Just take a look at what the rest of our hair does for us:. But facial hair? In the early days of studying this kind of stuff, evolutionary biologists thought it might serve thermoregulatory or prophylactic purposes similar to body hair and pubic hair. Beards and mustaches are around the mouth, after all, and the mouth takes in food and other particles that might carry disease. It all makes sense when you look at it that way.
If facial hair were meant to perform important functions, it would be present across both sexes. What signal does facial hair send? Taken together, these signals confer their own brand of elevated status to the men with the most majestic mustaches or the biggest, burliest beards. The signal that facial hair sends also tends to be stronger and more reliable between males, who are more commonly rivals, than it is between males and females, who are more commonly partners.
In guppies, for example, males with a unique combination of colored spots mate more often and are preyed upon less. This is a huge competitive advantage. The trait goes from fighting for its life to being the life of the party. The downside is that the competitive advantage can result in overpopulation of others with the same trait very quickly, because of all the getting-it-on the very interesting-looking guppy does—which means it loses its rarity and becomes common.
Not to worry, nature has a solution for that: As more guppies bear that same trait, it leads to a decrease in interest from mates and an increase in attention from predators. What was once the hot new guppy thing becomes old news, in other words. It's the month during which thousands of men grow out their upper-lip hair in order to raise awareness for men's health issues , such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and suicide prevention.
The task can seem daunting for many men whose idea of the mustache has been tainted by the cartoonish lip foliage of Poirot, Hulk Hogan, Borat, and countless others.
But mustaches are no joke. Executed correctly, a mustache can set you apart from the norm in a way that's handsome, bold, and defining. Read more : 'Mission: Impossible — Fallout' almost halted production because of Henry Cavill's mustache. Glass spoke to us about some of the biggest mistakes guys make when growing out their mustache, and how to rectify them. It can be tempting as a mustache first-timer to grab your trimmers and shave a horizontal line at the creases of your mouth.
While Tom Selleck is undoubtedly one of the all-time-greatest mustache-wearers, his chevron style takes a lot of time and growth to perfect. For most mere mortals, shaving diagonally down towards the crease of your mouth will create a much more natural look.
If you find that you've become quite fond of your mustache over the course of the month, this style will provide the perfect basis to continue growing. Aside from getting the angles right, Glass' other key tip for shaping is to make sure that no hairs dangle into your mouth. This included a mustache as a part of a goatee that is present in most renditions of the devil today. Current data shows such creepiness may be a matter of where you live, with mustaches being the more mainstreamed in Nevada, North Carolina, and the Pacific Northwest, where they outrank beards.
To Oldstone-Moore, the creepiness really comes down to how the mustache looks itself. A bushy mustache is more old school, but a thin, long, and dark mustache is seen as more dangerous, and more likely to be associated with risk-taking or non-conformity. Dewey, who ran in and Politicians learned from his losses and have tended to keep it clean ever since.
When the value of masculinity in a culture shift, so do to attitudes towards unmitigated displays of it. The issue is that manliness is not valued in the same way as it was in generations prior, and showing it off to achieve dominance may not be as effective as a result. When performative masculinity no longer has an audience, mustaches are openly mocked. Hair follicles on the upper lips of men never really became creepy, but mustaches are so much more than that.
That will always have the potential to become creepy, depending on where you live, who you ask, and if you look like Burt Reynolds. More disorienting than distasteful, more than anything mustaches are merely the measure of a man wants men to see how manly he is. Sign up for the Fatherly newsletter to get original articles and expert advice about parenting, fitness, gear, and more in your inbox every day.
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