Post: #1

By douchy, I mean hipster.

The other day when I was doing my weekly facial hair grooming I realized I could to a short handlebar (no curl). If I were to do this, I would trim the connecting hairs to the goatee, and keep the chin hair.

My issue with the idea came when I started watching youtube videos on the subject. Every single "man" in the videos was a feminized, metrosexual bitch. I want go go with the Captain Morgan look, but I don't want to be associated with hipster pussies.

Thoughts?

Post: #2

A handlebar moustache instantly puts any man below 60 years old on the hipster spectrum. Avoid this look unless you're going niche.

Post: #3

There is no other reason for this fad other than that people want attention.

It's not a symbol of rebellion, punk, or any other kind of meaning.

It's not even a "look how aloof I am.. I don't care how I look!" or "look at how orginal I am" thing.

It's just "look at me".

Trend pure and simple.

Does it help any guys to get laid?

I don't know if it helps, but I do know a guy who has one.. but he get's laid mostly from his low-level fame in the hipster scene.

Post: #4

Its completely hipster. Unless I know the person sporting the handle bar mustache makes a living as a civil war reenator I am going to negatively associate him with being hipster.

Dont forget we have handlebar mustaches to thank for perhaps the most obnoxious trend in tattoos in recent years...

Post: #5

What's a true handlebar mustache? I've seen the term used to describe what these hipsters wear, but I've seen it applied overwhelmingly more to describe the type of mustache worn by Paul Teutel (like a goatee, but with a bald chin). Those kind are nifty.

Post: #6

Hair trends are weak. Decades hence someone will be laughing at someone else's "look." Look at tryhards from 20 years ago. Shallow, yet cool at the time... immediately dated scant years later.

Go with something classic that befits your facial structure and complements your physique and frame.

Post: #7

Some girls have a thing for those mustaches. It will get you a into a niche.

Go for it. Yes you will look like a hipster.

But you gotta have the rest of your shit together. You have to have a dapper eccentric style to go with the mustache

Post: #8

Unless you are wearing a nice tux, using a cane, and wearing a monocle, you are a hipster fag

Post: #9

Just seems like you're trying too hard. I am opposed to looking like you're trying too hard. Be the duck, you look smooth on top of the water, but under the water your feet are going crazy to move you.

I hope these guys have more going for them than their facial hair.

Post: #10

Just seems like those guys are trying too hard. I am opposed to looking like your trying too hard. Be the duck, you look smooth on top of the water, but under the water your feet are going crazy to move you.

I hope these guys have more going for them than their facial hair.

Post: #11

If you're urban, hipster douche.
If you're country, cowboy / wrangler / redneck.

Best mate has one. He's 6ft4 and jacked as hell. Looks like he's stepped out of Marlboro Country. Does damn well with the ladies.

Post: #12

(02-25-2014 09:16 PM)soup Wrote:  Does it help any guys to get laid?

I don't know if it helps, but I do know a guy who has one.. but he get's laid mostly from his low-level fame in the hipster scene.

(02-25-2014 10:29 PM)Valhalla Wrote:  Some girls have a thing for those mustaches. It will get you a into a niche.

Go for it. Yes you will look like a hipster.

But you gotta have the rest of your shit together. You have to have a dapper eccentric style to go with the mustache

I rock a moustache like this. Does surprisingly well with the ladies, in selected spots. Best: artsy crowd, burners, hipster chicks.
Worse: yet to find out, I dont make it the focus of my approaches.

In my line of work, it makes miracles, and starts conversations. Has helped me stay memorable in the eyes of clients and prospects. It makes people pay a little more attention, retarded as it sounds.

And I definitely have a debonair, extravagant style -- think captain Morgan. So its fitting, I think. It also compliments my face rather nicely, and I dont take myself all that seriously, so its a daily reminder to stay humble.

Post: #13

From before hipsters were invented;

Post: #14

I think there's too much "hipster" hating on the forum

It's a part of game that can help and you're limiting yourself

@fort can we see one of your outfits without your face

Post: #15

yep, thats it. ^^^

AKA 'the imperial'

Post: #16

I wish I had a pencil thin mustache, the boston blackie kind...

Post: #17

(02-26-2014 02:45 AM)Valhalla Wrote:  I think there's too much "hipster" hating on the forum

It's a part of game that can help and you're limiting yourself

What are you suggesting? That people dress like hipsters to go to hipster joints and try to fuck hipster chicks?

Post: #18

(02-26-2014 11:03 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 02:45 AM)Valhalla Wrote:  I think there's too much "hipster" hating on the forum

It's a part of game that can help and you're limiting yourself

What are you suggesting? That people dress like hipsters to go to hipster joints and try to fuck hipster chicks?

Other than fat feminists few women are more uniformly unfeminine than hipster chicks given their penchant for excessive tattoos and piercings; sarcastic, ironic sense of humor; and their often strange and short haircutts.

Post: #19

I've always considered mustaches of any kind, without the presence of a beard/other facial hair, to be a bit....gay. Witness...

Lord Kitchener (Yes, like many other British colonial figures, he was gay) :



Village People (No need to comment):



Having said that the hipsters today live in their own universe. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a guy with a particularly ridiculous "handlebar" mustache did well in these circles. Even with the ladies.

Post: #20

It can be a form of peacocking. I know a Hipster-Alpha with such a mustache, though there are only few Alphas among the hipster-crowd.

Post: #21

The thought is 1 part trying something different, 2 parts peacocking. I just worry that it's going to attract the "wrong" type of chicks. Guess I'm just gonna have to dive in and try it out. I can always shave it off and go back to my usual circle beard.

Post: #22

(02-26-2014 05:24 PM)teh_skeeze Wrote:  The thought is 1 part trying something different, 2 parts peacocking. I just worry that it's going to attract the "wrong" type of chicks. Guess I'm just gonna have to dive in and try it out. I can always shave it off and go back to my usual circle beard.

Here a Hipster-Alpha who married a moderately successful Polish actress.

Post: #23

(02-26-2014 05:24 PM)teh_skeeze Wrote:  The thought is 1 part trying something different, 2 parts peacocking. I just worry that it's going to attract the "wrong" type of chicks. Guess I'm just gonna have to dive in and try it out. I can always shave it off and go back to my usual circle beard.

With the right kind of Alpha-state anything can be pulled off She - famous Polish acress. He - not famous, not particularly rich, but Alpha enough