Why are mustaches making a comeback?

I feel like maybe being super smart, super rich, a very snazzy dresser, a President, and chief Justice of the Supreme Court are what really draws in the ladies.

Source: me. I’m a lady. lol

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Tekon421@reddit

No idea because they still look absolutely terrible on 98% of men.

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ScytheFokker@reddit

Ladies like a comfortable seat, what are you gonna do?

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I wish they weren't. They look stupid most of the time. It seems like men don't really know what style looks good on them because most men look like crap in them. And by the way, most women can't stand kissing a man with a mustache it's gross.

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edthomson92@reddit

And by the way, most women can't stand kissing a man with a mustache it's gross.

Trimming it and using beard oil helps

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Spare_Flamingo8605@reddit

Perhaps. In my experience men with any facial hair just don't want to take care of themselves so they don't trim.

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edthomson92@reddit

Damn, I figured that wouldn’t be that often

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petmoo23@reddit

Because beards didn't do well with covid masks. It really moved the facial hair trend strongly from beard > mustache.

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QnsConcrete@reddit

Always been popular with military, police, and firemen.

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christine-bitg@reddit

and firemen.

Because they couldn't have a full beard.

That can interfere with having a really good fit when they wear an SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus).

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QnsConcrete@reddit

That’s the rationale for not allowing beards in the military too.

That’s been refuted numerous times, but it’s become tradition.

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

The thing about it being “refuted” is that, yes, if you have a respirator you picked out that fits you well, and time to fiddle with it, you can get it to seal to a short beard. But a lowest-bidder, one-size-fits-all model that has to work from Antarctica to the Sahara and put on ASAP, maybe while under fire? Different story.

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SparkyBoi111@reddit

Thank you, I've had to explain this to way too many junior enlisted warriors and fellow NCOs every time I bitch at them for not shaving. Not to mention how I have yet to actually have someone back up the claim with a source that "it's been proven false".

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QnsConcrete@reddit

You don’t think it’s weird to make it a blanket rule for the entire military when the vast majority of personnel will not be wearing a respirator?

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xx-rapunzel-xx@reddit

isn’t it easier to enforce the same standards for everyone?

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QnsConcrete@reddit

We don’t even all wear the same uniforms.

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hollowspryte@reddit

That doesn’t seem weird at all, no. It’s the military.

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QnsConcrete@reddit

You enforce a lot of regulations during your service that didn’t apply to your members?

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xx-rapunzel-xx@reddit

i never knew this!

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MechanicalGodzilla@reddit

My sources for this claim are the numerous copy/paste anonymous comments in random Reddit threads, so check mate mr. army man!

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Lugbor@reddit

Shame you can't just give them a mask and tear gas them. Maybe they'd get it then.

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Carl_Schmitt@reddit

They don't do this anymore? My uncle was a sergeant in the 80s and told me about the pleasure he got of of doing this to recruits.

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AYE-BO@reddit

Except military gas masks arent one size fits all, we get plenty of time to fiddle with them, and units should be doing training to get the masks on properly with a good seal. Ive trained with bearded green berets that didnt have an issue getting a seal based on the lack of reaction when CS gas grenades were thrown.

The threat with nerve agents isnt inhalation. We have that covered. Its skin contact. If youre close enough to where the chemical weapons are released, youll never get to a high enough MOPP level to protect youself in time. All it takes is a small amount of skin contact and youre done.

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

Except military gas masks arent one size fits all

I suppose I should say “one model fits all”. Yeah, there are three sizes of M53s, all the same shape/style.

we get plenty of time to fiddle with them

At least once, but not every time. You still have to fit-check and maybe adjust a respirator every time you put it on. Take the somewhat famous video of sailors aboard USS Missouri getting orders to brace and don gas masks in 1991 for example – they took far too long if the threat had been real (and that was without beards).

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AYE-BO@reddit

Really depends on the mission. Before ive gone to a major training event where they would be used, we trained for it. I made my guys go through the motions of donning them until they got it down to an acceptable time reliably. If we are expecting to go into a combat zone where there is a NBC threat, we will do the same. Beards dont make donning a gas mask take any longer as long as the beard isnt outrageous. Even then, beards can be shaved pretty quickly before heading into an area where gas masks might need to be used.

Beards are just a weird sticking point for the army to me. I cant even grow facial hair. Some of these dudes needed to keep their beards to hide their weak ass chins anyways...

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QnsConcrete@reddit

The thing about it being “refuted” is that, yes, if you have a respirator you picked out that fits you well, and time to fiddle with it, you can get it to seal with a short beard.

