Expectations are everything, especially when it comes to leaders’ facial hair. Here are 18 figures with the facial hair we know them for—and then when it all went wrong.

Most of these pictures show leaders in their youth, before they’d settled into prominence. But even some of history’s most influential people kept experimenting with their look years after they found fame.

1. Joseph Stalin: With and without his mustache

2. Adolph Hitler: With his short mustache and a longer one

3. Winston Churchill: Clean shaven and with a debonaire mustache

4. Benito Mussolini: Clean shaven and with a mustache

5. Abraham Lincoln: With and without his beard

6. Nelson Mandela: Clean shaven and with a mustache

7. Woodrow Wilson: Clean shaven and with a giant mustache

8. Mark Twain: With and without his mustache

9. Frederick Douglas: With his mustache and with just a goatee

10. Che Guevara: With facial hair and clean shaven

11. Ulysses S. Grant: With a beard and a really long beard

12. Bill Clinton: Clean shaven and with a shaggy beard

13. Robert E. Lee: With a beard and with just a mustache

14. Teddy Roosevelt: With a mustache and with just muttonchops

15. Rutherford B. Hayes: With his giant beard and clean shaven

16. Nikola Tesla: With his mustache and clean shaven

17. Vladimir Lenin: With goatee and mustache and clean shaven

18. Fidel Castro: With beard and with just a mustache

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