What started as a few days last week opting not to shave led me to remember Gradon Tripp’s desire to fight prostate and testicular cancer and Mike Schneider’s video of shaving as part of a 10-year-old global movement every November “to change the face of men’s health” called Movember.
Purposefully choosing not to grow a mustache because I can never ever grow any hair in that hollow area under my nostril called the philtrum, and because I wanted to wait until after Election Day came and went–I decided to give men’s health a chance for the second half of the month.
Me and My Mustache
Movember is not just about growing hair on upper lips, but also raising money. This 30-second video provides a good description:
Wikipedia provides information on the origins and controversies about the charity, which social media has enabled people to share their ’staches, such as these other guys and gals in the Boston area:
I see the 40+ Team Boston members already raised over $11,000 in the name of men’s health. Down in Austin, David Armano raised over $5,000 alone in corporate sponsorships.
If you like my closeup and can appreciate that my great-grandfather lived with prostate cancer and I have aunts and uncles with stages of breast cancer that this is much more than merely growing out some hair, please click here to donate if you are moved.
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I share your affliction of no hair growth in the philtrum only just today shaved off my poor excuse for a beard because I had a rather important meeting to attend, however I didn’t know the significance of this month till right now either.
Thanks for the bit of awareness and I’ll see what I can donate in the name of your mustache.
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Cool mustache. Great cause!
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I have a small scar on my upper lip where hair will not grow, so a mustache is out of the question. It looks odd even if don’t shave for a day. But that won’t stop me from donating.