If anything it hightlights that it’s a mostly a matter of grooming/health.

If your hair is healthy, well-kept and clean, plenty of styles will look good. The cut itself is less important. Unwashed, matted, and deep-fried by 3-in-1 ‘soaps’? Even a basic barber cut will look frizzy and unkempt.

Same for beards. A beard of any length looks good brushed with a coarse boar-brush, treated with beard balm, trimmed to shape. Left to grow put with no treatment, no brushing, no clipping? Any length looks haggard.

Healthy hair, healthy skin, natural lighting and a confident yet approachable demeaner do almost all the work for us.