Tuesday, January 8, 2013

mustache fever

have you heard about the new-ish trend? i bet you have if you've got regular contact with tweenage girls and their likes and dislikes. the trend i'm referring to is mustaches. yeah, you read that right. mustaches, as in, the fur that grows on men's upper lips.

i discovered this back a few months ago when i was watching some ridiculous reality show with brooke (aged 9 at the time) and there was one contestant sporting a bushy mullet and a really big, ridiculous mustache. i made some snarky comment about his odd, 80's styling and she said, "i like it." WHAT?! i concluded she must be joking, so i laughed at her great joke. however, one look at her face convinced me that this was no joke. she seriously was digging his look.

she assured me that the mullet wasn't really her thing, but that giant fur-patch on his lip was looking mighty fine. great googlie mooglie, my child is very strange. she's not into goat-t's or beards so much, but that solo lip hair is oddly appealing.

it didn't take me long to discover that this mustache phenomenon isn't unique to my child. i started seeing mustache clothing, mugs, and jewelry.




that's when i remembered seeing photos of several friends of mine at a baby shower/mustache party. i don't understand the infatuation, but i've decided to find it amusing.



before christmas, i was shopping with a friend, looking for mustache paraphernalia at the mall but having little luck. my friend suggested that since i'm handy, i should just buy any shirt and put a mustache onto it. 

that sparked some fun ideas, so i purchased a shirt for brooke with a big giraffe face and then sewed some velcro onto the lip. then i made up six different mustache styles in felt and put velcro onto them as well. it became a much more elaborate project than i'd anticipated, but thankfully i started far enough ahead of christmas so that i had enough nights to finish it before the morning of the big reveal.


here's my strange little child, sporting her giraffe-stache shirt on christmas morning. and her mood-stache necklace that has brought endless fun, but currently needs to be repaired because it's already been loved too much.




what's your take on this wacky trend?

19 comments:

  1. haha! I too, know all about this weird craze. :) Like you, I just find it amusing. You have the best ideas, by the way.

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  2. That last photo is so cute haha, Brooke looks awesome! I find the moustache craze weird but maybe that's because I'm not able to grow one just yet.

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    1. lol! someday you'll grow all the way up and be able to kick out some rocking facial hair.

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  3. LOL, I can't get into a mustached guy, but I definitely appreciate a nice scruffy beard. The "craze" is awesome though, I do like seeing all of the mustache gear out and about. The shirt you made for Brooke is awesome!! You're so crafty. :)

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    1. i think the mustache gear is funny and i sort of like odd infatuations that go viral. who could have guessed this one?

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  4. I guess my daughter is just a little old for that cause I know nothing about the mustache craze.
    The t-shirt is cute.

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  5. I don't think this mustache craze has hit the UK yet. But no doubt it will be on its way.

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  6. This is a new one on me, but you are really clever!

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  7. I had a mustache in the 70s and 80s. Plus a pair of bitchin' sideburns. Really wasn't a cool look.
    But, I could NEVER grow a beard. Whenever I tried, I ended up looking like Yassir Arafat or Festus from 'Gunsmoke.'
    It was way nasty looking. Made all the more so since they're both dead.

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    1. i love that you said you had bitchin' sideburns. that's a phrase you don't hear often enough.

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  8. My old blog had a mustache on a stick widget. Maybe I should have kept it.

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    1. i liked that mustache widget. who knew it would make you more popular with the youngsters?

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  9. Has Tom Selleck made a comeback? I think that will officially mark the end of the trend.

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  10. Really? This is a thing? I find this disturbing.

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  11. LOVE your shirt idea. Leave it to you to come up with something so innovative.

    Moustaches. Shudder. Is it maybe just some holdover from Movember...hopefully??? I HATE the moustache. I always thought the oh-oh's were the decade wherein too much of the 80's has crept back in. Yech.

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  12. My friend has a Fiesta de Moustache every year. It's a BIG deal and everyone comes with their crazy mustache stuff. I swear she was doing this before it got so big!

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  13. I'm so impressed that you made that shirt and necklace. They look great! An actual mustache on a guy...not so much. I was pretty happy when Movember was over. I like light stubble and even a goatee on occasion, but the free-standing mustache, no.

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