The handle-bar mustache has gotten some bad rap as I have recently discovered.
This saddens me as I have found that a mustache (especially the handle-bar) can really define the character of a man (or woman, I won’t be sexist). Personally, I have found that a mustache usually highlights and distinguishes between two truly important traits that will determine whether or not that person is someone I would want to approach. That is, a mustache can discern the creepy from the endearing. 
Okay, so I know this is an extreme example, but it illustrates my point so nicely. Both are illustrated pictures. Both are male. Both have similar hair color and both have mustaches.
Now, I’m not a betting girl, but I would guess that the person to the left has a few issues. And even though he is gesturing a sign of peace, he just looks like a fellow who would come after you with a wooden mallet. The mustache just punctuates this.
Now the person to the right, I would definitely date. Look at him. He’s adorable. And although he is gesturing just the same as our friend to the left, his mustache accentuates his sweet and peace loving personality, and something about him just screams that he’d be a lot of fun and perhaps share my love of mushrooms, also.
The mustache in both pictures compliments and highlights these points clearly. It does not make the person who he is, but rather calls attention to otherwise hidden-to-the-naked-eye personality traits. For this reason, it seems reasonable that everyone cultivate a mustache sometime in his/her life to check upon his/her moral esteem to assure that he/she is heading down the right track. For if one day you wake up and a mustache does not look quite the same as it once did, you’d better check yourself.
