Hairy tales

Posted by: flamingo on: June 19, 2009

In: beards| facial hair| hairy men| handsome men| john travolta| jude law| moustaches| tom selleck
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For those of you not in the know, the World Beard and Moustache Championship has just been held in Anchorage, Alaska. It was won by the surprisingly young and handsome David Traver, 33, who now plans to shave his face clean for charity. Traver acknowledged that no money was at stake (only trophies and “bragging rights”), but added that there are “a lot of ladies” who fawn over men’s facial hair. “Seriously, they exist.” Not in my world they don’t.

33 year old David Traver's attempt to make himself look 20 years older is only partilally successful

This set me wondering what it is about facial hair that makes us uncomfortable – at one time the supermarket chain Waitrose banned their staff from growing beards (some of the women in the Epsom branch disregarded this ruling I’d say) on the grounds that research suggests that bearded and moustached men are less trusted by the public.

A moustache particularly these days seems to be considered a style killer and on my forays into match.com I have to say that anyone wearing one was immediately off my list, along with the pervs, men who post loads of pics of themselves paragliding in darkest Peru and those who can’t string a sentence together, which ruled out most of them.

And when it comes to celeb moustaches there are some obvious exceptions to the moustache=revolting rule, like the perenially good looking Tom Selleck, and Jude Law, who recently sported a moustache for his role as Dr Watson…

Magnum's trademark facial hair is one of the few exceptions to the "no tache" rule

….and then there are some who most definitely should invest in a gillette or two, urgently.

Has someone escaped from the set of "Aladdin"?!

Tags: beard and moustache championship, beards, facial hair, hairy men, handsome men, john travolta, jude law, moustaches, tom selleck

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