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A hairstyle, hairdo, or haircut refers to a styling of head hair. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics.

Notable hairstyles

Name	Image	Description
Afro		Big hair hairstyle.
Balding cut		A hairstyle simulating male-pattern baldness
Bangs / Fringe		Hair that's combed to the front of the head and cut at or above the eyebrows.
Beehive		Big hair hairstyle.
Bob cut		A classic short hairstyle where the ends are cut just around chin length and aligned close to the facial area.
Bowl cut		A 1920s Ukrainian recruitment poster.
Bouffant	N/A
Bun
Buzz cut
Caesar cut		Worn by Julius Caesar.
Chonmage		A traditional Japanese haircut.
Comb over	N/A	Hair that's combed from one part of the head to another often to cover up a bald spot. Many relate this hair style to Donald Trump.
Cornrows
Crew cut	N/A	It is hair that's done for many people in the military.
Crop	N/A	A short hairstyle worn by women in which the hair is cut very close to the head
Croydon facelift	N/A	It is a tight ponytail worn at the top of the head, giving the effect of a facelift.
Curtained hair	N/A	The character Peter Petrelli is well-known for this hairstyle in NBC's Heroes.
The David May	N/A	Hairstyle famously worn by Manchester United legend David May
Devilock	N/A	The sides and back are kept short, while the front is grown long and combed forward. Made famous by Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein and Jerry Only of The Misfits.
Dido flip	N/A	Hairstyle named after the singer Dido.
Dreadlocks
Duck's Ass or Ducktail	N/A
Fauxhawk		Also known as the frohawk, this hairstyle is an approximation of a mohawk, made without shaving or buzzing the hair on the sides of the head, allowing an imitation of the look of a true mohawk without having to commit to removing most of one's hair.
Feathered hair	N/A
Feelers	N/A	Often mistaken for sideburns, this is the hair at length from in front of the ears, straightened down while the rest of the head's hair is kept short.
Finger wave
Flattop
Fofa	N/A
Fontange	N/A	A hairdo popular in the second half of the seventeenth century.
French braid		A French braid is a braid that appears to be braided "into" the hair. Many describe it as making a braid backwards.
French twist
High and tight	N/A
Hime cut	N/A
Highlights		Popular among young people in Asia during the late 1990's and early 2000's with long hair. The style involves highlighting or dyeing various thin strands of hair via hair coloring.
Hi-top fade
Horseshoe Flattop	N/A
Induction cut	N/A
Jheri curl	N/A	Hair that's curly and kept wet by a Jheri curl activator. This style was very popular in the 1980's especially with African-Americans.
Japanese hair straightening	N/A
Khokhol	N/A	The Ukrainian name for a style consisting of an entirely shaven head, save for one lock of hair grown on the top or front of the head. Name comes from the Ukrainian Cossacks, among whom the style was common. (See Khokhol article for the word's derogatory usage)
Layered hair	N/A
Liberty spikes		Hair that's grown out long and spiked up usually with a gel
Long hair	N/A	Hair that's grown out long (at or past the shoulders) and worn loose.
Mohawk		Hair that's shaved or buzzed on the sides leaving a strip of hair in the middle. It is often spiked up.
Mop-Top
Mullet
Needle
Odango	N/A
Pageboy	N/A	A longer version of a bob, typically worn with bangs and below chin length
Part	N/A
Perm	N/A
Pigtails		Hair that's parted down the middle and made into two pony tails on either side.
Pixie cut
Pompadour
Ponytail		Hair that's pulled to the back of the head and often held with a hair tie or ribbon.
Quiff
"The Rachel"	N/A	A layered haircut made popular by Friends star, Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green.
Razor cut	N/A
Recon	N/A	a radical version of the High and tight, with the sides and back cleanly shaved very high up the head, intentionally leaving a very extreme contrast between the longer top hair and the shaved sides.
Rattail		Hair that's grown out long and shaved or buzzed except for a long, thin braid at the very top of the neck.
Ringlet
shag		like a The Beatles, Oasis band style
Short back and sides	N/A	Also know as a Boy's cut, a simple hairstyle with an overall short length.
Shape-Up	N/A
Spiky hair	N/A	All hair sticking up, like spikes sticking out from the head. Foundation of popular culture hairstyles in Asia.
Taper fade	N/A
Tonsure
Undercut
Updo		A beehive is an example of an updo.

Hair products

Cosmetic products used in creating and maintaining hairstyles include:

Hair lengths

Short:

Bald, hair that's completely shaved down to the scalp

Buzz, hair that's extremely short and hardly there

Cropped, hair that's a little longer than a buzz

Boy's cut, hair that's longer than a crop, but not yet hits the ears Long

Ear length, hair that's at the same level as one's ears

Chin level, hair that comes to the chin

Flip level, hair that comes to the neck or shoulder area.

Bra/midback level, hair that's at about the same point as the widest part of one's ribcage and chest area

Waist length, hair that falls at the smallest part of one's waist, a little bit above the hip bones

Tailbone length, hair that's at about the area of one's tailbone

Classic length, hair that reaches where one's legs meet his or her buttocks

Thigh length, hair that's at the mid-thigh

Knee-length, hair that's at the knee

Calf length, hair that's at the calf

Floor length, hair that reaches the floorFurther Information

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