Anyone
Styles worn across genders. 46 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
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dreadlocks: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mullet: Wordzandguitar, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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