What kind of mustache am i

The mustache was dangerous and powerful. Pirates and swashbucklers wore them. Teddy Roosevelt took a bullet while delivering a speech, dusted himself off, and finished the speech—while wearing one hell of a mustache!

Then your dad grew one, and suddenly the mustache was nothing more than Old Milwaukee and cheese curds. Add to that a couple of creeps and a few pornstars, and well, you know the rest. But, time heals all wounds, and the roaring s are bringing the mustache renaissance. Natural mustache styles are the easiest, and generally fastest to grow.

The chevron mustache is the quintessential mustache style. It follows the shape of the upper lip, resulting in a natural mustache that has a slight upside-down V shape. Martin Luther King Jr. Let your mustache grow naturally. It will take two to three months to get the thickness and length for a chevron mustache.

Some men prefer to grow their chevron along with a beard and then shave the beard. Grooming is minimal for the chevron mustache. The mustache should partially cover the upper lip, but the hair should not be in your mouth.

Use Beard Trimming Scissors to trim longer hairs. The lampshade gets its name from its trapezoid shape—it looks like a lampshade. For most servicemen, a mustache is the only facial hair permitted. However, it cannot extend wider than the edge of the top lip, higher than the bottom of the nose, and the hair cannot touch the upper lip.

Mustaches also must not appear to be chopped off or bushy , so the length is kept shorter. Eddie Murphy, Sgt. Slaughter, police officers, and military personnel. Let your mustache grow naturally, but groom along the way. It will take one to two months to grow a lampshade mustache. Imagine a vertical line extending upwards from the edge of your mouth, and a horizontal line extending from the bottom of your nose.

Use a razor or electric trimmer to remove any hair outside of the lines. It engulfs the top lip and may also cover the bottom lip. Not every man can grow a walrus mustache. You need a long terminal length on your mustache hair, and this is something that is controlled by your DNA. At a minimum, a solid walrus will take 6 months to a year to grow.

When left uncombed, the walrus will run wild. We recommend keeping a Pocket Comb with you on the go. Use Beard Trimming Scissors to keep the mustache at your preferred length. The pencil mustache was the lip garnish of choice for legends of the silver screen. It was devilish, dastardly, and dreamy. If you wore a mustache in the s or 40s, it was most likely a pencil. A pencil mustache in will probably still get you called a perv. Though, Brad Pitt did make it look badass in Inglorious Bastards.

The trouble with the pencil mustache is that it tends to look best dressed up. It's a hell of a lot more at home in a tux than in jeans and a flannel. Allow your mustache to grow naturally. Use a razor to shave the top line of the mustache following the curve of your mouth. The pencil mustache will take two to four weeks to grow depending on the color of your hair—the darker the hair, the quicker it shows up.

How thin you go is up to you. The pencil mustache requires a high amount of grooming. You may need to shave the upper line a few times per week, if not daily.

Keeping the overall length on the shorter side will help with maintaining a tight bottom line. The skin near the mouth is delicate, so take it slow when shaving. You can also bite your top lip to help pull the skin taught. The parted pencil mustache is grown and groomed in the same way as the pencil, with the difference being adding a hard line at the philtrum the indent above your upper lip. Use an electric trimmer to add the part to your mustache.

How wide you go is up to you, though we recommend keeping it on the thinner side. Ron Burgundy, maybe Ron Swanson at times?

Keep it trimmed along the top lip, so it forms a horizontal line. Where to start? Growing one of these things is an achievement in itself.

Besides having a load of personality, this moustache can broaden your mouth and add width to your face. Given that handlebars can be grown wide or narrow they can be adapted to many face types.

Rollie Fingers: a man who made this mustache so famous some people know it only by that name. This is a very classic example of the handlebar, wide and with large round curls. The mustache that relaunched facial hair in the 20th century. After the whiskery excesses of the Victorian era the gentlemen of the world let the skin show for a little while. Then along came the silver screen in the 30s and the minimal pencil mustache became popular. The pencil mustache is elegant, minimal and very stylish.

He has small regular features that support this mustache, and he benefits from the impression of broadening his mouth. Bloom often marries the mustache to a chin-stripe or small goatee, which provides a modern touch to this classic mustache. Once again we see the mustache paired with a small beard and long hair. This is what many men will end up with if they just grow a moustache and forget about it, besides the occasional trim to keep it in check.

Named for the ancient insignia depicted by an upward-pointing arrow, the chevron was the classic late 70s — early 80s mustache. It can add a lot of bulk to counterbalance or obscure large features without dominating the face the way a walrus mustache will.

The chevron mustache can be grown wide to broaden, or tall weighty for balance as we saw with the earlier example of Tom Selleck. Freddie Mercury. Nevertheless, Freddie Mercury is an excellent example — the man had a jaw like an iceberg, and the mustache moved balance and attention back to the centre of his face.

Do you see yourself growing a mustache anytime soon? Or why not? I'd look at home in Some of my things look like they belong in the s. Work boots. Fashionable dress shoes. A few minutes. Exactly one minute.

Full, long, and lots of body. Short and conservative. Short back and sides. Thinning, but eccentric. It's like Brillo. Thick and full. I had a soul patch. I've had a mustache before. A couple times. I trim here and there. I put conditioner in my chest hair. I shave. They'd think it's rad. They'd think it is very fashion forward.

They'd think it makes me look tough. They would think it made me look sophisticated. They will think it makes me look more like me. I don't think it would change how they think of me. I don't care. They probably won't even notice. The Pencil Mustache Characteristics: Lines the upper lip, and is trimmed very thin like a pencil. The Walrus Mustache Characteristics Bushy, like a walrus of course. Britni Birt. Always willing to pay extra for avocado. Always doing it for the Insta. Next An arrow pointing right.

Most recent stories. Previous An arrow pointing left. Everywhere you should be applying sunscreen…according to the experts. Loyalty Program. Mobile Apps.