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A tousled hairstyle. Tail on back A men's hairstyle made by growing the hair out in the back like a small tail. It is widely seen in India. See Rattail. Updo: An updo is the hairstyle in which the hair is twisted or pulled up. Weave: Similar to extensions, but the hairpiece is sewn in for longer or thicker hair.
Conk. Jazz musician Eddie South, 1946. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [ 1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely ...
The short back and sides dates back to the Roman empire, as the regulation haircut for legionaries. Besides preventing the spread of lice, short hair and a clean shaven face prevented the enemy from grabbing a soldier by the beard. By the first century AD, Roman hairstyles were imitated by non-Roman subjects who admired the civilization that ...
Chonmage. The chonmage (丁髷) is a type of traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo period (1603–1868) and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers. It was originally a method of using hair to hold a samurai kabuto helmet steady atop the head in battle, and became a status symbol ...
The paintings in the catacombs permit the belief that the early Christians simply followed the fashion of their time. The short hair of the men and the braids of the women were, towards the end of the second century, curled, and arranged in tiers, while for women the hair twined about the head over the brow.
Roman men who wore beards would not be admitted into the senate unless they shaved. [59] A bust of Tiberius' nephew, Germanicus, demonstrating the traditional Claudian hairstyle of short front and sides and long back. From the Louvre, Paris. Despite rigid class expectations, there were exceptions to social custom when it came to mens' hairstyles.
The primary feature of the pompadour hairstyle is a large volume of hair swept upwards from the forehead. Hair in this style was an essential part of the "Gibson Girl" look in the 1890s. The pompadour is a hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), a mistress of King Louis XV of France. [ 1] Although there are numerous variations ...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, use of the term mullet to describe this hairstyle was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys", [1] who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head", combining it with a description of the haircut: "number one on the side and don't touch the back, number six on the top ...