Happy Moustache...

and a Happy New Year!!

Hi everyone,

A very Happy Christmas to you all. It doesn't seem like a year since last christmas. These past 12 months have flown by. They have, of course, been a difficult 12 months, especially for Mum, with her fight against Breast Cancer. Things seem to be progressing nicely, and treatment is going well, despite the fact that it is still making her feel much less than 100%.

I would like to extend an ABSOLUTELY HUGE Christmassy thank you to everyone who has helped make life easier for us all (like take mum to treatments etc.) and to everyone who has helped me reach my £1000 target. I am overjoyed at the response that I have received with my fundraising. Even customers at work have been donating generously, giving around £80 pounds in the past 3 shifts. :)

Anyway, it is bedtime for me because santa will be here soon! :D I shall leave you with this picture!



Merry Christmas to you all.

Lots of love,

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Home sweet home

Hi Y'all.

I am back in Milton Keynes. I am home. It is great to be with the fam again and also lovely to have a warm house, with food in the fridge.

I have just realised that I plan to shave in just under a week. I'm going to look SO YOUNG.



I know I posted the second picture in the last post, but it is here for comparison. 

Anyway, I should carry on with my university work, I'll keep you updated to how my shave goes in a few days time.

Also, please, if you havent already, donate to my fundraising page through the link above :)

Thanks

H

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Hello again!

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted! I think it's been about 2 weeks. I have been working hard on my Third Year Lab Project for my degree. The last week I have been putting a presentation together on Active Galactic Nuclei and how a technique called Reverberation Mapping can be used to measure a black hole mass. All very interesting!

I have a few photos to share with you, including a current photo of my tache. By current, I mean i have just taken the pic. :)

As I have mentioned in previous posts, my housemates, Ben, Gibbs & Dom all missioned through November without shaving. Below is a photo of Ben and I a few days into December. I wish I had a photo with Gibbs and Dom, but Gibbs shaved before I had the chance to get a pic, and Dom's was barely noticeable.



Also, check out my moustache tee! :D


And now, I give you my face... This is literally what my face looks like as I am typing this.



Finally, I would like to send a friendly reminder to everyone who asked me to remind them to donate! I have raised £1067 so far, but would love to make that total higher!!!

I will see you all soon in another post, for now, a glass of wine awaits! :)

Good day.

H

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

HATS!

So the concentration of moustaches amongst men dwindles until next year. I read that all the participants of Movember have raised a record amount of money this year, which is good news.

My mo is staying until Christmas, I am using my advent calendar to count down the days!

This is going to be a quick post as I am currently in University & have work to be getting on with. I would like to show you some rather embarrassing photos taken last week by my housemate. I was wearing his hat and he took some photos. It definitely does not suit me!




Disgusting.



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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Similarities

It' been a good day. Donations have been pouring in today, people have generously given £140 just today! It feels excellent to have reached my target. I cannot believe that my initial target was £300. I thought I was being really optimistic!

Anyway, people have been suggesting who I look like with a moustache over the past few months. There have been claims that I look French, Spanish and even Italian. I have been likened to have a Freddie Mercury moustache, to look like Johnny Depp when my tache was combined with eyeliner, and some delightful chap yelled Hitler at me in Leeds.

But now, it gets better. My Godfather has sent me this!

I chuckled when I saw this earlier today. 

I am looking to try and do some different styles with my tache to share with you later this week. Until then, 

Keep donating!

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Target Reached!

SUCCESS! I have reached my target! I am literally over the moon. You guys have helped me raise £1000 for Breast Cancer Care, which is a very worthy cause. I would like to extend a personal thank you to all of you who have donated. I have been taken a little by surprise at the support that you have all given to myself and my family over this past (nearly whole) year.

I am currently in University, so am taking a small break to share my face of happiness with you all.

WOOHOOOOOO!!!
So there we are, £1000 raised, bushy tache grown & humiliation achieved!

WAIT!!! More donations... £1020 now. OH MY GOD! :D

Let's smash this target...

Speak to you all soon.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Please help

I have raised LOADS. As I write this I have raised £875! I am so pleased with the amount that I have raised

BUT


I know that we can raise more. I recently enabled the donate by text feature that JustGiving offers (click here for anyone who is interested about the finer details). To donate, text the following

HSMO99 £2

to 70070.

