Styled and set
The pompadour, quiff, slick back, victory rolls and the beehive. 74 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Styled and set hairstyles are shaped with combs, heat, rollers and products and fixed in place. The pompadour and quiff sweep hair up and back from the forehead, the ducktail combs the sides to meet at the back, victory rolls roll the hair into tubes, and the bouffant builds a round mass of height. Most need daily work and some length on top, and they define whole decades.
Swept up and back
The pompadour is named after Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, who wore her hair swept high off the forehead. In the 1950s men took it up, and Elvis Presley's greased pompadour and the ducktail at the back became the look of rock and roll and of Britain's teddy boys. The quiff is a shorter cousin. Rockabilly and psychobilly fans have kept these styles alive.
Rolls, height and spikes
In the 1940s women set their hair in victory rolls, rolling sections at the front and sides into tubes, often with the rest in a snood, so it stayed tidy in factory and war work. The bouffant and beehive of the late 1950s and 1960s used rollers and backcombing for height. Punks set liberty spikes with soap, sugar water or glue, and in the 1990s and 2000s young men wore frosted tips: short gelled spikes with lightened ends.
Famous styled hairstyles
Further reading
🇺🇸 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
🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreDreadlocks
A hairstyle of rope-like hair strands formed by matting or twisting.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1970
🇵🇱 Poland and 1 morePolish plait
A matted hair formation viewed as both a medical condition and a folk amulet in Eastern Europe.Styled · Coily and kinky hair · 1600
🇺🇸 United StatesProtective hairstyle
Styles that tuck hair away to reduce breakage and environmental damage.Braid · Coily and kinky hair
🇺🇸 United StatesSilk press
Heat-straightened style for kinky hair without chemicalsStyled · Coily and kinky hair · 1920
WorldHair straightening
A technique to flatten and smooth hair texture using heat or chemicals.Styled · Curly hair · 1950
WorldFinger coils
A natural hair style created by twisting strands around fingers to form defined spirals.Styled · Curly hair
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSenegalese twists
Smooth two-strand protective style using synthetic hair.Locs · Any hair · 1984
🇺🇸 United StatesTwist-out
A protective hairstyle created by unraveling twists to form defined waves.Styled · Curly hair
WorldWash and go
A low-manipulation style that enhances natural curl patterns without heat or extensions.Styled · Curly hair
🇿🇦 South AfricaBantu knots
Twisted coils of hair worn as a protective style or permanent look.Styled · Curly hair
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Protective hairstyle: Bluenile Photography c/o A. Smith, CC BY 2.0, source
- Dreadlocks: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Hair straightening: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bouffant: Bain News Service, Public domain, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Polish plait: Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, source
- Natural hair movement: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ducktail: Oceanaris, CC BY 2.0, source