Styled and set
The pompadour, quiff, slick back, victory rolls and the beehive. 64 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
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Ducktail: Rockbillyboogie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bouffant: Bain News Service, Public domain, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Surfer hair: Rachel Amarette, CC BY 2.0, source