Are we still holding space? If so, I would like to hold some for the best male grooming moment of the evening at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards: Enter, Jacob Elordi and his luscious and thick mustache.
Last night, Elordi scooped up the award for Best Supporting Actor for his part as the monster in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. This marked his first ever major acting award, and seemed to surprise even him. “Bloody hell. I really didn’t plan for it,” he said. “Thank you, Guillermo del Toro. I love you. We all love you. You made my dreams when I was 11. I’m so happy to be here.” He also shouted out the movie’s production design, costume, hair and makeup departments which also won awards: “You guys are geniuses!”
Elordi knows the power of details—it’s what makes him one of the best dressed (and best groomed) men in Hollywood. Consider his vast collection of Bottega Veneta bags in all shapes and sizes, or that little diamond stud in his ear. And while it’s all about the mutton chops for his forthcoming turn in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, IRL, Elordi has been sporting a baby mullet that’s always expertly coiffed and tousled. Usually styled by his hairstylist Amy Komorowsk, it’s an undone, ’70s style that leans into his natural wavy hair texture. Recently, Elordi has been pairing that nostalgic hairstyle with an even more groovy piece of lip hair.
Earlier in the weekend, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, it looked to be at its thickest yet. And last night, while accepting his Critics Choice Award, it looked similarly healthy, matching the mullet and his dense, defined, dark eyebrows. Paired with a sleek Bottega Veneta suit and those rose-tinted Wayfarer style sunglasses that he loves, it felt more Almost Famous than Victorian Gothic.
We can track Jacob Elordi’s ’stache growth back to the very beginning of the Frankenstein press tour, with hints of a shadow ’stache and stubble first appearing around the time of the BFI Film Festival in London back in October 2025—maybe, he was getting a headstart on Movember. Over the last few months, it’s slowly gotten fuller and more shapely. At one time, there was even some spectre of handlebars or a half-horseshoe style (something you’ll see on the likes of Bad Bunny or The Weeknd) on his face.
Staying devoted to growing facial hair that thick, without any sparse spots or inconsistencies in texture, is no mean feat. While we don’t know Elordi’s current facial hair routine, you can trust that there’s been some experiments in beard oil and trimming to get it sitting in that lip-hugging, nostril-caressing silhouette.
Elordi isn’t the first to grow a mustache mid-campaign trail—remember Timothée Chalamet’s dalliance with some Bob Dylan-esque stubble while promoting A Complete Unknown? It was a brief moment in Chalamet’s method dressing era, but Jacob Elordi looks like he’s in for the facial hair five-mile.
