Hi Rita! I have had a little trouble figuring out the beard, too. I am still figuring it out, but I'll share what I know. :) The MAT pose for the Beard is to change the color of the beard. The MAT pose for Michael is to change the color of Michael's eyebrows. To eliminate the hair and keep the beard go to Render -> Materials, select the hair and set the transparency map to none. I haven't figured out, yet how to lengthen the beard, hopefully someone else will reply. One thing I would like to know is how to make the hair look like its balding. I have seen some cool pics (on some orcs) with balding heads and I haven't been able to do it myself. Hope this helps! Jay