You know beard… That facial hair that gives your face the manly shape you always wanted? Well you surely know it goes by tons of various shades, and you most surely know that it can get quite complicated, when trying to explain your barber the exact shape of your dream, to find the right words or name. Let’s be honest, nobody knows by heart the big glossary of barbering! If you’re going for a moustache, you might experience the same facial hair ordeal… Well, we bring you today the best tool ever: your complete, essential beard and moustache guide. Shall we?

ERIC BANDHOLZ BEARD

Grow a beard as your lifestyle brand, as the strongest way to express yourself, and to boost your self-confidence… That’s how the American Eric Bandholz (The Beardbrand) saw it: he quitted a boring job and bearded up his new life! This beard is quite an extreme one, by front size and length. As the new urban style, assume it if you want your facial hair to be fully part of your lifestyle.

VERDI BEARD STYLE

We owe this beard to the romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi. This style perfectly fits the classic (and opera) lovers, those who truly dare assuming bold choices. It sharpens and lengthen a thick face, while giving you a mature and distinguished look. With its distinctive pointy and curly moustache, it is a unique facial hairstyle that instantly reveals your personality.

OLD DUTCH BEARD

A bushy thick beard with no moustache. These are the Old Dutch essentials, for a classic spirit that always comes back in style. If your moustache is a major discomfort every time you have to drink your milk or a fresh beer, if you like rabbi style hair, well this is your absolute beard. Its square shape totally meets round faces.

GARIBALDI BEARD

20cm max, and not a millimeter more: Garibaldi beard stands out for its square and straight base lines, and its necessity to remain perfectly groomed. To achieve the right Garibaldi beard, you’ll have to count with the best professional barber tools, such as our hair clippers. The best facial complement to that beard would be the down arrow moustache, that thus combines meticulous and natural treatments.

HEART-SHPED BEARDY STYLE

The perfect beard for oval-shaped or heart-shaped faces: this style connects sideburns, moustache and beard to print a uniform look. A good opportunity to lengthen and organize the facial features, while saving time in the daily mirror encounter.

DUCKTAIL BEARD

Have you ever seen a duck suddenly diving its head into the water, its tail pointing up to the sky? Well, when it comes to beard stuff, the image gets a lot more mannish with this sharp and pointed facial hair. This beard style is quite powerful, and allows round or short faces to elongate the chin while gaining in maturity. To achieve it, you’ll have to gradually sharpen the hair, following a fictive diagonal line and trim the neck and chin area. Bottom line? A real lady-killer.

RAW BEARD

This beard is the perfect asset to embody the universal rule: opposites attract. Wear it raw and suit up, for a pure trendy style. This is the famous beard that hipster tendency brought up to light and that keeps being fully attractive today for its natural touch. A glimpse of mess and a little bit bushy, that’s what always shines bright with a modern gentleman look. No size limits but your bohemian mind, take care of its messiness and you’ll have THE beard.

PADLOCK BEARD

As its name suggests, this beard sets the frontier between your mouth area and half your jaw. It’s actually the extended version of the traditional goatee, with a moustache and a few more hair, focusing thus all the attention on the lips. This specific style fits round faces and manly strengthens facial features. It can be borne shorter, like a clean three-day stubble, or even with more hair at the bottom, to square it up a bit.

HOLLYWOODIAN BEARD

Red Carpet style. Hollywoodian used to be borne by rich and famous actors, and is now at its full comeback. Something in between casual and informal, with a glance of superstar fashion which will give you a serious tone without aging excessively. It enlightens your jawline, being thicker on the edge with bare cheeks and the moustache joining the beard down the mouth.

MUTTON CHOPS

If you’ve ever been a Motörhead fan, you’re familiar with the well-known Lenny beard. We’re dealing here with the exact converse of the padlock style: these mutton chops free the chin and combine huge moustache with enormous sideburns. If you can identify with this bold facial hair style, go for the mutton chops! Otherwise, you can also adopt the friendly mutton chops, as Hugh Jackman wears it (photo), with smaller sideburns and a thin stubble as a moustache.

SHORT BOXED BEARD

This beard is also a great way to subline the jawline. Really smooth, short and made of straight lines that join up on the chin, it’s the hairy version of the contouring make up technique. It hones the down part of the face and make you irresistible.

BALBO BEARD

This beard was named after a famous Italian politician, is has no sideburns and is made of square-shaped hair. The soul patch zone extends to the chin in a thin line, topped with a sharpen moustache joining a minimal beard. This beard is a call for cleanliness.

ROYALE BEARD

The facial hair of princes and kings. Royale beard has to be worn short, with a thin moustache and a soul patch that you can carve to create a typical musketeer style. It will fit you perfectly if you have a diamond-shaped face.

CHEVRON MOUSTACHE

This moustache needs being clean-shaven, for its revert “U” shape has to look perfect and square. Ideal style for diamond-shaped faces, chevron moustache shows self-confidence and seriousness.

DALÍ MOUSTACHE

Quite an irreverent style. For the famous surrealist Spanish painter, Salvador Dali, had a massive personality asset: his crazy moustache which design changed according to the master’s mood. This extraordinary, bold and thin facial hair, must always point at 10:10, to unveil a truly leading identity.

HANDLEBAR MOUSTACHE

This baroque style is totally coming back to the front stage. Some might not take it seriously, but the handlebar – or English – moustache, will remain the best gentlemen’s accessory. Its pointing ends and very thin line makes it very different from the royale one. Big Ben lovers, this one is for you!

IMPERIAL MOUSTACHE

UA mix between the Handlebar and Pyramid styles. This imperial thick line above the lip shows strong, magnificent personality. Its bushy shape gets thinner to the curled up ends. If you like the idea but don’t dare yet to wear such an affirmed facial hair, you can combine it to a Balbo beard, or a Pompadour haircut, that creates a round, wavy and smooth move up your forehead to compensate your moustache.

PYRAMID MOUSTACHE

Triangular-shaped, no larger than the corners of the mouth. This is the simple and only definition of the Pyramid moustache. No pointing ends, this moustache only covers the upper lip and enlarges this specific area. Perfect idea to hide too thin lips and create the illusion of a large, thick mouth.