Flower Beards

About

Flower Beards is a men’s fashion trend that involves decorating one’s facial hair with floral arrangements. In contrast to the flower crowns for men which evolved into a photoshop meme in 2013, the flower beards are actually worn by men and shared online in the form of a photo fad.

Origin

The earliest known flower beard photo was taken of Soup.io^[1] user erial’s father in 1977 (shown below).

On January 27th, 2013, photographer Sarah Winward^[11] published a blog post titled “Flower Beards,”^[10] which featured photographs of a man with various types of vegetation sticking out of his facial hair (shown below).

Spread

On October 16th, 2013, actress Kirsten Dunst tweeted a link to a gallery of Winward’s photographs.^[9] On February 5th, 2014, blogger Pierre Thiot launched the Tumblr^[1] blog “Will It Beard,” in which he highlights photographs of various objects placed in his facial hair (shown below, left). On March 14th, Thiot posted a photograph of his beard adorned with an assortment of pink flowers (shown below, right).^[2]

On July 11th, the Tumblr^[3] blog “Fuck Yeah Flower Beards” was launched. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the flower beard trend, including Demilked,^[4] The Huffington Post,^[5] Esquire,^[6]BuzzFeed,^[13] Hello Giggles^[7] and Mic.^[8]

Notable Examples

Search Interest

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