Mad for Movember

JM: Porn star, paedophile, Maverick from Top Gun, Freddy Mercury, hipster, 70s cop from LA, Miami Vice.

EC: Have you found it to be a good icebreaker?

JM:  Yea, people say ‘nice ‘stache’. I could always recognise fellow Movember growers, around town and tend to measure against them.

EC: Is it very competitive?

JM: Yes, it’s an assertion of manliness although some people do look stupid and childish.

EC: How do you manage to maintain such a beautiful moustache?

JM: I trim the bottom of it otherwise you get food in it. At the end of Movember, it would be nice to wax and twirl the end – my inspiration is Salvador Dali.

EC: Do you do it every year?

JM: No, this is the first year I’ve done it properly. I am tempted to do it next year but it influences the way people look at you. You can’t dress in the same way.

EC: Why do people do it?

JM: People do it for different reasons. Some just want to be different, others are genuinely doing it for charity, some just to be cool. But it all started as a fundraiser for prostate and testicular cancer.

For a second opinion, Alistair Cummings.

EC: So, how exactly do you maintain a moustache of such beauty?

AC: I condition it three times a week, no shampoo. On day 17, I got my first bit of food stuck in it – chips, or should I say crisps, that’s when I knew I had made it.

Written by Elizabeth Clark and Jorge Milburn, understand writers