Let This Is Us’ Milo Ventimiglia give you facial hair advice

Playing Jack on NBC’s This Is Us has given Milo Ventimiglia an intimate expertise in facial hair care. Let him be your guide.

Jack’s facial hair is something to behold. It marks the passage of time. It epitomizes his most dad moments and generally contributes to his case for Hot Dad-ness. (The ability to pull off so many different Looks is admirable.) It’s also a fair amount of work to maintain, and it’s provided Milo Ventimiglia with a particular expertise in facial hair care.

Ventimiglia filled in GQ on his “zen view of male grooming” which essentially involves very little tricks of the trade but there are a few things he passed along.

If you’re hoping to grow your beard faster, Milo says: “I think the best thing to do is wash your face and use lotion and just pray that it grows in right.”

If you’re beard tends to grow in patchy, Milo says — in the nicest way possible — maybe it’s just not in the cards:

"There is nothing wrong with being clean-shaven. If you’re a little patchy, and you’ve got your fingers crossed for that nice thick heavy Wisconsin butcher beard, just be OK with looking more like a Wall Street, slick, well-dressed, well-shaven man. Nothing wrong with that."

If you want to grow a mustache, Milo recommends Tom Selleck, Don Mattingly or Kevin Costner for inspo. (We recommend Milo as Jack and Milo is “happy to be in the ranks of mustachioed men.”)

A good rule for facial hair is to rock a style that fits your hair pattern, personal style and ability to grown hair evenly. We can’t all look like Jack in any of his many eras of facial hair nor should we necessarily want to sport a goatee outside the 90s.

Which is to say, perhaps Milo’s greatest piece of facial hair advice is about making the executive decision to be shaven.