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.
Famous grown and groomed face guides
Further reading
WorldFacial hair
Hair grown on the human face, primarily a male secondary sex characteristic.Beard · Most faces
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreToothbrush moustache
A narrow moustache trimmed to the width of the nose.Moustache · 1890
WorldMoustache
Facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose.Moustache · Most faces
WorldHandlebar moustache
A moustache with long ends curled upwards like bicycle bars.Moustache · Most faces
🇵🇱 Poland and 1 moreWalrus moustache
Thick, bushy facial hair that covers the upper lip.Moustache · Most faces
WorldHorseshoe moustache
A full moustache with vertical extensions down to the jawline.Moustache
WorldFu Manchu moustache
A long moustache with two hanging tendrils.Moustache · 1929
WorldPencil moustache
A thin, neat line of hair above the lip.Moustache · Most faces
🇮🇳 IndiaRajasthani moustache
A curled upper-lip style linked to Indian heritage.Moustache · Most faces
WorldChevron moustache
A thick, full moustache covering the upper lip.Moustache · Square faces
WorldImperial moustache
A small, bushy moustache with upward-arching tips.Moustache
WorldDalí moustache
Slender moustache with long tips pointing straight up.Moustache
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Facial hair: image modified by User:Nordelch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eyebrow: Film screenshot, Public domain, source
- Sideburns: Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, clipped by ABX, Public domain, source
- Toothbrush moustache: Trailer screenshot, 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
- Walrus moustache: Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain, source
- Horseshoe moustache: Petty Officer 1st Class Kristin Fitzsimmons, USN, Public domain, source
- Pencil moustache: Roland Godefroy, CC BY 2.5, source
- Fu Manchu moustache: Seven Arts Productions. Distributed by Darien House, New York City, Public domain, source