National Geographic reports on the annual World Beard and Moustache Championships that will take place this October in Berlin:
Another top contender is Jürgen Burkhardt (image left), a 48-year-old photographer from Leinfelden, near Stuttgart, who sports a curled mustache/muttonchop combo about the size of a boomerang. Left unstyled, Burkhardt’s mustache has a wingspan that stretches five feet (one and a half meters) from tip to tip.
The German washes his mustache three times before starting his 30-minute daily styling regime. Needless to say, hairspray factors heavily into its maintenance.
“A nice mustache, also beard, is the result of the perfect harmony of curves,” Burkhardt wrote in a recent e-mail interview. “You must have good style with a good form and line.”
