Beard styles

Beard shapes chosen from how your jaw turns and how far your chin projects — the things a front-facing photo cannot tell you on its own.

Full but close-cropped, with defined cheek and neck lines.

Three to five millimetres, everywhere, all the time.

Chin and moustache connected, cheeks clean.

Grown out, shaped, not sculpted.

One to two millimetres — texture, not coverage.

A disconnected moustache and chin patch.

A narrow band tracing the jawline itself.

Rounded moustache and chin, joined into a ring.

Full at the sides, tapered to a point at the chin.

Upper lip only, nothing below.

No beard. Sometimes that is the recommendation.

Short beard graded from the sideburn down into the jaw.