For the Ancient Greeks, beards signaled age, status, and virtue, turning these into symbols of masculinity, honor, and social control.

Facial hair is normal. Men, women, teens, and older adults all have it. The real problem starts when you try to remove it and ...

Hegseth’s willingness to grant exceptions for appearance when it flatters his obsession with imagined toughness, while ...

Although Hegseth has insisted that the US military resume strict discipline on beards, some units within it continue to grow them. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made it clear that if you are ...

For some guys, the right facial hair styles are obvious. Others ping-pong between bad trims, asking eternal questions like: do Jacob Elordi’s muttonchops look good or is he just Jacob Elordi? Let GQ ...

An Alabama man earned the Guinness World Record for longest natural beard locks on a living person. Rudolf Martino of Birmingham started growing the impressive 3-foot, 6-inch facial hair more than a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. In his hour-long address on Tuesday to United States military ...

At Brigham Young University, plenty of male students pay lip service to the school’s clean-shaven image. By sporting mustaches. It turns out that the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is targeting beards and facial hair in the military to establish a new "grooming standard," as the Pentagon announced Monday that leadership will ...

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The U.S. Army updated its facial hair grooming policy in an Army Directive that resulted from a force-wide review of military standards. The update reinforces the Army’s long-standing policy that all ...