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A baby's first haircut is called choulam samskara. Chudakarana ( IAST : Cūḍākaraṇa, Sanskrit: चूडाकरण) (literally, rite of tonsure), also known as choulam , caula , chudakarma , mundana or "mundan sanskar" is the rite of passage that marks the child's first haircut, typically the shaving of the head. [ 51 ]
A girl's first haircut typically occurs at eleven months of age. [1] While complete tonsure is common, some Hindus prefer to leave some hair on the head, distinguishing this rite from the inauspicious tonsure that occurs upon the death of a parent. Those that practice complete tonsure generally ritually offer the hair to their family deity.
The Edgar hairstyle, otherwise known as the Edgar cut or the Edgar haircut, is a hairstyle that is often associated with Latino culture. In the 2010s and early 2020s, the haircut became popular with members of Generation Z [ 1 ] and Millennials. [ 2 ] The haircut first became popular in US border states in the Southwest such as Texas, New ...
A buzz cut, or wiffle cut, whereby the hair is very short and typically cut with manual hair clippers. Caesar cut: The Caesar cut is a men's hairstyle that is cut to a regular fade with the bangs or fringe left longer than the top length. Chonmage: A variation on the traditional topknot and tonsure of samurai in Feudal Japan, today worn by sumo ...
Rattail (hairstyle) A rattail is a hair style that is characterized by a long "tail"-like element of hair growing downward from the back of the head. The rattail usually hangs naturally; however, it can be braided, treated as a dread, permed, straightened, poofed, or curled with an iron. In some instances, an individual might choose to grow ...
e. The Chudakarana (Sanskrit: चूडाकरण, lit. 'arrangement of the hair tuft') or the Mundana (Sanskrit: मुण्डन, lit. 'tonsure'), is the eighth of the sixteen Hindu saṃskāras (sacraments), in which a child receives their first haircut. No reference is provided in any Grhya Sutras, but, in general this samskara is taken ...
An ulu (Inuktitut: ᐅᓗ; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build ...
Upsherin, Upsheren, [1] Opsherin or Upsherinish (Yiddish: אָפּשערן, romanized: opshern, lit. 'shear off', Judeo-Arabic: חלאקה, romanized: ḥalāqa[2]) is a first haircut ceremony observed by a wide cross-section of Jews and is particularly popular in Haredi Judaism. It is typically held when a boy turns three years old.