Hairstyle

For the terminology used in finance, see haircut (finance). See also eponymous hairstyles

Street haircut in Harbin, China

For humans, haircut, hairstyle, or hairdo normally describe cutting or styling head hair. Unlike other animals, human beings of many cultures cut their hair, rather than letting it grow naturally. Hair styles are often used to signal cultural, social, and ethnic identity. Hair styles in both men and women also vary with current fashion trends, and are often used to determine social status.

There is a thriving world market in cut human hair of sufficient length for wig manufacture and for the production of training for student hairdressers and barbers. In less developed countries, selling one's hair can be a significant source of income — depending on length, thickness, condition, and colour, wig makers have been known to pay as much as US$40 for a head of hair. In the United States, cut hair of at least 10 inches (25 cm) length may be donated to a charity, such as Locks of Love.

History

*Queue Order, a bloody story of hairstyle. Tens of thousands people were killed due to their hairstyle.

Types of haircuts

* Afro, a hairstyle popular with people of African descent; however the hairstyle can be worn by anyone of any ethnic background; it is usually curly, and can be worn short or long.
* Bangs
* Bantu/Zulu knots, haircut of African origin consisting of many small buns.
* Beatle haircut or 'Moptop', after the fashion of the early Beatles, long all around, neatly cut, very new to Americans at the time, but not an uncommon British haircut. During the height of "Beatlemania," "Beatle wigs" were sold.
* The Beehive, a large "big hair" style popular in the 1960s.
* Big hair, various styles denoting a lot of volume.
* Bun
* Buzz cut, also called a butch cut; short all over.
* Bob, a short cut for women, first popular in the 1920s, considered a sign of a liberated woman.
* Bowl cut or "Moe", after the Three Stooges character.
* Caesar cut, a short men's cut with longer bangs, also called a Clooney cut; widely popular among men from the early 1990s to the present.
* Chelsea girl, shaving the crown and occiput of the head, and leaving the front, back and often the sides as fringes.
* Chonmage, a samurai's topknot; the hair on the top of the head was usually shaved, and the rest of the hair gathered together and tied in a topknot; a modified version is still worn by some sumo wrestlers.
* Comb over, combing hair over a bald spot.
* Cornrows, raised, continuous braids, woven closely to the scalp; originating in Western Africa, they remain a popular African American hairstyle.
* Crew cut, similar to buzz, originally worn by college rowers in the 1900s to distinguish themselves from football players, who had long hair (to supplement the inadequate helmets of the time).
* Crop, a very short woman's cut.
* Croydon facelift
* Devilock, short in back and on sides, long in front.
* Dreadlocks, where hair is divided into many long, matted plaits; well known as a Rastafarian hairstyle.
* Duck's Ass, combed long on sides, parted in back, also called ducktail or southback; the parting in the back caused the hair to stick up, hence the name. Also known as a "D.A.".
* Fauxhawk, a fake Mohawk: short on the sides and back, medium length on top pushed up in a Mohawk direction, a portmanteau of the French 'faux' (false) and 'Mohawk'.
* Feathered, a style which rose dramatically in popularity during the 1970s but died down in the mid 1980s; it is slowly gaining back popularity; Tim in The Goodies has this hairstyle.
* Finger wave, popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
* Flattop, just as it says, when combined with a D.A., called a "Detroit" because the flat top is not always compatible with a round head, there is often a spot on the top that is buzzed shorter, almost to the point of being shaved; this area is called the landing strip.
* Fofa, short to medium length on the sides and back, with a receding hairline from the forehead back due to a natural baldness; usually found on distinguished gentlemen and derived from the style of the monks.
* French braid also known as a 'French plait', a classic "updo" in which long hair is gathered into a ponytail, then twisted together, and finally tucked and pinned together along the length of the roll.
* French twist
* High and tight, cut/buzzed very short (or even shaved) on sides and back up to the crown where the hair is left longer, can be a variation of crew cut or flattop.
* High Top Fade, popular style worn by African American males in the early late 1980's and early 1990's. Popular endorsers included Kid 'n Play.
* Hockey Hair, short bangs with medium length "flipped up" hair in the back and sides.
* Horseshoe Flattop, sides are shaved and back is shaved to the top of the head, making the remaining hair looks from above like the top is cut like a flattop.
* Induction cut, the very shortest of hairstyles, without actually shaving the head with a razor.
* Ivy League Cut, cut short and tapered at the back and sides and cut close (about 1/4 inch) across the crown of the head, but getting a little longer (up to 1.5 inches) at the front of the head. It provides a little more flexibility in terms of styling while still having a crisp "buzzed" appearance.
* Jheri curl, a perm that loosens the curls of a person with coarse hair; known more for the oily residue of the chemicals used ("Jheri Curl Juice") than the actual style
* Japanese Hair Straightening, a process that takes wavy or curly hair and breaks the cystine bonds by way of chemicals, then a hot iron reorganizes the structure of the hair leaving it permanently straight and healthy looking.
* Khokhol, also spelt 'chochol' and 'chachol', a Slavic name for a longer tuft of hair left on top or on the front side of the otherwise cleanly shaven or shortly cut man's hair.
* Layered hair, where the top layers of hair are cut shorter than the layers beneath.
* Liberty spikes, the hair is arranged into long, thick, upright spikes.
* Low and tight, cut/buzzed very short (or even shaved) on sides and back up to a line above the ears but below the crown, hair is left longer above this line.
* Messed up Hair, looks like you have just got out of bed, usually for men, created using wax or putty.
* Mohawk or 'Mohican', long hair divided into sections which are then braided and worn down, both sides are shaved or buzzed, long and usually spiked in the middle.
* Mullet, "business" (short) in the front and on top; "party" (long) in the back.
* Odango, a women's hairstyle consisting of two long pigtails emanating from two perfect "spheres" of hair on the top of the head; Made famous by Sailor Moon.
* Ofuku, worn by apprentice geisha in their final two years of apprenticeship; similar to the wareshinobu style; also called a momoware ("split peach") because the bun is split and a red fabric woven in the centre.
* Pageboy, a hairstyle in which the hair is almost shoulder-length except for a fringe in the front.
* Perm, or "permanent wave," is a chemical-induced curling of naturally straight hair; originally created electrically with an apparatus resembling an electric chair; among African-Americans, a perm is the straight or large-curled look created by chemical relaxers.
* Pigtails, long hair is parted in the middle and tied on the sides, often curled into ringlets (hence the name).
* Pompadour, big wave in the front, named for Madame de Pompadour aristocratic fashion leader of pre-Revolutionary France, mistress of Louis XV of France; Elvis Presley had one.
* Ponytail, a hairstyle where most of the wearer's hair is pulled away from the face and gathered at the back.
* PushBack, a hairstyle worn by Si.
* Quiff, a hairstyle where part of the hair is put up high on the top of the head.
* Recon, 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, is a male with all of his hair cut short all over except for a long strip of his hair growing in the back of the middle of his head typically at about 1/2 inch to an inch wide and can be as long as all the way down his back, but it is mostly found on a boy under 14 years old but some men wear one too.
* Ringlet:
* Wings, a new hairstyle similar to the Beatles cut but with the side and back bangs flipped up by the use of a Ballcap, Usually worm with medium-long haircuts.

