Eyebrows, beards and eyelashes

Facial hair is grown from the skin of the face, like short hair from the scalp. Eyebrows and the mustache are placed with dots on the skin; beards and lashes are grown where they belong and shaped with sliders.

TabHairToolseyebrows, full beard, mustache, chin, jaw, cheeks, eyelashes, on the shelfStylesEyebrows, Facial hair and Eyelashes in the hair library

A mustache picked in Edit: its five dots on the lip and its controls on the left. In Edit the skin goes grey and the other hair shows red.

Eyebrows

Press eyebrows on the shelf, or pick a shape in the library's Eyebrows tab. Each brow follows a spine of four dots on the skin: head, body, arch and tail. Drag the dots in Edit to shape the brow; with Symmetry on, the other brow follows.

Control	What it does
Mirror to the other brow	Copies this brow onto the other, reflected: its dots, numbers, look and colour. A one off copy.
Unibrow	Extends the head of the brow toward the middle: 1 meets the other brow.
Thickness, Head; thickness, Arch	How tall the brow is at its head and at its arch, in millimetres.
Tail taper	How much it narrows from the arch to the tip.
Roughness	0 groomed, every hair in line; 1 untamed.
Hair length	In millimetres.
Upright	How upright the hairs at the head of the brow stand.
Pinch	Upper hairs lean down and lower hairs lean up to meet on the ridge: 1 is a sharp herringbone.
Lift	How far the hairs stand off the skin.
Hair thickness, Root taper, Tip taper	How each hair is drawn.

NoteThe GNM head has brows painted into its skin texture, so grown brows sit on top of them. A MetaHuman wears grown brows by default.

Beards

There are two kinds of beard, and they mix:

full beard grows the textured beard over the whole lower face, as one groom with parts. Pick its row in the Hair Manager: Part chooses what the sliders edit (beard (all), or one part), and each part has its own painted mask (edit mask), length, bend, gravity, surface, density and grey. Strands and Segments are for the whole groom.
mustache, chin, jaw and cheeks are styled parts, each its own row in the Hair Manager with the sliders below. The library's Facial hair tab grows them in ready styles.

The full beard picked: Part, Strands and Segments, its painted mask, and its shape, strands and colour groups.

The mustache sits on five dots along the upper lip. Drag them to say where it grows; the height sliders say how much of the lip it covers. A new style keeps the dots when it covers the same stretch of lip.

Control	What it does
Style	The part's style. Picking one restyles it in place and keeps its colours.
Length, Angle, Fan, Lean back	How long the hairs are, how they turn, how far they spread from the middle, and how far they lean toward the ears.
Curl under, Bend	How each hair curls back toward the skin, and a natural arc with gravity toward its tip.
Roughness, Lift	Groomed or untamed, and how far the hairs stand off the skin.
Parting	A gap at the middle of the face.
Height at the middle, Height at the ends	How tall a mustache is at the philtrum and toward its ends.
Droop	The outer ends grow long and straight down: walrus, horseshoe, Fu Manchu.
Curled tips, Tip curl, Tip clump, Tip taper	The ends sweep out and curl up into waxed points, like a handlebar.
Clumping, Cell size	Hairs gather into bundles, and how wide one bundle is.
Hair thickness, Root taper, Tip taper	How each hair is drawn.

Eyelashes

eyelashes adds the lashes; the library's Eyelashes tab restyles them and keeps their colour. A face has one pair, so a pick always replaces them. Their count, shape and colour are their controls.

Common problems

What you see	Why	What to do
The brows look doubled on the GNM head	Grown brows over the painted ones.	Thin the grown brows, or lower their density.
The mustache covers the lip	Height at the middle is high.	Lower height at the middle, or drag the dots up.
A beard part will not show as cards	Cards are made for hairstyles only.	Beards, brows and lashes stay strands.