My photo entitled "The Gaggle was excepted into the PrintSwap on November 24th 2016
International photographers of all backgrounds are invited to participate in The Print Swap, a project of Feature Shoot. Primarily run on Instagram, The Print Swap is an opportunity for photographers to collect amazing photography and engage with other photographers around the globe. Photographers who are selected will both give and receive a print.
It has always been the case that some bearded brethren could not eat without catching a sort of residue in the whiskers and this was seldom decorative. Only the other day, while at a barber shop, I saw a barber with long, reddish whiskers of a vintage that harked back half a century, carefully picking bits of things out of them after lunch. Some men never like a mustache because it was so difficult to eat soup and feel clean afterward. That is alleged to have been the reason why Abraham Lincoln shaved his upper lip while letting everything else grow. (more on that here).
In reality, however, the custom originated in ecclesiastic circles centuries ago and can be traced back to the 1583 Council of Rouen. It had nothing to do with soup, per se. The council recommended that priest should shave their upper lip to avoid potentially contaminating the communion wine with foreign elements.
As Thanksgiving approaches, those of you participating in Movember don't have that option. Movember is the month that men put down their razors and grow beards (or moustaches) to raise the awareness of men's health issues like prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide. It's also the month that America's first bearded (but not mustached) President, Abraham Lincoln, designated for the Holiday of Thanksgiving. Coincidence? We'll let the historians debate that.
For many of you, your beards and staches have grown pretty extensively by now. And for those of you that usually go beardless, this will be your first time eating in a more formal situation with facial hair. While you may not mind using your beard as a "flavor saver" alone at home, such behavior is inappropriate in front of relatives, friends and loved ones. So, in the spirit of Keeping It Together, we put together a Layrite Thanksgiving Beardiquette Guide to help keep your beard, and yourself, in pristine condition for the holiday.
Beard Thankful.
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One of the more popular posts written for Layrite's Movember Beard Oil campaign.
Who was America's first bearded president?
Regardless of how this presidential election turns out, no candidate with facial hair has won the presidency since William Howard Taft (and even he wore only a mustache).
In honor of the Movember election and our new Layrite Concentrated Beard Oil, we put together a short history of presidential facial hair.
The first three Presidents, while not technically considered donning facial hair (as far as whiskers, beards and mustaches go), we nevertheless felt inclined to include as those who paved the way for future growth, of facial hair that is.
Oh, and one more thing. If you guessed Abraham Lincoln, you were wrong. Well, kind of.
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