Grown and groomed
Beards, moustaches and brows, grown and shaped. 33 face guides on EveryFaceShape so far.
Grown and groomed features are those people cultivate: beards, moustaches, sideburns and eyebrows. How hair grows is inherited, but what is done with it is choice, faith, rule or fashion. Barbers, brow shapers and threading parlours turn growth into style, and some styles take years: a championship handlebar or a Rajasthani moustache may be decades in the making.
Facial hair
Beard growth starts at puberty and often keeps filling in into the late twenties. Density and pattern vary widely. Styles from stubble to the full beard are shaped with clippers, scissors and razors, and kept with oils, balms and waxes. Faith traditions shape many beards, from the Sikh kesh to the beards of Muslim, Jewish, Amish and Orthodox Christian men.
Brows
Brows are shaped by threading, waxing and tweezing, and filled with pencil or powder. Fashions in brows have changed from the high painted brows of Heian Japan to the thin plucked brows of the 1920s and 1990s and the full brows of the 2010s. Over-plucked brows may not fully grow back, which brow shapers warn about.
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Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Eyebrow: Film screenshot, Public domain, source
- Sideburns: Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, clipped by ABX, Public domain, source
- Moustache: VAZHAR, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Beard: @nazanin, CC0, source
- Handlebar moustache: unattributed, Public domain, source
- Goatee: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, source