Status of your Michigan Mustache

Submitted by Blazefire on

Well, here we are, gentlemen. Just over a week to go. If you haven't started growing by now, you've got no hope to get anything respectable by kick off. So what's the status? Where are you at?

I've been growing for about a month now. It's still blonde and a little thin, but it's as thick as it gets for me, and long enough that there are no short hair stragglers. I've trimmed it to even length a few times now. I use a whal trimmer set on length 4, and then I comb it out straight.

Requests to do a Fu Manchu were summarily denied by the wife.

Zone Left

August 27th, 2010 at 8:05 AM ^

I'd advise against trimming.  My best mustaches have been given time to grow nice and healthy before you start to style.

That said, my wife nixed the whole idea this time around, so you're a better man that I.

Zone Left

August 27th, 2010 at 8:16 AM ^

She's eight months pregnant.  If I said that to her at the wrong moment, the only thing that would save me would be her inability to catch me carrying the bowling ball attached to her stomach.

If they start losing, I'm going to need to bite my tongue or run like hell.

U Fer M

August 27th, 2010 at 8:16 AM ^

I get a lot of criticism for my mustache,  when I try to grow one. I get comments like, 70's, porn star, molestache, etc., but for M I'll grow it and be proud....

wigeon

August 27th, 2010 at 8:33 AM ^

when I wish I were descended from dark, swarthy Eastern European people. Alas, because my forebears were angry, skinny hairless people, I cannot grow more mustache than a 17 year old brake mechanic. 

My non-participation in this endeavor is based on a desire to avoid ridicule. 

Tully Mars

August 27th, 2010 at 8:37 AM ^

My beard has come in better than I thought it would (given the last time I tried to grow one was 10 years ago when I first started college and that was a complete disaster).  I'm excited for it to be shaved into a trucker 'stache with some excellent M-burns (think star burns from Community, only better).  My wife is All In for Michigan, so she understands the importance and the power of the 'stache.  I'm a lucky man.

Flying Dutchman

August 27th, 2010 at 9:10 AM ^

I'm one of those descendants of swarthy (but western) Europeans, and can knock this thing out fast like ice fins.  8 days is plenty.    For those that keep their hair short like I do, my tip is to go for that "all one length" hair and beard thing so you can maintain some kind of professionalism next week, and then.... Sept 4, whammo, porn stache.   You also might choose to rock that the evening of Sept 3 if you hang out at the right bars.

Gulo Blue

August 27th, 2010 at 9:34 AM ^

I didn't realize it would make eating so difficult.  I actually started it as a 'thesis beard', but my wife talked me down to a fu manchu.  That's pretty good, but I'm considering at some point clearing it out under the chin, leaving the 'stache and sidewalls.  I know my wife won't put up with that for long.

the_big_house 500th

August 27th, 2010 at 9:41 AM ^

I can't grow a mustache worth crap but I have been growing a playoff like beard. Sadly it too must be shaved here soon. I've just never been able to grow a really good stache. My god though in 2009 during the Stanley Cup playoffs I grew an amazing playoff beard!

david from wyoming

August 27th, 2010 at 9:49 AM ^

The beard is ~1.5 weeks old. It's just full enough that I could shave it down to a 'stach and have it look good. After one more week I'll be more than ready to rock. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of mustache to shave. Do I just do a upper lip jacket or do I go with the half or even full fu manchu?

Also, Wyoming is an awesome place to have a mustache. They just fit with the landscape out here in the un-settled west.

Bluerock

August 27th, 2010 at 10:07 AM ^

Holy shit ! I can't believe my eyes, " I can't grow hair on my face because my wife won't let me "... gemme a break.

Hell, I bet you are one of those guys that wax yer chest hairs, cover  yerself with body spray, wear them little designer underwears and loafers with no socks.

Hows your tan? Nails lookin good?

I bet ya don't know doodle shit bout fixin' stuff, you fix it by fingerin thru the yellow pages and makin' a call...pathetic,there ain't no woman tellin' me what to do, I'll grow hair down to my never region or all over like a baboon if I choose...wait!..."what dear...ok...just a minute,I'll bring the file and clips.

gotta go, can't talk now.

Ryan

August 27th, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^

Three weeks of growth going on here.  The beard looks great (coworkers changed my cubicle nameplate to 'caveman') but the 'stache could be fuller/darker.  I suppose that was to be expected with a fair-skinned, redheaded father.

YakAttack

August 27th, 2010 at 12:28 PM ^

but tomorrow will be two weeks, and it's coming in nicely.  I....sweet, found a chip in it from lunch... have no idead how much trimming I will do for the UCONN game.

 

Funny story, my sister overheard my brother in law and I talking football, and actually said...

"Yukon(UCONN)? they have teams in Alaska?" Hilarity ensued.

Mustaches4Michigan

August 27th, 2010 at 1:14 PM ^

Makes our heart swell, our eyes well up, and our breads ravenous for Huskie meat. 

+1's all around. 

Don't forget to snap some photos of those glorious Mustaches for Michigan and send them our way on Game Day: mailto:[email protected]

For those that think their wives don't want them to grow mustaches, just a reminder from your friend and ours, the Old Spice Commercial Guy: 

jabberwock

August 27th, 2010 at 1:19 PM ^

just can't seem to grow a decent mustache to save my life, and I've been trying; taking supplements, organic body wash, etc.

It barely covers my upper lip, I must be doing something wrong.

My pubic hair is down to me knees however.