Search: 1980s
🇺🇸 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 Kingdom and 2 moreUndercut
Long top hair with shaved or buzzed sides and back.Cut · Any hair · 1910
EuropeCaesar cut
A short, evenly layered haircut featuring a straight horizontal fringe.Cut · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesJheri curl
A glossy, wet-look perm popular in the 1980s among Black communities.Curls · Curly hair · 1980
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreRattail
A long strip of hair at the napeCut · Any hair · 1980
🇺🇸 United StatesHi-top fade
Tall flat top with shaved sides from hip hop cultureCut · Coily and kinky hair · 1984
🇺🇸 United StatesShape-up
A sharp, straight trim along the natural hairline.Shaved · Coily and kinky hair · 1980
🇯🇵 JapanSeiko-chan cut
A feathered Japanese idol hairstyle from the 1980s.Cut · Straight hair · 1980
WorldFeathered hair
Layered style brushed back to resemble bird feathersCut · Straight hair · 1970
WorldHair crimping
A heat or braid technique creating zig-zag waves in long hair.Styled · Straight hair · 1985
WorldBig hair
A hairstyle style defined by large volume and significant space around the head.Styled · Curly hair · 1960
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSenegalese twists
Smooth two-strand protective style using synthetic hair.Locs · Any hair · 1984
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
- Mullet: Wordzandguitar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Seiko-chan cut: HouseGecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- The Rachel: ABC Television, Public domain, source
- Jheri curl: Olugold, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Undercut: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Caesar cut: Luděk Kovář, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hair crimping: 1000heads, CC BY 2.0, source
- Big hair: Photo by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, source