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After his crash, with his mustache curling at the edges, the beard was a little more chaotic. But instead of cutting it, ... Imperial moustache. Small and bushy with tips arching up.

Whichever word you choose, you have to admit that the collection of characters who converged on Leogang for the World Beard and Moustache Championships possessed no small amount of flair.

Germany’s Gerhard Knapp prepares ahead of the World Beard and Moustache Championships in the northern city of Trondheim, on May 15, 2011. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images Historically, Olsen ...

The fourth annual National Beard and Moustache Championships, ... Jackie Lynn Ellison of Texas won gold for the Imperial Moustache, which must be "small and bushy with the tips curled upward." ...

American beardsmen and 'stache-thletes won big in the cradle of facial-hair face-offs, taking home six first-place wins and 16 trophies overall at the 2013 World Beard and Moustache Championships ...

The Beard Barons create a growing community for facial hair ... Jones took his manager's advice and soon the meticulously curled mustache started to get quite a ... "We prefer a small, ...

Hairy-faced men from around the country descended on Brooklyn's historic Kings Theatre Saturday for the Just for Men National Beard and Moustache Championships. Three hundred contestants competed ...