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Following is a list of types of facial hair:
Terms
B
- Balcarrotas : Long sideburns without any other facial hair worn by Colombians and indigenous Mexicans; the latter shave their heads as well.
- Beard : Hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip to varying degrees. This is the opposite of clean-shaven.
- "Burnies" or "Bob Burnquist's" : Sideburns that are long, thin and pointy, and extend from usually top of the ear to the edge of the chin. The relation to the skater Bob Burnquist is unknown; possibly a play on the word 'sideburns'.
C
- Chinstrap : A beard with long sideburns then comes forward and ends under the chin resembling a chinstrap, hence the name. Also known as a jawline beard.
- Clean-Shaven : The lack of facial hair.
D
- Dalí : A moustache with long, narrow points that are bent or curved steeply upward. It is named after painter Salvador Dalí.
E
- English : A narrow moustache that begins at the middle of the upper lip with long whiskers. The ends are slightly curled and pointed upward.
F
- Five O'Clock Shadow : A beard that appears late in the day on a man who was clean-shaven in the morning.
- Fu Manchu : A long moustache with downward pointing ends that generally extend beyond the chin. Usually considered to be of asian origin, they can include pony-tail like extensions that hang from the jawline.
- Full Beard : A downward flowing beard with either a styled or integrated moustache.
G
- Garibaldi : A wide, full beard with rounded bottom and integrated moustache. It is named after the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi.
- Goatee : A beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin resembling that of a billy goat.
H
- Handlebar : A bushy moustache with small upward pointing ends.
- High School Moustache : A moustache having fourteen or fewer actual hairs.
- Horseshoe : A style popularized more by modern cowboys and sometimes confused with the Fu Manchu style. The horseshoe involves a full moustache with vertical extentions from the corners of the lips down to the jawline and resembling an upside-down horseshoe. The wrestling icon Hulk Hogan sports one of these.
I
- Imperial : A moustache with whiskers growing from the upper lip and sheeks that are curled upward.
J
- Jawline Beard : A beard with long sideburns then comes forward and ends under the chin on the jawline, hence the name. Also known as a chinstrap beard.
M
- Moustache : Hair grown grown above the upper lip. Often the term implies that the wearer grows only the upper lip hair and chooses to shave the hair on his chin and cheeks. Also spelled mustache.
- Moustachio : A large luxuriant moustache with hair that sometimes grows down the sides of the mouth. Also known as a mustachio or nosebeard.
- Musketeer : A small, pointed goatee with an English moustache (narrow, prominent), as worn by the French mousquetaires.
- Mutton-Chops : A style with sideburns connected by a moustache but with a clean-shaven chin.
P
- Pencil : A narrow, closely clipped moustache, outlining the upper lip, with a wide shaven gap between it and the nose. Also known as a mouthbrow.
R
- Royale : A tuft of hair under the lower lip (without a goatee, but perhaps worn with a moustache). The royale was historically worn by French officers as a badge or adornment of military rank or status. It is also known as an impériale. See soul patch.
S
- Sideburns : Patches of facial hair on the sides of one's face in front of the ears.
- Soul Patch : A small patch of hair just below the lower lip and above the chin. It is not technically a goatee.
- Stubble : A very short beard that has grown for only one to a few days.
T
- Toothbrush : A thick moustache that is about an inch (2.5 cm) wide and covers the philtrum. It is closely associated with Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler.
- Trash : A thin trashy moustache most famously found on John Waters, Gary Neville, Kid Rock, and Ted Turner.
V
- Van Dyck : A thick goatee and moustache with upturned ends. In modern usage, a Van Dyck is any style of goatee and moustache combination. It is named after Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.
- Verdi : A short beard with rounded bottom and slightly shaven cheeks with prominent moustache. It was named after composer Giuseppe Verdi
- Viking beard : A full beard that covers the cheeks, chin and upper lip, thick growth, with no skin visible through the hair of the beard. Generally a high cheek line and as far down the throat as growth allows. Traditionally worn by Vikings, hence the name. Primarily achieved by not cutting or trimming the beard for at least six to eight weeks or longer.
W
- Walrus : A bushy moustache that hangs down over the lips, often entirely covering the mouth.
Z
- Zappa : A thick moustache with a small, square goatee under the bottom lip. Famously modelled by the notorious Frank Zappa.
See also
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