30th Movember - A Tragic Ending

As you may or may not be aware, on the 26th I posed a vote for which of the Tash Man's challenges I should engage in. As a result of a combined effort from Hugh Boyle and Gaia Fenn, the winner was a pink moustache. You will have to take my word for it that I tried my best to fulfil what was requested of me but, alas, the dye that I bought was entirely insufficient. Although it did succeed in giving me some pinkish staining on my skin surrounding my glorious mo, not even a flick of pink attached itself to my beastly bristles. No, it simply fell straight off.

So, I'm afraid, other than a warning not to use Colour Xtreme Hair Art if you are planning on dyeing your hair pink, I'm afraid I can't offer you loyal fans too much. What is not so tragic is the amount of money this blog has raised. As an individual I've managed to raise £118 and my team (La Maison Moustache) has managed to raise £141. My infinite gratitude goes to my Dad (Paul Harris), Stephen Harris, Gaia Fenn, Hugh Boyle, Aunty Daun, Serena Cheng, Alves Alves, Luke Dubery, Tash Man, Gavin Kendall and, finally, (or reversely, firstly) my Mum (Niobe Harris).

The money all goes to The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research to help fight prostate cancer. Donations are open for about a week from now so it's not too late to contribute if you haven't already. As I said before, even just £1 would be helpful. I'll probably do one more post in about a week's time to give a final grand total and let everyone know what form the Tash Man's fury that I neither dyed my moustache nor dressed up takes.

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26th Movember - BREAKING NEWS! (and a vote!)

Hello moustache fans!

I apologise profusely for the poor photo quality and my recent absence of a whole week, it's been a very busy week but I return with various pieces of exciting news.

1) I grew what appeared to be a ginger moustache hair yesterday.
2) Our team total has now exceeded £100 (composed of a £2 team donation, a beastly £86 to me, a respectable £20 to Chris and a commendable £1 to Tim)
3) TWO NEW CHALLENGES FROM THE TASH MAN! (Details below)







Assuming you read the small list above I'm sure you will be eagerly anticipating reading about what the Tash Man's latest challenges to me are. If you did not, please go and read above, eagerly anticipate and then read below.

CHALLENGE THE FIRST - THE ATTIRE CHALLENGE


In an homage to respectable moustache bearers the world around, Tash Man has requested that I don the costume of either Hollywood Hulk Hogan (gold briefs and champion's belt), Borat (mankini) or a circus strongman (red and white striped leotard). He has promised to reimburse me the cost of whichever I get up to £10.

CHALLENGE THE SECOND - THE DEATH CHALLENGE


I suspect 'The Death Challenge' may be a mistranslation of what I presume was a challenge originally issued from someone in the far East as it seems to pertain more to dyeing than to dying, that is dyeing my moustache. Tash Man requests that for the remainder of Movember I dye my moustache 'the most ridiculous and outlandish colour possible'.

THE DECISION


Now I've never been big on making my mind up about things so I'm going to put the decision to you guys. Please leave me a message saying which outfit or moustache dye you think I should go for and do it AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - there are only four days left and I may well shave my moustache off at the beginning of December.

Oh, and, obviously, any request will have to be backed up by some kind of donation. Whichever request gets the most money donated in its name will be the one I will take up. If a respectable amount is raised for either challenge by, say, the 28th, then I shall do it immediately, post the pictures that night and, if it is the dye option, wear my moustache that way until the end of the month.

ALL VOTE NOW!

19th Movember: Happiness & Hair

As many of you will know, yesterday I wasn't particularly happy. You will probably have gathered between this title of this blog post and the accompanying photograph that this is no longer the case.

Although neither the rate of growth of my moustache nor the rate at which ladies are sending in their own Movember efforts have increased, the rate of my donations has increased at such a huge rate that it's made up for everything! Between my last blog post and this one, the total amount donated to me has gone from £41 to £88 (including Doobs' £2 team donation)! That's right, in the last twenty four hours, the amount of money raised to fight prostate cancer by my Movember effort has doubled!

Massive thank yous go out to Luke Dubery, Chris Alves, Serena Cheng and Aunty Daun! It means a lot that all of you were so moved by yesterday's sadness! Now, come on, everyone else out there! You guys can do your part too - let's match the donations of the last twenty four hours! Can we make another £40? Click here to help make it happen!

In semi-related news, or lack thereof, I have recieved no further instructions from the so-called 'Tash Man'. Could it be that the challenges have ended after a mere 2? One would hope not. Only time will tell.

Further news of stuff not happening - I haven't been able to organise an interview with Tim just yet but, fear not, one will be coming very soon.


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Donate to Chris Wilson!

Donate to Tim Hampson!

18th Movember - Sadness & Stagnation

Hello readers. As you have probably been able to garner from the title of this post and accompanying photo, I am not happy. The reason I am so sad is because several things concerning this year's Movember effort have begun to stagnate.

