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Styles worn across genders. 37 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Many hairstyles are worn across genders. Locs, afros, buzz cuts, ponytails, mullets and undercuts are worn by people of any gender, and many styles that began with one group have spread to everyone. Hair rules about gender vary widely between cultures and have changed fast in the past century, so a style seen as men's in one place may be women's or anyone's in another.
Styles without a gender
Locs and afros have been worn by both men and women from the start, as have box braids and cornrows. The buzz cut, once a recruit's cut, became a choice for women in the 1990s. Ponytails are worn by athletes of every gender. The mullet, the curtain fringe and the undercut, each first popular among men, have been worn widely by women since the 2010s, and the bob and the pixie by men.
Changing rules
Many schools, armed forces and workplaces once set different hair rules for boys and girls or men and women, and some still do. Rules on length for boys, especially, have been challenged in courts in the United States, Britain and elsewhere, with mixed results. Gender-neutral pricing, charging by hair length and time rather than by the client's gender, has spread among salons in several countries.
Famous anyone hairstyles
Further reading
🇺🇸 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
WorldDread perming
A chemical treatment to create or maintain dreadlocks quickly.Styled · Straight hair
🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreDreadlocks
A hairstyle of rope-like hair strands formed by matting or twisting.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1970
🇺🇸 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
WorldShort hair
A general category for haircuts kept above the shoulders or chin.Cut · Any hair · 1920
🇺🇸 United StatesFinger wave
S-shaped waves set by hand with comb and gelStyled · Straight hair · 1920
WorldLiberty spikes
Long, thick upright hair spikes resembling the Statue of Liberty crown.Styled · Any hair · 1970
WorldFrosted tips
Short spiky hair with bleached ends.Cut · Any hair · 1998
WorldCrochet braids
A protective hairstyle using a latch hook to attach synthetic hair to cornrows.Braid · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesShape-up
A sharp, straight trim along the natural hairline.Shaved · Coily and kinky hair · 1980
WorldKiss curl
A single lock of hair curled and flattened against the cheek or forehead.Curls · Curly hair
🇺🇸 United StatesThe Rachel
Voluminous layered cut popularised by FriendsCut · Straight hair · 1995
WorldBackcombing
A styling method that creates volume by tangling hair near the root.Styled · Any hair
WorldHair straightening
A technique to flatten and smooth hair texture using heat or chemicals.Styled · Curly hair · 1950
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
- Mullet: Wordzandguitar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- The Rachel: ABC Television, Public domain, source
- Kiss curl: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Hair straightening: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ponytail: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Afro: Jason Melcher, CC BY 2.0, source
- Buzz cut: Fadi El Benni of Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Undercut: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Box braids: Randen Pederson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Curtained hair: Jacques-Émile Blanche, Public domain, source
- Finger wave: Unknown author Unknown author (Either deceased family member or work f, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Liberty spikes: THOR, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mohawk: Duke.emerson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Natural hair movement: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Backcombing: Alexander Blum, Public domain, source
- Short hair: Alex Neman, CC BY-SA 4.0, source