“I think there’s a segment of women who really respond to that in this town,” he says. And then suddenly I was getting all this good feedback, especially from women.” He theorizes that the positive reinforcement might have been compounded by the fact that he looks “100 percent more Jewish” with the beard. Levin started growing his own short but somewhat scruffy beard four years ago during a temporary bout of existential depression. In other words, if the mustache is an ironic statement, the beard is the earnest backlash. So why do beards get a free pass? “There was something almost stoic about the guys with beards,” Levin says. “The impression I got was that the mustaches, at least on the younger guys, were the punch line to some joke only they knew-and they got a kick out of it,” he says. He recently hosted the beard category of the New York City Beard & Moustache Championships. Her bearded boyfriend, Todd Levin, a New York comic, would agree.
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Think Tom Selleck, Richard Roundtree, John Holmes.” She thinks a ’stache conveys a kind of Über-confidence: “To me, it suggests, ‘I am good enough in bed that I don’t give a fuck if you think my facial hair is ridiculous.’ ”īut the majority of women we polled agree with 31-year-old photographer Lisa Whiteman: “While I think some men can pull off a mustache, most of the time it just looks like they’re trying too hard.” Meaning they probably sported a hipster mullet a few years back and own a Williamsburg 5 CENT MUSTACHE RIDES T-shirt. It’s got a sort of supermasculine seventies thing about it. “On the right guy, a mustache is hotter than any other facial hair.
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Thirty-three-year-old writer Sara Stewart is a long-standing and outspoken fan of the mustache, which has earned her almost-universal mockery from her friends.
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Will these celebrity sex symbols make such facial topiary sexy again or, rather, sexy for the first time ever? And what about those other recently revived facial dos, like the unseasonal full beard or the overexposed, post-ironic Williamsburg mustache?
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Colin Farrell sports the signature three-day stubble that Don Johnson made famous, plus a baby Fu Manchu (not to mention a sort of faux mullet) Foxx, as Tubbs, has an anachronistic goatee (so nineties). But what caught our attention was the stars’ facial hair. M iami Vice has been widely praised for its slick surfaces, jolting action sequences, and Jamie Foxx’s well-developed back muscles.