mustaches - great or gross

Voted pencil shavings but that isn't totally accurate. On me they just look like garbage. I had hoped to achieve a Mike Patton look, but ended up more like a police cadet.

As I cannot grow a full beard, I go back and forth between the mustache-and-goatee and sometimes the mustache-that-extends-all-the-way-to-one's-chin (the "James Hetfield"). When I am completely bare-faced, I feel very uncomfortable.

My dad had what I always think of as a cop mustache - basically Tom Selleck/Burt Reynolds length.

I’m on mustache #4 of the last couple years and just trimmed it because it was getting a big long

*bit long

It's really kinda weird... you're no longer a guy walking down the street, but a guy with a mustache. People look at you different. They talk to you different.

I shaved mine off last December after two years. I look into the mirror now and recognize the fella. I guess "me" by default is clean shaven.

But "me with a mustache" was a fun guy too.

Beard & mustache >>> mustache only >>>>>>>>>> clean shaven >>>>>>>>> the 'Captain Ahab'

As a lifelong ugly guy, I'd never been randomly complimented on anything about my appearance until I grew a beard. Now I'd say I get at least one or two complete strangers a month specifically coming up to me to compliment my beard. It was weird and unsettling at first, but now it's nice to get a random compliment now and then.

early 20s, I did the mustache only, and it was gross. I hate looking at the pics. looks like a Dirty Sanchez.

mid 20s, did the Van Dyke look, mustache connected to goatee. it worked for me for a while, when my face looked more youthful.

briefly in 2010 I had to wear a mustache only again as I was playing Rooster in a bizarre theatrical mashup of Annie and Sweeney Todd. I looked more like a 70s cop than a gangster but w/e.

somewhere in the early 2010s , outside of that, I started wearing a beard with no mustache and I like that a lot better.

right now I look like Ted Kaczynski

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I like mustaches on young guys, they only can pull it off

currently rocking the full Selleck, and feel that this is viable for a middle-aged man - in some ways i feel my most completely middle-aged self when mo’d up

I have on occasion grown a beard, and have tried shaving it all off apart from the moustache, it does not suit me at all, and after a minute or two I invariably get rid of it too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.