What is the coolest-looking facial hair configuration?

Definitely depends on the person.

It entirely depends on the face. Some people look best clean-shaven, others only look right with a full beard. I think the more unusual types rarely look good on people, although there are exceptions.

No one "configuration" looks good on all faces. The "coolest-looking configuration" is different for each person.

Goatee has the highest potential for cool - but, I would never risk it.

Fu-Manchu has to be one of the phattest facial hair configurations. Although, I also like the hair right under the lower lip.

Depends on the person, their face shape and personality. I do think the goatee thing is getting to be overdone. I usually like clean shaven best on boyfriends (facial hair can be painful while kissing someone).

this depends entirely on the shape (and sex) of the person. a beard that looks really good on one person would look silly on someone else.

Sideburns, of course! From ears till the neck...

Love a guy with a nice, shaped goatee!

I was SO FURIOUS when that dewar's scotch ad campaign with all these goatee-ed guys came out with the caption "we've all done the goatee thing, can we just move on now" I'm like, you guys have no right ot be snotty, you're a f***ing domestic BLENDED scotch so just get over yourselves. *pant* *pant* ok, 'm better now.

it varies widely for me. for me, i tend to like people best the way i originally saw them. for example, i prefer bill bearded, though he looks nice sans beard also.

I guess it depends on the person, but in almost all cases clean shaven. I used to just be that way with guys I liked (Ouch!), but it seems to have transferred itself to all of 'em :)

Bill: Risk it? What's the risk? You look goofy, you shave it off, it grows back.

nobody actually seems to agree on what exactly constitutes a goatee... - does the moustache attach to the beard or not? And where does the "Van Dyke" fit in?

Clean shaven, though often I'll do that five o'clock shadow thing just out of laziness. Goatees are pretty cool, too though. The Padres seem to like them.

depends on the individual and the execution. Btw, according to Pablo, neighbor and owner of local fashion salon, a goatee is a small pointed beard which "floats" (ie is unconnected to any existing 'stache or 'burns). A Van Dyke is a pointed floating beard, closely trimmed, whose limbs (sides-pieces) flow back to follow the line of the lower jaw, and do not attach to the sideburns. I guess that makes a Van Dyke a kind of goatee. Pablo was both suprised and delighted that I had come up to him on the street and asked him this, btw - said it made him feel "like Jamaica Plain's Fashion Answer Man!" Then he vogued on down the street. My neighborhood rocks.

I don't like facial hair.. It scratches. If the boyfriend decides to get facial hair i grow my leg hair out in protest

facial hair may be nice to look at, but IMHO terrible to get close to...

Baby face

if my husband ever decides to get rid of his facial hair again, i'll shave my head in protest.

depends on the face

I think the coolest is a long beard in braids.

Uh oh...looks like I'll have to let my beard grow...

Mutton-shops and a mustache

It depends on the face. and I think a full beard includes the mustache. I currently have a full beard, it isn't particularly cool, but it is me. actually beards are cool, especially in driving snow, the snow collects in the beard, and you get inside and you can rub your face (which is quite warm) and fling ice chunks all over. really spiffy.

I dont really like facial hair, it fits on some men but in general I don't like it.

Full beard and moustache, but neatly trimmed and that crap on the neck has got to go.

Depends entirely on the person. Although I've never really seen mutton-chops look good on anyone, and I have seen people who tried them.

It depends on the man, but I think that most men look good clean shaven.