I got fitted for my MOPP gear well in advance of ever needing it.

Respirators I was only ever authorized to use for a couple years out of my decade of service. Lots of servicemembers go their entire careers without ever having to wear a respirator after boot camp. But let’s make everyone shave!

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pseudonym7083@reddit

It’s the same thing in the oilfield and many other of the more dangerous dirty jobs. I had wellsites that wouldn’t let me enter location without being clean shaved.

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christine-bitg@reddit

I've seen this in both directions.

Some places I've been to require clean shaven, others don't care.

One crude oil terminal i visited on the Gulf of Mexico let their own employees have whatever facial hair they wanted. They said that whenever a respirator was required, they contracted the work out.

I went to a chemical plant in the Middle East that had no beard restrictions. Beards there have a religious issue connected to them.

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pseudonym7083@reddit

Just like anything else, rules tend to change depending on who you're working for and/or where you're working. There's also onshore vs offshore, and whether you're working under American or some other country's safety policy. Policy is always determined by the scope of the job and whoever gets to set the safety policy standard. If it's American, whoever has the strictest safety policy sets the standard for the scope of the job and/or jobsite. I can't speak for other countries' petroleum industries that may have other reasons for doing things differently.

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christine-bitg@reddit

That's consistent with my experience too, which is primarily on shore.

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EffectiveSalamander@reddit

Beards were already on the way out in the military in the late 19th century. Gas masks weren't the cause for this, but they did make the knockout blow.

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JimDandy_ToTheRescue@reddit

Yeah, many militaries around the world (and fire departments) allow beards and don't seem to have an issue with their breather apparatus.

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fatpad00@reddit

Submariners too.

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justnopethefuckout@reddit

Confirming this.

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bryku@reddit

Can you be a fireman without a mustache?

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just_some_Fred@reddit

And construction workers, and native Americans.

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LA_Nail_Clippers@reddit

Bikers and cowboys and leather men too! It's like a whole village of these people!

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QnsConcrete@reddit

Also Indian Americans.

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oatmealparty@reddit

Don't know why my dumb ass thought that said fremen

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browncoatfever@reddit

Personal opinion? Top Gun: Maverick. Seemed to be a HUGE uptick in mustaches after that came out and was a massive hit. God damned fucking Rooster.

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Candid-Math5098@reddit

Porn stache 👍

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311TruthMovement@reddit

It existed ironically in the early-mid-2000s as a thing connected to hipster culture (and the people's identities who were built around hating hipsters with all their mental energy), but now it seems maybe…you'd see it at a Morgan Wallen concert?

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PrimusDCE@reddit

Irony.

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xx-rapunzel-xx@reddit

i share your implied sentiment lol

like tom selleck looks good with one, and i guess older men can make it look better, but i’ve never been a fan, and younger guys who sport them just look creepy to me. that, combined with the mullet… 😖

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FormicaDinette33@reddit

Yikes

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Frenchitwist@reddit

Because I wanted a ride

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ihatecleaningtoilets@reddit

I noticed an increase in 22 after top gun 2.

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Zaidswith@reddit

Were you not around for the 2012 hispter mustaches?

Mustaches cycle through just like everything else.

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Head-Koala4529@reddit

They aren’t where I live

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

The hippies are no longer having to bow down to the man.

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Weightmonster@reddit

They are?

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bookshelfie@reddit

I don’t know, but I don’t like it. I only like full beards Or goatees as facial hair.

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DrWiggle46@reddit

I remember being in my early 20s and wondering how old I’d have to be to not look dumb with one. I started wearing one at 28. This was the mid-00s. I remember my bosses getting angry because they thought I was trying to be funny. The funny part to me was that they were all in their 60s and most of them wore one themselves. I’ve been wearing it on and off ever since.

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slingshot91@reddit

Mustaches are a socially acceptable advertisement that you’re filthy in bed and a total man slut. May as well be swinging your dick around for everyone to see. That’s why.

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Kehjii@reddit

Everything is cyclic.

Mustaches haven't been popular since the 70s and 80s. Facial hair was out from like the 1990s-2010ish. The most recent wave of men growing their facial hair started with the hipsters. I imagine COVID also played a role with a lot of guys growing out their facial hair this time.

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shelwood46@reddit

Full grown facial hair was considered the realm of nerds in the 80s, though stubble was thought hot. Beards came back a while ago (a decade ago it was unavoidable, every Millennial woman I know was super into beards for some reason), the pornstaches are new. As a child of 70s, the current Zoomer mustaches and mullets are giving me horrible flashbacks, but as someone else said, fashion all around is very cyclical so it was inevitable. I look forward to current 20-something men cringing at their old selfies in the future.

