I think it's a Dane thing. They have such strong bone features that it can look startling with them cleaned up too much. But scruff them up and they become handsome. It's their Viking blood, I guess. They are meant to look hairy and beard covered.

Like Viggo Mortensen, who is half Dane but looks very much so, looks odd cleaned up but give him a bit of beard and shaggy hair and viola! HOT!