In a clip from the classic game show The Name's the Same , Salvador Dali makes the first known thoughtful statement about how much ironic facial hair sucks. When asked at the mark if his infamous mustache is a joke, Dali explains, in a most Esquire-approved manner, "It's the most serious part of my personality. It's a very simple Hungarian moustache. Marcel Proust used the same kind of pomade for this moustache.
United States. There is nothing ironic about something that just stinks. It still means the world has played a joke on your face. Irony, at its core, is about an occurrence that defies expectations. It is ironic when Oedipus unknowingly engages in a sexual relationship with his own mother.
It is ironic when Romeo kills himself, believing Juliet to be dead. There are only a few ways in which a mustache could represent irony.
Ditto for a baby. Here is the only way your mustaches could be ironic, hipster dudes:. You grow your thin, crappy mustache for years. It is, for some reason, your pride and joy. At the same time, your girlfriend has been working on a full sleeve tattoo of birds and anchors and Radiohead lyrics. This year, for Christmas, you decide to shave your mustache and sell the hair to a company that makes facial wigs, assuming those are a thing.
At the same time, she is off having her arm cosmetically amputated so she can do a lucrative niche photo shoot for suicidegirls. On Christmas morning, you trade gifts, only to realize she has no place for her new tattoo, and you have no mustache left to comb.
In conclusion, if you are a guy with gauge earrings and tight pants who grows a thick, full mustache, I salute you. I am even envious of your hirsute skills. They aren't bushy, but they're distinct. He grew them because nerd alert we're huge Jane Austen nuts, so it's sort of like wearing a band t-shirt or gang tattoo for a literary gent.
I think they're just deadly sexy, so it's sometimes hard to know that some people must see them and they "Pffft. Stupid ironic hipster facial hair. Response by poster: Checking back it appears I've been needlessly offensive calling it an "aesthetic built on ugly".
My apologies. I wasn't trying to be unpleasant, that was just my knee jerk interpretation. It seems that to some there's more to it than readily meets the eye. The best mustache gets a prize. The facial hair-challenged draw or stick them on women included. How do you know if someone's a Fucking Hipster and not a huge nerd? Last spring, a whole crowd of guys I know celebrated Mustache May. Their mustaches were ironic. Another reason: men sport moustaches because they can.
I wore one at 21, in I knew it was out of style, and it made me look like my father at Ostensibly, it was a stupid bet I won the naming rights to the loser's firstborn ; it was mostly part of my "crazy guy" persona. From my experience, these moustaches are most likely the result of a party where people came to the conclusion that X should "totally" sport a 70s moustache.
It's not just that the thing is ugly. It's that it either used to be in fashion and now isn't like bad 70s porn-staches or that it is fashionable but only by people that you might call proles for lack of a better word for example trucker hats or Three Wolf Moon t-shirts.
It's sort of like there is license to wear stuff that's unfashionable as long as you wink-wink acknowledge that you're not actually claiming that it's fashionable. If you were to wear a Three Wolf Moon t-shirt because you really liked wolves and thought the moons were pretty and weren't aware that it was kind of a meme, then that would be non-ironic.
There's facial hair and there's facial hair. My best friend at work sports a lightly waxed mustache and full beard I've inwardly dubbed the Bismarck.
Looking at him in his facial hair makes me happy because it is neat, well-tended and obviously part of an overall look he embraces non-ironically he also wears made-to-measure tweed Norfolk suits and patterned waistcoats.
He makes an effort with his appearance. Making an effort is a profound courtesy to others. However, like any sincere creative performance, it also leaves you vulnerable to criticism. Perhaps the choice to wear ironic facial hair is a blind employed by men too scared to attempt simply looking good. It's like, "Hey, I'm ugly, but I'm trying to look ugly!
Technical winz!
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