Everyday
Quick styles for daily life. 109 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Most hair, most days, is worn simply: a ponytail, a bun, a plait, or a short cut that needs only a comb. Everyday styles have to be quick, comfortable and practical for work, school and heat, and they last through the day. Across South Asia, an oiled plait or a quick bun; in much of the world, a short barber's cut or a ponytail.
Quick styles
A ponytail takes seconds; a bun only a minute more and keeps hair off the neck in hot weather. A single plait, the choti of South Asia, keeps long hair tidy all day and protects the ends. For short hair, the right cut is the style: a good bob, a crew cut or a regular haircut falls into shape after washing. Many people with coily hair choose protective styles that last for weeks, so daily styling is light.
Everyday care
Everyday hair depends on routine: washing as often as the hair needs, detangling gently, oiling in many South Asian homes, protecting curls with a satin bonnet at night. The quickest styles are also gentle if they are not pulled too tight. A regular trim, every six to eight weeks for short cuts and less often for long hair, keeps an everyday style in shape.
Famous everyday hairstyles
Further reading
🇺🇸 United StatesDurag
Close-fitting head cloth for hair protection and style maintenance.Wrapped · Curly hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesAfro
A rounded style of combed-out natural hair.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesMohawk
A hairstyle with shaved sides and a central strip of longer hair.Shaved · Any hair · 1970
🇫🇷 France and 2 morePompadour
High-volume hair swept up and back from the forehead.Updo · Any hair · 1950
🇬🇧 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
🇯🇵 JapanHime cut
A Japanese style with straight cheek-length sidelocks and long back hair.Cut · Straight hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United StatesDevilock
A punk style featuring short sides and a long front section combed forward.Cut · Any hair · 1970
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreRattail
A long strip of hair at the napeCut · Any hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDucktail
A 1950s men's cut with a central rear parting.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
🇬🇧 United KingdomEton crop
A very short, slicked-down women's cut from the 1920s.Cut · Any hair · 1920
🇺🇸 United StatesHi-top fade
Tall flat top with shaved sides from hip hop cultureCut · Coily and kinky hair · 1984
WorldLiberty spikes
Long, thick upright hair spikes resembling the Statue of Liberty crown.Styled · Any hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United StatesConk
Chemically straightened hair popular with African-American men mid-20th century.Styled · Coily and kinky hair · 1920
WorldWings
A layered cut where side hair flips out like wings.Cut · Wavy hair · 1830
🇺🇸 United StatesWicks
Thick upright locs formed by fusing smaller dreadlocks together.Locs · Coily and kinky hair
WorldBig hair
A hairstyle style defined by large volume and significant space around the head.Styled · Curly hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSurfer hair
Tousled, sun-bleached locks from the sea.Styled · Wavy hair · 1950
WorldTellum
A haircut featuring long front sections and a short, buzzed back.Cut · Straight hair · 1970
🇯🇵 JapanPunch perm
Tightly curled Japanese male hairstyle from the 1960s.Curls · Straight hair · 1960
WorldBrush cut
A very short, uniform haircut following the head shape.Cut · Any hair
🇯🇵 JapanSeiko-chan cut
A feathered Japanese idol hairstyle from the 1980s.Cut · Straight hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesEdgar cut
A tapered Latino youth style with a straight fringe.Cut · Any hair · 2010
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tellum: The original uploader was Steevven1 at English Wikipedia . Later versi, CC BY 2.5, source
- Bob cut: 147 Company, CC BY 4.0, source
- Hime cut: kxz Chen, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Seiko-chan cut: HouseGecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Brush cut: IMasc, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Braid: Ciell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ponytail: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bun: Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Afro: Jason Melcher, CC BY 2.0, source
- Undercut: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pompadour: Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, source
- Crew cut: greginhollywood, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ducktail: Rockbillyboogie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Edgar cut: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wings: Sepideh (Sepi), CC BY 2.0, source
- Big hair: Photo by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, source
- Surfer hair: Rachel Amarette, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mohawk: Duke.emerson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Regular haircut: JParker9, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Punch perm: Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Devilock: mitchbuchannon, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Conk: NBC Television, Public domain, source
- Durag: The original uploader was Calliopejen at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.0, source