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Curmudgy@reddit

I thought stubble was later, perhaps starting in the late 90s or in the 2000s. But life all blends together at my age.

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Content_Preference_3@reddit

Stubble was a big late 80s thing.

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NorwegianSteam@reddit

Miami Vice came out in 1986, that brought stubble into the fold.

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shelwood46@reddit

And stubble was already hot, going by the musicians my teenage self had a crush on in the first half of the 80s.

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Verbanoun@reddit

As a millennial hipster the mustaches are really confusing. And not in like a “why” sense but just that i never knew anyone with a mustache other than boomers and now I can’t immediately figure out whether I’m old enough to be their dad or they’re old enough to be mine.

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daydrmntn@reddit

Mustaches were extremely common in hipster circles in the late 00s/early 2010s, how did you not know anyone with one?

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Verbanoun@reddit

Maybe I’m loose with my definition of hipster. I knew a few artsy kind of dudes with them who were going for a whole image but that was kind of rare. I didn’t start seeing them on just regular looking guys until the last few years.

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mostly_just_confused@reddit

Not that many had exclusively a mustache. Lots of guys had beards, but not just a lone mustache. I imagine that hipsters in the Pacific Northwest might’ve had mustaches, but not really where I’m from lol

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daydrmntn@reddit

I dunno man look at any American Apparel catalog from the time and you’ll see dudes with mustaches. It was very common in NYC, LA, and the Midwest in my experience.

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Juslurkinlol69420@reddit

Yeah this is crazy, like every other hipster had a stupid mustache

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daydrmntn@reddit

Mustaches were extremely common in hipster circles in the late 00s/early 2010s, how did you not know anyone with one?

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FatGuyOnAMoped@reddit

I have a nephew who recently graduated from high school. At one time, he had really long hair, well past his shoulders. It looked good on him.

By the time of his graduation photo, he had cut it off, and was sporting a mullet. And he doesn't even play ice hockey.

I guess those of us of a certain vintage don't have to worry about getting infected by the mullet bug, as we got immunity from it in the 1970s-1980s.

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Icy_Ad7953@reddit

This. Kids have always needed a hairstyle which their parents hate. Right now the parents grew up denigrating the porn-stache and the mullet, so that's what the kids are going to have.

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RoeddipusHex@reddit

My Gen X dad goatee turned into an ironically epic covid beard... then I got used to it and my wife doesn't want me to shave it... so it's permanent.

Give it another 10 or 20 years and all the big beards are going to be super cringy. I'll be fine because old man with a big beard is always in style.

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JimDandy_ToTheRescue@reddit

Broccoli tops plus skeezy mustaches equals r/blunderyears 15 years from now.

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Strict_Gas_1141@reddit

As a 20-something dude you’re wrong! 20-somethings never make mistakes or have regrets! Unlike teenagers we know everything! (/s)

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brickbaterang@reddit

In the 90s the goatee reigned supreme

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Lothar_Ecklord@reddit

And the soul patch, if you were into numetal and rapmetal.

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brickbaterang@reddit

The "uuh, i think you missed a spot"

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donuttrackme@reddit

I have a goatee because that's the way my facial hair grows. No other choice.

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amertune@reddit

Same. I can have a goatee or a mustache, and my skin doesn't like it if I shave too much.

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brickbaterang@reddit

Same

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Kehjii@reddit

True. Goatee is verrrrrry Gen X

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skullturf@reddit

I'm not even supposed to BE here today!

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DetectiveBlackCat@reddit

It certainly did on my face, and lingered in the NHL way too long

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Norwester77@reddit

I first grew a goatee in the mid-1990s and eventually a full beard, which I still have. Never felt particularly out of style, at least here in the Pacific Northwest.

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hawffield@reddit

COVID was the reason I grew the hair out on top of my head. The Peace Corps is the reason I grew out my beard. It’s kind of funny how I almost need something to happen to justify a hairstyle change.

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RoeddipusHex@reddit

My Gen X dad goatee turned into an ironically epic covid beard... then I got used to it and my wife doesn't want me to shave it... so it's permanent.

Give it another 10 or 20 years and all the big beards are going to be super cringy. I'll be fine because old man with a big beard is always in style.

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woodwork16@reddit

I have had facial hair since it started growing. Full beard most of the time.

