Medium: jaw to shoulders
The lob, the shag, the mullet and shoulder-length curls. 65 hairstyles.
WorldDread perming
A chemical treatment to create or maintain dreadlocks quickly.Styled · Straight hair
🇬🇧 United KingdomShampoo and set
A classic UK styling method using rollers and lotion.Styled · Any hair · 1930
WorldBun
A hairstyle where hair is gathered and coiled into a circular shape on the head.Updo · Any hair
🇫🇷 France and 2 morePompadour
High-volume hair swept up and back from the forehead.Updo · Any hair · 1950
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreRattail
A long strip of hair at the napeCut · Any hair · 1980
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreBouffant
A puffy, rounded hairstyle with height at the crown.Styled · Any hair · 1950
WorldCrochet braids
A protective hairstyle using a latch hook to attach synthetic hair to cornrows.Braid · Any hair
WorldBackcombing
A styling method that creates volume by tangling hair near the root.Styled · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesHalo hairstyle
Horizontal bands of light colour wrapping around the head.Styled · Any hair · 2013
🇺🇸 United StatesTwist-out
A protective hairstyle created by unraveling twists to form defined waves.Styled · Curly hair
🇺🇸 United StatesButterfly locs
A lightweight protective style featuring synthetic hair wrapped to create a distressed, looped texture.Styled · Any hair · 2021
🇺🇸 United StatesWolf cut
A layered haircut with a shaggy top and tapered ends, described as Gen Z's version of the mullet.Cut · Any hair · 2021
🇯🇵 JapanChapatsu
Japanese brown bleached hair styleStyled · Any hair · 1997
WorldBackcombing
A styling method that creates volume by tangling hair near the root.Styled · Any hair
🇯🇵 JapanChapatsu
Japanese brown bleached hair styleStyled · Any hair · 1997
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bun: Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pompadour: Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, source
- Bouffant: Bain News Service, Public domain, source
- Halo hairstyle: Papipacify, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Backcombing: Alexander Blum, Public domain, source
- Chapatsu: No machine-readable author provided. Berntgrapher assumed (based on co, CC BY-SA 3.0, source