Mustache maintenance?

[Anthony]

Hello friends, I'm back again.

So my former military friends and I here in Denver have this thing in the spring called Summer of the Mustache (For America [Part Two]).

Essentially, you just stop shaving your upper lip. It's been growing for about a month now, and it's getting long enough that I can almost groom it let alone wax it.

Anyone here have any experience with mustache waxes etc, application of it etc? If all goes to plan, I should have a Rollie Fingers looking mustache by mid summer.

It'd be much appreciated.

 

[Rob_In_MO]

I guess maintenance depends upon the style you're after.

But hey, if you're going to do it - go all out. Do it right!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

It's just primping for men. You get product. You fuss over dead-cell keratin growths. You stair at other men's careful primping and compare yourself to them. You get jealous when their primping is better.

Believe me, I have a mustache, and if I were comfortable for being less of a man without facial hair, I'd shave the sucker. :lol:

(...but I look so cool...)

8)

 

[George Kaplan]

I guess maintenance depends upon the style you're after.

Rob, your chart left out the fan-favorite "Ace of Spades".

 

[LIPIPE]

Why not try a cop stache? The only maintenance required is a sharp scissors to cut a straight line once the facial hair extends South passing the upper lip.

 

[Ocelot55]

I use Clubman brand mustache wax. I use the black. The neutral looked like I had gobs of stuff in my 'stache. Its cheap stuff, about $2 a tube and lasts a while. The only downside with the black is that when you wash it out it gets everywhere. That and my fiance always has a little black under her nose because we kiss so often. She has the patience of a saint. So be warned, women think waxed mustaches look cool, but they don't really want to cuddle up to them.

 

[Anthony]

So be warned, women think waxed mustaches look cool, but they don't really want to cuddle up to them.

Yeah, some of us have some pretty bad mustaches right now. But it's for America though, so it's serving the greater good though, right? We acknowledge that it may cost us in the love life department but it's moot I guess.

This is the desired endstate:

 

[Tim_Haggerty]

I use Oregon Mustache Wax, which is available online

http://www.oregonwildhair.com/

They also have a nice brush which comes in handy; if you wax yours, it'll build up in the brush. I can get a full Rollie going with it, but it takes a lot of curling to keep it primed.

Fo a good YouTube tutorial, check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzNUG0e8CfI&list=FLdEi5IQkadobGX32s98Y3eQ&index=4&feature=plpp_video

Good Luck!

 

[DustyRoundup]

heres a few links to clubs

http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/index.php

http://moustacheclubofamerica.com/about/

Some of them will have recipes for making theyre own wax from scratch.

Check em out, you may find something useful

 

[George Kaplan]

Why not try a cop stache? The only maintenance required is a sharp scissors to cut a straight line once the facial hair extends South passing the upper lip.

A certain group of my friends call that the "Cruiser", but I don't think that name has anything to do with the police.

 

[LIPIPE]

Hi George: I could not find a pic of the cruiser mustache on the internet. I saw bicycle handlebars. A cop stache is what I had when I did the job. It's what you see under the aviator glasses when a cop pulls you over and asks for your license and registration. Nothing fancy, just big, bushy, in your face, and regulation length.

 

[George Kaplan]

I know what you mean, Marty. Something like this, right?:



You're right, Kyle. This IS fun.

 

[jefe1037]

second freddy mercury reference to kyle in the last twenty minutes in unrelated threads.... this IS fun

 

[LIPIPE]

George: Yes, only with a motorcycle helmet, aviators, black horsehide leather coat with an over the shoulder gunbelt, riding britches and high boots.....thats a cop stache! BTW, they never smile until they are back on the bike.

 

[George Kaplan]

Wow. The way you just pained it for me, it's like I was there. :heart:

 

[LIPIPE]

George: Everybody's been there. It's called municipal fund raising. The same mustache always gives you the ticket. The fee varies depending upon the level and degree of "personal attention" your behavior causes.

 

[Rob_In_MO]

George: Yes, only with a motorcycle helmet, aviators, black horsehide leather coat with an over the shoulder gunbelt, riding britches and high boots.....thats a cop stache!

second freddy mercury reference to kyle in the last twenty minutes in unrelated threads.... this IS fun

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[williamcharles]

Tony, just don't try cat fish stink bait!

 

[Harlock999]

So be warned, women think waxed mustaches look cool, but they don't really want to cuddle up to them.

Yeah, some of us have some pretty bad mustaches right now. But it's for America though, so it's serving the greater good though, right? We acknowledge that it may cost us in the love life department but it's moot I guess.

This is the desired endstate:

Fingers!!
My second favorite pitcher, after this guy...

 

[George Kaplan]

Jeez, Rob. I'm glad somebody caught on.