Facial Hair for Male Characters

Clean Shaven
A facial hairstyle contains no facial hair at all other than short, neatly trimmed sideburns.

Mustaches

Dalí – narrow, long points bent or curved steeply upward; areas past the corner of the mouth must be shaved. Artificial styling aids needed. Named after Salvador Dalí.

Chevron
Covering the area between the nose and the upper lip, out to the edges of the upper lip but no further. Popular in 1970s and 1980s American culture

English mustache
Narrow, beginning at the middle of the upper lip the whiskers are very long and pulled to the side, slightly curled; the ends are pointed slightly upward; areas past the corner of the mouth usually shaved.

Freestyle
All moustaches that do not match other classes.

Fu Manchu
Long, downward pointing ends, generally beyond the chin.

Handlebar
Bushy, with small upward pointing ends.

Horseshoe
Often confused with the Handlebar Mustache, the horseshoe was possibly popularized by modern cowboys and consists of a full mustache with vertical extensions from the corners of the lips down to the jawline and resembling an upside-down horseshoe. Also known as biker mustache.

Hungarian
Big and bushy, beginning from the middle of the upper lip and pulled to the side.

Imperial
whiskers growing from both the upper lip and cheeks, curled upward

Natural
Mustache may be styled without aids.

Pancho Villa
Similar to the Fu Manchu but thicker; also known as a "droopy mustache". Also similar to the Horseshoe.

Pencil mustache
Narrow, straight and thin as if drawn on by a pencil, closely clipped, outlining the upper lip, with a wide shaven gap between the nose and mustache. Popular in the 1940's.

Toothbrush
Thick, but shaved except for about an inch in the center. Commonly associated with Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin.

Walrus
bushy, hanging down over the lips, often entirely covering the mouth.

Beards

Brett
sometimes described as earlobe to earlobe, it is similar to the chin curtain beard, but does not connect up to the sideburns

Chinstrap
a beard with long sideburns that comes forward and ends under the chin.

Chin Curtain
similar to the chinstrap beard but covers the entire chin. Also called a Lincoln or spade.

Designer Stubble
A short growth of the male beard that was popular in the West in the 1980s

Friendly mutton chops
long muttonchop type sideburns connected to a mustache, but with a shaved chin.

Full
downward flowing beard with either styled or integrated moustache

Garibaldi:
Wide, full beard with rounded bottom and integrated mustache

Goatee
A tuft of hair grown on the chin, sometimes resembling that of a billy goat.

Hollywoodian
A beard with integrated mustache that is worn on the lower part of the chin and jaw area, without connecting sideburns.

Hulihee
A clean-shaven chin with fat chops connected at the mustache.

Jawline beard: A beard that is grown from the chin along the jawline. Chinstrap, chin curtain and brett are all variations of a jawline beard with distinctions being chin coverage and sideburn length.

Meg
A goatee that extends upward and connects to the mustache, this word is commonly used in the south east of Ireland.

Monkey tail
A Van Dyke as viewed from one side, and a Lincoln plus moustache as viewed from the other, giving the impression that a monkey's tail stretches from an ear down to the chin and around one's mouth.

Neckbeard
Similar to the chinstrap, but with the chin and jawline shaven, leaving hair to grow only on the neck

Old Dutch
A large, long beard, connected by sideburns, that flares outward in width at the bottom, without a mustache.

Reed
A beard with integrated mustache that is worn on the lower part of the chin and jaw area that tapers towards the ears without connecting sideburns.

Royale
A narrow pointed beard extending from the chin. The style was popular in France during the period of the Second Empire, from which it gets its alternative name, the imperial.

Sea captain
A rounded, bottom-heavy beard of medium length with short sides that is often paired with a longer mustache.

Sideburns
Hair grown from the temples down the cheeks toward the jawline.

Soul patch
A small beard just below the lower lip and above the chin

Stashburns
Also known as the Lemmy
Sideburns that drop down the jaw but jut upwards across the mustache, leaving the chin exposed. Similar to friendly mutton chops. Often found in southern and southwestern American culture

Van Dyke
A goatee accompanied by a mustache.

Verdi
A short beard with rounded bottom and slightly shaven cheeks with prominent mustache