My husband has a full beard and I love it. It is always neat but not fussy. He started it when we went skiing over 38 years ago and kept it ever since. I remember that when we came to ET, none of the docs had beards and my husband was told that he would look more professional without it. He kept it anyways and about a year later we went to a conference and noticed that lots of the guys had them. He laughed and said he was just a trend setter.