You can, of course, change the amount as you wish. Donations can also be made in the regular way by clicking "Please donate here" link at the top of the page.

Every donation is greatly appreciated and will go towards helping to fight Breast Cancer and ultimately towards finding a cure. So please, if you haven't already, give what you can and help support me in raising as much money as possible for such a worthy cause.

Thanks in advance, more moustache updates soon.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Picture No. 3

With 8 days of Movember remaining, I am seeing a fair number of blokes sporting moustaches around the university campus. It is a shame that many people are mistaking my moustache to be part of Movember, but it hasn't been too much hassle to explain that I'm raising for Breast Cancer instead.

Maybe next year I will grow a mo as part of Movember, I would love to be part of the vast number of guys who are growing mos for our bros.

Anyway, as I mentioned in my last post, I was waiting on the third photo from my visit to see my brother, George, in Leeds at the weekend. I am really please at how this one has turned out. Check it out...

Vintage!
I was discussing George's course structure and assignments with him and I think he wants to do some more photos at Christmas. He can use them as progress and to develop his portrait techniques.

I have also been thinking about how to combine all my daily photos into a time-lapse video and how to put a cool ending on it. When I have a finalised plan, I will enlighten you all.

I am currently writing this in a 4th year lecture which I am doing a year early, but we are only running through some answers to some work we submitted this morning, it all seems OK. The lecturer would say

"It's trivial".

It really is.

Until next time.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Photos from Leeds

As I wrote yesterday, I visited my Bro with no Mo up in t' north in Leeds this weekend. He took a few photos when we were slowly walking to the train station and here they are. Well 2 out of three of them. I am hoping he can edit the third for me, I have a fairly good idea of what I would like it to look like. As soon as I have a copy, I shall share it with you.

Anyway, here are the first two.

How about that for a Handlebar?
I a really pleased at how this turned out, maybe I should send it to the Handlebar Club or a moustache competition? One of the youngest with a handlebar? 


I also found this poster, which is a weekly event at one of the more student esque bars. Upsettingly, it apparently turns out to be a bit of a let down as far as nights out go. Unfortunately I am unlikely to be in Leeds when this night is on.

I have now raised £831 for Breast Cancer. 83% of my target! Very pleased! Keep supporting such a great cause! 

Good night.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Leeds, Rabbits & Hitler

Just a quick update, pictures will follow in the next post.

I spent last night in Leeds visiting my Brother at uni. We had a great time catching up and had a decent night spent with a couple of drinks at a University halls & a small bar in the town centre.

I went out with my moustache styled as in this post, and the reaction was insane! The amount of people who asked me if said tache was real was very surprising. A very kind random gentleman randomly donated some money, which I have put on my fundraising page as a text donation. The random donations catch me totally by surprised and I am left a little like a rabbit in headlights. I just do not know what to say! It is however, of course, greatly appreciated. :)

Another thing that surprised me was the delightful young chap who shouted "HITLER" at me outside the station in Leeds. Again, left speechless like a rabbit in headlights. He must have an absolutely sterling education... I think it is safe to say that everyone reading my blog will recognise that my moustache does not resemble Hitler's.



On the way back to the train station we stopped in a park local to my brothers halls and took some piccies. I will put them up here as soon as my dear brother has worked his magic editing them. I am hoping that this will be tomorrow.

Speak to y'all soon.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

My Proper Handlebar Moustache

As mentioned in my last post, I recently ordered some moustache wax. I promised photos as soon as it came and for those of you lucky enough to see the first picture on my facebook this morning, I hope you were pleasantly impressed.

For the rest of you here is a photo that I took this afternoon.



I am going to see my brother in Leeds this weekend, so I will get him to take a photo and have it edited properly, seeing as he is a photography student. (His blog is linked at the top)

Until early next week,

Good day,

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Style is Everything...

We live in a time where fashion and style are incredibly important. It recently came to my attention that my untamed moustache is going to go wild if precautionary measures are not taken.

To counter a moustache style disaster I ordered some of Capt. Fawcett's Moustache Wax, pictured below.

