Week three of Movember is here, which also means Turkey Day is quickly approaching and that proves to be important in this Stache study. You must be thinking: Why is it important? How are those related? What the heck are you talking about? Why do we care? Well, first, RELAX. That's a lot of questions. Jeez. And second, I WILL TELL YOU. At least the gist of it. Here you go ...
All the the pig-out-and-sleep (from the food coma) behavior of the nearing holiday parallels Movember Stache growth. See, you take these guys who get all amped on growing a mustache for Movember. They've always wanted to, but they don't handle change very well or they were scared of rejection or of growing a puny Stache or a Stache so awesome that their personality could never keep up. But here comes their friends who talk them into it and because it's for a good cause, they're able to carry that around as a security blanket. If someone teases them about their lack of follicle growth (and therefore threatening their masculinity), they can just say "I'm doing it for prostate cancer awareness, man" and then the Stache bully can feel bad about himself while the Stache grower can secretly cry at home later on.
Anyways, these normally hesitant Stache growers get excited to grow their Staches. As the fast changes on their faces happen from before Movember through Week #2, they indulge. They tell everyone, they find ways to bring up their Stache or Movember, they love answering questions about their Stache, they touch their face bristles all day long (ahem, they want to be profiled on Respect the Stache), basically they PIG OUT on the Stache smorgasbord feast. THEN, here comes Week #3 and then all of a sudden Stache growth has plateaued. Ahh, here comes the Stache coma. The Movember growers have settled into their faces all cozy-like and they enter a Stache coma. Comforted and confident in their achievement, they snooze past questions and comments, letting their Stache speak for itself. It's ... STACHESGIVING.
Now, let's conduct a quick analysis check-in of our Subjects on this Stachesgiving.
Week #3 Observation of Subjects 1 -4
Above: Week #3. Below: Week: #2
As opposed to the individual analysis we gave them from pre-Movember week through Week #2, all four subjects have been combined into one analysis for Week #3 because they have seemed to unite on the Stache front. They've proven to be celebrating Stachesgiving to it's fullest extent. Where there was worry for their masculinity well-being at the beginning, nerves have been calmed as their Staches have grown out nicely and are almost equal in sweetness to each other in their own way. But more importantly, their high confidence levels have been noted. As exhibited in the photo panels above, the top panel is chock full of "I look goooood," letting their Stache speak for itself while the bottom panel says "I have an actual mustache finally. Please let me tell you why. Please?"
Special notes: Subject #1: Experiencing stagnant Stache but confidence is noticed in subtle smile. Subject #2: Confidence is spilling over the brim. Big smile, now hat-less, curls a-flowing, Ken Hurd the III is feeling good. Subject #3: Bored might have been mistaken for smug in Week #2, but he has every right. It's a worthy Stache. Week #3 just gave him more confidence. He put his aviators on. Top Gun visual references are serious business. Subject #4: His photo gesture indicates he's number 1, but he's actually Subject #4. Duh. Number one in Stache sweetness? Maybe. We will see. But what the photo panel above doesn't show is that Subject #4 wore his Sunday's Best (see below). He's doing his best to impress by taking attention away from his Stache, and it could work because that's a pretty awesome shirt, but this isn't a Shirt Case Study. I object! His distractions will be striked from the record.
Happy Stachesgiving!!
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