National Beard Week: Top 5 Pop Beards

Hirsute hedonism advocate The Weekend is an excellent start to our beardy run-down.

Mr The Weeknd has a relaxed approach to beardiness, with very little in the way of cropping or serious shaping, nevertheless he's committed to the beard and we respect that.

Louis Tomlinson does not, on an objective basis, have a good beard. It is not thick or lustrous and it does not jut from his face in a glorious chin-plume. It is a more modest beard, for a darker time.

But it's his beard and he's sticking with it and maybe the time for big, brushy beards is over and the age of thinner, fluffier beards is upon us.

Jack Garrett, on the other hand, is properly owned by his own beard. Who knows what kind of deforestation project would be required to find out what Jack looks like clean-shaven.

He's a man who's accepted his symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship with the ginger beast that sits over the lower half of his face. A true example of a great partnership between musician and facial hair.

Conchita Wurst is very much #beardgoals, combining both lush and glossy thickness and a well-maintained trim that a Hollywood A-Lister would be pleased to trot down the red carpet.

We'd expect nothing less from her, an infinitely glamorous popstar who we're quite cross we don't own the wardrobe of.

Conchita's beard is iconic but it's also excellent bearding and whilst appreciating the radical nature of it we should also admire that it is shiny and well-kempt and just the right type of rugged. Douze points.

Craid David is a man, a legend, a beard. That cultivated goatee is what's set Craig out from crowds of others; it's been there during the good times, the other times and the now-making-a-comeback times.

For a very modestly restricted beard, kept in careful check, Craig's face fuzz is an instantly-recognisable element of his popstar brand.

A defender of the goatee in a time of lumberjacks, we salute you Mr David.