# Moustair Moustair is a single-topic Tumblr blog started in August 2011 that pastes a second, smaller face directly below a man's mustache, treating the whiskers as if they were the tiny person's hairstyle. The site drew same-day coverage from BuzzFeed, UpRoxx, Metafilter and The Daily What in November 2011 and became a small classic of the early-2010s Tumblr single-serving-site era. ## Origin The Moustair Tumblr was created on August 31st, 2011[5]. The first post featured a man with a brown ponytail and a handlebar mustache wearing a white turtleneck, with a second, smaller face composited into the space beneath the mustache[8]. That inaugural image had accumulated 18 notes by early November 2011[8]. The blog's creator has never been publicly identified[4]. - **Platform:** Tumblr (origin) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview Moustair works from a simple visual trick: an editor takes a photo of a mustachioed man and grafts a miniature second face onto the strip of skin just under the mustache, so the whiskers read as the small person's hairstyle[1]. Results range from careful photorealistic composites to obvious cut-and-paste jobs, and the humor depends on how well the added face matches the source portrait's lighting and angle[3]. The blog stays strictly on-format, with no captions or commentary beyond the images themselves[4]. The men featured are usually pulled from stock photography, vintage portraits and celebrity shots, giving the edits a mix of retro and contemporary looks[2]. Handlebar mustaches, walrus mustaches and bushy 1970s styles show up most often, because a bigger mustache gives more convincing 'hair' to frame the smaller face below[1]. ## How It Spread The site stayed obscure for roughly two months after launch. On November 6th, 2011, Reddit user djtogi posted a link to the Tumblr on r/woahdude, the subreddit built around trippy visuals[6]. Within three days the blog jumped from that thread onto the wider link-blog circuit[8]. On November 9th, 2011, UpRoxx ran a short write-up calling it their new favorite site[2], BuzzFeed published a post titled 'Where Mustache Meets Hair Meets Moustair'[1], Metafilter linked to it[3], and The Daily What included it in their Lunchtime Links roundup[7]. That single-day cluster of coverage is what pushed Moustair from a niche Tumblr to a widely shared curiosity in the single-serving-site wave of 2011[8]. ## How to Use The template is straightforward: find a portrait of a man with a substantial mustache, then paste a scaled-down face into the strip of skin between the mustache and the upper lip so the whiskers frame the smaller face like a hairstyle. Common conventions include matching the added face's lighting and skin tone to the base photo, and picking mustaches thick enough to convincingly stand in for a hairline. Thicker, symmetrical mustaches such as handlebars and walruses tend to give the cleanest results[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Moustair? Moustair is a single-topic Tumblr blog that posts photos of men edited so a second, smaller face sits below the mustache and the whiskers act as that face's hair[1]. ### Where did Moustair come from? The Moustair Tumblr was created on August 31st, 2011, with a first post showing a man with a handlebar mustache and a white turtleneck[5][8]. ### What does Moustair mean? The name is a portmanteau of 'moustache' and 'hair', pointing to the edit that turns mustaches into hairlines for a tiny composited face[1]. ### How do you use Moustair? The format is a photo edit: paste a scaled-down face into the space just under a mustache in a portrait, so the whiskers read as that small face's hairstyle[3]. ### Is Moustair still popular? Moustair peaked in November 2011 after coverage on BuzzFeed, UpRoxx, Metafilter and The Daily What, and is now remembered mainly as a classic of the early-2010s single-topic Tumblr wave[1][2][7]. ## References 1. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/where-mustache-meets-hair-meets-moustair]() 2. [https://uproxx.com/webculture/morning-links-with-moustair-my-new-favorite-site/]() 3. [https://www.metafilter.com/109127/MOUSTAIR]() 4. [https://moustair.tumblr.com/]() 5. [https://moustair.tumblr.com/post/9535320843]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/m1zqm/moustair/]() 7. [https://thedailywhat.cheezburger.com/tag/moustair]() 8. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moustair]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/moustair Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library