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
Viking beard
Long, full and deliberately untamed.
LongMedium upkeepnorse beard
Ducktail beard
Full beard tapered to a point at the chin.
LongMedium upkeep
Amish beard
A chin curtain with no moustache, worn for religious reasons.
LongLow upkeepquaker beard
Hipster beard
Long and full with a styled moustache.
LongMedium upkeep
Guide coming soon
Garibaldi beard
Wide, rounded and full, with a natural edge.
LongLow upkeep
Guide coming soon
Bandholz beard
A full beard left to grow with no shaping.
LongLow upkeepyeardterminal beard
Guide coming soon
Dutch beard
Wide chin beard flaring outward, no moustache.
LongMedium upkeepold dutch
Guide coming soon
French fork
Long beard split into two points.
LongHigh upkeep
Other ways to narrow it down
Kurze Bartstile
Under an inch. Office safe, quick to trim, slow to go wrong.
Medium beard styles
One to three inches. The point where shaping starts to matter.
Beard styles for round faces
Length at the chin, kept tight at the cheeks, to lengthen the face.
Beard styles for square faces
Softer, rounder edges so the jaw is not doubled up.
Beard styles for oval faces
The shape most styles are drawn for. Nearly anything works.
Beard styles for long faces
Width at the cheeks, short at the chin, to shorten the face.