Hairstyle

Haircut redirects here. For the financial term, see Haircut (finance).

Notable hairstyles

Name	Image	Description
Afro		Big hair hairstyle sported by Tom Burrell.
Bangs / Fringe
Beehive		Big hair hairstyle.
Bob cut		A classic short hairstyle where the ends are cut just around chin length and aligned close to the facial area.
Bowl cut		A 1920s Ukrainian recruitment poster.
Bouffant	N/A
Bun
Buzz cut
Caesar cut		Worn by Julius Caesar.
Chonmage		A traditional Japanese haircut.
Comb over	N/A
Cornrows
Crew cut	N/A	It is hair that is done for many people in the military.
Crop	N/A
Croydon facelift	N/A	It is a tight ponytail worn at the top of the head, giving the effect of a facelift.
Curtained hair	N/A	The character Peter Petrelli is well-known for this hairstyle in NBC\'s Heroes.
Devilock	N/A	The sides and back are kept short, while the front is grown long and combed forward. Made famous by Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein and jerry only of The Misfits.
Dido flip	N/A	Hairstyle named after the singer Dido.
Dreadlocks
Duck\'s Ass or Ducktail	N/A
Emo hair		May be associated with emo music or fashion.
Fauxhawk		Also known as the frohawk, this hairstyle is an approximation of a mohawk, made without shaving or buzzing the hair on the sides of the head, allowing an imitation of the look of a true mohawk without having to commit to removing most of one\'s hair.
Feathered hair	N/A
Finger wave
Flattop
Fofa	N/A
Fontange	N/A	A hairdo popular in the second half of the seventeenth century.
French braid
French twist
High and tight	N/A
Hime cut	N/A
Highlights		Popular among young people in Asia during the late 1990\'s and early 2000\'s with long hair. The style involves highlighting or dyeing various thin strands of hair via hair coloring.
Hi-top fade
Horseshoe Flattop	N/A
Induction cut	N/A
Jheri curl	N/A
Japanese hair straightening	N/A
Khokhol	N/A	The Ukrainian name for a style consisting of an entirely shaven head, save for one lock of hair grown on the top or front of the head. Name comes from the Ukrainian Cossacks, among whom the style was common. (See Khokhol article for the word\'s derogatory usage)
Layered hair	N/A
Liberty spikes
Long hair	N/A
Mohawk
Mop-Top
Mullet
Needle
Odango	N/A
Pageboy	N/A
Part	N/A
Perm	N/A
Pigtails
Pixie cut
Pompadour
Ponytail
Quiff
"The Rachel"	N/A	A layered haircut made popular by Friends star, Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green.
Razor cut	N/A
Recon	N/A	a radical version of the High and tight, with the sides and back cleanly shaved very high up the head, intentionally leaving a very extreme contrast between the longer top hair and the shaved sides.
Rattail
Ringlet
Short back and sides	N/A	Also know as a Boy\'s cut, a simple hairstyle with an overall short length.
Shape-Up	N/A
Spiky hair	N/A	All hair sticking up, like spikes sticking out from the head. Foundation of popular culture hairstyles in Asia.
Taper fade	N/A
Tonsure
Undercut
Updo		A beehive is an example of an updo.

Hair products

Cosmetic products used in creating and maintaining hairstyles include:

• Brylcreem
• Hair coloring
• Hair gel
• Hair wax
• Hair mousse
• Hair spray
• Hair gluehttp://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/05/01/k_y/index_np.html
• Hair tonic

Hair lengths

Short:

• Bald, hair that is completely shaved down to the scalp
• Buzz, hair that is extremely short and hardly there
• Cropped, hair that is a little longer than a buzz
• Boy\'s cut, hair that is longer than a crop, but not yet hits the ears
• Ear length, hair that is at the same level as one\'s ears

Long:

• Chin level, hair that comes to the chin
• Flip level, hair that comes to the neck or shoulder area.
• Bra/midback level, hair that\'s at about the same point as the widest part of one\'s ribcage and chest area
• Waist length, hair that falls at the smallest part of one\'s waist, a little bit above the hip bones
• Tailbone length, hair that is at about the area of one\'s tailbone
• Classic length, hair that reaches where one\'s legs meet his or her buttocks
• Thigh length, hair that is at the mid-thigh
• Knee-length, hair that is at the knee
• Calf length, hair that is at the calf
• Floor length, hair that reaches the floor

References

Resources

• Liu, Christine, "Le Gala Hair Group: Introducing the digital perm", Boston\'s Weekly Dig, Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Issue 9.5.

Notes

See also

Look up hairstyle, haircut, hairdo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Hair fashion

• Eponymous hairstyles

External links

• History of Hairdressing
• Hairstyles of Popular Celebrities
• Hairstyles from famous hairdressers
• Updo hairstyles the ultimate formal hairstyle
• The latest styles from the Worlds best hairdressers

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