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05 Dec
Movember is over. Is our volunteer Edan Haddock now a caterpillar convert?
So, Movember has come to an end.
I had so many expectations of what it would mean to grow facial hair. And I was wrong in so many ways.
First off, I reckoned facial hair would grow quickly. In reality it took until Day 10 before the mo was even noticeable. Prior to this it was just some itchy stubble, a dark shadow on my top lip. I had a fantasy of cultivating a long lip-do that I could experiment with and style into different looks. But by Day 30, I was still just tending a hairy caterpillar below my nose.
I’d also expected my tache to inspire some kind of cavemanny Alpha Male feeling, but this just didn’t materialise. I thought that growing a moustache would make me look older, and more sophisticated. The feedback from most people is that it made me look younger – like a teenage boy who hadn’t learned to shave.
I am a person that likes to feel clean. I’ve always been clean shaven and try to be as fresh-faced as possible. I don’t like to look untidy. Having a Mo made me feel rather seedy. It would get wet when I drank water (or wine!), a feeling I didn’t enjoy at all. And in business meetings, being a client facing a ‘suit’, I felt oddly unprofessional.
There were positives though. Primarily that I raised $2100 AUD for such a worthy cause. Movember opened up a lot of dialogue around Mens’ Health. Every time someone commented on my moustache, it was a natural conversation starter. This, I think, was the success of my Movember. For people like myself, who folks don’t expect to see sporting a mo, the conversations started easily, enabling friends and colleagues to talk about issues that are often overlooked due to embarrassment. I had so much support on Social Media and had a large number of people following my daily photos on Facebook, and commenting on the progress of my tache. Again, it got people talking.
Ultimately facial hair is not for me. With my sensitive skin and constant shaving rash, I like being smooth. As a 33-year-old, perhaps it was unusual not to have tried this before, and I’m really glad I have – even if I now know that the tache will never be a permanent fixture for me. That said, Movember is such a fantastic cause that I’ll endure another uncomfortable month of seedy facial hair for Movember 2014. It’s my duty as a Mo-Bro.
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