The timeline
Every face guide with a known date, decade by decade. Pick a decade to see each year.
The 2000s 1 face guide
The 1980s 4 face guides
🇺🇸 United States and 1 morePlayoff beard
A superstitious facial hair tradition worn by athletes and fans during postseason competitions.Beard · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesGrill
Removable dental jewelry worn over teeth for fashion and status.Adornment · 1980
WorldBridge piercing
A surface piercing placed on the nasal bridge between the eyes.Adornment · Most faces · 1980
WorldSoul patch
A small patch of facial hair worn between the lower lip and the chin.Beard · 1986
🇺🇸 United StatesGrill
Removable dental jewelry worn over teeth for fashion and status.Adornment · 1980
WorldBridge piercing
A surface piercing placed on the nasal bridge between the eyes.Adornment · Most faces · 1980
WorldSoul patch
A small patch of facial hair worn between the lower lip and the chin.Beard · 1986
The 1970s 1 face guide
The 1950s 3 face guides
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreWayfarer
A trapezoidal eyewear frame designed in 1952 and revived multiple times through film placements.Frame · Oval faces · 1952
WorldShutter Shades
Sunglasses with horizontal slats instead of lensesFrame · Most faces · 1950
WorldGoatee
Facial hair focused on the chin, sometimes including a moustache.Beard · 1950
The 1940s 1 face guide
The 1930s 5 face guides
WorldCat eye glasses
Eyewear with an upsweep at the outer corners of the frame.Frame · Most faces · 1931
🇩🇪 Germany and 2 morePanto glasses
Rounded-oval frames with a flat top edge.Frame · Most faces · 1932
🇯🇵 JapanOshiroi
Traditional Japanese white face makeup for kabuki actors and geisha.Makeup · 1934
🇺🇸 United StatesAviator sunglasses
Teardrop-lensed eyewear designed for pilots and adapted for fashion.Frame · Most faces · 1937
The 1920s 2 face guides
The 1910s 2 face guides
The 1890s 1 face guide
The 1880s 1 face guide
The 1840s 2 face guides
The 1830s 1 face guide
The 1790s 1 face guide
The 1770s 1 face guide
The 1750s 1 face guide
The 1700s 1 face guide
The 1690s 1 face guide
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sunglasses: Rich Niewiroski Jr., CC BY 2.5, source
- Aviator sunglasses: Paul Evans, CC BY 2.0, source
- Lorgnette: Museum Rotterdam, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ohaguro: Utagawa Kunisada, Public domain, source
- Peking opera makeup: Art Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kesh: Carl W. Damman, Public domain, source
- Scissors-glasses: eeedeeee, Public domain, source
- Grill: Bradley G., CC BY 2.0, source
- Sichuan opera: No machine-readable author provided. Dice~commonswiki assumed (based o, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pince-nez: Łeba, CC BY 3.0, source
- Wayfarer: Starman1984, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cat eye glasses: Smithsonian Institution, No restrictions, source
- Monocle: Sobebunny, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Panto glasses: Kelmaa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bug-eye glasses: Nicki Varkevisser, CC BY 2.0, source
- Windsor glasses: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eye shadow: courtney murray rhodes, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bridge piercing: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lipstick: Sjr, Public domain, source
- Oshiroi: Conveyor Belt Sushi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Browline glasses: Piercetheorganist at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Horn-rimmed glasses: User:Robin Clement, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Toothbrush moustache: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, source
- Goatee: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, source
- Fu Manchu moustache: Seven Arts Productions. Distributed by Darien House, New York City, Public domain, source