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title: "Beard styles for long faces: 3 Options, With Diagrams"
date: 2026-08-13
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# Beard styles for long faces: 3 Options, With Diagrams

## Beard styles for long faces

A long face wants width, not more length. Styles that keep some weight at the cheeks and stay short at the chin break up the vertical, and anything grown long and pointed does the opposite.

## 3 styles in this list

[![Diagram of a viking beard shown on a square face](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_lossy+ret_img+to_auto/beardedcolonel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/beard-styles/viking-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Viking beard** Long, full and deliberately untamed. LongMedium upkeepnorse beard

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/viking-beard/) [![Diagram of a full beard shown on a oval face](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_lossy+ret_img+to_auto/beardedcolonel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/beard-styles/full-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Full beard** Cheeks, jaw, chin and moustache, all connected. MediumLow upkeepnatural full beard

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/full-beard/) [Guide coming soon![Diagram of a bandholz beard shown on a oval face](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_lossy+ret_img+to_auto/beardedcolonel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/beard-styles/bandholz-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Bandholz beard** A full beard left to grow with no shaping. LongLow upkeepyeardterminal beard

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/bandholz-beard/)

## Other ways to narrow it down

[### Short beard styles

Under an inch. Office safe, quick to trim, slow to go wrong.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/short-beard-styles/) [### Medium beard styles

One to three inches. The point where shaping starts to matter.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/medium-beard-styles/) [### Long beard styles

Three inches and up. Months of growing, and daily oil.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/long-beard-styles/) [### Beard styles for round faces

Length at the chin, kept tight at the cheeks, to lengthen the face.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/beard-styles-round-face/) [### Beard styles for square faces

Softer, rounder edges so the jaw is not doubled up.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/beard-styles-square-face/) [### Beard styles for oval faces

The shape most styles are drawn for. Nearly anything works.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/beard-styles-oval-face/)

[All 47 styles in the directory](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/beard-styles/)