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cptjeff@reddit

Mine is partly covid attributable. I had grown my beard out longer than it had been, and it was getting itchy, so when things were reopening and I had a wedding to go to I decided to go cleanshaven for the first time in a long time. When shaving, I left the mustache for a day to see if I liked it, and I did. My eyebrows are on the bushier side and it adds a little balance.

Got positive reviews at the wedding, and I've kept it. Nothing fancy, just trimmed along the top of the lip.

I was a little surprised to wind up on the leading edge of a trend for once in my life, but hey, it works. Will it change sometime in the future? Sure, probably. But I do like it for now.

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CoffeeExtraCream@reddit

Ya, I was clean shaven until covid, let it grow. Started shaving again this year.

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gutclutterminor@reddit

Huh? In the late 90's whatever the moustache to chin growth was called, goatee or van dyke, became all the rage and has been extremely common since. As a 65 year old male, don't remember any part of my adulthood where facial hair is rare.

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Riker_Omega_Three@reddit

They became "quirky" online in the last year or so...

Lots of baseball players have been rocking mustaches in college for a couple seasons

Was only a matter of time before they went mainstream

Big mountain man beards were popular...now it's mustaches

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Rbkelley1@reddit

Because time is a flat circle. Baggy clothes are coming back too with younger people like the early 2000’s

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ElonMuskHuffingFarts@reddit

Some people just wanna look like cops, I guess

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Mad_Dog_1974@reddit

Have you ever noticed how many serial killers had mustaches? Maybe serial killers are becoming more prevalent. That's the most logical explanation.

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admiralsponge1980@reddit

Fashion is cyclical. In the 90s and early 00s no one had full beards. Goatees yes, beards, not so much. By the late 00s and 2010s everyone had beards. Now it’s mustaches’s turn to shine again.

Mullets are coming back too. Don’t understand that one. I guess mutton chops are next.

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Suppafly@reddit

Fads are cyclic, with facial hair being extra cyclic since it takes so little time to grow, and things like No Shave November and the increase of working from making it socially acceptable to grow your facial hair out without people being jerks about it.

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revrobuk1957@reddit

They’re coming back? Great! I last shaved mine off in May 1982…

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Last-Radish-9684@reddit

TED LASSO!!!

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Communal-Lipstick@reddit

Styles rotate. They are cyclical and it was time for the stash.

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RedditModsSuckTaints@reddit

I don’t know but they are hideous.

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Last-Radish-9684@reddit

If neatly trimmed and properly cared for, they are awesome.

My late husband had a mustache from 1969 until he died in 2015, except for a couple of weeks in December of 1972. He was trimming it and having some trouble getting it exactly even. It got so short he just shaved it off and started over!

None of our 6 kids ever saw him without a mustache. He was, and still is, the best-looking man I've ever laid eyes on.

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xworfx@reddit

Aww

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Icy_Ad7953@reddit

"If neatly trimmed and properly cared for, they are awesome on handsome men." FTFY.

On a doughy lump like me, I look even worse no matter how neat I keep it.

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Last-Radish-9684@reddit

We can't be sure how we look to someone who loves us. My husband was stocky and 5'6". Not everyone's dream, but he was mine.

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ThePurityPixel@reddit

They ever went away? I must have missed that season.

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SkeeevyNicks@reddit

For me it’s perimenopause.

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no-due-respect@reddit

Wondering where you live? In my area they made a comeback a few years ago but are now lame again.

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NoCaterpillar2051@reddit

They never really left?

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ttbb76@reddit

Why do people hate mustaches? They're hot if they're nice and full on the right person. But my husband is a firefighter so I'm biased 🤷🏻‍♀️.

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GSilky@reddit

They are cyclical.

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Gwtheyrn@reddit

Mostly because fashion is cyclical.

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SigmaAgonist@reddit

Because they've been out of fashion for a while. People don't like to look like people in the recent past (primarily their parents) So they shift in and out of popularity.

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AmbitiousAnalyst2730@reddit

Bunch of people unwittingly gave in to the pedophile propaganda that weasely little mustaches are cool, so the pedos don’t stand out as much. Honestly no idea but it’s so creepy

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ngshafer@reddit

Don’t call it a comeback—they’ve been here for years!

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Lothar_Ecklord@reddit

Do people forget millennial hipsters? They made mustaches a whole sub-culture. There were clubs and everything.

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RioTheLeoo@reddit

Makin’ the rizz rain down like a monsoon-listen to the ‘stache go boom!

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Stealth_Howler@reddit

Explosions, overpowerin' Over the lip, I'm towerin' Wrecking shop, when I drop These staches that'll make you look like cops

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SirReddalot2020@reddit

MMD you guys!

