Perhaps the most niche beard style to ever exist, a soul patch is a small tuft of hair just below the lower lip, usually without a full beard or moustache. 'It was popularised in the 1950s and ...

the soul patch flame was kept alive and carried through the moustache-dominated '70s by two paragons of hipster cool, musicians Frank Zappa and Tom Waits. The slightly less cool and paragonal Jake ...