Stage and screen
Styles made famous by film, music and dance. 35 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Film, television, music and dance have made many hairstyles famous overnight. Silent-film stars made the bob respectable, Audrey Hepburn the pixie, Farrah Fawcett feathered hair, and Jennifer Aniston the Rachel. Music gave the world the pompadour, the mop-top, the hi-top fade and the Jheri curl. Stage and dance traditions have their own styles, from the ballet bun to the jewelled plait of Bharatanatyam.
Screen hair
Film studios employed hairdressers who set the styles audiences copied: the bobs of the 1920s, the finger waves and victory rolls of the 1930s and 1940s, the beehives and bouffants of the 1960s. In Japan the singer Seiko Matsuda made a feathered cut so popular in the 1980s that it carries her name. In India, the actor Sadhana's fringe of 1960 became the Sadhana cut. Television made the Rachel the most requested cut of the mid-1990s.
Music and dance
Singers have been trend-setters since Elvis Presley's pompadour; Dido's 2000s flip became the Dido flip, and Michael Jackson popularised the Jheri curl in the early 1980s. Classical dancers need hair that stays put under spotlights and in fast movement: ballet dancers wear a tight bun, Bharatanatyam dancers a long plait fixed with ornaments, and kabuki actors wear elaborate wigs.
Famous stage and screen hairstyles
The RachelFrom the television comedy FriendsFeathered hairFarrah Fawcett's 1970s style
Pixie cutAudrey Hepburn in Roman HolidayVictory rollsStudio styles of the 1940s
BeehiveWorn by 1960s girl groups
Jheri curlPopularised by Michael Jackson
Dido flipNamed after the singer Dido
Seiko-chan cutNamed after Seiko MatsudaFurther reading
🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreDreadlocks
A hairstyle of rope-like hair strands formed by matting or twisting.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1970
🇺🇸 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 StatesBeehive
A conical updo piled high on the crown.Updo · Any hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesFinger wave
S-shaped waves set by hand with comb and gelStyled · Straight hair · 1920
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreBouffant
A puffy, rounded hairstyle with height at the crown.Styled · Any hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United StatesHi-top fade
Tall flat top with shaved sides from hip hop cultureCut · Coily and kinky hair · 1984
🇺🇸 United StatesConk
Chemically straightened hair popular with African-American men mid-20th century.Styled · Coily and kinky hair · 1920
WorldLiberty spikes
Long, thick upright hair spikes resembling the Statue of Liberty crown.Styled · Any hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United StatesShape-up
A sharp, straight trim along the natural hairline.Shaved · Coily and kinky hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesThe Rachel
Voluminous layered cut popularised by FriendsCut · Straight hair · 1995
WorldKiss curl
A single lock of hair curled and flattened against the cheek or forehead.Curls · Curly hair
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreHair extensions
Cosmetic additions of human or synthetic hair attached to natural hair for length and volume.Styled · Any hair · 1950
WorldFrosted tips
Short spiky hair with bleached ends.Cut · Any hair · 1998
WorldHair crimping
A heat or braid technique creating zig-zag waves in long hair.Styled · Straight hair · 1985
🇺🇸 United StatesHalo hairstyle
Horizontal bands of light colour wrapping around the head.Styled · Any hair · 2013
WorldBig hair
A hairstyle style defined by large volume and significant space around the head.Styled · Curly hair · 1960
WorldBackcombing
A styling method that creates volume by tangling hair near the root.Styled · Any hair
WorldJellyfish haircut
A two-tiered style with a short top layer and long lower sections resembling tentacles.Cut · Straight hair · 2023
🇯🇵 JapanNihongami
Traditional Japanese hairstyles featuring structured wings and topknots, worn by women in historical periods and by geisUpdo · Straight hair
🇺🇸 United StatesMohawk
A haircut with shaved sides and a central strip of upright hair.Cut · Straight hair · 1970
🇯🇵 JapanNihongami
Traditional Japanese hairstyles characterized by upswept buns and side wings.Updo · Straight hair · 1603
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Shape-up: Stella8358, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dreadlocks: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Seiko-chan cut: HouseGecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- The Rachel: ABC Television, Public domain, source
- Kiss curl: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Jheri curl: Olugold, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nihongami: 都新聞社 Miyako Shinbun, Public domain, source
- Pompadour: Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, source
- Beehive: MGM, Public domain, source
- Bouffant: Bain News Service, Public domain, source
- Finger wave: Unknown author Unknown author (Either deceased family member or work f, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Hair extensions: Eunicehair, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hair crimping: 1000heads, CC BY 2.0, source
- Halo hairstyle: Papipacify, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Big hair: Photo by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mohawk: Duke.emerson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pixie cut: dvna creative agency: https://www.dvna.fr/, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dido flip: The original uploader was Djr xi at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Backcombing: Alexander Blum, Public domain, source
- Conk: NBC Television, Public domain, source
- Mohawk: Godmodeking, CC BY-SA 3.0, source