The Mexican Mustache - Part I
The wise John Authers (left), Mexico City Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, sports a mustache and goatee combo that I often think of as a style reminiscent of the Mexican / Spanish aristocracy (John IV of Portugal, Duke of Braganza, right), although that is probably a gross generalization just as soon as it is made. Whatever the case, it's an apt choice for many men with similar facial pattern hair.
Viggo Mortensen (above), prepping for a role as Capitan Alatriste, comes up with something halfway between, dropping the goatee but perhaps too unkempt to be persuasive.
Of course, this is not to be confused with the pejorative "Mexican mustache", which urban dictionary defines as "a thin, sorry excuse for facial hair consisting of a few scraggly, individually visible hairs scattered above a man's upper lip", usually associated with the early stages of facial hair development.
Mexican Leon Krause (left), erstwhile blogger for PostGlobal, sports a quasi "Mexican mustache" - "Mexistache" - (although it's just as likely a throwback to the studied stubble look), as does Mexican actor/dirctor Gael Garcia Bernal (right).
Sometimes, if you have soft eyebrows, it may be possible to get-away-with-it, and appear a bit younger, as follows:
None of these are to be confused with the hurdle that (some) would-be mustache wearers received when a certain "cheesy variety" became associated with a 1970s porn look. To wit, Orlando Bloom takes grief. As does a drawing ("bicentennial porno mustache, circa 1976").
Thursday, August 16, 2007
The fine art of the mustache
