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 ;)