From determining how old you look to leaving an open door for certain health problems, your hypothetical beard comes with a few potential disadvantages to consider before going full mountain man.

This, for instance, is a good amount of growth: While this is too much beard: “One thing we know is that the full mountain man business isn’t especially attractive,” Brooks said.

But most of all, it was the feathered-out mountain man beards. I could practically smell the beard oil. I might as well have been getting my haircut at an $80 barbershop on Driggs Avenue while ...