Men’s health isn’t a super-facial issue

November is over and it appears to have been mouch ado about not much, as the popularity of facial hair has taken the edge off the Movember campaign to sprout — and then shave off — moustaches to support men’s health issues. Actually, time was when male upper lips were mostly deforested, so fostering growth there made quite a statement. However, now that beards are back in fashion worldwide, moustaches are not only camouflaged but their ‘owners’ are reluctant to shave them off and end up looking like latter-day Abraham Lincolns. Moreover, it must be said that the success of No-Shave Mo-vember initiative — which has raised nearly $500 million since it was launched in 2003 — spurred so many other fuzzy monthly fundraisers from Decembeard to the (s)Ides of March that it has pared off efficacy of the original. So much so that the entire movement now stands on the razor’s edge, so to speak.

However, it must be noted that more and more celebrities — especially Indian ones, from Virat Kohli to Ranveer Singh and now Aamir Khan, not to mention political personages —have started sporting luxuriant facial hair. As interest in men’s health should not be super-facial, perhaps the popular personalities can be persuaded to carry forward the Movember mojo and endorse a movement to “not shave, for a cause” at least in the cool calender hair months of Movember, Decembeard, January and February.