This article has been reprinted with permission, from the book The Bearded Gentlemen - the style guide to shaving face.
Lots of stache wax products are available. Buying them will make you feel like you’re part of an exclusive club, one to which salvador Dali, Hercule Poirot, and snidely Whiplash proudly belonged. take a smidgen—and we mean a smidgen—and rub it between your thumb and index fnger. Make sure your stache is dry, and apply sparingly with one fnger. You can cover the whole mustache for an overall tidy look or just twirl the points repeatedly between your thumb and forefnger (you may wish to laugh in a sinister way as you do so). To achieve upturning points, twirl with a technique much the same as snapping your fngers. keep in mind that most of the products available will slightly darken the color of your facial hair. keep some wax in your desk or briefcase and reapply as required to maintain your style. now go find a barbershop quartet to sing with.
Allan Peterkin is a psychiatrist and writer living and teaching in Toronto. He is the author of One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair and co-author (with Nick Burns) of The Bearded Gentleman: The Style Guide To Shaving Face, which has led to his becoming (if somewhat reluctantly) a noted pogonologist. He has been interviewed by newspapers worldwide and has appeared in Esquire, Men’s Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated.
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