silverlake's first annual beard and mustache competition.

tuesday night was silverlake's first annual beard and mustache competition, and james decided to enter it. it was held at the silverlake branch of los angeles public library, and while we had no idea what to expect, we were pleasantly surprised at the turnout of some amazing facial hair. the celebrity judge was joel stein from the LA times. and jack passion, two time world beard champion was also on hand (and won his category, of course) to talk about his book, the facial hair handbook, and answer questions.

james entered in the santa category, which consisted of him and one other guy, with a last minute kid entering himself, and he won! i mean, who wouldn't love this mustache?

close-up of james's mustache.

anyway, the echo park patch does a pretty good write-up on it, for more information. this post is more about some of the pictures i was able to take. i took many more, but have not yet had the opportunity to get them online yet.

freestyle competitor.

james, freestyle and mustache competitor.

jack passion, two time world beard champion.

freestyle competitors.

fake beards - children.

fake beards - women.

winner of freestyle beards.

jack passion talking about his book and answering questions.

silverlake librarian and MC for the evening.

winners of most scholarly.

fake beards - women winners.

fake beards - kid winners.

the winning santas.

jack and james.