Wonderful beard and moustache champions videos,

There comes a time in every young man's life when he tries to grow some facial hair. For the follically-gifted, this is their time to shine among their smooth-cheeked pals.

For some of these folk, though, the urge to keep pushing the boundaries of beard makes them style ever-more inventive face fluff.

These men came together yesterday for the World Beard and M(o)ustacheChampionships in Austria. What a treat for the eyes. Shall we take a closer look? Yes. Yes, we shall.

1) The Flying Spaghetti Monster

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A beautifully-bearded man, conjuring up more beautifully-bearded men

There comes a time in every young man's life when he tries to grow some facial hair. For the follically-gifted, this is their time to shine among their smooth-cheeked pals.

For some of these folk, though, the urge to keep pushing the boundaries of beard makes them style ever-more inventive face fluff.

These men came together yesterday for the World Beard and M(o)ustacheChampionships in Austria. What a treat for the eyes. Shall we take a closer look? Yes. Yes, we shall.

Here's our Top 6:

1) The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Extra points for being ginger

This man has shaped his beard into a deity. All hail.

2) The Paul the Octopus

This moving tribute to footie-predicting favourite Paul the Octopus is making us well up over here...

3) The Mickey Mouse

Beard and Mustache Championships: Choose your favourite elaborately-styled face

• 13:46, 4 OCT 2015
• UPDATED 08:11, 5 OCT 2015
• BY SUCHANDRIKA CHAKRABARTI

A beautifully-bearded man, conjuring up more beautifully-bearded men

There comes a time in every young man's life when he tries to grow some facial hair. For the follically-gifted, this is their time to shine among their smooth-cheeked pals.

For some of these folk, though, the urge to keep pushing the boundaries of beard makes them style ever-more inventive face fluff.

These men came together yesterday for the World Beard and M(o)ustacheChampionships in Austria. What a treat for the eyes. Shall we take a closer look? Yes. Yes, we shall.

Here's our Top 6:

1) The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Extra points for being ginger

This man has shaped his beard into a deity. All hail.

2) The Paul the Octopus

He lives!

This moving tribute to footie-predicting favourite Paul the Octopus is making us well up over here...

3) The Mickey Mouse

"Yeah, I liked Mickey before he was cool, thought he was just great in Steamboat Willie"

This cheeky hipster's beard speaks to all of us who watched Disney films as kids. Except he was cooler about it, and, like, totally unfazed by the scary bits in Fantasia.

4) The Dove From Above

In another example of uber-hipstering, this guy harks back to that classic 90's show, Shooting Stars. How he managed to catch that bird - and get it to stay on his chin - is a mystery for the ages.

5) The Pepe Le Pew

Somewhere out there, a very lonely black cat with a white stripe painted on her gently weeps.

6) The Slinky Guy