Sébastien Chabal unrecognizable: the rugby player appears without a beard, impressive!

Fort Boyard and rugby fans were over the moon on July 31. And for good reason, they found Sébastien Chabal in the mythical program of France Télévisions. The rugby player still displays an impressive physique, years after his retirement from sport. And of course, he still proudly wears his awesome beard. But maybe you don’t know that he didn’t always wear it. And yes, there was a time when he shaved clean. We show you all that!

Sébastien Chabal: never without his beard?

Not quite. Sébastien Chabal becomes world famous by joining the French rugby team. We recognize it right away. And for good reason, he wears a big beard. But Sébastien Chabal has not always opted for the big beard. Younger, he decides to shave white. And it totally changes his face, as you’d expect.

But you have to go back a long time to hope to see his beardless face. And it is thanks to archive images from the INA that we can show you what he looked like in his youth. Because in 2000, during his first selection for the France team, Sébastien Chabal did not yet wear his famous beard.

It is only later that the rugby player will decide to grow his beard and maintain it. And he likes it so much that he decides to start a business away from rugby.

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Sébastien Chabal and his beauty products

Maintaining your beard takes time and the right products. Rather than going to see others, Sébastien Chabal prefers to create his own line of beard products. He decides to call it Au poil. In the columns of the Urban Man site, he returns to his desire to embark on this adventure.

“I think I have a certain legitimacy in this area. I was approached by many brands that launched products around the beard. As I have the soul of an entrepreneur, I told myself that I was going to do it myself”.

“I wanted products accessible to everyone, which represent me, easy to use, sold in supermarkets (…) My beauty secret is not to spend a lot of time in the bathroom. That’s why I made this simple range. I’m not trying to transform myself. I brush my beard every morning, like my hair”.

Become an icon

Sébastien Chabal knows very well that it is not only his talents as a rugby player that allow him to be so famous today. His beard is an integral part of his character. But Sébastien Chabal is not the only public figure to be inseparable from a physical particularity.

We remember that the day Justin Bieber decided to change his haircut, he lost tens of thousands of followers on social networks.

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Sébastien Chabal’s beard has made him an icon of rugby, but not only. He succeeded, partly thanks to her, in linking collaborations with major brands.