Just don’t let him apply mascara to it like my cousin did.
Hi,
I am grude, a 31 year old male from Texas.
I can STILL grow no better of a moustache than my 13 year old self, if I let m,y beard go for 6 months it reaches…2-3 inches IF I am lucky, and it is sparse.
I have no explanation for this, aside from my father claiming native american ancestry. Which could be true I have jet black hair that needs three applications of peroxide to turn light orange. Also often mistaken for hispanic or middle eastern.
I have been pissed about my lack of facial hair for a long time. I don’t think it is related to testosterone because I do have a sex drive and have fathered a child.
:mad:
It has always amused me that the guys who can’t grow facial hair are the ones who are the most disturbed by it, and those of us who could grow ZZ Top beards and give Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds a run for their money in the mustache department would probably just as soon have less facial hair so shaving would be less of a chore.
On Tom Selleck a mustache looks good. But for the most part it puts me in mind of Ben Turpin, Groucho Marx, Rollie Fingers, or Satan (not the SDMB person!). In the late 60’s I did try to grow a mustache; my skin never itched so much…
I am the parent of a 13 year old female Goth. I, unlike her mother, do not give myself the fantods over the child’s wardrobe, hair, and cosmetics choices. None of that is worth the energy it would take to fight about it. Her mother has become a Jesus-shouter, though, and sees Satan’s hand in all this. Poor child.
When I was a teenager, I thought my mom disapproved of my moustache, and so grew it as an act of teenage rebellion. It wasn’t until I was out of college that she told me that she rather liked it. I’m still not sure whether that was deliberate on her part.
In any event, there are far worse ways a teenager can rebel. Live with it. Worst-case scenario, he can shave any time he wises up.
He might shave it if you find a couple of hot girls and get them to point and laugh at him.
One of my brothers made the mistake of teasing my oldest cat, then a kitten, with his handlebar mustache. He was shoving his face into Baby’s and wiggling his mustache around. Baby being a mischief-loving kitten made a pounce for the caterpillar. At the same time Baby pounced, my brother backed up. Unfortunately it was too late for him, Baby already had the thing in his teeth and jumped back with that little head-shake and a growl. One half of that 'stache was partially torn off. Was not a pretty sight, or sound. :eek:
Hair is the absolute best way for him to rebel, or show his individuality, or whatever. No matter how bad it gets, it can quickly be reversed. The same is not true with piercings or tattoos. While trendy clothing or shoes are even less permanent, they can be quite expensive, whereas most male hairstyles, even ones that nominally require upkeep, are not in the grand teenage scheme of things very expensive.
I thought for sure it would be a pic of William Powell.
As I told my niece when she was 15 “Do anything you want with your hair - cut it, dye it, tie it into knots, shave it off. Same thing with clothing and make-up, wear anything you want. The hair will grow out, the make-up washes off the clothes will wind up at Goodwill. Just don’t get any tattoos because that is a mistake that can’t be un-made.”
So far, it’s held. She’s 24 now and un-inked.
That was exactly my thought when I saw the OP’s picture.
Rollie Fingers. If there was ever a pedo name, that’s it. Gawd that was a horrible 'stache. I wonder if it was supposed to distract batters.
No not really. I think it is kind of cool I think the worse for me was teen acne. That was a real damaging on my self esteem.
Thank gawd I didn’t have acne. I always had really clear skin, all through high school. I had enough other problems, what with disabling migraines, and trying to catch up on my classes after being horribly depressed all through jr. high. But believe me, I knew I was lucky to have dodged the acne bullet.
What does “pedo” mean? 
Um, I’m gonna take a shot in the dark here and say “pedophile”? Although I’m not quite sure what’s “pedo” about the name. Maybe im wrong.
Good point. I should have had something like “these days” or “relatively recently” in my earlier post.
Perhaps we can both agree that Beiber does it no justice?
By contrast, I’ve never actually seen my dad’s chin.
Haven’t seen my own since my mid twenties, come to it. In high school, I didn’t just have the pathetic teenage mustache, I had the full on pathetic teenage beard. (That’s not me in the pic.). Wasn’t until I was twenty five or so that it grew in thick enough that I could get away with not shaving it for dressy occasions.
Well, I just couldn’t make a connection between that concept and Rollie Fingers–I’ve never been an Oakland A 's fan anyway.
I agree about the “soul patch,” which is just about the stupidist facial hair trend in a long time. Same with the beard around the jawline with cheeks and upper lip shaved clean. What is up with that?
Tom Selleck, who is the handsomest man alive, IMHO, had a great mustache that was nicely balanced by full eyebrows. Yum, yum, yum!