Men all over the country are embracing the trend of a full and luxurious beard. If one of the guys in your life hopped aboard the beard bandwagon you may have noticed something interesting: He has a red beard.

Even brunette and blond guys seems to have more red than you would expect when it comes to their whiskers. Red is the rarest color of hair, but it turns out you don’t need to be a redhead to have a red beard!

It’s a funny quirk of science that lots of men with perfectly average brown or blond hair have totally different hues in their beard. When they grow out their chin hair, it’s not at all unusual for men to discover that their beards have strawberry tints.

For some guys that might mean a few reddish highlights, and for others it might be a full-on mane of reddish beard!