I will start by making it clear that I am a big fan of facial hair, and I even feel bad for my poor male compadres who really honestly can not so much grow as peach fuzz above their top lip. I can state with clarity that theres nothing much more sexy than a little gruff, a little shag. Argentines picked the long straw in this department which means that they are a hairy bunch, that could, if they wanted, do all kinds of creative things with that facial canvas. My boss as of recent, has decided to use his canvas as a way to express his emotions, which is to say that he is sporting what I would coin as the crisis mustache. I find mustaches, when worn appropriately extremely bemusing. This mustache does not fall under this category, it falls under the crisis category.
Anyways, back to the trending facial hair in Argentina, the soul patch (which I'm pretty sure has been trending for about 50 years now, and really has never trended anywhere else like it trends here) is the terribly chosen choice of the masses. For those of you who don't know what a soul patch is I will provide you a visual.
If I had to make an educated guess I would say at least 70 percent of the male population is modeling this gem of a look. The baffling part of this is not really how they could do it, but why would anyone want this patch, or tuft if you will. The soul patch for female would be as though you forgot to shave your knees. I sometimes get this insatiable urge to go up to the random Argentine man, who has chose the less burly version of the soul tuft and kindly remark that he missed a spot just below his bottom lip.
I guess I could go at this issue from an anthropological perspective, the soul patch represents the Argentine culture as a whole because they take the patch so fucking seriously. Argentines themselves do not take their personal appearances as a laughing matter, and the snide remark about the soul patch is taken with stern offense. I propose perhaps that we have 'choose your soul patch day: thick or thin, all accepted' as a new Argentine holiday, considering that they have a plethora of useless national and celebratory days. Take yourselves a bit less serious Argentina, you are taking all of the soul out of that small tuft of hair below your bottom lip.