Haircutting in books, stories, movies and television

*Samson has his hair cut off in several religious texts, resulting in him losing his strength.
*In the O. Henry story The Gift of the Magi, Della cuts off her beautiful long hair to sell to get money for Jim's gift.
* In Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Fantine sells her hair for money to pay the Thenardiers so they will keep Cosette.
*Audrey Hepburn had two onscreen haircuts in movies. In Roman Holiday, she cut her long hair very short. In The Nun's Story, she got a haircut as she entered a convent.
*In several Asian movies where women become Buddhist nuns, their heads are shaved dry with straight razors.
*In the movie Empire Records, Robin Tunney gives herself a buzzcut in one scene.
*In the movie Full Metal Jacket, the opening scene depicts several recruits having their hair cut in a military buzz cut. This iconic scene is parodied and emulated in several other pieces of media.
*In a commercial for POWERade that aired during the 1996 Olympics, an actor portraying a swimmer cut his long hair off with scissors, shaved his head with an electric razor, and then took himself bald with a regular razor.
*In a similar Adidas commercial that appeared a few years later, another swimmer cut all her hair off with clippers, then shaved all the hair off her head and her eyebrows.
*A mid '90s Visa commercial that took place at a New York hair salon saw two women undergo makeovers- the first had her shoulder length hair cut to a chin-length bob and then into a shorter do, and the second went from a below the shoulder style to a shorter, neck-length style.
*Demi Moore shaved her head onscreen in G.I. Jane.
*In the movie White Oleander, Allison Lohman cut her own hair on camera.
*In a commercial for Olay's Daily Facials cleansers, a young blonde woman uses the product, and inspired by what it's done to her, she goes to a salon and gets her long hair cut short to show her face off.
*In a recent commercial for Diet Coke, a woman walks into a barber shop and leaves with a very short haircut.
*Natalie Portman gets her long hair buzzed off in V for Vendetta.
*In Pink Floyd's The Wall, the main character, Pink, shaves his head, eyebrows and body hair before the corporate men break into the hotel room to take him to the show.
*In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6, Episode 11 Gone, Buffy cuts most of her own hair off, which cuts to her asking the hairdresser to sort out the mess.
*In Little Women, Jo cuts off her hair and sells it to make money.
*In Catwoman, Halle Berry cuts her own hair.
*In Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Sonora cuts off her long locks after reading an ad for a glamorous city, where in the ad a woman with short hair was shown.