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SirReddalot2020@reddit

Love it!!!

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JasperStrat@reddit

But the ones on the Mariners are somewhat new.

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broberds@reddit

Mama Said Shave You Off.

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Comfortable-Race-547@reddit

Mama said grow it out

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Kakistocrat945@reddit

I'ma gonna grow it out

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65shooter@reddit

Had mine for almost 50 years.

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Rofo303@reddit

Because they’re freakin cool. The real question is why did they ever go away?

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Majestic-Macaron6019@reddit

Negative frequency-dependent selection

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Genepoolperfect@reddit

Ted Lasso

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Curmudgy@reddit

Not Walter White?

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Genepoolperfect@reddit

Depends on when OP decided mustaches "became popular again". Admittedly I'm not a big TV watcher, but Ted Lasso is the most recent in shows I've heard people chatting about.

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rnoyfb@reddit

Cyclical fad

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Technical-Math-4777@reddit

It started as an ironic funny thing until it came full circle back to being in style

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doctor-rumack@reddit

I think this is the answer. Guys would grow them out to be funny, then for some reason they stayed. They are so fucking stupid looking, but to each their own.

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Prize_Consequence568@reddit

They never disappeared. They have always been around in abundance. Is this a karma farming post?

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snarkwithfae@reddit

Idk but they make men look older and they’re gross looking as a whole imo.

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Easy_Requirement_874@reddit

Listen,.. I know you chaps are a little behind the times there, but here in Aus, weve been rocking the porn "stache & filthy mullet combo for some time now....

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PrestigiousNews8714@reddit

It’s because Trump is the second president to serve non -consecutive terms. Everybody now wants to look like the first one to do it, President Grover Cleveland.

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JagR286211@reddit

Cyclical like different styles. In my opinion, only certain men can pull them off.

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Soigne87@reddit

I think it's just a younger generation trying to find their own style. Millennials have beards.

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SeparateFly2361@reddit

Same reason as the mullet; the be perverse I guess.

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Deathwatch72@reddit

Unironcially, COVID and Ted Lasso

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Far-Egg3571@reddit

Iit just kinda showed up one day. Poor thing was cold and I gave it a safe place to live

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Quick-Exercise4575@reddit

Only in some circles that aren’t old enough to realize how corny they look.

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Curious_Career_153@reddit

as a lesbian, i think some mustaches look really good on men. doesnt make me wanna be with them, but sometimes i catch myself going "dang hes attractive for a guy" lol

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hollowbolding@reddit

worse things are making a comeback than mustaches man

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Flying-Half-a-Ship@reddit

I never understood it (I am a woman)

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Krow101@reddit

Maybe it's a MAGA/Nazi thing ?

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justifier@reddit

They’re not, it’s fall. Many guys do no-shave months or grow a mustache for sports superstitions etc.

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Naykon1@reddit

My dads had one permanently since 1970.

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FlyingPaganSis@reddit

Because we are going through some difficult times right now and we need more mustache rides to get through all this.

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Designer-Travel4785@reddit

Comeback? I didn't realize they ever went away. Nobody has seen my upper lip since I hit puberty. 😂

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

I don’t think I saw any 90s-2020

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Alternative-Put-3932@reddit

My father has had a 70s porn stache since well the 70s. The only facial hair style i can even think of that truly gone away is the toothbrush aka Hitler stache and mutton chops.

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Sufficient_Cod1948@reddit

Once in a while in the mid 2010's my friends and I would grow one or trim our beards down to a mustache just as a joke, but it was always just that, a joke. Like, "haha, can you believe this guy has a mustache right now? He looks like a cop!" The resurgence of unironic mustaches is just as confusing to me as it is to you.

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gutclutterminor@reddit

Do you work at an elementary school?

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Louisianimal09@reddit

Walk onto any labor job and behold a mustachen haven

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womanaroundabouttown@reddit

They started getting big again in 2018. First in the gay community, but by 2022 had migrated to the straight as well. They’re also huge abroad - I was living in the UK from 2023-early 2025 and traveling around Europe, and they were everywhere.

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Jsaun906@reddit

Not a single mustache in 30 years? You just weren't looking then

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Norwester77@reddit

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

(Also goes for mullets.)

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Devee@reddit

Because I don't want to shave daily

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letsgobrooksy@reddit

Probably due to a lack of shaving

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XrayGuy08@reddit

Idk but personally I think mustache only is not a good look and very few guys look good with only that.

