All hairstyles
149 hairstyles so far, best known first. 84 more are on the list to be written.
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreNatural hair movement
A social and cultural campaign for wearing textured hair without chemical straightening.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesDurag
Close-fitting head cloth for hair protection and style maintenance.Wrapped · Curly hair · 1960
🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreDreadlocks
A hairstyle of rope-like hair strands formed by matting or twisting.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United StatesAfro
A rounded style of combed-out natural hair.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1960
WorldPayot
Sidelocks worn by Orthodox Jewish men based on religious law.Styled · Curly hair
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 morePerm
A chemical or thermal treatment that sets permanent waves or curls into the hair.Styled · Curly hair · 1872
WorldRinglet
Curled locks of hair formed by wrapping strands around a tool or twisting them.Curls · Curly hair
🇺🇸 United StatesJheri curl
A glossy, wet-look perm popular in the 1980s among Black communities.Curls · Curly hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesFinger wave
S-shaped waves set by hand with comb and gelStyled · Straight hair · 1920
🇬🇧 United KingdomVictory rolls
A 1940s women's hairstyle featuring voluminous side rolls shaped like the letter V.Styled · Straight hair · 1940
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 4 moreFulani braids
West African braided style with beads and side strandsBraid · Coily and kinky hair
🇫🇷 FranceTitus cut
Short layered cut with curls from late 18th-century FranceCut · Curly hair · 1791
WorldWaves
A ripple pattern formed by brushing short curly hair flat.Curls · Curly hair · 1900
WorldBig hair
A hairstyle style defined by large volume and significant space around the head.Styled · Curly hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSurfer hair
Tousled, sun-bleached locks from the sea.Styled · Wavy hair · 1950
WorldKiss curl
A single lock of hair curled and flattened against the cheek or forehead.Curls · Curly hair
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreBroccoli haircut
Tapered sides with curly, layered top hair.Cut · Curly hair · 2018
WorldNubian wig
A short, curly Ancient Egyptian wig mimicking Nubian tribal hair.Styled · Curly hair
WorldHair straightening
A technique to flatten and smooth hair texture using heat or chemicals.Styled · Curly hair · 1950
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dreadlocks: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kiss curl: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Broccoli haircut: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, source
- Hair straightening: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Perm: Louis Calvete, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Payot: Mark Neyman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ringlet: Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Public domain, source
- Jheri curl: Olugold, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Afro: Jason Melcher, CC BY 2.0, source
- Finger wave: Unknown author Unknown author (Either deceased family member or work f, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Fulani braids: François-Edmond Fortier (1862-1928), Public domain, source
- Nubian wig: Keith Schengili-Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Big hair: Photo by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, source
- Surfer hair: Rachel Amarette, CC BY 2.0, source
- Titus cut: Adrien Pierre François Godefroy, Public domain, source
- Waves: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Natural hair movement: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Durag: The original uploader was Calliopejen at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.0, source