One of the many reasons I wrote The Facial Hair Handbook was to dispel the awful myth that you can’t get women when you wear facial hair. Guys, your beard or mustache will get you laid!  But can it get you married?  In the case of Brandi and Jayson, who tied the knot in the world’s first ever facial hair themed wedding, it most certainly can.

“There wasn’t really any single inspiration, it just kinda made sense.”  Jayson is an A’s fan, and asked Brandi if he could grow a Rollie Fingers-inspired mustache for their wedding.   Jayson explains, “I wanted to do something fun and memorable…  Looking back 50 years now from, I can say, ‘I looked awesome, and it was a great day for both of us.’” Read more…

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Facial Hair Handbook author Jack Passion will be giving a lecture at the third San Francisco Nerd Nite entitled “Beards and Bearding:  A Pogonology Primer.”  Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts (well, mostly presentations and drinking). Nerds and non-nerds alike gather to meet, drink and learn something new.

Thursday, July 8th, 2010, at 7:30pm
The Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St. @ Van Ness, San Francisco (Directions)
Cover charge $10, tickets at the door
All ages

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“Beards and Bearding: A Pogonology Primer” by Jack Passion

Competitive bearding. Yea, gentle reader, such a thing exists and it is as awesome as you think it is. With a two-time world championship beard ambassador as our guide, we will find out what it takes to cultivate award-winning whiskers, from the basics of protein synthesis to grooming gadgets galore. Also learn why facial hair plays an important role in human evolution and mating, and why great nerds throughout history have embraced hirsuteness.

Jack Passion is a two-time world champion of beards, having taken the Natural Full Beard category of the World Beard and Moustache Championships both in Brighton, England, in 2007 and Anchorage, Alaska, in 2009. Passion is the author of The Facial Hair Handbook, and tours the world as America’s beard ambassador. Most recently, he hosted the US National Beard and Mustache Championships in Bend, Oregon. Read more…

By Jack Passion
Originally printed in ESPN Magazine, April 2008

To the Macedonians, there was no greater shame than disgracing the beard. Only upon the anticipation of close combat did their leader, Alexander III, order his men to shave, for “there is not a better handle to take a man than the beard.” The legacy of the NHL playoff beard harkens back to these ancient traditions of war and this unfortunate truth:

We shave upon defeat and humiliation.

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Here are a few highlights from Adam Tschorn’s recent article on The Facial Hair Handbook and the upcoming National Beard and Mustache Championships. Adam knows beards, and I’m elated that he recommends the book!

If you’ve ever thought about growing a beard — or wanted a glimpse at the habits and rituals of someone who does it literally for sport, it’s worth checking out.

What The Facial Hair Handbook has that no other tonsorial tome can ever match is a proven track record — that beard, ‘Big Red’ as Passion calls it, has won two international competitions. So, when he suggests giving the beard a warm jojoba oil treatment, or serves up maxims like Passion’s 1st Law of Facial Hair (‘Healthy Man, Healthy Beard’), it seems to carry some weight.

The guy’s got swagger in spades — in person he comes across like some kind of red-bearded satyr — and that attitude comes through on the pages. That makes the book a fun read — even if your aspirations for facial adornment never move beyond the milk-mustache phase.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2010/03/bearded-tschorn-beard-team-usa-national-beard-and-moustache-championship-2010-in-bend-oregon-is-now-.html