UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. If you haven’t been outdoors in a few years, you might not have noticed that beards are back. Back in such a big way that apparently ...

Everybody’s heard of hair plugs, but did you realize you could get a full beard transplant? A growing number of men in New York and elsewhere are catching on. It’s apparently becoming a very popular ...

Once as popular as penny farthings, knickers, and artisanal cured meats, hipster beards are finally on their way out of style. Dr. Alun Withey, noted beardologist, has launched a study into the long ...

As I’ve said before, proper hipster appearances don’t require a full beard 100 percent of the time. Clean-shaven hipsters abound. If you’re set on facial hair but incapable of luxuriant beardedness, a ...

It’s shear madness! Brooklyn’s hipster beard craze has grown so popular that men in New York are rushing to doctors for “facial hair transplants” — surgery that helps make beards look thicker and less ...

Cherine Fahd received a grant from the Australia Council to fund the project You Look Like a... The way someone looks – the size of their nose or the abundance of body or facial hair – is an amusing ...

A British microbiologist found that some beard bacteria contains anti-adhesion molecules, which prevent bacterial binding to surfaces. That means that hipster beards may harbor bacteria capable of ...

Hipster beards are no longer confined to the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y. — they have made their way into the mainstream as actors, politicians, athletes and other men are sporting their own scruff. That ...

But new research on the attractiveness of beards from the University of NSW shows it is more likely to be a case of hair today, gone tomorrow. The bushy beard, often coupled with a shirt buttoned at ...

Beards just happen for most males. But the fashion of facial hair is a complicated mix of many elements. There’s religion: Think of the Amish and Sikhs and their mandated beards. There’s also Mohammed ...

Mazen Hariz is well-groomed. A bartender and business student, he has fine features, limpid dark eyes and a long, shiny beard topped with a twirling mustache. He tends to his appearance meticulously. ...

It might be the height of fashion but the recent trend for bushy beards has caused a problem for the food industry because of its strict hygiene rules. But hipsters don't need to worry about shaving ...