Movember is here. But everyone is already furry!
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7:00AM 
I considered growing a 'mo for "Movember," to raise money for men's health issues but in truth vanity prevailed. I look good with a beard but terrible with a moustache. I tried it just once and ewww. Not everyone can be classic Robert Redford (left) and look great with no matter what facial hair situation or lack thereof they choose. Not everyone can look so definitively like their true self with a moustache that to shave it off would be as catastrophic as biblical Samson losing his hair and power -- think Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Clark Gable, or Nick Offerman.
It used to be really fun to watch everyone get furrier for Movember, which raises awareness and money for men's health issues like testicular cancer, prostate cancer, and suicide prevention. But I'll admit I haven't noticed a difference these past couple of years. How does it work when just about everyone already has so much facial hair? (It's now almost shocking to see someone clean-shaven in NYC!)
Which male movie star's facial hair do you most love? Perhaps a list or beauty break is in order...
Hair, Robert Redford
Reader Comments (15)
Normally, I'm not big on mustaches and prefer beards. But I love seeing Ryan Gosling in mustaches.
I'm not into facial hair but I'm here to comment anyway.
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He can’t act to save his life, but when Henry Cavill had that moustache, I wanted to watch him in anything. Yum.
Robert Redford looks good no matter what!
Ok, I never found John Krazinski hot when he was just cute Jim on The Office, but he's totlaly smokin with his recent hirsute look.
I loved the “13 Moustaches of Hallowe’en” on My New Plaid Pants site. Vincent Price’s moustache was definitely my favourite.
It seems a while since a mustache has seemed essential to someone's face, but two people in the news lately both were at their peak with mustaches: Burt Reynolds and Freddy Mercury.
I don't need to make a case for facial hair. I love it, and down here in Argentina it's also prevalent. But what about a good ol' hairy chest? I just don't understand the trend in recent (and not to recent) years... All this waxing and laser hair removal. Please!
Recently I thought Darren Criss unshaven looked like a fairly generic pretty boy, but the full beard gives him character.
Oops, not unshaven, but shaved.
This year
Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible Fallout
and John Krasinski in A Quiet Place
Krazinski look butcher with the beard
Bradley Cooper looks particularly good in his Jackson Maine look
Beauty Breaks are ALWAYS in order!
Louis Garrel in Saint Laurent.
Jamie Dornan in The Siege of Jadotville.
Jeremy Irons in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible: Fallout.
Joaquin Phoenix in Her.
Sam Shepard in Frances.
Sam Elliott in, well, anything, but especially I'll See You In My Dreams.