The wax I ordered is lightly scented with sandalwood
With any luck I will look as stylish and suave as this cat dog. The internet loves animals, but in my opinion this gentleman kitty doggy is one of the best online animals out there.

Gentleman kitty doggy approves...
I will be very quick to show you my styled moustache when it arrives this week.

Now for a joke? Bad jokes are sometimes the best. I am not sure in this case...

An angry mob is walking through the streets when someone yells, "Hey! Lets hang that guy with a moustache!"

Someone else yells, "Nah, lets use a rope!"

I have to admit, I did laugh when I heard that last night. (Thanks Sam.)

Anyway, I will post again when my wax comes!

Good day,

Henry

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Edit: It has kindly been bought to my attention that this is in fact a dog, not a cat. Apologies for the falseness of my post, the website that I found it said that it was a cat. Thank you to the person who corrected me.

Hello Zombies & Eyeliner

Let me start with an apology, I haven't blogged this week due to various Physics assignments and a couple of house viewings. Sorry about that!

In this post I aim to enlighten you all with some more up to date photos of how my moustache is coming along. It has now been a few weeks since halloween, but I will start the update with a few pictures from our Zombie night out.

We spent most of two hours sorting out our makeup, shirts and most importantly creating our wounds. We used liquid latex and tissue paper to build up layers which, when painted look like real injuries.

A bit too much eye makeup?
(See below for more..)
Many people that night also dressed as zombies, which made for an interesting evening, but when you dress as a zombie, you need a little more than a red marker pen to do your wounds. The extra effort goes a long way doesn't it?
How real does that look?!
So I entered November looking like a crazed moustache wearing zombie. A few days later and I was looking ridiculous once again. Before we went to the Students Union for the "Red Leicester" club night I was promised a donation to my Justgiving page if I wore eyeliner for the night. 

I figured if I have been growing a mo for upwards of two months then how bad could it be? What I completely forgot to consider was the fact that a 20 year old student with a fairly substantial moustache attracts a fair bit of attention. As I mentioned a few posts back, many people approach me on nights out with compliments etc. Many even ask if it is real. 

Anyway, the eyeliner was brought up by many many people that night, never again do I want random people coming over to me with "are you wearing eyeliner?". In most cases I managed to answer the question with one swift hand gesture...

"FOR CHARITY"

was scribbled on my hand. Here is one of the rather embarrassing photos from that night.

They LOVED it.
This pretty much brings me up to date with the interesting pictures that i have to share, except this, Day 65

Todays (no. 65) tache.
As always, I would like to extent my gratitude to all of those who have donated. The support really means a lot, I have now raised £724! OVER SEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS! That's over twice my original £300 target.

Now, although this is an excellent amount so far, I must stress that this is 'so far'. I want to continue to raise money and absolutely smash my target. If that means wearing more eyeliner or doing other embarrassing things (within reason of course) in return for donations to Breast Cancer Care then so be it! If you have any ideas comment below with your idea and how much you will sponsor me to do said thing and I will strongly consider it!

Until next time, adios, and good luck to all of the gentlemen participating in Movember, some of the Mos that i have seen so far look fairly impressive!

Henry

It begins.

So, November has started and a huge number of guys will have already shaved for the last time in a month. Despite the fact that I am not officially partaking in movember (I am raising money for Breast Cancer, not for the Movember Foundation) I would like to wish everyone very good luck with their Moustaches.

I have been growing for nearly 2 months now and everything is going well. I fully expect to be able to achieve the following in the very near future.
I have been meaning to do a post in this past week, but simply have not had the time. There are some photos and updates that need to be shared. 

Bye for now.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Yet again...

Ok, in a similar turn of events to my "Ruined" post, it happened again...


Sorry about that guys! :)

I will have new pictures of my progress up soon, but for now, back to my Physics work...

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

Happy Birthday Mummy!

The whole reason I am growing my lip bush and raising money for Breast Cancer Care is down to my Mum. At the beginning of the year she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer (most of you already know this) and I am slowly making progress towards my £1000 target.

Anyway, today is her birthday, so I would like to use this post as a means of saying a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY, as well as point out how proud I am of her for coping her way through the best part of a year since diagnosis.

