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Not everyone can pull off a beard, but these guys make it look effortlessly cool. The post The Power Of A Beard: 122 Men Who Completely Transformed Their Look (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
An elderly Bengali man in Dhaka with a beard dyed in henna. Henna is a reddish dye prepared from the dried and powdered leaves of the henna tree. [1] It has been used since at least the ancient Egyptian period as a hair and body dye, notably in the temporary body art of mehndi (or "henna tattoo") resulting from the staining of the skin using dyes from the henna plant.
A beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually pubescent or adult males are able to start growing beards, on average at the age of 18.
A persistent legend claims that King Henry VIII of England, who wore a beard himself, introduced a tax on beards, and that his eventual successor Elizabeth I tried unsuccessfully to increase the tax. [16] Contemporary documentation of the Tudor beard tax is lacking, and The National Archives has no record of such a tax having been instituted. [17]
This is not to be confused with the chinstrap beard—a similar style of beard that also grows along the jawline but does not fully cover the chin. In addition, many chin curtain beards do not extend far below the jawline, if at all, whereas chinstrap beards generally do. The Shenandoah tends to be somewhat longer than the chin curtain.
The Van Dyke beard style is named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyke. [3] For some time after, however, some men, known as "vow-beards", continued to wear them, vowing to wear them until the King did so again. [8] It became popular in the United States in the 19th century.