Egg-Shaped Beard Oscar Isaac A soft, rounded beard can help square faces look longer and leaner by visually elongating your chin. First grow out enough length on the whole beard that you can gradually whittle down the sides while keeping the length on your chin. Then, instead of trimming at sharp angles, gently round the corners so it looks like an oval. The softer shape will help soften harder features and make a wide jaw look slimmer. Getty
Goatee Common Think of a goatee as a mini-beard. It has all the variants of a full-face beard, but just on a smaller scale. Once you have even slight length to your facial hair, cutting in a goatee is the easy part: just shave everything except for your mustache, chin, and the lines connecting the two. Keep the lines defined with daily trimming or shaving, but keeping a little more length to the hair on your chin will help visually lengthen any face shape. Getty
Black Tie Scruff David Beckham This style has more in common with the short beard than your traditional scruff, because even though its short enough to show skin, its still trimmed and maintained. It requires more length than just a day or two of not shaving (more like four or five depending on how fast your hair grows) and a heavy hand with the trimmer. Keep the length short enough to see skin through the whiskers but uniform the whole way around and the cheek and neck lines crisp. Getty
Beard With Bald Common When you have a bald or shaved head, whether by choice or not, a beard can help create contrast and definitionplus, it just looks damn good. Most beards look good with a bald head, but we recommend keeping it trimmed and crisp, to help create further definition in your features. Go for a short or mid-length, like this, and maintain the crips lines with daily shaving. Getty
Square Beard Jamie Dornan A square beard is the converse to an egg beard (where there is more length on the chin); this style keeps more length on the sides to widen the face and make the jawline look more angular. Its ideal for guys with longer, more oval face shapes since it helps create angles that they don't naturally have. Grow whiskers long enough to create length on the sides, then trim closer to the chin while leaving more length around the corners of the jaw. Getty
Pointy Beard Jared Leto Leaving more length on your chin will always make any face shape look longer. To create a point beard, keep the angles crisp (not rounded like with an egg) and instead of squaring it off at the chin, trim it into a point. Think of a diagonal line moving from the corner of each jaw and meeting right below your chin. Its a more aggressive look than the gentle egg shape, but will make any face look longer and leaner. Getty
Babys First Beard Zac Efron This is as much a vibe as it is a style: embracing the inconsistencies of grow out. For many guys, especially if theyve never grown a beard before, getting past the initial months of growing out whiskers is difficult (itchy! uncomfortable! scraggly!), but its all part of the process. When growing a beard, lean into it and embrace what it looks like before it gets long enough to style into something else. Resist the urge to trim or shave until you have enough length to really see what youre working with. Getty
Patchy Beard Keanu Reeves When it comes to facial hair, the biggest complaint most guys have is patchinesswhere parts of your facial hair seem to grow differently, or more, than others. Its something that prevents many guys from growing beards in the first place for fear of it looking weird. But letting your beard do its thing is a style in itself. Men like Keanu Reeves dont let a little patches stop them and they grow their whiskers long enough to help camouflage bigger patches, but not cover them up completely. Getty
Viking Beard Jason Momoa The viking beard is king among rugged, manly beard styles because of its devil-may-care attitude. Its long, flowing, and decidedly un-shaped; this is not a beard that requires daily, or even weekly trimmings, and dont even think about using a beard trimmer. The style depends on it looking a little wild. Once you have enough length (like a couple of inches), use scissors to trim errant hairs but avoid a trimmer which will give a more uniform look. Getty
Chinstrap Beard LeBron James Whether a shorter, more typical chinstrap or a longer version like on LeBron here, this style helps to emphasize a strong jawline or make a rounder raw look more defined. It requires more maintenance than some other beard styleskeeping most of the face whisker free takes almost daily shavingand dont forget to keep your neck line in check, too. Keep all hair growth to right on the jaw and under the chin to keep the visual effect. Getty
Well-Groomed Beard John Krasinski When you have a shorter beard, you have two choices: keep it slick and groomed or let it go a little shaggy. The choice is up to you, but to really add definition to your face and accentuate your bone structure, especially if you have a softer face, keeping a bead short and defined may be a good idea. Keeping the lines crisp and the entire length uniform will help define your jaw and draw attention to your cheekbones. Getty
Defined Beard Drake Like its cousin the groomed beard, a defined beard depends on two things: keeping the length short and the lines razor sharp. Its helpful if your beard is long enough to look full, but short enough that errant hairs dont hang over the lines you create with your razor. Make sure the keep the beard itself one uniform length and then define every linethe cheeks, the neck and the mustacheregularly to make sure there isnt an out of place hair in sight. Getty