Mummy Simms. :) 
The last 10/11 months or so have been very difficult to watch, I can only imagine what she must have felt like through Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy. As I have already said, I am very proud of her, and have no doubt that she will continue to battle on with upmost positivity.

I would also like to thank anyone who has passed on their best wishes and shown support to Mum and to what I am doing. It means a lot to me, Mum and the rest of the family. The level of support on my fundraising page has been beyond anything that I expected, and the growing amount of money raised so far reflects that.

Please continue to help me reach and hopefully smash my target.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Mum.

Lots of love,

Henry

<3

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P.S. Please donate on my Just Giving page here.

I FOUND IT!!

In my post where I showed you all my Dads 'tache (Click Here) I stated that I was sure there was a different photo. 

I FOUND IT! (Or rather Dad found it.)


Isn't it a really manly handlebar moustache?!


It occurred to me the other day that not many people younger than about 40/50 have moustaches any more. It would be much more entertaining if more young people were to have moustaches, and style them very interestingly. I can't help thinking that influences like Lady Gaga etc. would play a huge role in the 21st century tache. But lets face it, Its not ever so likely, is it?

I am off to ponder such issues as i fall asleep.

Good night.

Henry

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P.S. Please donate on my just giving page here...

Ruined.

Please consider your 21st birthday picture...

...RUINED!


In all seriousness, if this is your 21st picture, I am very sorry.

Sincerely

HenryCharlesSimms

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Numero 38.

Good morning.

It is day thirty eight and I have changed the look of my beard (upon the recommendation of two of my housemates)

Behold...


The imidiate reaction was that it makes me look even more French (or Italian etc.).

It it worth mentioning a few random surges in number of views to my blog. Over the past few days, I have had a peak of 900 views in an hour, and then a whopping 5000 views last night. This is, of course, excellent, especially considering that there are views from all around the world.

If there is another influx of views, and you are reading this blog for the first time, Welcome! (Further information about why I am growing a moustache and how you can help can be found here.)

I would also like to thank the people who have made donations recently, I appreciate your support and move ever closer to my target. I would also like to make a plea for support and donations to anyone who is reading this blog. The money raised is for an excellent cause and will help many women suffering with Breast Cancer. I know many of you now have your student loans in ;). So please help me absolutely smash my target. :)

Speak to y'all soon.

Henry

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One month (and a few days) down...

So, it is now the end of freshers here in Leicester and I have been growing my moustache for a little over a month. 36 days to be precise. I realised earlier today that I haven't posted any photos for at least a few weeks. I am going to pop a couple up on here for your perusal. Many apologies for making you all wait for so long, I hope it was worth the wait.

Day 18

Day 24

ONE MONTH MO, BABY!

Day 34
I cannot believe that i have 47 or so days until December, Its going to be over TWICE this long!!! A few of the gang back home want to see my tache at Christmas time, so i might extend my next shave date by a few weeks? If you are from MK and want to see myself&mo at Christmas, write below.

I stumbled upon this the other day. :) Brilliant..


Over the past two weeks I have had an indescribable number of compliments whilst out in bars & clubs. One girl took a photo of all of her friends with me in the middle?! I have definitely had at least three compliments a night without fail so far. It is exceptionally weird having random people compliment a ridiculous growth of hair on my face! 

Weird...

The general consensus is that it suits me, despite making me look French (or Italian or Spanish).


It will be getting to the point where it is over my upper lip. Upon such a time, I will have a slight trim to prevent tache hair in teeth.

I will try and keep you more up to date.

Henry

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Army.

Hello everyone, 

My apologies for not posting in a while. I have spent this week going to introductory lectures and enjoying the many delights of freshers week. Despite not having many decent acts (we suffered two members of Five on Wednesday) we have been out every night this week.

The highlight of this week was definitely Thursday's 'Fancy'. 100%. It was excellent. We dressed as army guys, looked fly, and partied hard. One of my housemates sported a brilliant handlebar moustache. Check it..

Real&fake.


My mo is currently VERY ANNOYING. Its itchy, long and feels weird, however, its starting to look excellent. I shall stick with the army theme with this post and present you with this photo.