1) The length of my moustache - it seems to have ceased growing altogether.
2) The bushiness of my moustache - see above.
3) Ladies eagerly taking up my previous challenge - this has stagnated at zero, which is the worst stagnation of all.
4) Donations! That's right! It's been days since anyone has donated anything! 


Come on, people, last year I managed to raise over £100 but this year I've barely cleared £40 and we're nearly 2/3 of the way through! We need to step it up a notch!

I've got a fantastic offer for you guys. Once I clear £50, I'll post a hilarious and entertaining interview with Tim Hampson, the only member of La Maison Moustache so far not to get some bloggy attention!

Donate to La Maison Moustache!

Donate to Alex Harris!

Donate to Chris Wilson!

Donate to Tim Hampson!

14th Movember - Dear Creepy Facebook Friend

Hello Creepy Facebook Friend,

Yes, you, the one who's keeping up to date with all my blog posts in spite of not having spoken to me in several years, even if our disassociation is now to the point that if you saw me in the street you wouldn't say hello.

It's okay to be reading my blogs. I don't think you're creepy. Hey, I'd probably be reading your blog posts. I want you to know that it's okay to donate. I won't think it's weird, I'll just think you're all the more heroic. If you're still to shy to come forward - you can actually leave an anonymous donation. Go                on, click here and see!

In other exciting news, Secret Tash has gotten back to me! S/he was completely satisfied with my chosen pink garment and also said that their second challenge was going to be to wear some ladies' underwear so I managed to get a double, raising a grand total of £6 for that one photo! Excellent! The £8 challenge is next... I'll let you know what it is.

13th Movember - A CHALLENGE YOU SAY?

Yes, yes, I know, the photo should be more focused on my sexy, sexy moustache rather than my sexy, sexy body but today I have been given a challenge. (Well, technically, I was given the challenge on Friday but I haven't checked my e-mails since then as I've been away.)

I received this e-mail (tl;dr version below):


"Dear Tash Enthusiast,

It has recently come to my attention that Movember is proving quite the challenge for you so I've decided to set you one of my own. Well, we'll start with one and see how we go, the donations generated by completing these challenges will be doubled on every occasion. For exampled if you completed challenge one, I would donate £2 to your cause, if you then completed challenge two it would raise a further £4 and so on...

We'll start easy, the first challenge is this: 'During your next Movember picture, wear something pink'. Once this has been verified you'll receive my donation and the lure of the second challenge. 

If you decide to take me up, the best of luck. And remember, the faster you complete the challenges, the more you challenges you get and the more you raise. 

Happy hunting

Yours Faithfully,

Secret Tash"


NOTE: This is not from the big boys at Movember, this is just some random moustache lover.

tl;dr version: "Hey dude, awesome moustache, I want to feel powerful by making you do shit and giving you money for it. I'll give you £2 to wear something pink and I'll give you twice as much money for every other dare you complete."

I have decided to accept the challenge as you can see from the photo above. (I know s/he merely requested any pink clothing but I really wanted an excuse to photograph myself wearing a bra.)

I'm thinking, though, surely this mysterious benefactor isn't the only who'll give £2 to see me wearing a pink bra? Come on, everyone, do your part for Movember and prostate cancer the world round (one of the UK's biggest killers of men) and match the donation of £2 that this guy is giving me! If I got just £2 from each of my Facebook friends I'd have raised nearly £1000 - wouldn't that be awesome?

Donate here!

Stay tuned for more action!

11th Movember - This one's for the ladies

First things first, I would like to say a massive thank you to my mum, who has donated £15, and my uncle, Gavin, who has not only donated £20 but has also pledged to grow his arse hair throughout the whole of Movember. Unfortunately, he has said there will be no pictures. A travesty, I know, I will do my best to petition him but I can't promise anything. It is thanks to these two exemplary individuals that you are lucky enough to be reading this! Follow their lead and keep sending in your donations unless you want me to go nuclear again!

Anyway, if you cast your eyes left you will see a picture of me in my current moustachey glory. Now as if that wasn't enough of a gift to the women of the world, I have more.

A seemingly never ending problem of Movember is that women want to join in the fight against testicular cancer. Have sex with a man with a moustache day (Movember 18th) has gone some of the way to fighting this issue but I think I can take it a little further.

My suggestion is simple. It's unfortunate that most women aren't able to grow hair on their face but they CAN grow hair in other places. If I were a woman wishing to do my part for Movember, I would simply stop shaving my armpits and legs and ask people to donate to it. If any fearless females do decide to take up this challenge then I'll happily exhibit their epilator-less efforts on this very page.

What do you guys think? You can comment on/follow this blog with almost any kind of account (gmail, youtube, facebook I think) so please let me know what you think and don't forget to donate. Links below.

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Donate to Chris Wilson!

Donate to Tim Hampson!

[Yes, Tim FINALLY has a Movember profile!]