I’m 26. I can grow a respectable enough mustache, but it takes about two months. My father on the other hand had a thick, Tom Selleck-esque or Hall and Oates-esque mustache that he could grow in under a month. Had it from the ages of 17 and 35. My only maternal uncle has had a pretty thick mustache all his life. Thick enough to the point he could pull off a Hogan style stache back in the 1980s. My maternal grandfather had a thinner mustache.
Maternal grandfather’s (around age 50)
Well personally I think mustaches are terrible, I even started a thread on it but to each his own. I think it’s definitely possible it could get thicker, my facial hair was very slow coming in to any decent coverage. I could barely grow much facial hair at all when I joined the Army at 23, and then I pretty much had to shave daily so I didn’t really pay it much attention, and by the time I got out at 28 it covered a whole lot more of my face and the parts that had already been present before got thicker and darker, including the mustache area.
In general men keep getting hairier with age… except on the top of the head.
The hair from the top of your head drifts downwards, and starts coming out your ears and nostrils instead!
You’ll almost certainly find that your mustache and beard get thicker and grow more quickly with age.
In my 20’s, my beard was bright orange and spotty. I couldn’t grow a full beard and a decent mustache until I was in my early 30’s. Then by my mid 40’s, it was mostly grey, though the hair on my head (what is left of it) has only a bit of grey at the temples even into my mid 50’s.
Mid-50s; I just started growing hair on my legs. Beard and 'stache took their sweet, random time growing in; should be hopefully finished in a decade or two.
OTOH, I could grow a pretty good beard or 'stache at age 20 and it didn’t get any fuller with age. The coverage area for my beard was always a little less than I’d have wished for, and no, it didn’t spread out at all as I got older.
In my late 50s now I do have nicely sprouting ear & nose hair. :eek: Most of the rest is still going strong. It’s been mostly gray since my early 30s so no recent change there either.
My bottom line bet is that the OP may see a little improvement, but if it’s 10% I’d be surprised. 0% improvement wouldn’t surprise me either.
Yup. When you go bald, and your back gets hairy like a gorilla, and your nose and ears sprout tufts of long hair, your moustache will probably thicken (along with your eyebrows).
I was mostly joking. It’s pretty clear you linked to a picture of a 2017 era stylish dude. I have no idea who that is, but that’s 'cuz I’m a geezer now, no longer the pop culture cognoscenti I once was.
But you should understand that the guy I linked to was THE totally hot stylish dude that “99% of the females on the planet that find him irresistible” at the time the photo was taken. He was bigger than Jesus. And far, far sexier.
The bottom line of this point / counterpoint being that it is all 100% fashion. What’s hot today is just as arbitrary as what was hot last year as what was hot last decade as what was hot 40 years ago.
A young person in their 20s has not yet lived through enough change to really get that. They understand intellectually that fashions change. But somehow it isn’t real until you’ve lived through enough of it. That was the point I was making. And thank you for making it so well with me. We make a hell of a team.
I wouldn’t have much hope. I was mostly hairless in general (and in particular my mustache was pretty thin) and even though some hair appeared as I grew older, I’m 52 and the difference is barely noticeable.
