What Your Facial Hair Really Says About You

June 22nd, 2009 | 10:10 am
Your facial hair (or lack thereof) can say a lot about you, but sometimes there's a difference between what you think you're saying with it, and what it's actually telling people. 
 
The Full Beard
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I have written, or am currently writing three to four novels and or screenplays.  I think deeply about things, and sometimes I'll just sit and read, because I like reading.  Yeah, that's something I do.  Is your unkempt hipster vagina moist yet?  Plus, despite what my emo-swoop haircut may suggest, I'm comfortable with my masculinity.
 
What It Really Says About You:  a)I never got laid in high school, and used to get the shit kicked out of me, then suddenly realized that if I grew a beard, it hid my nerdy face, b)I've gotten so much poontang in my life that I'm literally TIRED of banging chicks.  Now in an effort to see how ridiculous I can make myself and still get laid, I'm growing this. or c)Don't open a package I might send to you, and stay the F off my lawn.
 
Good For:  Lumberjacks, the Unemployed/Homeless, Pyschos, Hipsters
 
Sentence Heard From This Person: "You should listen to this NPR podcast I downloaded."
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
The Goatee
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I'm a little bit straight-laced, and a little bit wild. I can get down to business, but I can also party hard, too.  Whatever you want, I'm up for it.
 
What It Really Says About You:  I can tell you who is going to go far in the NHL playoffs, and most likely, if I have sex with you, I'll leave my socks on.  Also, I really want you to look at my mouth, so I circled it in hair.
 
Good For: Noah the Intern, Youth Group Ministers, Bikers
 
Sentence Heard From This Person: "Oh man, that shitter is going to remember me."
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
 
Mutton Chops
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I'm some kind of artist who makes art that's creative, but also a little bit rebelious.
 
What It Really Says About You:  Ask me about my rebelious, creative art!
 
Good For:  Rock Stars, People with Adamantium Skeletons, Civil War Generals
 
Sentences Heard From This Person: "The best I can do is just express myself, and hope that it connects with someone, somewhere, and they feel what I feel.  Pain."
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
 
Manicured Scruff
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I'm a relaxed guy who definitely cares about keeping up my appearance, but I'm also relaxed...like I said before.  You remember when I said I was relaxed, right? Because I did say that.
 
What It Really Says About You:  Right now, this is the only thing I have in common with Jason Statham, but I'm working on that.
 
Good For:  Construction Workers, Garbagemen, Homeless Guys Who Found a Razor in the Trash Yesterday
 
Sentences Heard From This Person: "We're sittin' there, and the client doesn't know WHAT the f*&k is going on, and all I can think about is, that new chick from accounting has some tits I'd love to smush my face in, you know what I'm saying?"
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
 
Clean Shaven
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I care about my appearance, and I paid a lot of money for one of those five-blade razors, so I'm gonna get my money's worth. 
 
What It Really Says About You:  I am afraid to experiment with facial hair, because I have no idea what would happen.  It might grow in all patchy and I'll look like the neighbor from The Burbs or something.  It's better to just avoid it altogether.
 
Good For: Children, Women, The Terminally Ill
 
Sentence Heard From This Person: "I'd love to get coffee with you, I just have to finish some work.  Shall we say Coffee Bean at 8:30?  Tentatively?"
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
 
The Soul Patch
 

 
What You Think It Says About You:  I'm hip with the youngsters of today. I understand their television programs, and their music, and their youtubes.  I sent a text message yesterday, too.  That's how hip I am!
 
What It Really Says About You:  I'm playing in a 1998 high school baseball game tomorrow.
 
Good For:  Ska Band Trombone Players, Beatknick Poets, Evil Alter-Egos
 
Sentence Heard From This Person: I just got a hold of this new Rob Thomas album, have you heard this guy?  Great rythym."
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
 
The Chin Strap
 
 
What You Think It Says About You:  I have the masculinity for a beard, but I'm also concerned about my appearance, and I take the time to make myself look good and manly.  Plus, nobody else in my boy band has a beard like this.
 
What It Really Says About You:  The name's Bag. Douche Bag.
 
Good For: Boy Band Members, White kids who somehow think black kids wear this facial hair, Asian Bad Guys
 
Sentence Heard From This Person: "You know, it's all 'bout music, you know, I'm just, you know, tryin' to feel what's inside me and express that shit, you know."
 
Who Sports It:
 
 
 
Comments

128 Responses to "What Your Facial Hair Really Says About You"

  1. sunnycyclist Says:

    Does anyone know who is in the first bearded photo? He looks familiar, but I can't think of what I've seen him in.

  2. blegh Says:

    is it common for no one to take credit for writing these lists?

  3. Bob Faggot Says:

    You suck at lists.

    Eat shit and die.

    Fag.

  4. stoney Mcgee Says:

    It's called a flavor saver not a soul patch douche...who can only grow white trash patchy facial pubes.

