You kiddie are too young, mayhap, to have studied "The Truth Shall Make You Free" book, in which Jesus is pictured as paaaaale white, with the reddest apple cheeks--looked like a glistening sunburn.
To "learn" the Lord had a beard put many in shock. They left some wiggle room.
In the 50's there were a few who got away with it, pleading some skin disorder that was thereby covered. <cough> Anybody remember Norman Crowhurst? Pioneered stereo sound in the US, one of the British contingent over here. Beard permission given by his chum Milton Henschel, who was a bit of a rebel and more "progressive."
Anyone remember the IBM standard? How they dressed, we were to dress. I think of that once in a while when meeting the nerdy but very individualistic lads at that once-hallowed institution.
I permitted forerunners to "soul patches" and got away with it.
Maximus