Posts with tag FacialHair

Maggie Gyllenhaal looked ethically questionable but gorgeous here, wearing a fox stole-looking item at a film benefit gala at the Museum of Modern Art on November 10, 2008 in New York City. She attended the event with her partner -- record scratch -- holy cripes, what the heck happened to Peter Sarsgaard?!

Whoa-there, big boy! How you doing, Michael Imperioli? Or should we call you Detective Sergeant Ray Carling? Even though you're attending the Sundance Gala Fundraiser, you are clearly still in costume for your new hit (is it a hit? We hope so!) Life on Mars.

There is an undeniable manly appeal to a Tom Selleck or a Burt Reynolds that just can't be matched by baby-faced Zac Efron with his pretty eyelashes and smooth cheeks. It's all about the 'stache.

Excited about who will be sporting facial hair at this year's Academy Awards? Me too! Facial hair is the men's accessory of the year, and it's not just about the full beard anymore. Male or female, facial hair is impressive. It's the visual manifestation of testosterone -- and your ability to tastefully sculpt and control it displays your ability to tame the hormone that makes people go berserk.

In the anticipation of Styledash's list of "best celebrity facial hair at the Oscars 2008," I thought you might enjoy this video, where one man talks about the difficult task of controlling the wild hairs on his face. Enjoy. [via ManoloMen]

Beards have been cool for a while now, so you get no extra points just for impersonating Grizzly Adams. To pull off the beard these days, you have to walk a fine line. There's a golden proportion for how much hair you can have on your head vs. your face. If you decide to let both the hair and beard go crazy, you end up with an equation that looks like this: beard+shaggy hair= hungover frat boy (or vagrant).

I think Adrian Grenier is pulling off the drunken frat dude look pretty well -- it kinda suits him. I guess you could consider his friends on Entourage a fraternity of sorts -- and he has been hanging out with sleezy chicks Lohan.

As of yet, his beard is too short and his clothes are not soiled enough to go vagrant style. He might be able to pass for a cast member of Lost, though. Do I smell a cameo? Or is that just beard funk?

[via PerezHilton]

Starting last spring, I noticed the hipster guys around town were shaping their facial fuzz like...well...porn stars. It was a rough time for the fashion-forward set -- we'd been stuck in a seemingly endless 80s revival, and the obsessively stylish were trying anything to break out of the mold. I figured it was a brief, ill-advised foray into alternative grooming that'd quickly be forgotten.

Until today. Word on the street is Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy and boyfriend to Ashlee Simpson is sporting an adult movie star motif above his upper lip. Gross!


Guys: I'm pleading with you, let this one blow over. Grow a full beard, grow a goatee, go clean shaven -- anything! If you shape your 'stache like some douche bag from the 70s, I will judge you -- a lot.

If you're one of those guys whose beard always grows in patchy, or scraggly, or in some other unattractive fashion, never fear: you're no longer stuck relying on your "boyish charms." With this fake goatee, you can give yourself that manly "edge."

'Cause let's face it: beards are hot. And even better than a full beard, is the meticulously trimmed, finely-shaped, just-a-couple-days-past-stubble look of the thin goatee. While this would normally take hours of work with itty-bitty scissors or some expensive beard trimmer, you can now have the look in seconds with some paste-on hair.

Ok, I'm joking. I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If a woman's only dating you because of your nerdy-looking facial fuzz, you've got bigger problems.

Nevertheless, if you want to give it a try (and can read Japanese), you can order your very on paste-on goatee here.

The soul patch is a tiny tuft of hair grown beneath a man's lower lip. It's not really a beard (beards can be pretty cool). And it's certainly not a mustache (mustaches, if not cool, can at least be kind of funny). The soul patch is much more akin to the goatee than to anything else.

As a relative of the family goatee, the soul patch is most commonly found on men that fancy themselves "rebellious." Originally, the soul patch was worn by jazz musicians and bohemians in the 1950s and 1960s, but over the years, the trend has picked up with a broader audience.

Like other stylefouls, such as the MacGyver mullet and the colored contact lens, we here at Styledash wish the soul patch was not such a temptation for so many men. Why? Well, there's a pragmatic reason and then there's an aesthetic reason.

The pragmatic reason is that if you are going to the effort of shaving the rest of the hair on your face, why not go ahead and nip that little patch? You are so close to being clean shaven, and thereby so close to not being totally *creepy* looking, why not just go for it?

Aesthetic opposition stems from the slightly misshapen, unsymmetrical shapes in which most soul patches form. I don't know if it's the ridge of the lip or what, but I have never seen a soul patch that didn't look just like that -- a patch. You know, an odd cropping of growth that is much more about chaos than it is about design.