He is 5ft 6ins tall, of slim build with unkempt black hair and had a stubbly chin but may now have a full beard.

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"Movember is the perfect excuse for men to trial facial hair, especially those who worry about not being able to grow a full beard or mustache, " she says.

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In his old-fashioned smock and full white beard, taking up a stub of sanguine chalk, Keating was as much in character as his model.

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Another contestant even managed to hula hoop down the catwalk while wearing his beard full of bees.

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In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood members generally tend to go with the full but well-groomed beard and moustache.

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Well into old age he could be spotted, in bright red parka and with frozen beard, lying full-length on the Antarctic sandstone to snap some tiny life-containing fissure in the rocks.

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His meticulously combed and pomaded beard merged into a full head of black hair.

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