This man can really grow a beard, well done!<p>Most men only have one or two styles they could pull off and unfortunately it takes a while to find the right one…I suspect that's a big reason why many won't even try. A light beard isn't usually too great, either, but you can always dye it and use an eyebrow pen to retouch inbetween treatments.
Smogzer's method for "How to see yourself in every beard type" :<p>1) Grow a huge beard.
2) Put yourself in a comfortable and repeatable pose, i.e. fixate a point in space, shoulders back, make sure you are able to repeat the position you are in.
3) pick 1-5 camera poses around you.
4) with your huge beard take pictures from every camera position in various lighting settings, or have a friend do it.
5) shave, standing in place if it has to.
6) take pictures again.
7) with photoshop or gimp overlay the beard picture on top of the beardless one and delete and clone parts of your beard !
8) since this is hacker news, the post would not be complete if you do not:
8.1) create a startup from it ;)
I'd love to grow all these beards, but unfortunately I have the facial-hair-growing capability of Ethan Hawke (except I had enough sense to give it up when it didn't pan out).