Very short: a crop
The buzz cut, crew cut, caesar and pixie. 26 hairstyles.
🇺🇦 UkraineOseledets
Traditional Ukrainian Cossack style with a shaved head and long top lock.Shaved · Any hair
🇷🇸 Serbia and 4 moreBuzz cut
A very short, uniform haircut made with clippers.Cut · Any hair · 1890
WorldFlattop
Short sides with a flat, upright top.Cut · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesCrew cut
A short, graduated men's haircut with upright top hair.Cut · Thick hair · 1920
🇮🇳 IndiaShikha
A traditional Hindu tuft of hair kept at the crown after shaving the rest of the head.Shaved · Any hair
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreHigh and tight
A military crew cut with shaved sides and a short top.Cut · Any hair · 1980
🇬🇧 United KingdomEton crop
A very short, slicked-down women's cut from the 1920s.Cut · Any hair · 1920
WorldWaves
A ripple pattern formed by brushing short curly hair flat.Curls · Curly hair · 1900
WorldBrush cut
A very short, uniform haircut following the head shape.Cut · Any hair
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Brush cut: IMasc, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shikha: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Oseledets: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buzz cut: Fadi El Benni of Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Crew cut: greginhollywood, CC BY 2.0, source
- Waves: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- High and tight: Chrismillar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flattop: NASA, Public domain, source