  5. moustache man Says:

    haha you probably have one of those things on your face and you're feeling a little insulted right now.

  6. Drain0 Says:

    Missed out:

    The Chin tache and many more... look it up eh Malki?

    Desmond Morris (the anthropologist) says that people who have facial hair AND shave are sexual deviants.

    Guilty as charged...

  7. weston Says:

    i only read the "guilty as charged" part and instantly n
    knew u wer a homosexual

  8. simply the dude Says:

    Oh man this is priceless I love it. I go between goatee full beard and sometimes clean shaven, and I gotta say I sometimes feel like a douche bag in all three of them, and I've got friends with chops and a patch, and they fit those stereotypes perfectly.

    And for all the dudes getting defensive, especially the guy who just sounded like he wanted someone to piss on his face, grow the fuck up.

    Its fucking facial hair.

  9. asd Says:

    I dont get it nothing not one style wins. Everything you do according to this makes you a jackass or look really stupid. Even if you dont grow anything at all you still lose. WTF who wrote this shit. By far the worst thing i have ever read.

  10. Mr. Reason Says:

    that's how real life is. DEAL WITH IT.

  11. Alisha Says:

    this guy is right u cant win with "mr reason" who is apparently unreasonable about facial hair or the lack therof. you should get someone to write this who at least has an idea of what looks good if you wanted someone to just dis everybody why didnt you get rosanne barr????

  12. bastardfins Says:

    you sound like a woman

    shut up

  13. mika Says:

    Damn, they left out the molest-ache.. how could they??

  14. tibs Says:

    Who ever wrote this can't grow facial hair. This applies to even the clean shaven comments. If you can't grow facial hair you can't be clean shaven. Also, if you have to shave, you know that buying a 5blade razor sucks but is necessary.

    So clearly you can't grow any facial hair and are:
    a) a guy wearing an obscure T-shirt that only he thinks is funny and who never gets laid.
    b) a guy wearing an obscure T-shirt that only he thinks is funny and who never gets laid.
    c) a guy wearing an obscure T-shirt that only he thinks is funny and who never gets laid.

    p.s. What about the mustache?

  15. Goatee and Beard...? Says:

    What about the goatee where the rest of the beard has grown out for a few days... that's a look...

  16. Dr. Goilfrendz Says:

    Yuk people take things much too seriously. Look what youre reading...look....look...look right below it...see the greased up ass? Yeah. I see it. Anyway guy who will never read these comments because half the time they make him cry you forgot the mexi-stash, the halfassed, dirty lookin patchy mufuh. The mexistash can be found at clubs across the midwest, mostly on guys in their late twenties grinding on middleschool girls who developed early.

  17. Ravikant Says:

    Unfunny, stupid. Seems like written by a teenager.

  18. beardy Says:

    dumb

  19. mikeysweet Says:

    What about just a mustache? You guys missed the original stylized facial hair

    What You Think It Says About You: I'm mature and not gay like those guys that have goatees. They are so gay!

    What It Really Says About You: I'm gay.

    Good For: 70's porn stars, um.. gays

    Sentences Heard From This Person: I hate it when my milk covers my mustache.

  20. seriously? Says:

    ok, so to summarize, you think all guys, no matter how they handle their inevitable facial hair, are ugly douchebags. great point, lame attempt to be funny.

  21. Andrew Says:

    What about the zappa stache? (large soul patch + moustache that is not quite a handle bar stache) That's what I'm currently sportin'

    Can you continue this series and include it?

  22. Bethany Says:

    I think that all of them except the beard, will "fly" with the ladies. I think that this page was written by a man with Indian decent who is just jealous that he has no hair anywhere.

  23. blackbear Says:

    that is not a goatee it's a chin circle a goatee has no stash van-dyke has the stash unconnected.

    yes, I'm a gay fellow. so what?

  24. Mojorolla Says:

    They missed one...The Gooch. AKA the Hitker moustache. Did one little man ruin an entire class of moustache forever? Shame. Damn dirty shame.

  25. Dee Snuts Says:

    The Soul Patch is actually a tool most commonly used by homos to tickle the asshole while they give hummers. These people also tend to wear socks with their sandals.

  26. Mr. Van Dyke Says:

    You left out the Van Dyke. Thats like the goatee, except that the mustache and chinbeard dont connect. You could point out something about not being able to grow an actual goatee. :D

  27. Mr. Van Dyke Says:

    you forgot the van dyke. its like a goatee but the moustache and chinbeard dont connect. you could say something about how they cant grow an actual goatee.

