Hairstyles of North America
19 hairstyles from North America on EveryHairstyle so far.
🇺🇸 United StatesDurag
Close-fitting head cloth for hair protection and style maintenance.Wrapped · Curly hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesTignon
A wrapped cloth headdress worn by Creole women in Louisiana.Wrapped · Any hair · 1786
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreNatural hair movement
A social and cultural campaign for wearing textured hair without chemical straightening.Natural · Coily and kinky 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
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreMullet
An asymmetric haircut with short hair at the front and sides, and long hair at the back.Cut · Any hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesCrew cut
A short, graduated men's haircut with upright top hair.Cut · Thick hair · 1920
🇺🇸 United StatesBeehive
A conical updo piled high on the crown.Updo · Any hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United StatesDevilock
A punk style featuring short sides and a long front section combed forward.Cut · Any hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United StatesJheri curl
A glossy, wet-look perm popular in the 1980s among Black communities.Curls · Curly hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDucktail
A 1950s men's cut with a central rear parting.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreHigh and tight
A military crew cut with shaved sides and a short top.Cut · Any hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesFinger wave
S-shaped waves set by hand with comb and gelStyled · Straight hair · 1920
🇺🇸 United StatesShag
A layered, unisex haircut featuring feathered top sections and thin edges.Cut · 1969
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 United StatesHalo hairstyle
Horizontal bands of light colour wrapping around the head.Styled · Any hair · 2013
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 United StatesThe Rachel
Voluminous layered cut popularised by FriendsCut · Straight hair · 1995
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
- Mullet: Wordzandguitar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tignon: François Fleischbein, Public domain, source
- The Rachel: ABC Television, Public domain, source
- Durag: The original uploader was Calliopejen at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Jheri curl: Olugold, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Afro: Jason Melcher, CC BY 2.0, source
- Natural hair movement: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crew cut: greginhollywood, CC BY 2.0, source
- Beehive: MGM, Public domain, source
- Devilock: mitchbuchannon, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ducktail: Rockbillyboogie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- High and tight: Chrismillar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Finger wave: Unknown author Unknown author (Either deceased family member or work f, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Conk: NBC Television, Public domain, source
- Shag: ABC Television Network ., Public domain, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hair extensions: Eunicehair, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Halo hairstyle: Papipacify, CC BY-SA 4.0, source