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Buzz cut. A buzz cut, or wiffle cut, is a variety of short hairstyles, especially where the length of hair is the same on all parts of the head. Rising to prominence initially with the advent of manual hair clippers, buzz cuts became increasingly popular in places where strict grooming conventions applied.
Name. Image. Description. Bob cut. A classic short hairstyle where it is cut above the shoulders in a blunt cut with typically no layers. This style is most common among women. Bouffant. A style distinguished by smooth hair that is heightened and given extra fullness over teasing in the fringe area. Bowl cut.
Braid (hairstyle) Braids (also referred to as plaits) are a complex hairstyle formed by interlacing three or more strands of hair. [ 1] Braiding has been used to style and ornament human and animal hair for thousands of years [ 2] in various cultures around the world. The simplest and most common version is a flat, solid, three-stranded structure.
How to Choose the Right Hairstyles for Square Faces If you’re looking for haircut ideas to flatter your face shape, there is one main guidepost that celebrity hairstylist Joseph Maine recommends.
Female figure with elaborate coiffure and hairpins, 1st century BC. Hopi woman dressing hair, ca. 1900. A hairstyle, hairdo, haircut or coiffure refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head but sometimes on the face or body. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics, although ...
A full beard that features a goatee, full mustache and horizontal chinstrap with all hairs on the upper cheeks and sideburns removed. [ 15] Ned Kelly beard. A beard with the length of more than 20 cm. A Ned Kelly beard is a style of facial hair named after 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly .
Ducktail. Duck's ass or D.A. The ducktail is a men's haircut style popular during the 1950s. It is also called the duck's tail, duck's ass, duck's arse, or simply D.A. and is also described as slicked back hair. [ 1][ 2] The hair is pomaded (greased), combed back around the sides, and parted centrally down the back of the head.
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 ...