L.A. Facial Hair Society announces winners of local beard battle
The Los Angeles Facial Hair Society has announced the results of the its second annual local beard and mustache competition, which took place June 21 at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood and was underwritten by grooming goods brand Mod Cabin, maker of such things as Backwoods Beard Balm and Birch Tar bar soap.
(Note: As an ardent fan of facial hair competitions of every stripe, I usually prefer to attend and gather the results of such gatherings of the bewhiskered with boots on the ground, but with one of my boots currently out of commission, I was unable to observe the plethora of pogonic excess first hand this time around, so we’re relying on the official results provided by the society.)
The complete list of winners in a dozen categories is below -- in descending order from first- to third-place finisher -- with Austin, Texas, beardsman Bryan Nelson, champion in the natural beard over 12 inches division, taking the additional honor of overall best in show.
Natural mustache
Blake Mumaw
Matt Bilfield
Bob Corbin
Styled mustache
Mark Mihm
Alfred Nash
George Randell
Partial mustache
Sean Raiger
John Frisbie
Al Underwood
Goatee
Mark Sacman
Chuck Bradford
Stephen Merritt
Partial beard
Robert Broski
Eric Walsh
Kevin Riordan
Business beard
Nicholas Anderson
Sam Pena
Mark Hurlston
Whiskerinas
Kirsten Bosio
La Shergold
Amber Lockspeiser
Styled beard under 12 inches
Phil Olsen
Gene Smith
Guy Weiner
Styled beard over 12 inches
Justin Vorhauer
Shawn Hasson
Yence Peddersen
Natural beard under 12 inches
Trevor Kanan
Eli Hernandez
Rob Woelfl
Natural beard over 12 inches
Bryan Nelson
Aarne Bielefeldt
Matt Lee
Freestyle
Greg Schoenwolf
Brandon Biggins
Sean Thomsen
The next big battle of the beards and mustaches on the hirsute horizon will be Beard Team USA’s national facial-hair face-off scheduled to take place Oct. 25 in Portland, Ore.
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