Short: ears to jaw
The bob, the quiff, the pompadour and the undercut. 15 hairstyles.
🇺🇸 United StatesMohawk
A hairstyle with shaved sides and a central strip of longer hair.Shaved · Any hair · 1970
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreBob cut
Short to medium haircut ending at the jaw or shoulders.Cut · Any hair · 1909
WorldBowl cut
A short haircut with a straight fringe and even length around the head.Cut · Any hair · 1400
🇯🇵 JapanChonmage
Traditional Japanese topknot worn by men, historically by samurai and now by sumo wrestlers.Updo · Straight hair · 1603
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreUndercut
Long top hair with shaved or buzzed sides and back.Cut · Any hair · 1910
🇬🇧 United KingdomQuiff
A voluminous front sweep with short sides and back.Styled · Any hair · 1950
🇵🇱 PolandCzupryna
A traditional Polish haircut with shaved sides and a long top, worn by nobility.Cut · 1308
WorldMarcelling
A heat-styled curl technique from the 1870s.Curls · Any hair · 1872
🇰🇷 South KoreaSangtu
Traditional Korean topknot worn by married men.Updo · Any hair · 57
🇺🇸 United StatesFinger wave
S-shaped waves set by hand with comb and gelStyled · Straight hair · 1920
WorldRegular haircut
Classic men's style with tapered sides and combed top.Cut · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesConk
Chemically straightened hair popular with African-American men mid-20th century.Styled · Coily and kinky hair · 1920
🇺🇸 United StatesHi-top fade
Tall flat top with shaved sides from hip hop cultureCut · Coily and kinky hair · 1984
🇫🇷 FranceTitus cut
Short layered cut with curls from late 18th-century FranceCut · Curly hair · 1791
WorldTemple fade
A short haircut tapering from the scalp to a longer length on top.Cut · 1990
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mohawk: Duke.emerson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bob cut: 147 Company, CC BY 4.0, source
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Titus cut: Adrien Pierre François Godefroy, Public domain, source
- Czupryna: Nieznany malarz polski, Public domain, source
- Chonmage: not listed, Public domain, source
- Bowl cut: Audun Gjerdi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Undercut: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sangtu: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Marcelling: The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, Public domain, source
- Finger wave: Unknown author Unknown author (Either deceased family member or work f, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Regular haircut: JParker9, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Conk: NBC Television, Public domain, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Temple fade: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, source