I can confirm this with experience! Well, not the every one of his styles in a year part... but at vainer points in my life done the "go mountain-man" approach,

I can confirm this with experience! Well, not the every one of his styles in a year part... but at vainer points in my life done the "go mountain-man" approach, followed by many rapid changes in style (one every week for months one year). I still use the basic technique when switching from a clean state to a bearded state - it si much easier to shape a beard than grow a shaped beard. Advanced variations on the technique do exist however. I recently went from a van-dyke to what the article calls "the hollywood". However, to appropriately do this I needed to grow out the jaw portion of the beard. So to do this had to take it in phases: 1. stubble out for 2 weeks to get enough base 2. shave to a pattern similar to what the article calls "Rap Industry Standard", but with thicker lines and a full van-dyke at the mouth end. 3. Let it fill in towards the front, keeping the line from sideburns to jaw trimmed short. Also slowly widen the jawline part near the goatee -- a triangle will eventually form. 4. Using a razor, disconnect the sideburns and properly shape the rest.