Hair Style

Information about Hair Style

“Haircut” redirects here. For the terminology used in finance, see Haircut (finance).

Street haircut in Harbin, China

For humans, haircut, hairstyle, or hairdo normally describes cutting or styling hair on the top of the head, although it may also refer to the cutting and styling of facial hair. The Hair is a special arrangement of hard keratin. Keratins are proteins; long chains of amino acids. 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 and can be used to illustrate social status or individuality. It is a common misconception that men and women have the same hair.

"Biologically, there is a difference in the length of hair between the sexes. If the hair is left uncut, the female usually has the longer of the two. We have no real explanation for this."(from: Hair Structure And Chemistry Simplified, Milady Publishing Corp. 1986)

Adornment of the hair is done for many reasons such as the expression of personality, religious practice, or rank in society. Most hairstyles conform to socio-cultural influences and are gender biased. Fashion trend(s) may have the greatest influence on hair styling today. Different types of hair such as curly, straight, coarse, or fine will dictate the kind of hairstyle one may have. Hair density, texture, and length are all factors that will determine the ability of hair to perform in a certain style. A person will also want to consider face shape, lifestyle, and personal ability when chosing a hairstyle.

Notable hairstyles

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Name	Image	Gender	Description
Afro		Male / Female	Big hair hairstyle.
Bangs / Fringe		Male / Female
Beehive		Female	Big hair hairstyle.
Bob cut		Mostly female	A classic short hairstyle where the ends are cut just around chin length and aligned close to the facial area.
Bowl cut	N/A	Male / Female	A famous bowl cut wearer in the USA was Moe Howard.
Bouffant	N/A	Female
Bun		Female
Buzz cut		Mostly male
Caesar cut	N/A	Male
Chonmage		Male	A traditional Japanese haircut.
Comb over	N/A	Male
Cornrows		Male / Female
Crew cut	N/A	Mostly male
Crop	N/A	Male / Female
Croydon facelift	N/A	Mostly female
Curtained hair	N/A	Mostly male	The character Peter Petrelli is well-known for this hairstyle in NBC's Heroes.
Devilock	N/A	Mostly male
Dido flip	N/A	Female	Hairstyle named after the singer Dido.
Dreadlocks		Male / Female
Duck's Ass or Ducktail	N/A	Male
Emo hair		Male / Female	May be associated with emo music or fashion.
Fauxhawk		Male / Female
Feathered hair	N/A	Male / Female
Finger wave		Female
Flattop		Male
Shag		Male / Female	A popular hairstyle for boys in the 2000's. Flips in front and on sides of ones head.

Fofa
French braid
French twist
High and tight
Hime cut
Hi-top fade
Horseshoe Flattop
Induction cut
Jheri curl
Japanese hair straightening
Khokhol
Layered hair
Liberty spikes
Long hair
Long Pageboy, Same as Pageboy but with longer hair.
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.
Mohawk
Mop-Top
Mullet
Odango
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 center.
Pageboy
Perm
Pigtails
Pixie, a very short haircut for women that almost resemble school boy looks.
Pompadour
Ponytail
Quiff
Rachel, The Rachel a layered haircut made popular by Friends star, Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green.
Razor cut
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
Ringlet
Ronaldo cut, shaved head except for the front third which is buzzed.
Short back and sides
Shape-Up
Sidebang
Spiked All hair sticking up, like a spike
Side Spike, the hair is usually cut in a relatively short and conservative manner. However, it is parted on the side, with a row of small spikes running the length of the part.
Tape-Up: Same as shape-up but part of the sides are lightened, in a skin tape-up the part of the sides are cut off.
Taper fade
Tonsure
Undercut
Updo
Wings

Hair products

Cosmetic products used in creating and maintaining hairstyles include:

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

Medium:

Chin level, hair the comes to the chin
Flip level, hair that comes to the neck or shoulder area

Long:

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 is 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^[2]
For those who are interested in the rare beauty of floor length and longer, hair

References

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Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of protein, found only on mammals. It projects from the epidermis, though it grows from hair follicles deep in the dermis. Although many other organisms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered "hair".
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ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.^[1] Ethnicity is also defined from the recognition by others as a distinct group^[2]
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Social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society (one's social position). The stratification system, which is the system of distributing rewards to the members of society, determines social status.
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Gender", in common usage, refers to the differences between men and women. Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that gender identity is "an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex.
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Fashion is a term that usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not apply to all. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.
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afro, sometimes called a "natural" or shortened to "fro", is a hairstyle in which the hair extends out from the head like a halo, cloud or ball. This may or may not include wearing such afros long, to several times the diameter of the head.
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Big hair is a term that can refer to hairstyles that emphasize large volume or largely styled hair. Big hair was popular in the late 1970s, as popularized by Dolly Parton and Farrah Fawcett, a development from earlier bouffant styles.
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A fringe (or bangs in the U.S. and Canada) is the front part of the hair, cut to hang or curl over the forehead.

In hairstyling, it can be swept to the side, similar to the side part, except that it does not cover the eyes.
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beehive is a woman's hairstyle that resembles a beehive. It is also known as the B-52, for its similarity to the bulbous nose of the B-52 Stratofortress bomber. It originated in the USA in 1958 as one of a variety of elaborately teased and lacquered versions of "big hair"
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bob is a short haircut that became modern for women in the early 1920s. In the 1970s it became popular as a men's style, in which the hair is cut short, but a weighted area is left to fall between the ears and chin.
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A bowl cut, also known as a beach cut, pot haircut, chili bowl, or a mushroom cut, is a haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, looking as though someone put a bowl on the head and cut off all the
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Moe Howard

Howard in 1934, appearing in the Stooges' first Columbia short, Woman Haters.
Birth name Moses Horwitz
Born May 19 1897
Bensonhurst, New York
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A bouffant (IPA pronunciation: [buːfɑːnt]) is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair piled high on the head and hanging down on the sides. It was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 17th century in western Europe.
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A bun (also known as a Bobtail) is a type of hairstyle, typically worn by women, where the hair is pulled back from the face, twisted or plaited, and wrapped in a circular coil around itself, typically on the back of the head or neck.
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A buzz cut (sometimes known as a wiffle or crew cut) is the American name for a type of haircut named after the sound of the electric razor, which is used to shear the hair very closely to the scalp.
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The Caesar cut is a men's hairstyle, with a short, horizontally straight cut fringe. The hair is layered to around 1 to 2 inches all over. It is named after Julius Caesar (who, in fact, was bald), whose images frequently depict him wearing his hair in such a manner.
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chonmage (丁髷, ちょんまげ) is a form of Japanese traditional haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo Period and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers.
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comb over or combover is a hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area. [1]
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Cornrows are a traditional style of hair grooming of African origin where the hair is tightly braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row.
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crew cut is a type of haircut in which the hair is cut fairly short. The term was most likely coined to describe the haircut worn by members of the Yale rowing crew. The name drew a contrast with football players of the time, who wore long hair to compensate for flimsy leather
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