35 Men’s Facial Hair Styles: The Ultimate Guide

Easily the most common facial hairstyle is simply no facial hair at all. That isn’t to say this is a bad choice, though. Whether you’re at the office, at the game, or a family BBQ, or even at Comic-Con, you’ll never look out of place clean-shaven. Sometimes there is nothing wrong with playing it safe, and this is one of those times.

For a looser and more youthful look, try keeping your facial hair as short stubble. Considered one of the most attractive styles, wearing stubble shows you to be a laid-back, informal, and free-spirited man. Not only that, it’s low-effort, and it is a good way to complement your chin and jawline if you’ve got that. If you don’t, it’s the first step to covering up the act you don’t.

Keeping up the casual look is long stubble. Similar to short stubble, this facial hairstyle emphasizes your casual side and youthful attitude to life. Sure, you shaved. Maybe a week ago. But you’ve been busy living life since then, and this is the style to prove it. Avoid this style if your facial hair is patchy, though, as you should want to look rugged, not chaotic and messy.

Nothing says manliness like a beard, and there’s no beard more classic and distinctive than the full beard. With this facial hairstyle, you strike an excellent compromise between rugged and conventional, between daring and professional, and between relaxed and groomed. It makes young men look mature, and older men appear wise.

The pinnacle of fashion, the French Fork is a longer beard that’s parted into two distinct tufts when it’s grown past the chin. Although your boss might not like this one, your girlfriend definitely will. Wear this, and be prepared to be impressed and to impress everyone with your unique beard.

Similar to the full beard and French Fork, the Ducktail is also a longer beard, but it has a distinctive shape all of its own. Narrowing from the sideburns down to a tapered point, this beard gets its name due to resembling a duck’s tail. If you want to look trendy, grow out a Ducktail.

A legendary and historic style, the Verdi is a beard that says to the world that you are a man of culture. The Verdi is a short beard with a rounded chin and an eye-catching mustache that curls upwards. The Verdi builds on the basic full beard to spectacular effect, and its distinct mustache shows you to be a confident man who’s mastered multiple facial hairstyles if you execute it right.

Distinctive, simple, and iconic, the Garibaldi is a long beard of minimal effort and maximal returns. By simply growing out your full beard a bit and trimming occasionally, you too can achieve this legendary beard with its short sides and wide chin. Wearing the Garibaldi shows you to be relaxed and natural but never lazy.

A really big beard, the Bandholz beard is charismatic, aggressive, and masculine to a fault. A full beard grown out to its maximum length and connected to a serious mustache, if you have the follicles for this awesome beard and your employment will let you go for it. Wear this powerful beard, and you’ll have the attention of everyone in the room.

A fashion statement like none other, confidence can turn this infamous patch of hair under the bottom lip into everything from a talking point to a pickup line. On its own, you’re a man with big ideas and serious independence. Combined with a mustache or a goatee, it’s an instant classic.

Grown on the chin, the goatee is a short beard that doesn’t extend past the corners of your mouth. Neat and practical, they stand out especially well in combination with a soul patch or short mustache. A goatee is also an excellent choice if you’re interested in having facial hair but struggle to grow out the hair on your cheeks or a mustache.

Like the standard chinstrap beard, the chin curtain is a medium beard that runs along your jawline below your chin and connects to the sideburns while leaving the cheeks and chin bare. The chin curtain is a bold look that’ll set you apart from the crowd. Chin curtains look especially striking when combined with a narrower mustache too.

Like its shorter cousin, the goatee, the extended goatee is another classic beard well suited to most face shapes, personalities, and occupations. The extended goatee leaves the hair on your jawline intact and grown out an inch, giving your face a stronger weight and body to it.

Building on the tried and tested goatee formula is the circle beard, a simple yet elegant facial hairstyle that’s a goatee, a mustache, and the hair running down both sides of the mouth that connects the two. A versatile style, you can wear a circle beard at lengths ranging from stubble to a few inches, and its distinctive shape catches attention like little else.

A distinguished and complex style, the anchor beard requires serious commitment but guarantees a stunning reward. The anchor beard is an intricate facial hairstyle named after exactly what you’d expect, combining a chinstrap beard, a narrow mustache, and a soul patch extending down past the chin. Although not too complicated to grow, it can be challenging to groom neatly and maintain.

The Balbo is an excellent beard style that takes the already lengthened extended goatee and grows it further into a bushy masterpiece. Combined then with a heavier mustache, the Balbo beard resembles a serious anchor. It is also a good choice for men with patchier facial hair as it leaves the cheeks entirely clean-shaven.

A characteristic style associated with nobility, traditional art, cartoon villains, the Van Dyke is a stylish beard that has stood the test of time. Comprised of a goatee or soul patch plus a disconnected mustache, the Van Dyke can be recognized by its distinctive length and pointiness. Wearing it makes you look distinguished, and it’s a good style for men with patchier hair as it is sharp and narrow.

