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.

One more try with the waxes - lessons learned

This morning's lightly waxed mustache - what a beaut!

After my previous post, I was just about ready to shove my waxes in bottom drawer and forget about them for a very long time.  But then today came along and, well and with minimal effort and with no styling product, all the forces came together to magically form a beautiful mustache.  Rather then immediately going for the Got2B Glued tube, I decided to give the Firehouse Moustache Wacky Tacky wax another try but just using a really light coat and I ended up with the mustache that you see above which I am quite happy with.

Closeup shot

Frustrated with mustache waxes, loving glues

Today's mustache using Got2B Glued and glue stick

I am getting very frustrated with mustache waxes.  I don't know if it is my technique, the wiry nature of my whiskers, the present length of the hair, or if I just have unrealistic expectations.  Perhaps it's a combination of all of this.

Yesterday I spent about twenty minutes trying to get my mustache to behave using wax.  I was using Firehouse Wacky Tacky - which many claim is the very best wax and having no luck getting the ends to come close to sticking together.  I preheated the tin, and did everything that I was supposed to do.,  Finally my wife started giving me grief hogging the bathroom as we got ready for church so I let it go and decided that it was as good as it was going to get and I was going to have to live with it.  It shouldn't be this difficult.

Waxed into submission the Firehouse way

This morning's waxed mustache

I am now trying some oil-based mustache waxes.  Up until now, all of the products that I have been using on my mustache are water based with the exception of the occasional oil which I really use more for a conditioner.  This means that any moisture (rain, splashes from drinks, face washing, touching with wet fingers, etc...) removes the hold.  Oil-based waxes have the advantage of repelling water and keeping the hold much longer.  So I decided to order some oil-based product from Firehouse Moustache Wax.