Eric Bandholz likes to think of beard styles as a family tree.
“It comes down to three categories,” he says. ”You’ve got your full beard, you’ve got your partial beard, and you’ve got your mustache.”
Eric, sporting an impeccably groomed, Rasputin-style beard, goes on to explain in surprising detail the subsections of each of these categories of beard: stubble beard, corporate beard, full beard, goatee, the “whaler” – the list goes on.