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WHY WEAR WHISKERS 
Wearing facial hair can often improve a face shape by accenting strong facial features or  masking and balancing  irregularities. Just like your hair the shape of a mustache, goatee or beard style depends for the most part on the natural growth pattern and density of the beard. 

Facial hair styles can make a man look handsome, mature, rugged, dashing, sexy, intelligent, friendly, decisive, aristocratic, distinguished, bold, evil or just simply stylish.  I starting wearing a mustache when I was twenty to look older and after discovered how it helped cover and hide my wide upper lip. 

For example, a sharp nose and small mouth can be balanced with a mustache or goatee for an aristocratic and dashing look like Errol Flynn or Clark Gable. Many notable Hollywood stars shown here have discovered how adding facial hair can set the stage for the many character parts they play. For his casual look Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame made the five o'clock shadow look stylish in the 80's. It was so popular that men across America and around the world skipped a day of shaving to get this five o'clock shadow look look.

Growing A Bread _ Getting Started

For men the beard is the fastest growing hair on the body, growing twice as fast as the scalp hair. Don't ask me why? It right up there with the question (who let the dog out)? 

It takes 10 days to get it a bread started. Shaving around the edge can help give you a groomed look while growing the bread for the first time. At this point you can start experimenting with the shape. For example, remove the sides and leave the mustache and chin hair for a goatee look and sideburns.

Extra Care: 
To keep the beard clean and soft void bar soap as it will make the beard course, dull and dry. Instead use your shampoo instead of soap to keep it clean and a hair conditioner for course hair to make it feel soft to the touch. 
I created a multi action hair and body Shampoo and  Extra Care Conditioner to keep the skin under the beard moist and prevent bread dandruff. And to soften those stiff course whiskers soft to the touch a special self warming Hair Conditioner.  
And to give a beard, mustache or goatee a shapely look  use a soft styling wax or foaming pomade.

Trimming & Shaping
Because the beard is the fastest growing hair on the body it must be trimmed frequently. Ideally every third day or at least weekly to keep it groomed. Careful shaping and shaving around the edge add character and shows you care about your appearance. 
I recommend the Wahl Peanut Clipper available a most beauty supply stores. It's small size make it ideal for shaping and trimming the edge. 

Coloring the beard...
In some cases coloring the beard may be appropriate to cover gray spots or a lighter shade to keep the color uniformed. Beard hair is very resistant to hair dye especially as it grays. Adding color without using hair dye can be done by using a eye brow pencil applied with a make-up brush. The advantage is that it can be removed with shampoo and applied only when you want to cover gray or darken the edge to accent its shape.

What many women think about facial hair.... Fifty one percent when asked said they like the look of a men with a beard, mustache or goatee as long as it's clean, groomed and soft to the touch.  Care and shaping play a major roll if you want your facial hair style to be a "turn on" not a "turn off" !

Receding Hairlines
can be counter balanced with a full or close clipped beard. goatee and mustache by directing attention away from the forehead.

A Balding Head is like an unpainted canvas and can look more interesting with goatee, mustache or close clipped beard like Bruce Willis. 

Young  Face  gains authority and a few years with the addition of facial hair like Leonardo Di Caprio. 
and Colin Farrell

FACIAL FEATURES
                    
A ruddy complexion will go unnoticed with a well shaped beard. An aging weathered face can look softer with close clipped whiskers /  full beard or goat-tee like James Colburn

Narrow  lip, high forehead  or large nose can be off set with a   thin mustache and close clipped triangle patch of hair under the lower lip line. With a mustache its called a Musketeer  but alone like Quentin Tarantino its called a "taint" because it "taint" a beard and it "taint" a mustache :-)

 
Fidel Castro ...
Some Beard Styles can be scary looking.