Virginia resident Bob Baker spends 20 minutes a day styling his mustache. At night, he’ll sleep with a pillow under his jaw to preserve the shape of his whiskers.
challenged him to grow a beard for a year without trimming it in 2018.“I was constantly growing a beard, then shaving it because my skin would get itchy,” said Baker, who lives in Greene County, Va. “She basically dared me not to shave it.”
Baker not only accepted his co-worker’s challenge, he decided if he was taking on a beard, he was going to do it right. “I bought some beard shampoo, beard oil and beard balm, and by the end of the year in 2019, I had this really nice-looking beard,” he said. “It was about seven inches long — the longest one I’d ever had.”“She was always saying, ‘OK, you’ve gone more than a year — when are you going to shave it off?’” said Baker, 49, a computer systems administrator and father of four.
competition. He’d put so much work into it, and he’d grown it impressively long, so he wanted to see how far he could take it.Then, to his great shock, he won first place in the handlebar mustache category in 2020.“I was so shocked when they announced I was the winner that I about fell off my chair,” he said. “I decided right there to keep going with it.”
The following year, in 2021, he came in second place in the handlebar category. And in November 2022, with about 200 competitors across all categories, he clinched“Styling my mustache has become a passion of mine,” he said. “I’ve really learned a lot since I started on this journey four years ago.”
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