Hairstyle
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[edit] Notable hairstyles
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| Name | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Afro | Image:Afro 2 cropped by David Shankbone.jpg | Big hair hairstyle. |
| Bangs / Fringe | Image:Bangs.jpg | |
| Balding cut | Image:John Huyette Reverse Mohawk.jpg | A hairstyle simulating male-pattern baldness |
| Beehive | Image:Retro formal beehive updo.jpg | Big hair hairstyle. |
| Bob cut | Image:Anna Wintour.jpg | A classic short hairstyle where the ends are cut just around chin length and aligned close to the facial area. |
| Bowl cut | Image:Ukposter.jpg | A 1920s Ukranian poster; the man on the left sports a bowl cut |
| Bouffant | N/A | |
| Bun | Image:Hair in bun.JPG | |
| Buzz cut | Image:Male buzzcut.jpg | |
| Caesar cut | Image:Julius caesar.jpg | Worn by Julius Caesar. |
| Chonmage | Image:Tochiazuma Daisuke.jpg | A traditional Japanese haircut. |
| Comb over | N/A | |
| Cornrows | Image:Cornrows by David Shankbone.jpg | |
| Crew cut | N/A | It is hair that is done for many people in the military. |
| Crop | N/A | |
| Croydon facelift | N/A | |
| 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 Jerry Only of The Misfits. |
| Dido flip | N/A | Hairstyle named after the singer Dido. |
| Dreadlocks | Image:Dreadlocked rasta.jpg | |
| Duck's Ass or Ducktail | N/A | |
| Emo hair | May be associated with emo music or fashion. | |
| Fauxhawk | Image:David Beckham.jpg | |
| Feathered hair | N/A | |
| Finger wave | Image:MDafoeBob20s.jpg | |
| Flattop | Image:H R Haldeman, 1971 portrait.png | |
| Fofa | N/A | |
| French braid | Image:Braid01.jpg | |
| French twist | Image:Frenchtwist.jpg | |
| High and tight | N/A | |
| Hime cut | N/A | |
| Highlights | Image:CarmenElectra.jpg | 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 | Image:Kid n play.jpg | |
| Horseshoe Flattop | N/A | |
| Induction cut | N/A | |
| Jheri curl | N/A | |
| Japanese hair straightening | N/A | |
| Khokhol | N/A | |
| Layered hair | N/A | |
| Liberty spikes | Image:Spikesfront.jpg | |
| Long hair | N/A | |
| Mohawk | Image:User-Ich with Mohawk.jpg | |
| Mop-Top | ||
| Mullet | Image:SuperMullet.jpg | |
| Odango | N/A | |
| Pageboy | N/A | |
| Perm | N/A | |
| Pigtails | Image:Pigtails.jpg | |
| Pompadour | Image:Pomp2.jpg | |
| Ponytail | Image:Katehudson Ponytail.jpg | |
| Quiff | Image:Quiff.jpg | |
| "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 | Image:Rattail.jpeg | |
| Ringlet | Image:Ringlet.jpg | |
| 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 | Image:Cloudac1.jpg | All hair sticking up, like spikes sticking out from the head. Foundation of popular culture hairstyles in Asia. |
| Taper fade | N/A | |
| Tonsure | Image:Tonsure fx tr.png | |
| Undercut | Image:Undercut.jpg | |
| Updo | Image:Retro formal beehive updo.jpg | A beehive is an example of an updo. |
[edit] Hair products
Cosmetic products used in creating and maintaining hairstyles include:
[edit] 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 the 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
[edit] References
[edit] Resources
- Liu, Christine, "Le Gala Hair Group: Introducing the digital perm", Boston's Weekly Dig, Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Issue 9.5.
[edit] Notes
[edit] See also
Look up hairstyle, haircut, hairdo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Hair fashion
[edit] External links
- History of Hairdressing
- Hairstyles of Popular Celebrities
- Hairstyles from famous hairdressers
- The latest styles from the Worlds best hairdressersar:حلاقة
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