Looked In The Mirror Today And Got Quite A Shock!

mawnansmiff

Lifer

Oct 14, 2015

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7,339

Sunny Cornwall, UK.

• May 24, 2017

• #1

This morning I had reason to look at my face quite closely in the mirror (having trouble with my left eye), this is not something I do often!
Anyway what I saw quite shocked me. The left side of my moustache is considerably darker than the right side. It is kind of ginger whereas the other side is a dark blonde shade. I can only put this down to pipesmoking as I always use the left side of my mouth and all of my pipes are either bent bulldogs or bent billiards so they would be quite close to my face.
Have any other moustache wearers experienced this I wonder?
Regards,
Jay.

 

aquadoc

Lifer

Feb 15, 2017

2,044

1,522

New Hampshire, USA

• May 24, 2017

• #2

Hmm. No. But I have just recently returned to the pipe. And I clench and move my pipe around, never leaving it in one place.

 

cortezattic

Lifer

Nov 19, 2009

15,147

7,638

Chicago, IL

• May 24, 2017

• #3

I would have thought this has more to do with the nostrils than the pipe. In either case, it's odd that it's only on one side.

 

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aldecaker

Lifer

Feb 13, 2015

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42

• May 24, 2017

• #4

Haven't had it happen yet, but I suspect it will soon. My mustache is ginger-toned, fortunately the same color as nic stains. However, as I progress through my forties, I am getting more and more gray around the muzzle, so the same thing will likely happen to me.

 

lightmybriar

Lifer

Mar 11, 2014

1,315

1,838

• May 24, 2017

• #5

My nearly black moustache has gone totally blonde before due to (nasty) cigarettes. It is indeed caused by smoking!

 

prairiedruid

Lifer

Jun 30, 2015

2,004

1,135

• May 24, 2017

• #6

No change here, still salt and pepper. Becoming more salt than pepper but I attribute that to age not tobacco!

 

cosmicfolklore

Lifer

Aug 9, 2013

33,974

75,649

Between the Heart of Alabama and Hot Springs NC

• May 24, 2017

• #7

Well... I occasionally wash my face, so... ::

 

tbradsim1

Lifer

Jan 14, 2012

9,099

11,051

Southwest Louisiana

• May 24, 2017

• #8

Probably blow your nose more on the Dark side. :laughat:

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

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60,455

• May 24, 2017

• #9

There's a flowering plant (tradescantia I think it is) that turns colors when it is in polluted air. Maybe this is like that.

 

warren

Lifer

Sep 13, 2013

11,717

16,287

Foothills of the Chugach Range, AK

• May 24, 2017

• #10

Mine is a kinda "baby shit" yellow from the smoke. I smoke like a steel mill and even shampooing won't get rid of it all. It's a past of me aura I suppose.

 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate

Nov 12, 2014

43,407

109,188

• May 24, 2017

• #11

It's what forum member "newbroom" dubbed the meerstache.

 

madox07

Lifer

Dec 12, 2016

1,823

1,690

• May 24, 2017

• #12

My mustache has always been ginger, my beard also ... even though I am dark haired. Not sure if the nicotine is the cause, but I guess nicotine can stain, yes. It is mostly obvious in gentlemen that have turned white already, their mustache being blondish. I have seen it before, though not my case. I have also met a professor in my first years as phd student, remarkable fellow when it came down to quantitative methods. I remember on our breaks he used to chain smoke, I could tell as his index and middle fingers were heavily colored on both hands. I suppose that it is a side effect of the habit.

 

K

kanse

Part of the Furniture Now

Jul 9, 2016

548

5

• May 24, 2017

• #13

Right edge of my moustache is all gingered out.
Urbandictionary even went as far as to give it a name, apparently. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitstain

 

madox07

Lifer

Dec 12, 2016

1,823

1,690

• May 24, 2017

• #14

You don't say ... well the first person to call it that to my face might have a problem.

 

deathmetal

Lifer

Jul 21, 2015

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32

• May 24, 2017

• #15

I avoid looking in the mirror. You know, what Nietzsche said about looking into the abyss.

 

mawnansmiff

Lifer

Oct 14, 2015

7,416

7,339

Sunny Cornwall, UK.

• May 24, 2017

• #16

Well I'm glad to note I'm not the only one with a bi-coloured moustache ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

cortezattic

Lifer

Nov 19, 2009

15,147

7,638

Chicago, IL

• May 25, 2017

• #17

Some sort of alcohol should dissolve whatever it is that is causing the coloring.

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

41,210

60,455

• May 25, 2017

• #18

For some unknowable reason, this post edged me into growing a mustache, just to see what color it would grow in. Hair on head silver/gray/brown, transitional I'd say. I assume the 'stache will be approximately the same. If it makes me look gloomy, which caused me to shave it years ago, or if my better half doesn't like it, it's an easy fix.

 

brian64

Lifer

Jan 31, 2011

9,626

14,728

• May 25, 2017

• #19

Some sort of alcohol should dissolve whatever it is that is causing the coloring.

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+1 ... Enough alcohol will dissolve everything into a sort of blurry haze. You pretty much won't give a shit what color anything is at that point.

 

mawnansmiff

Lifer

Oct 14, 2015

7,416

7,339

Sunny Cornwall, UK.

• May 25, 2017

• #20

"For some unknowable reason, this post edged me into growing a mustache, just to see what color it would grow in."
MSO489 it goes without saying, pictures will be required as proof of your acquiring a hairy lip :mrgreen:
Regards,
Jay.