Burning with style is the imperial beard, a mature and classy facial hairstyle that puts you in a category above the rest. Similar to the Van Dyke beard, this style includes a distinctly curled mustache, similar to a handlebar, as well as a soul patch that flares out over the chin and is trimmed back down to a neat point. This timeless look requires serious grooming but returns your serious attention.

Also known as sideburns, the iconic sideburns is a minimalistic facial hairstyle that is nothing more than two strips of hair growing from the ears down the sides of the face to the jawline. The side whiskers are a step up from clean-shaven, and they’ve had a long association with rock and roll.

The mutton chops are a distinctive facial hairstyle that consists of sideburns connected to hair grown down to the jawline while keeping the chin and upper cheeks cleanly shaven. Often worn in combination with a mustache and the result of a full beard trimmed down to epic style, the mutton chops are a rugged and vintage style.

With the combination of a trimmed mustache and some truly voluminous mutton chops, the Hulihee beard is a bold and daring style that’s guaranteed to make you the life of the party. Although it takes some effort to grow and trim right to keep its distinctive shape, it is a classic and casual beard that’s the epitome of boisterous and bold masculinity.

Sported by everyone from pro wrestlers to rebel bikers to craft beer enthusiasts, the horseshoe mustache is an iconic and masculine style that sets you apart from the crowd as a free thinker with big ideas and an even bigger mustache. This long mustache extends down from the corners of the lip, usually to the chin, and is an iconic style.

An excellent facial hairstyle, the Zappa combines a long mustache a squared soul patch for a classic and artistic flair. Make sure to keep this one neat to get its full eye-catching effect here. You don’t want a horseshoe mustache chin full of stubble; you want a legendary look with good definition.

If you want a beard but your chin and cheeks aren’t cooperating, the walrus mustache is for you. This gigantic mustache extends over your upper lip and nearly your mouth for a truly impressive look. Working especially well if you’re an older man, the walrus mustache shows you to be intelligent but relaxed.

A simple and easy-to-maintain style, the Painter’s brush is an elegant and practical look. Often compared to a swipe of paint above your top lip, the Painter’s brush is a mustache that works best on its own to be a subtle but serious way of adding maturity and authority to your face.

The Chevron should be instantly recognizable to anyone who grew up with American sitcoms with a robust and serious mustache. A style that’s sharp and wide, the Chevron swoops down from your nose to pass over both sides of your upper lip. The angles here show you to be serious, but never too serious.

The handlebar mustache is a refined and dapper facial hairstyle that consists of a long mustache waxed to point upwards. It’s a classic style that’s only recently come back into fashion, and there’s little better than adopting one now if you want to look the part of an attractive and free-thinking gentleman.

It’s like a soul patch for your top lip, and that alone would be enough to give it a bad name, but a particular 20^th Century dictator had to ruin it further. That being said, there’s nothing wrong with the toothbrush mustache from an aesthetic standpoint, and if you’re brave to wear one, go for it.

A neat mustache that doesn’t extend past or over the top lip, the lampshade is a practical style Its natural curve and slant down from the nose also work well on most face shapes. Taking the minimal effort to keep neat and respectable, the lampshade is especially a good choice for somebody just starting in the facial hair department.

A look just as dashing as its titular character, the Zorro is a short and thin mustache with a clear division between its two halves, down the philtrum in the center of the top lip. Instantly recognizable, this mustache is neat, formal, and iconic.

Like a handlebar mustache, the villain facial hairstyle exaggerates the curls at the end of the mustache to actual loops to a nearly infamous degree. This style just screams personality but is far more light-hearted than most mustaches. Pulling off a villain mustache will make you look like a man with some serious attention to detail but one who never takes himself too seriously.

An iconic facial hairstyle associated with the legendary pulpiness of early 20^th Century cinema, the Fu Manchu is a long mustache that’s been grown past the chin into two long tendrils of hair while keeping a clear split on the philtrum on the upper lip. Your boss probably won’t like this one, but everyone else will admire you for committing to pulling this off.

A long and thick mustache that parts when it touches the upper lip to narrow into two extremely straight and thin points, the English is simply unforgettable. Shining with wax and the style of a bygone era, this is a masculine style that proves you to be the ultimate distinguished gentleman.

A facial hairstyle as long as it is eccentric, the famous Dali mustache takes the traditional English mustache and curves its points back and upward for a stunningly artistic effect. Just as surreal as its namesake, the Dali mustache is trendsetting, boundary-breaking, and extremely stylish.

If you want luxury, elegance, and a mustache that works for any face shape or lifestyle, the pencil mustache is for you. It’s simply the best in minimalist facial hairstyles as there’s nothing more to it than a thin strip of hair over the top lip, like pencil-thin, hence the name. Formal and welcome in the workplace, this mustache is a good choice if you’ve got a white-collar job, although nothing stops you from sporting this if you don’t. A more daring variation is shaving a strip clear between the two halves of the mustache, a look associated with serious Hollywood credit.