Facial Hair Friday

Something I've grown to appreciate more and more is facial hair. There are SO MANY possibilities for facial hair. Mustaches, beards, goatees, and many more. The best place for me to start it with my favorite facial hair donning presidents, not because of his policies or leading abilities, but because of his facial hair.

He was actually the pioneer of this style and it is often referred to as the Chester Alan Arthur. A man shaves off the hair from his chin and basically leaves extended muttonchops that go into his mustache and it looks like this:

While yes this is a little excessive it is also very impressive. I wouldn't say that I want to take my facial hair that far, but I definitely like the more cleaned up, so it looks like this silhouette

Nowadays though facial hair has a potential stigma and makes 95% if not more of its' wearers look like registered sex offenders, meth dealers, homeless men, or state troopers, most of which men don't really want to look like. And for anyone who knows a lot about presidential elections, and for those of you who don't, here's a fun fact: facial hair was mandatory between approximately 1850 and 1920, but almost nonexistent outside of that time period. I learned that a couple days ago (because I'm not a huge history buff) and found it very interesting. 


With so many different options out there I want to attempt as many as I can during my life. Currently I am working on getting a better handlebar mustache than I had last year. I get random compliments on it periodically and it's awesome! Last fall I let my beard grow to a disgusting length and if I pushed my beard up it looked similar to the bushiness of Chester Alan Arthur's hair.


Next week I'll look at mustaches in general.