  28. GRETA MONROE Says:

    MY HUSBAND TIM HAS A GOATEE AND MUSTACHE AND IS HOT AS HELL!!! HE HAS NOTHING TO PROVE TO ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE LIKES TO LOOK GOOD & HAS WONDERFUL HYGIENE! HOW MANY WOMEN CAN SAY THAT ABOUT THEIR MEN! P.S...YES...HE IS HYGIENIC FROM HEAD TO TOE IF YOU GET MY DRIFT,NOT LIKE SOME HAIRY BEASTS WITH HAIR FLOWING OUT OF THEIR EARS & NOSTRILS,LET ALONE THEIR PRIVATE AREAS!!!!! I LOVE YOU TIM!!!!!!!

  29. anna Says:

    you must really love your husband,wish mine was like that,can barely get him to bathe

  30. supermanlymangunowner Says:

    that manicured scruff blurb pissed me off. first you say construction workers and garbage men rock it , than your quote is obviously from some office douche talkin about the chick from accounting.
    im gonna grow out my facial just so i cud munch on yer ex girlfriends fish taco until her juice permanately stains it to the point where when we finally meet in person youre gonna recognize exactly what tuna scent is on my upper lip.

  31. FuManChu Says:

    The chin strap (AKA fag beard) was dead on.

  32. Bthewee1 Says:

    I feel a primal need to respond.
    However, my responding proves the pointlessness
    …and un-fulfillment in the response itself, yet…
    To not respond,
    ….is a non-response, countermanding my primal need.
    I feel the need to respond, I must respond…

    Please help,

    I respond…, therefore, proving the pointlessness, and un-satiated fulfillment of the response.

    I’m trapped in my own response back-loop!!
    I respond, therefore, I am not.

    Just think whatever,
    Hair 2009

  33. Lee Says:

    What the full beard really says about you:
    "Yeah, I don't trim my pubes either, now suck it bitch."

  34. what to do? Says:

    OK, so in order to be "cool" to the good folks at holytaco, what ARE you allowed to do with your facial hair? Since shaving clean, beards and absolutely NO type of maintenance is allowed without you being a "douchebag"? Just sayin.

  35. Camel Tao Says:

    It's a joke, you moron. If you're living your life, and deciding what to do with your facial hair based on what the "good folks at holytaco" say, then you've got far deeper problems than facial hair fashion. Here's how you should do: whatever doesn't irritate your boyfriends' inner-thighs.

  36. Old Guy Says:

    I saw a guy yesterday day with Amish chin whiskers down to his chest and an Irish brogue. I Can't even begin to find a category for that!

  37. Cleatus Says:

    "Also, I really want you to look at my mouth, so I circled it in hair."

    Haha, that's the funniest thing I've read all day

  38. anony mous Says:

    test..

  39. anonemous Says:

    Great!

    Say, why don't you fags just keep writing the same cynical bullshit over and over again regardless of the fact that you did it yesterday, the day before, and every other day before that since you launched this titless waste of time you call a 'web site'?

    You bunch of homous (sic) :D

    Keep it up, creeps!

  40. Missed ashe Says:

    The writer wears a mustashe. That's why he couldn't bring himself to write an insult on them. Thanks for letting us do the judging.

  41. Netme Says:

    The penguin .... o my god THE PENGUIN!!!!! HAHAHAHA

  42. Phil Says:

    Those 5 blade razors hack my face to pieces, and I have a very heavy beard, which I've recently grown out full.

    The funny thing is, I fit in with the some stereotypes for both "what you think it says" and "what it really says". I really DIDN'T get laid in high school, but did to an almost ridiculous degree pretty much starting right after graduation.

    I really AM righting screenplays- well, a screenplay, and I DO sit around reading much of the time, to the point that it's kinda killed my social life as of late, which doesn't really bother me, which I suppose is almost like being tired of banging chicks.

    That said, I do light wet, unkempt hipster vag. Like the band Volcano the Bear said in their song "Hairy Queen", 'distribute her hair with mine!'

  43. Phil Says:

    that's "writing screenplays"- it's lateaced coin-booth

  44. Phil Says:

    dammit, "aced coin-booth" was the security text!

    purple monkey dishwasher!

  45. Phil Says:

    "the some"?!? ARRRRGH!

  46. Phil Says:

    that's "like wet, unkempt hipster vag"- jeezuz I need to preview my posts

  47. Camel Tao Says:

    Fuck, Phil, how's that screenplay coming? Your spell-check must hate you.

  48. maryl streep Says:

    that chin strap one is funny cause kanye west wears that and we all know he IS the king of douche bags.

  49. PR Penguin Says:

    there's a freakin' penguin up there! hahah! that's genius!

  50. Tachyon Says:

    I wonder who made this list. It's idiotic. Clearly it's a man hating woman or an alien as their's no 'cool' facial hair scenario.

    Secondly, they don't know spit about facial hair, including not knowing the difference between a goatee and a VanDyke.

    Next time Rosie O'Donnell, either read http://www.dyers.org/blog/beards/beard-type-chart/ first, or get a slightly less angry lesbian bitch man hater to write for you. Maybe Lindsay Lohan.

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