Face Foliage: A Primer

August, 1977

Whether from some residual primitive instinct in man to assert his animal origins or simply from the vagaries of fashion, mustaches and beards have a way of growing back into popularity from time to time. Today, facial hair is again back on top.On the average, a man's beard grows approximately a half inch per month, and just as idiosyncratically as the hair atop his skull. So the man who wants to grow a mustache and/or a beard must trust blind luck. No matter how much pruning, an incoming bush w...