As I am sure you’re aware, this month was the facial hair growing charity extravaganza that was Movember.
 
This saw some ‘unique’ designs, from the historic ‘Sir Francis Drake’ to the ‘Errol Flynn’, going past the ‘WW2 Major General’ to the ‘Fischer Price, my first tache’. At the start of the month it was more about ridicule than kind regard, but once the bum-fluff and questioning looks on the tube had passed and we got into the second and third week, we were wondering, what is it to be a man with a moustache?
 
Hitler and Stalin both had moustaches, both distinct and with their own merits (the moustaches that is, not the people), but it could suggest that there’s a slight link between upper lip lining and the need for mass murder and evil dictatorship; although the link is not definite. Then we cast back to the great minds throughout history, Einstein, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, could their taches be the genesis of their genius? It could even be argued that Jesus had a little tache action way back when and he was pretty influential.
 
Then there are the guys that are great with women, Errol Flynn, Tom Selleck, Ron Jeremy, they had taches and women flocked to them. Would they have been so willing if they had been fresh faced?
 
So it seems that, to be powerful, respected and great with women, you need a moustache.
 
Or is it more about the fashion at the time? Think of the great minds of our lifetime, Zuckerberg, Jobs, Tom Ford, they don’t have any facial furniture, so would you call them lesser men?
 
So in the end, does it matter? The ability to grow facial hair is down to genetics and metabolism above any destined path to greatness and its wearing is seemingly determined by the current vogue. It’s something that you unfortunately cannot effect, regardless of how much you try, how much mascara you use to darken the wispy hairs above your upper lip or how much you use the excuse ‘my wife won’t talk to me if I grow it’.
 
However, there is still a lot of competition (I am currently forth in the glue league table) and I am afraid that it boils down to this fact; the better the mo, the more manly you are.