handlebar mustaches

Curled lip hair

Handlebar mustaches are mustaches with long ends that curve upward, resembling the handlebars of a bicycle.

The style requires wax to maintain its shape and evokes the late 19th century, when it was fashionable.

Today it signals either ironic hipster affectation or old-timey theatrical villainy: He twirled his handlebar mustache.

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facial hair style

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Chin-only beard style

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facial hair presence

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Having no beard

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Day-end facial hair

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G