Shaved and partly shaved
The shaved head, mohawk, tonsure, side shave and the hair tattoo. 20 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Shaving removes hair down to the skin, over the whole head or in part. A shaved head can be a fashion choice, a practical one in heat or sport, a sign of faith or mourning, or a mark imposed on soldiers and prisoners. Partly shaved styles leave hair in one place for effect: the mohawk's central strip, the Cossack's single lock, the shikha at the crown, or the crests of Rwandan amasunzu.
Shaving in faith
Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads when they are ordained, a sign of giving up vanity. Many Hindus shave their heads as an offering at temples such as Tirumala and Palani, at a child's mundan and in mourning, often keeping the shikha. Muslim men completing the Hajj or Umrah shave or trim their hair. Catholic clergy once wore the tonsure, a shaved crown, until it stopped being required in 1972.
Shaving for style
The mohawk, a strip of hair down the middle of a shaved head, is named after the Mohawk people, though similar styles were worn by several Native American peoples, among them the Pawnee; punks adopted it in the 1970s. Side shaves and undercuts became fashionable in the 2010s. The induction cut, the shortest cut short of shaving, is given to many military recruits. Shaved heads are also chosen in solidarity with people losing hair during illness.
Famous shaved hairstyles
Still to be written: Head shaving.
Further reading
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tonsure: Pietro Perugino, Public domain, source
- Head shaving in Hinduism: Napoleon is back, CC0, source
- Shikha: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Oseledets: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crew cut: greginhollywood, CC BY 2.0, source
- Induction cut: 霍建华微吧, CC BY 2.5, source
- Chonmage: not listed, Public domain, source
- Mohawk: Godmodeking, CC BY-SA 3.0, source