A hairy problem

I have just read a paragraph in David Karunanithy’s ”The Macedonian War Machine” that says that ”Strabo implies that many Macedonians had a distinct hair cut  … resembling the traditional head shaves seen among Albanian mountain clans.” It is described as ”close cropped”. (page 151)

Does anyone know more about it? It is the first time I hear about that.

What about facial hairs? Alexander the Great had forbidden facial hair in the army, but at the time of the Third Macedonian War it seems to be back in fashion, we can see that Perseus had a beard.

Perseus, last king of Makedonia

Picture from Wikipedia.