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Pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB) is a type of irritant folliculitis that commonly affects people who have curly or coarse facial hair. [1] It occurs when hair curls back into the skin after shaving, causing inflammation, redness, and bumps. [2] [3] This can lead to ingrown hairs, scarring, and skin discoloration. PFB can be treated with various ...
Facial hair is hair grown on the face, usually on the chin, cheeks, and upper lip region. It is typically a secondary sex characteristic of human males . [ 1 ] Men typically start developing facial hair in the later stages of puberty or adolescence , at around fourteen years of age, and most do not finish developing a full adult beard until ...
Facial hair growing from the chin directly beneath the mouth. This is meant to resemble the hair on the chin of a goat. Also called a "chin puff" or "chin strip". [7] Soul patch: A soul patch is grown just below the lower lip, but does not grow past the chin (i.e., goat patch). This facial hairstyle is often grown narrow and sometimes made into ...
Poliosis circumscripta, commonly referred to as a "white forelock", is a condition characterized by localized patches of white hair due to a reduction or absence of melanin in hair follicles. Although traditionally associated with the scalp, poliosis can affect any hairy area on the body, including eyebrows, eyelashes, and beards.
The name describes a condition where several separate hair fibers bunch together and emerge from the skin through a single hair canal. Pathology shows that deep in the skin several dermal papillae are closely situated with each producing a fiber, but these separate hair follicle bulbs combine into one hair canal towards the skin surface.
A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, [1] or Van Dyck [2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The artist's name is today normally spelt as "van Dyck", though there are many variants, but when the term for the beard became popular "Van Dyke" was more common in English.
Vellus hair replaces lanugo hair on a human fetus at 36 to 40 weeks of gestation. [2] The growth cycle of vellus hair is different from the growth cycle of terminal hair. At puberty, androgen hormones cause much of the vellus hair to turn into terminal hair and stimulate the growth of new hair in the armpit and the pubic area. In men, this ...
The last President of the United States to wear any type of facial hair was William Howard Taft, who was in office from 1909 to 1913. [52] [53] The last Vice President of the United States to wear any facial hair was Charles Curtis, who was in office from 1929 to 1933. Both of whom wore moustaches, but the last President of the United States to ...