Facial Hair Index - TV Tropes

Tropes that involve facial hair: Beards, mustaches, eyebrows, sideburns, and any combination thereof. Tends to be a masculine trait, with few exceptions. Should not be confused with Growing the Beard, though overlap is not unheard of.

Tropes:

Animal Facial Hair: Want to give your anthro character uniqueness? Give him a beard.
Bearded Baby: Babies and prepubescent children somehow have facial hair.
Dangerously Close Shave: A facial shave turns fatal or threatens to.
Facial Scruff: When facial hair is seen as odd, unsightly, unseemly or slovenly.
Fake Facial Hair: For depictions of fake beards and mustaches.
Girls with Moustaches: Ladies have facial hair.
Goatee of Intellect: Goatees and circle beards are associated with intelligence.
Good Hair, Evil Hair: Using different facial hair configurations to show a character's morality.
Hair as Cultural Identity: Scalp and facial hair styles have cultural significance and are part of a cultural identity.
Manly Facial Hair: Facial hair is indicative of masculinity and toughness.
Mistaken for Fake Hair: A person with facial hair gets tugged by it because another person assumes they're wearing a fake beard and/or mustache.
Perma-Shave: A character gets a perpetual smooth chin.
Perma-Stubble: A character gets a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow.
Soul Patch of Cool: Soul patches, goatees, and chin tufts are connected to musicians, metalheads, and beatniks.
There Will Be Toilet Paper: Shaving for the first time is a sting. Patch it up with toilet paper.

Beardness Protection Program: Hiding from someone or something? Grow a beard so that no one will notice.
Beard of Barbarism: Men of "uncivilized" cultures sport a wild beard.
Beard of Evil: Evil guys with evil beards.
Beard of Sorrow: Growing a beard means depression.
Captain Color Beard: A pirate has a name that describes the kind of beard they have (e.g. a pirate with a brown beard named Brownbeard).
Commanding Imperial Beard: Imperial beards and their variations (À La Souvarov, Hulihee, and Friendly Mutton Chops) are associated with royalty and warriors.
Godiva Hair: In rare male cases, when a man's beard is long enough to cover his private parts.
Hot-Blooded Sideburns: Men with a burning passion for facial fashion.
Seadog Beard: Even King Neptune himself envies such seafaring men with seafaring beards.
Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: Beard stubble is illustrated as a patch of solid color.
Stroke the Beard: A character contemplates by caressing their facial hair.
Time-Passage Beard: A character ends up growing a long beard to accentuate that a long amount of time has passed.
Weird Beard: There are times when a sentence rhymes, when non-humans without hair still have beards to wear.
Wizard Beard: A wizard is not complete with a Robe and Wizard Hat without his magical beard.

Angry Eyebrows: The ">" in ">:("
Big Ol' Eyebrows: A character is on fleek!
Big Ol' Unibrow: A character with a big unibrow.
Disembodied Eyebrows: "Is that your hair? Or your eyebrows?"
Evil Eyebrows: Arched eyebrows as a sign of villainy..
Eyebrows Burned Off: A character had fleek, but then they got too close to some fire.
Eyebrow Waggle: Rapid raising and lowering of eyebrows. What a rascal!
Fascinating Eyebrow: The look that makes you go "Hmmmm..."
No Brows: A character with no fleek.
Oddly Visible Eyebrows: Even with bangs, the eyebrows are still showing.
Unusual Eyebrows: Eyebrows that you think are wildly painted, but are their natural eyebrows.

Comedic Mustache: Mustaches are associated with comedies, comedians, entertainers, and fools.
Dapper Pencil Mustache: Pencil Mustaches are worn by men who are suave and sophisticated or clean-cut and dapper.
Godwin's Law of Facial Hair: The Toothbrush Mustache is associated with authority and is used to reference Hitler.
Horseshoe Mustache of Toughness: When a horseshoe mustache makes a character look tougher.
Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Hombres from Mexico get a distinguished bigote.
Martial Fu Manchu Mustache: Evokes both Asia and Asian identity. Warriors and martial artists wear it.
Mustache Vandalism: Draw a mustache on a person you dislike.
Porn Stache: A mustache with a "Bow Chicka Wow Wow" factor.
Spontaneous Mustache: A man is capable of growing a mustache instantly.
'Stache of Duty: Mustaches represent authority, military service, and professionalism.
Upper Class 'Stache: Mustaches are a class marker and evoke power, sophistication, or wealth.