Next post, I will give you a few more of my daily photos, but for now, I am going to watch some films. 

Good afternoon.

Henry.

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NEW...

New everything!

I am sitting at my new desk in my new room in my new house. :) We have finally got internet, thanks to the Virgin man for waking me up far too early!

I am still unpacking boxes and sorting things out in my room, like put up the rest of my posters. I will be finished by this time next month? Unpacking is LONG & boring!

The first poster to go up was this excellent purchase.


I'm 17 days into my hairy adventure and its looking gooooood. I'll show the world soon!

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First fortnight fluff

HELLO!!

It has now been two weeks since I was last rid of any hair on my upper lip.

14 days later I am through the itching (hopefully) and can show you my first fortnight fluff.


I am currently not shaving at all. Let's see where it goes! I do, however, promise to shave the beard and sport just a mo for the 11th month of this fine year.

Sorry for the short post. I HAVE PACKING TO DO! (and the footy to watch!)

Henry

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Apology

This morning I received an email from a member of Breast Cancer Care detailing how I have breached copyright by saying I am participating in "Movember". The Movember Foundation direct money raised to worthy mens cancer charities, but because I am not raising money for them, but for Breast Cancer Care instead, I am unable to use the brand name Movember.

For this, I would like to apologise, I am not associated with raising money for Movember (This year!!), but would like to help direct people in the direction of their website. One of the main charities associated with Movember is The Prostate Cancer Charity (TPCC).

So despite not officially participating in Movember, I will continue to grow a moustache to raise money for Breast Cancer.

Cheers,

That bloke just growing a mo.

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The First 11 Days.

In my last post I announced my premature start to a hairy adventure. My last upper lip shave was on the 9th of September. 11 days later I have the beginnings of a large handlebar moustache. I have been taking a photo a day so I can see the masterpiece evolve. 

Today, I will share a few of those photos with you all. I have also chopped my mop-like hair, which is a clear improvement (in my opinion, of course).

Day 1


Upper-lip baldness (I miss it already)


Day 4


The regular stubble is apparent. Before my downfall into moustache addiction, I would shave at this point.


Day 8 


Moved past the first week checkpoint. In my work uniform, I got a compliment on my "moustache" from a regular customer.


Day 9


Longer mo, shorter mop.


Day 11


Today, Last shift in work, itchy face.

I will continue to take these photos for the duration, and will try and post them regularly :) Please keep donating!! 

For now, G'day!

Henry

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P.S. Yes, that is an original Buzz Lightyear in original packaging from Disney in Florida after the first Toy Story was released!

An Announcement...

Good evening,

If you are reading this blog, you are more than likely to know that I will be growing a moustache in support of Breast Cancer this November. Now, I am pretty sure that I would be able to grow a moustache comparable to the following photo.


Clearly, this is a fake moustache, and actually brings back so excellent memories of a close friends 18th. (Yes, we dressed up as The Village People, what of it?).

Anyway, a Mo like that would be splendid, BUT, what if I started growing now? My last upper lip shave was on the 9th of September, so it could be HUGE!! I have posted this question on Facebook and as you can see, several people support this decision.


So, after some thought, I have decided to grow my mo from NOW, until the end of November.

Lets raise more money and awareness for an excellent cause!!!!

Thanks,

Your soon to be hairy friend.

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Bye bye bro, have a mo.

Evening. Please excuse the short, brief post.

As many of you may be aware, my brother moves off to Uni tomorrow. He is off to study Photography at Leeds College of Art. I am very jealous, I wish I still had my whole degree lying in front of me! (His blog is here...)

Anyway, I thought I would prepare him a little with this emergency moustache.

Who knows? It might become useful for a spot of fancy dress in freshers?

George also found these for me when he was perusing the inter webs the other day. He needs to buy them for me ;)


OH! One last thing for George, this poster/ pic/ idea or whatever would be very suitable, I am sure that all of his new friends & flatmates will be very cool and "hip".


Anyway, its now very late, and I need to be up in something stupid like 5 hours. At least I can sleep in the car... LEEDS HERE WE COME!!! 

Night night,

HenryCharles.

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P.S. "YORKSHIRE, YORKSHIIIRRREEE" (for you, Dad)