A study about how facial hair can either help or, sadly, hinder a man’s perceived trustworthiness has been graphically depicted by artist Matt McInerney. Facial hair rated includes beards, mustaches and just sideburns.

The different face-dos are aligned from “Very Trustworthy” to “Disastrous.” Interestingly, “Neutral” trustworthiness is not in the middle because there more styles of facial hair that fall beneath it. A man with a full trimmed beard is deemed to be trustworthy and the most “disastrous” facial hair is the infamous Hitler stache.

See it on Laughing Squid and an interview with Matt at the LA Times.

See all the styles and their ratings after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Design firm Pentagram recently designed a new cover for a reissue of Edourdo de Pomiane’s 1930 classic Cooking With Pomiane. The cover features four creative mustaches made from different foods. De Pomiane, in addition to being a famous “food writer and culinary personality” also had a kick-ass mustache. See him in real life after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

The iMustache iPhone app lets you add an assortment of different mustaches to any pictures or photos you take with your camera. The app features a wide assortment of mustache styles and colors including the classic Groucho Marx eyebrow/glasses/nose/mustache disguise. It also lets you resize and rotate the stache to get it just right.

Of course, the app will mostly be used to be-stache women, as demonstrated in the sample here. Men, on the other hand, can just grow their own.

(Thanks to Joe for the tip)

[iMustache from ObjectGraph]

This is artist Carole Eisner’s recycled-steel interpretation of Salvador Dali’s mustache. It’s located in New York at 67th Street and Broadway, across from the Apple store.

Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

I was perusing Etsy for some mustache stuff and came across this amazing illustration. It represents how mustaches have gone in and out of style throughout the generations, particularly the different styles of mustaches. The trendy mustaches of today can be throwbacks of 70s-style staches or, more popular and represented here, the wild, bushy styles of the 1800s. The illustration also represents how mustaches can sometimes take on a life of their own. The descendant and ancestor aren’t shaking hands, their mustaches are.

The artist writes:

Two moustaches shaking hands across generations, what could be more classy? This image was first created to advertise one of our wax slogans, but there was so much demand that we make prints of this design that we couldn’t help but comply.

You can get a print for $20. Also check out the artist’s portfolio.

On the cover of the most recent Time magazine, the magazine promises to detail why “Main Street Hates Wall Street.”  This title is underneath a depiction of a Bernie Madoff-looking fellow whose face has been completely vandalized with beady black eyes, a Cheshire Cat-like grin with a mouth full of evil looking teeth and…. a BRILLIANT HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE.

I didn’t read the article because it was probably about depressing crap like the economy and not awesome things like mustaches.  But the cover caught my eye for obvious reasons.  By the way, Main Street hates Wall Street because Wall Street probably hasn’t had a legit stache since the 70′s.  And without a doubt, the Street has never seen an ironic stache either.

Remember when Monopoly was a board game? Nowadays it’s a game you play at McDonald’s, or in the case of Minnesota, the state lottery. At least you win actual money.

They’re utilizing Mr. Monopoly’s iconic, white mustache to promote the scratchers.

In a TV commercial spot, “[t]he white handlebar mustache usually seen on Mr. Monopoly finds its way onto game players growing their moneystaches.” In this case it’s a young blond woman growing a huge white stache.

They also have the mustache stuck onto mirrors in bars and restaurants.

[Via MediaPost]

This is a quasi-famous mural on the brick wall of Hank’s Eats on Sutter St. at Polk in San Francisco. It says “Ross” underneath the dude; I don’t know if that’s the character or the mural’s artist. Satisfy your hunger.