wax failed after two hours. Had to use glue stick.

After gluing goatee trim and glued tips



Today prior to church I waxed the stache with clubman and it looked good.  I received four different compliments about how it looked good, made me look like I was always smiling.  Some one else said that I was one of the few people who could pull a mustache like this off  (I disagree.  I have average growth and most men could grow an equally impressive mustache).

The sermon was on things that may not be sins, but may be distracting us from living a life of faith that we could be living.  Was he talking about mustaches?

I styled it using Clubman wax, and it looked great with the ends coming to nice pointy tips.  But, by the time church was over the points were coming apart.  Obviously clubman lacks the staying power that I need.  Before this picture, I glue sticked the ends to get the points back that clubman could not hold.

Ramblings on thoughts, the goatee, waiter tip income, styling products, and keeping hair out of my mouth.

After the latest goatee trim this morning

Thoughts flooding through my head

I love my mustache ... I hate my mustache ... It is looking great today... It is looking awful ... I am going to shave it off ... I will keep it forever ... I look really stupid ... man, that mustache is awesome ... The left side is corkscrewing and won't hold together ... my right side has a great curl today ... the goatee is staying ... time to shave the goatee ... perhaps I need to just trim the goatee.

Welcome to my thoughts this weekend. As I had every thought and emotion possible regarding the mustache.  I start loathing the difficulty that it is giving me, but suddenly I get hit with a couple of compliments and I love it again.

American Crew Fiber

Using American Fiber Crew

Hold still going strong about 14 hours after applying American Crew Fiber

 

OK, I was wrong.  A couple of days ago, I posted how I was happily styling my mustache with no need for waxes.  Then, just as quickly as it really started to fill out and lengthen in the last week, the lower hairs decided to start a full assault on my mouth.

First Waxing - Clubman Mustache Wax

Mustache after my first waxing.  

A visit to a larger city today allowed me to finally purchase and apply some mustache wax.  As you can see in this picture, using wax really controls the hairs and starts developing points (though too short for curls yet).