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Jub1982@reddit

People want to ride them

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Drew707@reddit

The dicks need sweeping.

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Icy_Ad7953@reddit

Aw, that's a terrible thing to write.

Funny, but terrible.

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gravyrider@reddit

Cyclic nature of things. Also in the late 90’s - 2010ish they were considered to be a flag for being gay.

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cookoutenthusiast@reddit

If you think mustaches are making a comeback you must live in an urban area. Rural folks have had mustaches forever.

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DanDanDan0123@reddit

Everyone wants to be an Alpha or look like one. People like blending in with whatever is the current fad.

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Im_Not_Nick_Fisher@reddit

No mustaches in Connecticut? I didn’t realize they actually went away. Been the older porn stache followed by the hipster trend I never noticed a time when they weren’t tending for some generation or group.

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TikaPants@reddit

Because Tom Selleck is a total smoke show. What kinda question is this?

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Pirate_Lantern@reddit

I don't know, but it annoys me.

I had one for 20 years and got grief for it constantly. Then the second I get rid of it, they become popular.

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RoeddipusHex@reddit

Because styles change cyclically while people's individual styles remain fairly static. Old people look old in pictures from when they were young because you associate their style with old people. When they were young, that look was cool.

I feel like big beards came along and turned goatees into dad facial hair. Now, big beards are going to move into that slot. Clean shaven and big mustaches are due for a comeback.

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alphawolf29@reddit

moustaches aren't making a combat you're just getting older.

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TheReal-Chris@reddit

Always has been. 🧑‍🚀🔫

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naked_nomad@reddit

69 and had one since I was 17.

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Sufficient_Cod1948@reddit

Nice

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Kineth@reddit

In this economy, people need extra sources of income. And that's where the mustache rides come in....

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Tricky-Ad5754@reddit

Pussy tickler

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No_Eggplant_3189@reddit

I felt like it was due time for a comeback for the past 3 or 4 years or so ago.

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Key-Candle8141@reddit

Not enough money for razors?

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No_Entertainment1931@reddit

Because today’s style is inspired by the 1970’s

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cmiller4642@reddit

I have one right now. Beards are just kinda played out everyone has one. Having a mustache with sideburns looks cool and different? I dunno

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Chewiedozier567@reddit

Don’t know, probably because things cycle in and out of fashion. When I was in high school, we had a dress code that didn’t allow facial hair, hair past the top of your ears and guys couldn’t have earrings. So as soon as I went to college, I grew a goatee, let my hair get a little shaggy, but no piercings. After a while I grew a beard when I was back in grad school and have kept it ever since.

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goldenrod1956@reddit

If you had my face then you would be pleased to hide it as much as possible…

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BookLuvr7@reddit

The same reason mullets are - for better or worse, fashion trends go in cycles.

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dem4life71@reddit

Oh my god I don’t know. I’m an old teacher about to retire and this year every new male student teacher was sporting the ugliest of porn stashes.

I thought kids wearing socks and slides was a fashion faux pas.

I don’t know if it’s an ironic thing like the hipster beards or what. Like Grandpa Simpson says, I used to be “with it” until they changed what “it” is and now “it” seems all strange and scary.

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yodellingllama_@reddit

Because Kyle from Incantation is a trendsetter.

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Curmudgy@reddit

I don’t know. But we watched the 1933 version of “42nd Street” recently and noticed the pencil mustaches. They obviously take more work but they’re distinctive, and in their era, debonair, so I wonder if they’ll ever come back.

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anon1515151515@reddit

Because they grow on you!

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doubleohzerooo0@reddit

My epic handlebar mustache says: What's your problem?

Sorry. Damned thing has a mind of it's own.

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Woochles@reddit

I work at a university. All these college boys with 'staches look like they're playing dress up as a 70s porn star.

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baalroo@reddit

It's a direct result of the rise of country and indie/folk music in pop culture.

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AnnoyingRingtone@reddit

Cuz I don’t have the genes for a full beard, but at least the fuzz on my lip gets thick enough to resemble some sort of facial feature.

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gypsysniper9@reddit

Funny. My beard game is strong, just not on upper lip game.

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Particular_Bet_5466@reddit

I’m in the same boat. I came across this sub r/minoxbeards where people use minoxidil on their face to grow facial hair. It seems to work pretty well too. I was interested at first until I realized Minox is extremely toxic to dogs and since my dog sleeps on my bed with me it’s not at all worth the risk to have a beard.

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Barrasso@reddit

I thought it was cats- is it both?

