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Movember Free Mustache Trim: Chicago Barber Offers <i>Gratis</i> Grooming Friday

Local Barber Helps Tame Movember Crumb Dusters For Free Friday
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For facial hair flaunting Chicagoans taking part in Movember, State Street Barbers have partnered with Gillette to offer free mustache trims until 4:30 p.m. Friday between Union Station and Water Tower Place.

Based on photos from GIllette's Facebook page, mustachioed men who come across the mobile shaving unit get the free trim curbside, groomed by a pro from the back of a car (and a chance to win some shaving swag, to boot).

The giveaway is part of the shaving company's eMO'gency Styler Tour, which is traveling to Chicago, New York and Houston in support of the annual men's health charity event.

During the month-long fundraiser, "Movember" participants grow mustaches to raise money and awareness of prostate and other male cancers, said Fox Chicago (who sent its "Good Day Chicago" director out for a trim).

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Best Moustaches In Art
The Moustache Master, Salvador Dali(01 of20)
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Need we say more?Image: Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane taken in 1953. (credit:Wikimedia)
Paul Gauguin's Double Moustache(02 of20)
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It's a double moustache.Image: Self-portrait (in the role of 'Les Misérables' protagonist Jean Valjean) with Émile Bernard portrait in the background, for Vincent, 1888. (credit:Wikimedia)
Gustave Courbet's Handlebar French Fork(03 of20)
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Don't freak out, Courbet. Your french fork is coming in fine.Image: Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man, 1844-45 (credit:Wikimedia)
Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa(04 of20)
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Marcel Duchamp celebrates Movember with Mona Lisa.Image: Marcel Duchamp, "L.H.O.O.Q.", 1919 (credit:Wikimedia)
Albrecht Durer's Handlebar and Goatee(05 of20)
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The perm-esque hair really compliments the curled moustache. Kudos, Albrecht, on your daring moustache.Image: Albrecht Durer, "Self-portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe", 1500 (credit:Wikimedia)
Edouard Manet's Spanish Singer Pencil 'Stache(06 of20)
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We can't decide what we like more: the singer's pencil moustache or his seductive facial expression. Image: Edouard Manet, "Spanish Singer", 1860. (credit:Wikimedia)
Vincent van Gogh's Walrus 'Stached Man(07 of20)
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The good ol' Walrus moustache. Great likeness, Mr. van gogh.Image: Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Man with a Moustache, Paris, Winter 1886/87 (credit:Wikimedia)
Frida Kahlo's AMAZING Moustache(08 of20)
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Frida Kahlo forever proving the old addage "Whatever you can do I can do better."Image: Frida Kahlo, "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940) (credit:Flickr: Cea.)
Caravaggio's 'Stache and Chin Puff Combo(09 of20)
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You're not looking your best, Caravaggio, but we dig your chin puff/soul patch situation.Image: A portrait of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621. (credit:Wikimedia)
Peter Paul Reubens Handlbar(10 of20)
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Such a well-coiffed 'stache, Reubens.Image: Peter Paul Reubens, Self-portrait, 1623 (credit:Wikimedia)
Modigliani's Pencil (11 of20)
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Another styling pencil courtesy of Modigliani.Image: Amadeo Modigliani, Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915 (credit:Wikimedia)
Edvard Munch's Pencil(12 of20)
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Munch's somber 'stache.Image: Edvard Munch, Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm, 1895 (credit:Wikimedia)
Anthony van Dyck's Handlebar and Chin Puff(13 of20)
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Van Dyck being all coy and mustachioed. Image: Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait, c. 1633 (credit:Wikimedia)
The Original Dracula's Caterpillar 'Stache(14 of20)
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Vlad, you've been haunting our slideshow dreams lately, but we'd be remiss if we didn't include your caterpillar mustache today.Image: Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, c. 1500s (credit:Wikimedia)
Frans Hals's Enthusiastic Mustache(15 of20)
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Hal's 'stache is so good it has its own shadow.Image: Frans Hals, Self-portrait, c. 1650 (credit:Wikimedia)
Rainer Maria Rilke's Gaping Chin Puff(16 of20)
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Mouth agape + moustache = true beauty.Image: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Porträt des Rainer Maria Rilke, 1906 (credit:Wikimedia)
The Company School's Nearly-Friendly Mutton Chops(17 of20)
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So close to being friendly mutton chops. So close.Image: Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life by South East Asian artists collectively known as the Company School, c. 1820 (credit:Wikimedia)
Bernini's Puff(18 of20)
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"Ok, so every artist did a handlebar-puff combo. I get it."Image: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Self-portrait, c. 1635 (credit:Wikimedia)
James I of England(19 of20)
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Um, you might be distracted by this man's gigantic pants, but there's a blonde 'stache in there somewhere. We promise.Image: Paul van Somer, James I of England (James VI of Scotland), c. 1618 (credit:Wikimedia)
So. Many. Moustaches.(20 of20)
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Many, many moustaches a la Cornelis van Haarlem.Image: Cornelis van Haarlem, Banquet of the officers and sub-alterns of the Haarlem Calivermen Civic Guard, 1599 (credit:Wikimedia)
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