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🇮🇳 India and 3 moreDastar
A turban worn by Sikhs to cover uncut hair and signify faith.Wrapped · Any hair · 1699
🇺🇸 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
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 4 moreHead tie
A cloth head covering worn across West and Southern Africa for fashion, faith, and tradition.Wrapped
🇺🇦 UkraineUkrainian wreath
Traditional floral headdress for Ukrainian girls and unmarried womenWrapped · Any hair
🇮🇳 IndiaTonsure
A religious practice of cutting or shaving scalp hair to signal devotion, humility, or clerical status.Shaved · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesAfro
A rounded style of combed-out natural hair.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1960
🇺🇦 UkraineOseledets
Traditional Ukrainian Cossack style with a shaved head and long top lock.Shaved · Any hair
WorldBraid
Interlaced strands of hair used for style and social signalling.Braid · Any hair
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreCornrows
Tight three-strand braids woven close to the scalp in straight or curved lines.Braid · Coily and kinky hair · 1902
🇩🇪 GermanySuebian knot
A historical male bun worn by the Suebi and other Germanic tribes to signal status and identity.Updo · Straight hair
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreHigh and tight
A military crew cut with shaved sides and a short top.Cut · Any hair · 1980
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 4 moreFulani braids
West African braided style with beads and side strandsBraid · Coily and kinky hair
🇨🇳 ChinaLiangbatou
A tall Manchu headdress featuring two side-parted hair sections and elaborate ornamentation.Wrapped
WorldLiberty spikes
Long, thick upright hair spikes resembling the Statue of Liberty crown.Styled · Any hair · 1970
EuropeRoman hairstyles
Ancient Roman hair fashions reflecting status and identityUpdo · Any hair
WorldBrush cut
A very short, uniform haircut following the head shape.Cut · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesProtective hairstyle
Styles that tuck hair away to reduce breakage and environmental damage.Braid · Coily and kinky hair
🇮🇩 IndonesiaKonde Cepol
A traditional Betawi bun representing cultural identity and elegance.Updo · Any hair
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Protective hairstyle: Bluenile Photography c/o A. Smith, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tonsure: Pietro Perugino, Public domain, source
- Brush cut: IMasc, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Braid: Ciell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ukrainian wreath: Samuil Dudin (1863-1929), Public domain, source
- Dastar: Photography by Harkanwal Singh., CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Cornrows: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Suebian knot: Bullenwächter, CC BY 3.0, source
- Head tie: Dili Osuhor ( Teemages ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Afro: Jason Melcher, CC BY 2.0, source
- Oseledets: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Liangbatou: Daderot, Public domain, source
- Fulani braids: François-Edmond Fortier (1862-1928), Public domain, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Natural hair movement: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- High and tight: Chrismillar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Roman hairstyles: Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-06-02 14:47:52, CC BY-SA 4.0, source