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Particular_Bet_5466@reddit

Idk about cats but it’s 100% dogs.

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Barrasso@reddit

Yeah it’s toxic to both; I found a study though: “In a 2025 study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, researchers examined 68 cases of cats and 26 cases of dogs exposed to minoxidil. None of the dogs and 14.7 percent of the cats died from the exposure.”

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Particular_Bet_5466@reddit

Ah, I wonder if it has to do with weight or if it’s more toxic to cats. Still not going to risk even minor poisoning or illness for my baby. Thanks for the info.

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eyetracker@reddit

Many things are toxic to both, it's just that cats don't have a sweet tooth and might take a few bites of chocolate, while dogs will eat an entire brick of chocolate if they get it.

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fist_my_dry_asshole@reddit

Same and I'm also bald, I need hair somewhere besides my back damnit!

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Bootmacher@reddit

I can't grow a full beard.

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MMWYPcom@reddit

"Who wants a mustache ride?"

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donuttrackme@reddit

Mustaches have been around for years now. Hipsters were rocking old timey staches a decade+ ago.

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max1mx@reddit

Because I started wearing one, unironically 10 years ago. I’m a pretty big trendsetter.

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TaxOutrageous5811@reddit

Comeback? I didn’t know they left. Mine has been around for over 50 years

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SassyMoron@reddit

I'd say they're more just part of the landscape now. The comeback started 20 years ago.

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Commercial_Count_584@reddit

Because every good woman wants a mustache ride.

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Puzzleheaded_Bee4361@reddit

Guys getting a head-start on Movember ?

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oswin13@reddit

I feel like guys started experimenting with them when we were first allowed to start congregating again in 2020, I definitely got surprised a few times when guys took their masks off.

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HempFandang0@reddit

I grew mine during the shutdown so I could hide my "pervert phase" under a face mask 😂

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dogfacedponyboy@reddit

Low rise? Flair? Stone wash?

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DoookieMaxx@reddit

Somebodies gotta fight fires 🤷🏻‍♂️

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antwonio1@reddit

I am so confused… I didn’t know they ever left?

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antwonio1@reddit

LOL what???

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No-Conversation1940@reddit

Even in my 30s, I can't grow a respectable mustache. I have an unfortunate affliction where most of the hair that grows on that part of the head grows well under the chin and on the neck, like past the Adam's apple. I shave daily because of this.

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brickbaterang@reddit

They kinda grow on you after a while

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TheBimpo@reddit

Fashion is cyclical. Pop culture has a lot of influence and Benson Boone has been wearing one.

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BillowingBasket@reddit

Who is Benson Boone? Never heard of him before.

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

Ok benson boomer

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TheBimpo@reddit

https://youtu.be/Oa_RSwwpPaA?si=jepAOkxL3RRxUio9

https://youtu.be/fCWvZisydrE?si=IcfmQyPd7lEeAQLx

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

What’s next?

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cherrycokeicee@reddit

ironic mustache finger tattoos

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Drew707@reddit

Not those again.

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10k_Uzi@reddit

The trend of mustaches on clothes is one I’m glad is dead lol

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

How do those people feel now?

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idontknowlikeapuma@reddit

Well, they are a method of getting your come back. I will see myself out.

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ACK_TRON@reddit

Why were fake duck lips ever a thing??? who knows…people are dumb who think they look better with them.

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ColoradoWeasel@reddit

Because pornhub is so popular among millennials. The porn stache is everywhere.

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Tingo60@reddit

Women love Viltrumites

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squirrelbus@reddit

Can't afford razors and shaving cream. Gotta ration it.

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mrsockburgler@reddit

Stay at home and eat all the freakin’ chips, Kip.

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FondleGanoosh438@reddit

I don’t know but I kinda hate it. It takes a certain man to pull one off. Dudes that can do it know because other bros will tell him.

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SLOWride82@reddit

I wouldn’t ever run one.

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tubular1845@reddit

Fuck if I know, they look stupid lmao

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No-Stop-3362@reddit

Idk but I can't wait till it's gone

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LendogGovy@reddit

You got rid of yours?

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Sore_Wa_Himitsu_Desu@reddit

Dunno. I’ve grown my beard and mustache out since 1988. I’d feel naked without them.

