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Editor's note: The World Beard and Moustache Championships are quite possibly the best things ever to happen to facial hair. Since 1990, the semi-annual competition has turned growing and grooming into a high-class art form, and the 2017 edition just wrapped up in Austin, Texas, over the weekend.
Photographer Greg Anderson was on the scene taking poignant portraits of the wildest and most wonderful entries, and here they are for your enjoyment. Be sure to vote for your favourites, and let us know which ones you might dare to try yourself.
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Tinka Maruu 8 years ago
I love the way the tips of his mustache appear to be balancing his hat. His entire ensemble is perfect.
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Barbara Baldwin 8 years ago
Women have their hair, their eyes, fingernails, etc, to play with. Men have beards..
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Dimitris Iordanidis 8 years ago
The guy's face doesn't really say much, thus not enhancing the total image, though I still believe that a beard of such thickness and complexity deserves a seat at the top 3!
Clayton Grimmer 3 years ago
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James Jobes 7 years ago
That’s like watching someone vomit, while you’re on mushrooms. “Dude, what the hell did you eat?”
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Rahul Singh 8 years ago
If that chest hair is real, I need to know what kind of conditioner he's using
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Rosa Darkwood 8 years ago
I think it looks awesome like he's someone from the Capitol (Hunger Games)
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Mick Perger 8 years ago
Imagine how incredibly angry he would be if you crept into his bedroom & cut his beard off during the night ....
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Tammy Chapman 8 years ago
The detail in the design is really cool. I don't know how I feel about neck beards, but this one looks very well done. Very elegant looking.
Leonard Guillory III 8 years ago
I wonder if he intentionally picked that coat to match his beard and 'stache?
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Clovie Lee 8 years ago
Fashion statement ? Split personality ? Something by day, something else by nite ????
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Mikey Wright 8 years ago
This guy... Look him up. Used to go by Incredibeard. Shapes his beard
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Falusi Sándor 8 years ago
Salvador Dali is already a crossbreed between a serial killer and Salvador Dali
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Fake Haak 8 years ago
Nope, he's immitating Salvador Dali. Also: Poirot ;)
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Henos Teferi 4 years ago
Good Mohawk wish I could get a Mohawk like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goodh-5feb...109273.jpg 
FAKENAME FAKENAME 8 years ago
I actually know a guy who works at the lego store with this kind of stache
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Tinka Maruu 8 years ago
I hope they take some of these participants' looks and make them into video game characters... Or maybe these guys got their ideas FROM video games? Anyway, I love them all!
Elena Popa 8 years ago
Right! This guy might resemble Twiested Fate from League of Legends <3
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adoracat 8 years ago
Now THIS guy, I'd definitely like to look at for a while. Ruggedly handsome, and I like the rough cowboy look!
Steve Armstrong 6 years ago
For some reason this guy reminds me of both Bono and Patrick Stewart!
Steve Armstrong 6 years ago
For some reason this guy reminds me of both Bono and Patrick Stewart!
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 8 years ago
The lights on his glasses look like eyes!!! Star fish on speed... ha ha ha
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Diane DesAutels 8 years ago
I was thinking Custer until I scrolled down further, too.
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Victor Vakaras 8 years ago
This one really isn't in the same league as the others. Looks like he went to a costume shop the day of the competition and put a little gel on his mustache.
Liz Burkhouse 8 years ago
Very nice reference to renaissance paintings. He looks like he stepped out of one!
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Matt Merry 8 years ago
I bet in order to find your lips while kissing you, your wife really has to commit to the moment, huh? Pure epic-ness of beardery.
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Callie Reda 8 years ago
I have confirmed, It is indeed! I miss the beardos in the Mad Viking Beard Company! Had so much fun being a part of that whole scene with my Infini-tribe hooper girls :)
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Aeriell Green 8 years ago
Makes me think of the way a preschooler draws the boughs of a Christmas tree.
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Ganesh Kumawat 5 years ago
U guys should came to rajasthan ,, these beards are in every house .
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Aeriell Green 8 years ago
Best comment ever! I wish I could upvote your comment multiple times.
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Richard Oelschlager 8 years ago
No, BSA< Boys Scout Explorer felt shirt...
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Mark Hand III 8 years ago
Would be neato with a christmas colored suit... would look like Hipster Santa Claus
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Scott Jamieson 8 years ago
I'm not upvoting many ringlets--they've become cliché--but I'll give him a like for daring to go asymmetrical!
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Alexandru Bucur 8 years ago
Wait, why is this guy wearing a communist era Romanian Militia Officer's cap?
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Rukmania 8 years ago
You know, up above in a post about "Squiggly" makeup, everyone's complaining about impracticality. No one cares that these interesting beards might be considered that too.
Errorsaurus 8 years ago
I think it's more because squiggly makeup was intended to wear out as normal and everything while these were for a championship, as noted above. I'm betting that most of these gentlemen wear their beards as normal at any other time. While squiggly makeup is actually intended to go out in the world everyday, this was more of a short time period. It's like trying to call a weekend's cosplay impractical. Sure, it may be if you wanted to take care of it and groom it all the time, but some quick fun won't hurt.
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Leslie Flouhouse 8 years ago
This is just not my thing, but they are awesome beards. I would love to see the pics of their competition beards next to pics of their everyday beards.
Yosef'Glen La Rroc 8 years ago
who will do Davy Jones next year with all the costume and props except his beard are the tentacles
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Is there a decidedly steampunk essence in this exhibition? it kinda seems to me to be so...
d r e a m w o r l d 8 years ago
Weirldy shaped beards, hideous squiggly makeup... HUMANITY IS FALLING DOWN
Angie Hamilton 8 years ago
Why guys love to roll their beard to circles....can someone be little bit more creative??
The Cappy 8 years ago
There are some circles. and there are other patterns present as well. It's like seeing 3 guys wearing jeans in a crowd of a dozen and complaining that nobody wears anything other than jeans.
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Rukmania 8 years ago
You know, up above in a post about "Squiggly" makeup, everyone's complaining about impracticality. No one cares that these interesting beards might be considered that too.
Errorsaurus 8 years ago
I think it's more because squiggly makeup was intended to wear out as normal and everything while these were for a championship, as noted above. I'm betting that most of these gentlemen wear their beards as normal at any other time. While squiggly makeup is actually intended to go out in the world everyday, this was more of a short time period. It's like trying to call a weekend's cosplay impractical. Sure, it may be if you wanted to take care of it and groom it all the time, but some quick fun won't hurt.
Load More Replies... Leslie Flouhouse 8 years ago
This is just not my thing, but they are awesome beards. I would love to see the pics of their competition beards next to pics of their everyday beards.
Yosef'Glen La Rroc 8 years ago
who will do Davy Jones next year with all the costume and props except his beard are the tentacles
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Is there a decidedly steampunk essence in this exhibition? it kinda seems to me to be so...
d r e a m w o r l d 8 years ago
Weirldy shaped beards, hideous squiggly makeup... HUMANITY IS FALLING DOWN
Angie Hamilton 8 years ago
Why guys love to roll their beard to circles....can someone be little bit more creative??
The Cappy 8 years ago
There are some circles. and there are other patterns present as well. It's like seeing 3 guys wearing jeans in a crowd of a dozen and complaining that nobody wears anything other than jeans.
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