Luka Musicki wins Most Creative Beard at the 2025 Canberra Beard Competition!

28th August 2025 Luka Musicki

On Sunday, 24th August 2025, Luka Musicki, Deputy Editor for Australian Content (Bear World Magazine), won one of the beard competitions for the most creative beard. This was a new category added to celebrate beards that might not be the longest, fullest, partial or a moustache, but they are willing to give it a go!

This annual event celebrates the men who grow and maintain their beards and moustaches in the national capital, Canberra. Award categories included: Full Beard, Longest Beard, Partial Beard (Goatee, chops, and side burns), Moustache (Any particular style or freestyle) and Creative Beard (Design and Styled). Each winner got a Winner’s Trophy mug, a bar of face and beard soap, and a nice bottle of beard oil. $500 cash was awarded to the winner of the Best Beards.

Dan Depacholi MP and Dr Gordon Reid MP were the celebrities who made an appearance for the event, bringing awareness of the importance of men’s health. Dan Depacholi is a five-time Olympian and Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist, and he is the Special Envoy for Men’s Health. Dan has won Best Beard on the Hill for many years and he has proudly sported the beard in Australian Parliament for many years!

Image from left to right: Peter (Owner of King O’Malley), Luka Musicki, Dan Repacholi MP (Federal Member for Hunter), and Host at the Event

Many of the bearded blokes had their own stories to tell of why they grew a beard (mainly from the flip-side from losing hair on their head), some were for in memory for a lost one (grievance), some for men’s health, some for shenignans, and some for the love of having a beard, snag, beer, and barbie! For me, I grew a beard to bring awareness to men’s health, including bears (gay old hairy men), and I have modelled with a beard for many years!

To find out more about King O’Malley’s, here are the contact information:

*https://www.facebook.com/kingomalleys