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FelineRoots21@reddit

Gonna throw a curveball out and say covid had an impact. Properly fitted masks don't fit well over beards, so a lot of jobs - and especially the ones that have a strong public image - had to tap the OSHA standard facial hair button for their male employees to ensure safety. So no longer just your firefighters but now cops, ems/paramedics, doctors/nurses, and a variety of other public service jobs had guys shaving down to the stache to be able to wear masks safely. We probably tripled the guys sporting moustaches during that time and it's almost entirely in well respected 'i wanna be him' kind of professions. Not surprising to see it's kicked up in popularity after that

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enormuschwanzstucker@reddit

Who wants a mustache ride?

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wandrlust70@reddit

Blame it on Pedro.

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supersadfaceman@reddit

Rooster from Top Gun 2 brought it back.

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Verbanoun@reddit

I don’t know if this is serious but miles teller always seems like a prick, I can’t imagine trying to emulate him. (Don’t know if he actually is a prick. Just seems that way)

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peabody_soul109@reddit

I think it’s the opposite. The fad peaked recently , but no longer are “here”

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freebiscuit2002@reddit

They do that. They grow.

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OreoPlow@reddit

Top Gun reboot

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alexunderwater1@reddit

Time is a flat circle ⭕️

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PartiZAn18@reddit

Even Rustin was sporting a stache

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OreoPlow@reddit

Top Gun Reboot

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NintendogsWithGuns@reddit

Facial hair is sorta trendy in general right now. That being said, mustaches are easier to grow and maintain than beards.

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WFOMO@reddit

Gotta be different. Bell bottoms will be next.

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Rhubarb_and_bouys@reddit

That's already been happening-- now it's over to the wide leg 1920s

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WFOMO@reddit

...shows how much I get out.

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Cute-Concert-5183@reddit

It is the mustache's turn in the cycle. If we follow exactly the same as the last go around, that means we can expect goatee's next.

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10k_Uzi@reddit

Where ?

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Seven22am@reddit

Mostly on the upper lips of men.

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twobit211@reddit

i screwed up once and grew one on my lower lip. it wasn’t much of a moustache but it was one hell of a soul patch

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ballrus_walsack@reddit

That’s a chin buddy

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Not_an_alt_69_420@reddit

I like mine on the lower lips of women, actually.

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OldJames47@reddit

And OP’s mom.

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Positive-Avocado-881@reddit

Oh I see them everywhere. I see at least 5 on my morning commute alone.

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10k_Uzi@reddit

Off topic, how do you do multiple states for your flair ? Lol

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Positive-Avocado-881@reddit

You can edit them! I had to click around and eventually figured it out haha

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10k_Uzi@reddit

Ah okay I figured it was just buried.

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Impossible_Emu5095@reddit

You can select the last option and edit it on the flare page.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

Among young people. This is the most moustaches I’ve seen amongst people in their 20s in my lifetime (TBF I’m in my 20s).

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

Everywhere! Have you not seen them?

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10k_Uzi@reddit

I mean I did. But in the specific context of the military where the porn stache is all you can really have.

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JustAnotherDay1977@reddit

I had no idea they were making a comeback.

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gadget850@reddit

"If You've Only Got a Moustache" - Stephen Foster (1862)

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HayTX@reddit

They never left. They have been perched majestically on lips forever. If you don’t like it then take it up with Don Frye.

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FlyLemonFly@reddit

God I hope it goes away soon. Moustaches are deeply, deeply creepy.

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

I don't know but I am not in favor!

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

They’ve been back. I hate them.

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PetersSwolenPecker@reddit

It is an indicator of male prowess.

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Danny-B0ii@reddit

They are?

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Organic_Direction_88@reddit

I hate it. A lot.

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ReturnByDeath-@reddit

They absolutely made a comeback in the 2010s. You must've missed it.

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Miserable_Smoke@reddit

Because we shamed the pedos enough that they stopped wearing them, so kids now think it just makes you look like a firefighter.

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8qubit@reddit

Because a lot of people forgot how stupid they look

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sgtm7@reddit

A comeback? They never went away. Some people have them, some don't. I have had mine since around age 12.

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Positive-Avocado-881@reddit

I wish I knew. I see so many of them on a daily basis now. Even my brother has one.

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One_String3424@reddit (OP)

Ask him

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Positive-Avocado-881@reddit

He grew his as a joke while on paternity leave because he was off of work and no one would see him. And he liked it so he kept it 😭

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Wallawalla1522@reddit

I wanted a beard but I have such a naturally strong jawline

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LHCThor@reddit

They have never gone away. Although, you see them more on women now.

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Word2DWise@reddit

Movember coming up.

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ucbiker@reddit

Fashion is cyclical.

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Rhubarb_and_bouys@reddit

People copy fashion.

Some famous people have been wearing them because they were big on the fashion runway in Jan.

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