Get The Beard Trend Right!

The age of facial hair seems here to stay. From stubble to ‘stache, Ryan Frantz knows how to go about it

- Ryan Frantz

Scruff is the new clean shaven. And how! Unless you’ve been living at the bottom of the ocean, you may have noticed that the rugged masculinity of the Middle Ages has made a comeback, thanks to the likes of Jon Snow, Daario Naharis, Robb Stark and Khal Drogo, who walked right in, looked devastatingly hand some, knocked down conventions and waged a war against the goody-two-shoes clean shaven look. Thus began the age of facial hair.

As a consequence, the 4 o’clock shadow or a bit of scruff no longer gets met with disapproving frowns or raised eye brows. Men have also started discovering the miraculous effect of a bit of stubble or a beard in reducing the effects of double chins. Beards are quite easily, the cheaper option to chin jobs. And men who are balding, are not resorting to ugly combovers and grafting. Instead, they’re shaving off the hair on their northern hemispheres and grooming the hair on the southern hemisphere - and looking hot in the process, too.

So if you have decided to grow a beard, welcome to the brotherhood. Here’s the lowdown of the journey from stubble to ‘stache.

GIVE THE ITCH THE DITCH