Plucking Out My Moustache a Hair At a Time

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I remember when I was fourteen, I had my first moustache. It was sparse, but with thick hairs, like a giant novelty comb you would get at a carnival. My mother thought it was cute, but I thought it was trashy, so I decided to shave it off. Only, I had never shaved before, so I went horizontally across my lip instead of vertically. Not only did I not actually shave any hairs, I managed to slice my lip open pretty severely. Blood poured down my lip and into my mouth, onto the counter and into the sink.

I got the hang of shaving eventually, but decided that it just wasn't worth the hassle. I would grow a full beard if I could, but I wasn't quite blessed with the facial hair growing prowess of some, so I just keep a sort of bandito look, a chin beard and a moustache that aren't connected. I have kept that look for almost a decade at this point, only changing it for one ill fated fortnight where I shaved my moustache and looked very much like Maynard G. Krebs.

Having this hair on my face has spurned a new and unfortunate nervous trait. I seem to be plucking my moustache hairs out one at a time at random moments throughout the day. I'm not sure if it's stress or boredom that has brought on this new habit, but it has produced a weird bald spot the on left side of my lip and left it red and irritated.

I feel like I should just shave it off, just so I won't do it anymore, but I think I would look weird at this point without facial hair, and my wife probably wouldn't like me anymore. Also, I kind of fear that I may just start plucking my hair out, which was a trait I had in eight grade, or rather Ryan Nady had for my head (I would fall asleep during movies in classes and he would pull out my split ends and any stray hairs, which for me was a lot). Either way I need to break this habit, or I will soon probably irritate my lip enough that the old scar from my first shaving attempt will just burst open and blood will pour everywhere again. Or, if nothing else, I will just look like I have some sort of weird lip mange. Either way, it won't be healthy.