The Mustache, AKA the pushbroom, soupstrainer, cookieduster, nose neighbor, flavor saver, lip fur, and mouth brow.

My little brother Erik (see photo) is serving in Iraq right now in the Air Force. For some reason, he grew a mustache. I suppose he felt he had no one he needed to impress. Anyway, we all miss him, and are very proud of what he is doing. As a gesture to show our support for him, me, my brothers, my brothers-in-law, and my dad are all growing a mustache. We will be taking a photo (hopefully dressing up somehow) which we will send off to Erik as a gift. I'm trying to come up with a worthy name for this campaign. I thought of "Mustaches for Military." But that doesn't quite cut it. Maybe "Lip fur Erik." Lol. Anyway, if you have any good suggestions, I'm all ears.

I've never actually let my mustache grow more than a couple of weeks. It doesn't take long before I hate it really bad. Nevertheless, I'm committed to this cause, and thought I'd throw in a few photos to update you all on the progress of my nose neighbor.

Here's photo number 1. Looks ok I guess. Not really dark. This is actually about 5 days of growth. I'm letting the goatee grow with it as well so I don't look like a fool.

Here's photo number 2. Semi-profile. The stache part seems to be coming in well. There are a few bare spots down in the goatee area. All in all, it should be a stache worthy of Erik's praise. Perhaps I will get some Just for Men's and add a bit of color to give the illusion of thickness, and manliness.

HOW'S YOUR ATTENTION TO DETAIL?

Did anyone pass the Attention to Detail test? I photoshopped one of the photos in this post. See if you can spot it. Now that you are looking for it, it should be quite obvious.

See, I have this weird disorder called Trichotillomania. Wikipedia defines it this way:

Trichotillomania: or "trich" as it is commonly known, is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, facial hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows or other body hair, sometimes resulting in noticeable bald patches.

So I'm a bit retarded. Yay. I manage to pull out my eyelashes leaving bald spots. It's really strange - I've done it most my life. I've noticed that I really only do it when I'm reading. And I have been reading some good books lately, so...no eyelashes. So for fun, I photoshopped in some eyelashes on one of the photos. I wanted to see if any of you picked up on it. Here's what I did. This one here on the left is what I look like without eyelashes. The one on the right is my crude-10 second photoshop version. Maybe not Maybelline, but I definitely think I look better with a full set of lashes.