Lighting facial hair

Davecam's recent thread, showing a young man with facial hair, made me think about how you should light such things. My husband has a full beard, and when I was shooting his portrait, it kept disappearing into the background. But if you use a hairlight on it, won't it cause weird facial shadows? Anyone?

i wouldn't use a hair light for facial hair. . . .

but if you were loosing the separation of the facial hair then i would angle my main light differently, closer to .. or depending on what effect you were going for move the fill light slightly

this is also depending on if you use barn doors or umbrella's or soft box....

you could also not move either light and just try to bracket

Yeah, what Ed said...