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I haven't seen my upper lip since I was old enough to grow a decent mustache, maybe 20 years old?
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I haven't seen my upper lip since I was old enough to grow a decent mustache, maybe 20 years old?
I've never shaved my upper lip. I've had a mustache since I started growing facial hair.
ReplyDeleteExcept for my last two weeks in basic training where I was finally forced to shave my mustache off I have always had a 'stache and about thirty years ago settled on growing a goat instead of a full beard, it was more comfortable and not as scratchy as a full beard. The hospital I nursed in wanted me to shave but couldn't force me, their premise was coverage of a mask, since they brought it up they had to provide for me a special mask to cover my goat.
ReplyDeleteNow that was pretty interesting. I always wondered why Amish men wore a beard without the mustache.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Mine's been with me since I was 20. It survived when I shaved a 5 year old beard off when I was still in my twenties.
ReplyDeleteI always thought my moustache enhanced the appearance of my strong jaw, but now the effects of gravity and some extra pounds have taken over and growing a full beard might be the best way to enhance the appearance of my strong jaw. Sigh.
I have had a mustache for most of the past 45 years, I also sport a goatee for the past 12 years or so. An interesting aside is that neither facial hair interfere with the function or sealing an M-17 series or M-40 series mask.
ReplyDeleteShaved mine off one year into this 36 year marriage. Was instructed to immediately begin growing it back. Apparently I look a little wetawded without facial hair
ReplyDeleteI've had a beard ever since I could grow one. Only shaving it off every now and then. Last time I did that, the old lady said to grow it back. I had to admit, she was right. I stared at my bald face in the mirror and saw my old man. Where the hell did those jowls come from?
DeleteFunny thing, during cancer therapy, I lost my beard - not hair on my head though. I had a riteous beard at the time too. The cancer doc said "Nice beard. Shame you're gonna lose it". When it grew back, it grew back white. And no more neck beard. Radiation wiped that out. So I have that going for me, which is nice.
Amen, brother. I started out with a silly whimpy 'stache in HS. Never shaved it off since. Now I have a full beard, which is mostly gray.
ReplyDeleteI went from about 21 to 40 with a full beard. Shaved on my fortieth. I age near twenty years right before my eyes. I grew it back immediately. Had that one about five years and finally shaved it off. I grow a full beard six months outta the year, winter and clean shave in the summer.
ReplyDeleteFacial hair was forbidden in High School and I started growing a mustache when I graduated. I took a lot of kidding from the older men in my family "Is that a caterpillar on your lip?" "You better wash your lip, boy, it's go dirt on it." "He'll shave that off when he tries to trim it. It'll get all messed up and he'll shave it off, wont he?". The teasing convinced me to keep it no matter what. That was almost 50 years ago and I still have it.
ReplyDeleteBeard/muustache have been part and parcel for the last forty years before the soy boys in the uk decided that they were cool. Stache in the summer which the wife doesn't like, full beard in the winter with the occasional goatee. Friends tell me that their girlfriends like facial hair!!
ReplyDeleteI've had my moustache since 1967
ReplyDeleteHarley parked in the garage for the winter....my handle bar looking back at me in the mirror every morning reminds me of the awesome rides of spring, summer, and fall....especially to boquillas in the fall....good times
ReplyDeleteYeah. Yeah. But the thing that has protected the 'stache is the memory of all the bits of Kleenex and toilet paper on my upper lip from the painful attempts at shaving under the snot locker. Maybe if I got up early enough for several cups of coffee before I went to the blade.....
ReplyDeleteI started growing my snot catcher when I was twelve. Hated shaving from the word go. The only time I have been clean shaven was in OCS when they were forbidden. Since it was for reserve and National Guard, I grew it back every month. One weekend I forgot to remove it but the TAC officers didn't say anything. The following month during inspection he stopped and after a moment commented that I had it the previous month, shook his head and moved on.
ReplyDeleteThe beard has been the same way. I shaved only while I was on military duty and since exiting the reserves have had it nearly the entire time.
My middle brother got out of the Air Force and immediately began growing his. When brother #2 was getting married, his bride to be informed him that he had to shave if he was going to be in the wedding party.
A few days later a box full of whiskers arrived.
When he arrived for the wedding, he'd grown it back.
He later married and the beard remained. He eventually became a firefighter and at that point was told it must go.
He dutifully went home, went in the bathroom and shaved. When he came out, his son took one look and proclaimed him too ugly to be human.
He's the cutest one in the family.
I still regret shaving my upper one time - when I was 16. My complements to Robert (my name also).
ReplyDeleteStarted the 'stache @ 14, shaved it off (involuntarily) for basic training in 1990, grew it back starting the day after basic, shaved it off once in the early 2000's. Regretted that immediately, regrew. Retired from the Guard 2012, added a full beard. They're staying to the end.
ReplyDeleteI've had my stache and some iteration of beard since I got out of military service back in '79. Imagine a mullet with a Fu Manchu mustache and full mutton chop sideburns all tied together.
ReplyDeleteOne time, when my granddaughter was about two and living with us, I shaved my beard. Since she had never known me without one, she wouldn't come near me until I grew it back. That was 23 years ago.
My little brother decided to shave his beard. His daughters stood right there and watched, two and four, when he got done and turned towards them, they screamed and ran away.
DeleteI haven't put a blade to my upper lip since I was a high school lad . I've had various beards the occasional goatee , but never chopped the 'stache Like Country Boy above I took my ration of shit when the moustache was first getting started , but I decided that I was going to grow the damn thing regardless of what they said!
ReplyDeleteSame here. Since my late teens. I shaved it off once. My wife said it was like kissing my sister. She didn't like it when I asked how would she know. Since then its been thw Year of thw Mustache.
ReplyDeleteI don't Like my facial hair.
ReplyDeleteBut I like shaving a lot less
Same here - last time I shaved my moustache was for my senior high school picture. 44 years ago. Had a beard for the last 15 too.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should show this video to Hillary.
ReplyDeleteI like my lip ferret. Have had one since I got out of basic in '77.
ReplyDeleteLast shaved 10/16/69, my final day on Okinawa. Processed out on 10/17/69 at Oakland Army Base. since we got married in June of '71, my wife ain't ever seen me without facial hair.
ReplyDeleteI guess I was supposed to do a couple of years Active Reserve and two more IR but nobody told me where to go or when so that was the end of my URArmy career. Didn't hear anything more 'til they sent me my Honorable Discharge, which has since disappeared.
I had one from the time I was 40 to about 48. Shaved it off and my kids thought I was someone they'd never seen before.
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When my little girl was about three, she asked me if I could shave off my mustache. I was tired of it, so I did.
ReplyDeleteA week later, she asked me if I could put it back on. I've had it ever since.
I have been sporting a mustache since I was 21. While in the military, always wore it as long as and most of the time longer than the regs would allow. I shaved it off only once; a mistake that I will NOT make twice. Been wearing a full bread now for about 8 years. The ONLY situation where I will shave it off, is when I need to wear a protective mask (aka gas mask). The only compromise I will make, for any future woman in my life, is to keep it short enough to where I am not mistaken for a member of ZZ Top.
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