Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Though interestingly, both the hairstyles from the recent patch got used on male characters....
And they're giving us the bunny outfit for male characters, does that make it masculine? (well depends on how you wear it I guess but you get my point). Look also at how they advertised it - on female characters, and you're going to be hard pressed to find too many male playable characters who actually use it. Not saying they don't exist, just not half as much as female charas. Also not the best connotation when both those male charas are antagonists at best, villains at worst.

That could be the reason for them not releasing any male hairstyles with stubble!
Then they could add it to at least selected races and leave it as one of those racial differences people seem to want to see more of. Hyurs, Lalafell, Elezen iirc, to name a few, all have existing facial hair slots. They could add those as new options to an already existing customization option, since we know they don't want to add new options altogether, but adding more options to an existing category should be easy enough - they do it all the time with the hairstyles.

Which in turn might be why they haven't released Hien or Nero's hairstyles.
Hien's hairstyle already exists in the game though? You mentioned it yourself, while not as exaggerated, it's basically the same style.