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.

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“Why would you do something to make yourself less attractive?…”

“It’s horrible; it is only worn by old men.”

“I do not find it attractive and I feel it is a way for boys to make a statement that they are men. I think it’s stupid.”

These hateful words were uttered by female students at BYU-Hawaii.

While some women dig the ’stache, there are some that utterly loathe it. My last (female) roomate was one of them. Fortunately for me, I don’t dig women who don’t like mustaches. In a sense, the mustache is sort of a filter.

I asked her what made her hate the mustache so much and she alluded to the fact that it was socially acceptable for men to walk around with untrimmed faces while women were required to be trimmed downstairs.

WHAT???

I understand it may not be your bag, but why the intense repulsion? If anything, it just makes me like it more.