Beard - Styles

Styles

Beard hair is most commonly removed by shaving. If only the area above the upper lip is left unshaven, the resulting facial hairstyle is known as a moustache; if hair is left only on the chin, the style is a chin beard.

• Full — downward flowing beard with either styled or integrated moustache
• Circle beard — Commonly mistaken for the goatee, the circle beard is a small chin beard that connects around the mouth to a moustache. Also called a doorknocker.
• Sideburns — hair grown from the temples down the cheeks toward the jawline. Worn by Isaac Asimov and Carlos Menem.
• Chinstrap — a beard with long sideburns that comes forward and ends under the chin.
• Lincoln — similar to the chinstrap beard but covers the entire chin.
• Garibaldi — wide, full beard with rounded bottom and integrated moustache
• Goatee — A tuft of hair grown on the chin, sometimes resembling a billy goat's.
• Junco — A goatee that extends upward and connects to the corners of the mouth but does not include a mustache, like the circle beard.
• Hollywoodian — a beard with integrated mustache that is worn on the lower part of the chin and jaw area, without connecting sideburns.
• Hulihee — clean-shaven chin with fat chops connected at the moustache.
• Reed — a beard with integrated mustache that is worn on the lower part of the chin and jaw area that tapers towards the ears without connecting sideburns.
• Royale — a narrow pointed beard extending from the chin. The style was popular in France during the period of the Second Empire, from which it gets its alternative name, the imperial or impériale.
• Stubble — a very short beard of only one to a few days growth. This became fashionable during the heyday of television series Miami Vice. During this time, a modified electric razor called the "Miami Device" became popular, which could trim stubble to a preset length.
• Van Dyke — a goatee accompanied by a moustache.
• Verdi — a short beard with rounded bottom and slightly shaven cheeks with prominent moustache
• Neckbeard (a.k.a. Neard) — similar to the Chinstrap, but with the chin and jawline shaven, leaving hair to grow only on the neck. While never as popular as other beard styles, a few noted historical figures have worn this type of beard, such as Nero, Horace Greeley, William Empson, Moses Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner.
• Soul patch — a small beard just below the lower lip and above the chin
• Friendly Mutton Chops — long muttonchop type sideburns connected to a mustache, but with a shaved chin
• Stashburns or the Lemmy — sideburns that drop down the jaw but jut upwards across the mustache, leaving the chin exposed. Similar to "Friendly Mutton Chops", but often found in southern and southwestern American culture.
• Monkey Tail — a Van Dyke as viewed from one side, and a Lincoln plus moustache as viewed from the other, giving the impression that a monkey's tail stretches from an ear down to the chin and around one's mouth.