Check out this mustache montage.

Can you guess which one is me?

The Sacred 'Stache

Salvador Dali's mustache was legendary. Dali once wrote:

"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it's better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of cigarettes, were carefully placed several moustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends:

'Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?'

"Nobody dared touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches."

My First Mustache

In case you didn't catch it, that fine young chap pictured in the previous post was me at the tender age of thirteen. As you can see, my first mustache was something that really drove the ladies crazy. (For those of you wondering, I DIDN'T pay my sister $5 to kiss my cheek in the picture). I happened to be the first guy in my class to grow a 'stache and was the envy of all. So even though I was the shortest kid by at least two inches, having that mustache seemingly let me tower above the rest.

In the Beginning. . .

The moustache forms in stages in adolescent males. There is a definite order in which facial hairs appear on the face during puberty:
- The first facial hair to appear grows at the corners of the upper lip,
- It then spreads to form a moustache over the entire upper lip,
- This is followed by the appearance of hair on the upper part of the cheeks, and the area under the lower lip,
- It eventually spreads to the sides and lower border of the chin, and the rest of the lower face to form a full beard.

As with most human biological processes, this specific order may vary among individuals.