Monday, May 16, 2011

Eric Phillippi & Jimmy Bero, Madison, WI

Nice stache, Eric! Nice stache, Jimmy! Wow, these men are taking facial hair to a new level.

That's Eric on the left; Jimmy on the right. This dynamic duo developed these hirsute visages for Mustache March at Blackhawk Church, which might or might not be the same as this Mustache March. Jimmy explains it this way:

Every Sunday, our church youth group gets together, and we decided to celebrate Mustache March by having all our high school students and leaders come with mustaches. The staches ranged from stick-ons bought on Amazon to ribbon taped below the nose. Someone actually glued their own hair cut from their head onto their face. Simply an epic night.

Stacheforge is excited to recognize Mustache March as a legitimate complement to Movember. Stacheforge is also excited to mention Mustache May, but Stacheforge is much less excited about the pretender mustache-themed months, with websites found only on Facebook: Mustache February, Mustache July, Mustache September, Mustache October, and Mustache December. It is true, however, that any month is good for showing off a homegrow soup strainer.

Eric's chinhair is dangerously close to being a beard, but Stacheforge is willing to round it down to "tickler" status because of the truly epic nature of that manly facial stripe! The mustache itself, too, dances with the boundaries of what it means to be be a mustache, but definitely qualifies, because it is disconnected from both sideburns. Jimmy doesn't play fast and loose with the rules the way Eric does: his mustache is a traditional throwback style, distinct on an otherwise closely shorn face.