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title: "Long beard styles: 8 Options, With Diagrams"
date: 2026-08-13
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# Long beard styles: 8 Options, With Diagrams

## Long beard styles

Three inches and up is measured in months, not weeks. The reward is a shape nothing else gives you. The cost is oil every day, a comb that lives in your pocket, and an awkward stretch around week six where it looks like neither one thing nor the other.

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

**Ducktail beard** Full beard tapered to a point at the chin. LongMedium upkeep

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/ducktail-beard/) [![Diagram of a amish 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/amish-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Amish beard** A chin curtain with no moustache, worn for religious reasons. LongLow upkeepquaker beard

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/amish-beard/) [![Diagram of a hipster 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/hipster-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Hipster beard** Long and full with a styled moustache. LongMedium upkeep

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/hipster-beard/) [Guide coming soon![Diagram of a garibaldi 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/garibaldi-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Garibaldi beard** Wide, rounded and full, with a natural edge. LongLow upkeep

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/garibaldi-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/cy/beard-styles/bandholz-beard/) [Guide coming soon![Diagram of a dutch 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/dutch-beard-style-diagram-front.jpg)

**Dutch beard** Wide chin beard flaring outward, no moustache. LongMedium upkeepold dutch

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

**French fork** Long beard split into two points. LongHigh upkeep

](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/french-fork/)

## Other ways to narrow it down

[### Arddulliau barf fer

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

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

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

Width at the cheeks, short at the chin, to shorten the face.](https://beardedcolonel.co.uk/cy/beard-styles/beard-styles-oblong-face/)

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