Beard styles for a heart face
Heart Face
Broad forehead tapering to a narrow chin. The upper face leads by default; hair's job is to give the lower face a vote.
What to aim for
Build mass at the chin and jaw: fuller chins, defined jaw strips, medium beards. Keep the cheeks lower so width sits at the bottom.
Styles that work (11)
Short Boxed Beard
A short full beard built around low, sharply drawn cheek lines.
Van Dyke
A pointed chin beard and a detached moustache, painterly by name and by nature.
Anchor Beard
A chin beard traced along the jaw like an anchor, capped with a detached moustache.
Ducktail
A full beard tapered to a neat point at the chin, polish over mass.
Clean Shaven
No beard at all. The baseline every other style on this site is compared against.
Goatee
Chin hair only, no moustache, and the sharpest way to add length to a soft jaw.
Light Stubble
Two to four days of growth: the lowest-effort style that still reads as deliberate.
Heavy Stubble
Around ten days of growth, fuller than a shadow but still far from a beard commitment.
Chin Strap
A thin line of beard tracing the jaw from ear to ear, cheeks clean.
Pencil Moustache
A thin line traced just above the lip: old Hollywood in a single stroke.
Dalí Moustache
Two thin points waxed steeply upward: surrealism you can wear.
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