Sounds like you saw a picture of me with my stubble look, Taylor! I know my switch to shaving my head and the fade to my stubble beard is quite handsome! Thank you, Jason Statham, for making it cool! Now if I could have his physique... Haha!

When I graduated college many moons ago I supervised men who were much older than me.  So I grew a mustache just to look older.  It ended up being quite the handlebar deal and proved great for straining soup or, in the winter, catching mucus.  A few years later I shaved it off and was surprised to see I'd forgotten what my upper lip looked like.
The first time I walked outside and felt a breeze on my face I could feel my now-non-existent mustache blowing in the breeze.  Kind of like an amputee who can feel his non-existent toes wiggling.

In high school, long hair and the Elvis sideburns.
College had the longer hair and beard/stash.
Then the job world, mix and match of beard/goatee/'stash.
20 years later, the brown is pretty much grey and after a shaving "mishap" a couple a months ago, I'm back to clean shaven and the hair on my head has pretty much migrated south.  I did get the"baby face/10 years younger" comment from more than a couple of ladies