Long Goatee Jeff Bridges You know how to grow a goatee (scroll back up if you dont). A long goatee depends on the same principleskeeping the cheeks and jaw shaved and the lines defined. The difference here is the length. When hair gets longer, it may require more upkeep to keep the lines defined, but leaving length on both the mustache and chin can create a much different look. Getty
The DGAF Beard David Letterman The key to this look, and its close cousin the Quarantine Beard, is keeping your hands off of it and the tools unplugged. This style says Im growing a beard and I dont care what anyone thinks. The good news is that its maintenance freeput down the tools and let it grow as long as you possibly can. You may eventually want to trim it into more of a defined shape, but the golden rule here is to let it shine with minimal intervention. Getty
Full Chin Beard Hugh Jackman Remember how we said length on the chin will always make a face look longer? This style is no exception and virtually ensures that happens. Instead of grooming your beard into a sharp point at the tip or rounding the corners into an egg, let all the hair that covers your chin grow long. Keep the rest of your whiskers a fairly uniform length and slightly blend if you want, but you want a bulbous shape that extends the full width of your chin. Getty
Three-Day Scruff Joe Manganiello Think of this as the short brother of the DGAF beardit should literally look like you havent shaved for three or four days. The key to differentiating this from perma-stubble or black-tie scruff is that its less maintained. With this look, its okay if you have some errant hairs or if the lines are less defined. Its casual and a little wild, like you just got back from a camping trip, and doesnt look like you did anything at all. Getty
Van Dyke Beard Pierce Brosnan The Van Dyke is an advanced beard, and one that demands attention from others and yourself. It takes upkeep to keep your cheeks and jaw impeccably shaved in order to let the mustache and goatee shine. Grow the mustache long enough that you can curl the sides slightly and keep the goatee trimmed with scissors (and use beard balm to shape it into a point). Getty
Van Dyke (Abridged) Christian Bale If you like the look of the Van Dyke, but are thinking Hmm, I want something a bit more Shakespearean, allow us to introduce the Van Dyke (Abridged). It has all the hallmarks of a classic Van Dykemustache and pointed chin whiskersbut in this case allows facial hair to creep up toward the cheeks (but not the whole way) to cover a bit more ground. Getting the look follows the same steps as a VD, but just avoid trimming as close around your chin. Getty
Playoff Beard Julian Edelman The Playoff Beard is a marker of timeas in, allowing your facial hair to become a calendar. Its by far the easiest beard to trim because it requires absolutely no trimming whatsoever. In fact, trimming a Playoff Beard is expressly forbidden. Getting this beard requires putting your razor, shaving cream, beard trimmer, and any other shaving accoutrements in a drawer and locking it. Instead, let your beard go wild! You should still wash and brush it though. Getty
Mustache-Forward Beard Henry Cavill Maybe youve always been curious about having a mustache, but feel way more comfortable with a full beard? Thats coolthis beard style is the best of both worlds. It starts like any other beardallowing your whiskers enough time to grow until they're long enough to trim. Then, start trimming your beard to the length you desire, but do not under any circumstances touch the mustache. The goal is for the mustache to be longer, and visually more distinct, than the beard itself. Getty
The Wolverine Hugh Jackman This advanced style, modern cousin to the Mutton Chop, is admittedly hard to pull off unless you are, in fact, Wolverine. But think of it as the inverse of the Goatee. As your facial hair grows (or after its become long enough to trim), only shave around your mouth and chin and let everything else go to town. Your cheeks and jawline should be covered, but only to the corners of your mouth. And dont forget to shave down that mustache. Getty
The Chin Cup Diddy Think of this as a patch of facial hair gently caressing your chinbasically a goatee without the mustache part. Its a bold look, but like any facial hair on your chin serves to help elongate your face and define your chin, especially if you think it could use a sharper angle. It doesnt even need to be very long (in fact, we recommend against growing a chin cup long), but the effect is real. Getty
The Fade Chadwick Boseman Like the fade on top of your head, the beard fade is characterized by the gradual decrease in length leading up to your ears. Depending on where you start the fade, close to your ears or down closer to your jaw, it can create an even sharper line that slims the face and draw attention to your jawline and chin. Fading your beard yourself takes a bit more effort than your average shaping, but its worth it for the angles and lines it can create. Getty
The Artist Johnny Depp The artist is basically a mustache paired with a Chin Cup, maybe with a soul patch thrown in for good measure, that is one of the most minimal beards you can get. Keep the hair on our chin at a minimum and the mustache thin but defined to get this lookand to let everyone know you frequent museums in your free time. Getty
